Hofstra Law Professor Theo Liebmann has been named a recipient of the 2024 Mark Hardin Award for Child Welfare Legal Scholarship and Systems Change by the ABA Center on Children and the Law. He was presented with the award at the National Conference on Access to Justice hosted by the ABA Center on Children and the Law on April 9.
The award is given to legal professionals who have shown achievement and commitment to legal scholarship and systems change, such as authoring child welfare legislation, leading a child welfare agency through major system change or having a key role in litigation that resulted in major system change.
Professor Liebmann was nominated by his former law student Nicole Wong ’22, who noted, “the care and attention to youth and families that Professor Liebmann provides, if emulated by every lawyer and social worker, would create the safest and kindest child welfare system our nation ever had. When I first heard about the Mark Hardin Award for Child Welfare Legal Scholarship and Systems Change, I had no doubt in my mind that such a distinction was created to recognize Professor Liebmann.”
Professor Liebmann serves as the Executive Director of the Freedman Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics, and has directed the Youth Advocacy Clinic since its inception. His advocacy and scholarship focuses primarily on issues related to immigration, ethics, and the representation of children and youth. Professor Liebmann and his students have represented hundreds of immigrant children in family and appellate courts, as well as in immigration proceedings and removal cases in federal immigration courts.
Learn more about the Mark Hardin Award on the American Bar Association website.
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