"Faces of Hope: AIDS and Addiction in America," a photographic essay on display at the Law School, features 18 portraits by David Armstrong that seek to personalize the struggle to overcome substance abuse by individuals who are HIV-positive.

Designed to convey the courage and grace of those confronting AIDS and addiction, the portraits were commissioned by the Legal Action Center in New York as part of a project cosponsored by the center's Arthur Liman Policy Institute and the Yale Law School's Arthur Liman Public Interest Program. The exhibit will travel to Washington, D.C. and New York later this spring.

The faces in the exhibit reveal the diverse populations affected by the AIDS virus. Each portrait is accompanied by a testimonial written by the photographed individual. In his testimonial, 41-year-old Jack Jones of Terry, Mississippi, notes, "What I say to people is: Get on with your life. Do what you are supposed to do -- take your medications and have a positive attitude -- and live a normal life." The testimonial by 42-year-old Jacque White of Big Sandy, Texas, offers this advice: "Pratice safer sex."

The guiding spirit behind the "Faces of Hope" project is Felix Lopez, director of the Liman Institute at the Legal Action Center as well as a 1991 Law School graduate and former assistant dean of Yale College. Together with Armstrong, who has had several solo exhibits in the United States and Europe, Lopez traveled widely in an effort to capture, in both photographic and text form, the stories of people with AIDS who have succeeded in confronting substance abuse problems. In addition to the exhibits, their visual and narrative essay will be published by the Legal Action Center in a book intended to break down barriers of ignorance and bias with respect to people in recovery and people living with AIDS.

"The Faces of Hope" exhibit opened on the eve of the fourth annual Arthur Liman Public Interest Colloquium -- "Encountering the Criminal Law: Implications of Contemporary Law Enforcement Practices for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties" -- held at the Law School on March 2. Attended by over 150 people, the Liman Colloquium explored the diversion of criminal defendants into alternative sentencing courts, including drug courts, as well as issues of racial profiling and immigration law enforcement abuses.

Along with the "Faces of Hope" exhibit, the colloquium was designed to highlight the work of the Liman Public Interest Fellows, who are graduates of the Law School committed to legal work in the public interest. The program honors Arthur Liman (LAW '57), who was founding president of the Legal Action Center and led the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem and the Legal Aid Society of New York in addition to his work as a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. This year's Liman Fellows are Marjorie Allard (LAW '99), who
is an attorney at the Alaska Public Defender Office in Anchorage, where she works on drug courts issues; Rebecca Bernhardt
(LAW '97), who is in Austin, Texas with the Immigrants' Rights Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; and Kenneth Sugarman (LAW '97), who conducts racial profiling litigation on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California in San Francisco.

Next year's Liman Fellows were also announced at the March 2 colloquium. They are: Susan Hazeldean (LAW '01), who will engage in public education and representation of homeless teenagers at the Lesbian and Gay Youth Project of the Urban Justice Center in New York; Serena Hoy (LAW '00), who will work with the Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition to represent individuals who the U.S. government seeks to deport on the basis of prior criminal convictions; and Joe Luby (LAW '98), who will represent death-row inmates, and seek to assist private bar counsel in so doing, as an attorney with the Public Interest Litigation Clinic of Missouri.

"Faces of Hope" can be seen 8 a.m.-midnight through April 13 in the Alumni Reading Room, which is adjacent to the student lounge on the main corridor of the first floor of the Law School, 127 Wall St.

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