Professor Dr. Aaron Littman

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Aaron Littman is an Assistant Professor at UCLA School of Law, where he also serves as the faculty director of the Prisoners’ Rights Clinic. His scholarly work focuses on sub-constitutional law and incarceration, with recent publications addressing regulatory law's failures to protect prisoners and the roles of county officials in carceral policymaking. Littman has contributed significantly to understanding prison visitation policies and conditions of confinement. Before joining UCLA, he worked as a staff attorney at the Southern Center for Human Rights, litigating conditions of confinement and law enforcement misconduct cases. He earned his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal and participated in the Worker Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic. Littman has also clerked for the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the Ninth Circuit and the Honorable Myron Thompson of the Middle District of Alabama. His extensive background includes fellowships with the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project and the Equal Justice Initiative, focusing on issues affecting marginalized communities and advocating for civil rights.

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