Public Interest Advisory Group
The Public Interest Advisory Group is a group of faculty, staff and students dedicated to the promotion of pro bono and public interest at the law school. Some activities of the group include:
Distinguished Public Interest Visitor Series
Academics and practitioners are invited to the law shcool each year to offer workshops and lectures. Recent past speakers have included Ann Beeson, litigation director for the ACLU; Stephen Bright, director of the Southern Center for Human Rights; Lt Cdr Charles Swift; Harold Koh, dean, Yale Law School; and President Jimmy Carter.
Public Interest Dinner Series
A selected group of first-year students participates in an annual dinner series with public interest faculty and community leaders. Past dinner speakers have included Salbiah Ahmed, Fellow in Islam and Human Rights; Gerry Weber, Legal Director of the Georgia ACLU; Tom Cox and Amy Totenberg, attorneys practicing education and school law; Sylvia Caley, Director of Health Law Partnership (HeLP); and Sharon Nelson Hill, Executive Director of Georgia Appleseed. Specific topics are chosen to reflect the interests of the participants, which have included in the past discussion of areas such as child advocacy, education law, juvenile defense, gay and lesbian civil rights, immigration and environmental law. Customarily, one dinner each year is held at the State Capitol where the students meet with legilslators who discuss legislation pending before the Georgia State legislature.
The 2007-08 Advisory Group:
Robert Ahdieh, Professor of Law
Frank Alexander, Professor of Law
William Buzbee, Professor of Law
Brad Drummond, 08L
Susan Fitzgerald Carter, Associate Dean for Development and University Relations
Martha Albertson Fineman, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law and Director, Feminism and Legal Theory Project
Danielle Goldstone, 09L
Jim Grode, Director of Turner Environmental Law Clinic
Kimberly Robinson, Associate Professor of Law
Kay Levine, Associate Professor of Law
Sue McAvoy, Public Interest Advisor, Office of Career Services
Mary Margaret Oliver, Visiting Professor of Law, Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic
Deirdre O'Connor, Director, Indigent Criminal Defense Clinic
Janette Pratt, Administrative Professor for Field Placement
Beth Reimels, Managing Attorney, Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic
Jordana Rubel, 07L
Lawrence Sanders, Staff Attorney, Turner Environmental Clinic
Robert Schapiro, Professor of Law
Laura Settlemeyer, 08L
Randee Waldman, Managing Attorney, Juvenile Defense Clinic
Karen Worthington, Co-Director, Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic