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While in law school, Professor Ahdieh served as a student director of the Allard K. Lowenstein Human Rights Clinic, helping to spearhead an ultimately successful Alien Tort Claims Act lawsuit against Radovan Karadzic, for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the 1992-1995 ethnic war in Bosnia & Herzegovina.  For many years, he chaired the Board of Directors of the Tahirih Justice Center, a Washington, D.C. based non-profit serving the needs of immigrant and refugee women and girls.  He has also worked on human rights issues in the Middle East and in Central and Eastern Europe.  At Emory, he has been actively involved in efforts to re-establish - and secure the long-term future of - the Loan Repayment Assistance Program.  He has also played a central role in promoting judicial clerkship opportunities for Emory students.

Professor Bederman advises both domestic and international non-government organizations on a variety of international, environmental, and maritime law issues. Among these are The Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition, Professional Shipwreck Explorers Association (ProSEA), and The Procedural Aspects of International Law (PAIL) Institute. He has also consulted with a number of government agencies and international organizations on issues ranging from cultural heritage, investment protection, international claims, and exotic species.

 Professor Buzbee joined Emory's faculty in 1993 after practicing law from 1986 to 1993. At Emory he teaches Environmental Law, Administrative Law, Legal Methods, Land Use and, on occasion, Property and is the Director of Emory Law School Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program. He also from time to time offers seminars on advanced environmental and regulatory topics such as Federalism and Devolution, Regulatory Reform, and Urban Environmental Law. Professor Buzbee has extensive public interest law experience. After clerking for a federal judge, he worked as an attorney-fellow for the Natural Resources Defense Council, a public interest environmental not- for-profit. While working at a private law firm in New York City, where his practice concentrated on environmental law and litigation, he worked on pro bono matters involving civil rights laws, environmental justice disputes, and humans rights violations. He also performed litigation and counseling work for several public authorities. While at Columbia Law School, Professor Buzbee worked for the New York State Attorney General Labor Division as well as for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, where he worked on several civil rights lawsuits. Since moving to Atlanta, Professor Buzbee has served on the board of the Georgia Center for Law in the Public Interest, an environmental law oriented not-for-profit, and occasionally served as a legal advisor to the Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper. He also co-founded Emory Law School's Turner Environmental Law Clinic and heads its advisory board. His scholarship focuses on public law topics ranging from environmental law policy, to public law litigation and citizen standing, to exploration of federalism and its intersection with land use policy. His most recent articles explore separation of powers and federalism disputes in statutory interpretation and constitutional law settings.

Martha Albertson Fineman is an internationally recognized law and society scholar and a leading authority on family law and feminist jurisprudence. Fineman is founder and director of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project, which was inaugurated in 1984 at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The Project has since followed Fineman to Columbia and Cornell, where she also held faculty appointments, until settling in 2004 at Emory University, where Fineman has been named the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law. The Project sponsors several workshops and conferences each year dealing with issues related to feminism, gender and sexuality, and family law. The Project also hosts visiting scholars from around the world and maintains an archive of groundbreaking feminist legal scholarship collected over the past twenty years. For more information, visit http://www.law.emory.edu/flt/. In addition to directing the Feminism and Legal Theory Project, Fineman has received awards for her writing and teaching and has served on several government study commissions. She teaches family law, feminist jurisprudence, law and sexuality, and seminars on reproductive issues and select topics in feminist legal theory. Fineman is also a board member of Veteran Feminists of America and serves on the Transforming Community Project, an initiative aimed at improving racial relations and education on race scholarship at Emory.

Professor Michael Kang focuses on issues of election law, political science, and corporate law, including voting rights, race, redistricting, and direct democracy.  At Emory, Professor Kang advises a number of student organizations, including Just Democracy and the Asian American Law Students Association among others<ins cite="mailto:McKesson%20Corp." datetime="2007-06-06T23:48">. </ins><ins cite="mailto:McKesson%20Corp." datetime="2007-06-06T23:47"> </ins>Professor Kang received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Chicago, where he served as Technical Editor of the University of Chicago Law Review and graduated Order of the Coif.  He received an M.A. from the University of Illinois and will receive his Ph.D. from Harvard University in Government in 2008.  After law school, Professor Kang clerked for Judge Michael S. Kanne of the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and worked in private practice at Ropes & Gray in Boston, MA, where he worked on various pro bono matters.

William Ty Mayton teaches constitutional law in general and the first amendment in particular, and also administrative law. Professor Mayton served as assistant counsel to the United States Senate Select Committee on Campaign Activities (the Watergate Committee). At Emory, he has represented various community groups in problems of state and local government. Most recently, he has served as a consultant, respecting constitutional issues and matters of legislative process, in connection with medical malpractice reform. Presently he is serving as appointed counsel (appointed by the eleventh circuit court of appeals) in Mobile Republican Assemblies v. United States. This case involves the effort, by "McCain-Feingold" legislation, to regulate campaign finances by means of tax policy.

Janette Pratt directs the field placement program at the law school and heads up the pro bono program. She was the founding director of Emory Law School’s Child Advocacy Project in 1992 and has been involved with a number of issues relating to children and juveniles. Currently she chairs a panel reviewing foster care cases in Dekalb County. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic and of the Turner Environmental Law Clinic. In addition, for many years, she has been a mediator with the Justice Center of Atlanta and has been chairman and secretary of the Board of Directors of Clairmont Oaks, Inc., a non-profit corporation providing housing for low-income senior citizens.

