Judith Resnik, founding director of the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law at Yale Law School, has been named a member of the 2018 class of Andrew Carnegie fellows. Resnik is among 31 recipients of the two-year grant researching and writing about pressing contemporary issues.

Yale Law School Professor Judith Resnik

Resnik said her fellowship will culminate in a book about prison sentencing. The question of punishment “is not, of course, new,” the author stated in a release, “but what happens after sentencing and in prison has not been much in focus.”