Ben Haldeman is a staff attorney at the New Haven Legal Assistance Association (NHLAA), which he joined as an Immigrant Justice Corps Fellow in 2017. He is also a Visiting Clinical Lecturer at Yale Law School, where he co-teaches the Legal Aid: Immigrant Rights Clinic. He practices primarily immigration defense, with a focus on Connecticut residents in removal proceedings, and especially those detained by ICE. He is committed to advancing immigrant rights in Connecticut and to incorporating principles of community lawyering in his work at NHLAA.
Prior to NHLAA, he clerked for Justice Richard Palmer of the Connecticut Supreme Court, and before that, he was an English teacher at Punahou School in Honolulu, HI, School Year Abroad in Ichinomiya, Japan, and the Loomis Chaffee School, in Windsor, CT. He received his J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 2016 and a B.A. in Religion from Williams College in 2005. He has coached wrestling since 2006, and he is currently an assistant wrestling coach at Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven.