Beth Reimels manages the legislative and policy work of the Barton Clinic. She supervises students in the clinic and at the Georgia State Capitol. Beth directs the Emory Summer Child Advocacy Program and also coordinates the Barton Fellowship program, which sponsors post-graduate fellowships for lawyers and public health professionals to work with Clinic research and evaluation projects. Beth began her child advocacy career as a student attorney with the Barton Clinic and participated in the Emory Summer Child Advocacy Program. Before returning to Barton in 2004, Beth was with the Atlanta Legal Aid Society where she served as the Director of the TeamChild Atlanta project, a project she founded in 2001 as an Equal Justice Works Fellow. The project provides direct civil legal representation to children involved in the juvenile court. Her practice areas included special education, student discipline, mental health, and public benefits law. During law school Beth clerked for the Fulton County Juvenile Court Office of Program Development, The DeKalb County Juvenile Court Office of the Child Advocate, and Cobb County Legal Aid. Before attending law school, Beth worked for the American Red Cross.  Ms. Reimels received her B.A. from Boston University and her J.D. from the Emory University School of Law.

Professor Rubin is a Senior Fellow at the Progress and Freedom Foundation and an adjunct Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He is a member of the Institute of Justice task force on "Consumer Freedom." He has written and testified on numerous policy issues. He was one of the first to advocate direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs, and has given numerous talks on this issue, as well as testifying before the Food and Drug Administration. He has also written on Internet privacy, and has testified twice before Congress on this issue. He has also written about First Amendment issues, including analyses of commercial speech and of free speech on campuses.

Ani B. Satz holds a J.D. from the University of Michigan School of Law and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (completed at Princeton University).  Professor Satz has teaching and research interests in health, disability, and animal law.  She is particularly interested in questions about governmental obligations to vulnerable populations, such as the uninsured, the disabled, and nonhuman animals.  Professor Satz’s doctoral work focused on access to genetic testing as a form of health care, and she is the author of numerous publications at the intersection of health and disability law and ethics and lectures extensively in these areas.  Professor Satz is a full-time member of the Emory Law School faculty but holds a joint appointment at the Rollins School of Public Health.  She assists the Law School with the J.D./MPH program and serves as a liaison to the medical school and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  In addition, Professor Satz is involved in strategic planning for the university-wide Center for Health Law, Policy, and Ethics.  She is the faculty advisor to the Legal Association for Women Students and the Health Law Society.  She is a member of the Bioethics and Public Policy Group at Yale University; the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics; the Animal Legal Defense Fund; Law and Society; and the American Philosophical Association.  Before coming to Emory, Professor Satz clerked for the Honorable Jane R. Roth of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and lectured at Yale University in the Philosophy Department and the Ethics, Politics & Economics Program as well as Monash University Medical School.  While at Michigan Law School, Professor Satz was one of the original members of the Health Law Society and served on the Family Law Project.

Selected relevant publications include: Solving the Health Care Crisis: The Paradoxical Case for Universal Access to High Technology, 8 Yale J. Health Pol’y, L. & Ethics (forthcoming 2008); Pooky, the Steer, and the Laboratory Rat: Toward a Legal Paradigm Avoiding Differential Treatment of Domestic Animals Based Upon Human Need, in Perspectives on Animal Law (forthcoming by Thompson-West 2008); A Jurisprudence of Dysfunction: On the Role of “Normal Species Functioning” in Disability Analysis, 6 Yale J. Health Pol’y, L. & Ethics 221 (2006); Would Rosa Parks Wear Fur?  Toward a Nondiscrimination Approach to Animal Welfare, 1 J. Animal L. & Ethics 101 (2006); The Case Against Assisted Suicide Reexamined, 100 Mich. L. Rev. 1380 (2002) (reviewing Kathleen Foley & Herbert Hendin eds., The Case Against Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care (2002)); and Disability and Biotechnology, in Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal, and Policy Issues in Biotechnology (with Anita Silvers) (Thomas J. Murray & Maxwell J. Mehlman eds., 2000).

Professor Shanor spent three years (1987-1990) as General Counsel of the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission enforcing Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the Equal Pay Act. He has also been involved in a variety of civic activities having public interest components, such as developing and presenting neighborhood-sensitive alternatives for vehicular access to the Carter Center on behalf of the Druid Hills Civic Association. He serves on the Board of Trustees of Trinity School and has filed pro bono amicus briefs on constitutional and civil rights issues at the request of nonprofit organizations and the Georgia Supreme Court

Professor Waldman is the Director of the Barton Juvenile Defender Clinic, where she represents young people charged with delinquent and status offenses in Georgia’s juvenile courts.  Prior to joining the faculty at Emory, Professor Waldman served as a Senior Attorney at Advocates for Children, a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring quality and equal public education services for New York City’s most vulnerable students.  She also spent several years at Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP in New York, where she spent considerable amounts of time working on pro bono matters.  While at the University of Chicago Law School, Professor Waldman worked in the criminal justice project at the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, where she represented young people in both criminal and juvenile courts in Cook County.  She also interned at the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia.

Professor Worthington is the Founding Director and current Co-Director of the Barton Child Law & Policy Clinic at Emory University. She went to law school to become a child advocate attorney and has spent most of her career working on child advocacy issues in Georgia. As director of the Supreme Court Child Placement Project she conducted a statewide assessment of how juvenile courts are handling child abuse and neglect cases. As a staff attorney with the Juvenile Advocacy Division of Georgia Indigent Defense Council, she provided technical assistance and training to attorneys working in juvenile courts across the state. As Director of Program Development for Fulton County Juvenile Court, she connected the community and service providers with the juvenile court. Professor Worthington has served on the EPIC Advisory Board for a number of years, volunteers with the Fulton County Truancy Intervention Project and the Fulton County Citizen Panel Review Board, and sits on a number of advisory boards and committees on childrens issues locally and nationally.