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Public Interest Law & Policy

Public Interest Law & Policy. Ronald W. Staudt August 26, 2008. Public Interest Law & Policy. Course organization Course Website Course Information Grading & Attendance Policy Case Studies Assignments Waiting for Gautreaux What is Public Interest Law?. Public Interest Law Speakers.

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Public Interest Law & Policy

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  1. Public Interest Law & Policy Ronald W. Staudt August 26, 2008

  2. Public Interest Law & Policy • Course organization • Course Website • Course Information • Grading & Attendance Policy • Case Studies • Assignments • Waiting for Gautreaux • What is Public Interest Law?

  3. Public Interest Law Speakers • American Constitution Society • David Rudovsky, Wednesday October 17, 3:00-4:00 pm • Supreme Court cases on warrentless wiretaps and police misconduct. Founding partner(1971) of a public interest law firm in Philadelphia. • Peter Edelman Wednesday, October 31, 3:00-4:00 pm • Chair of the DC Access to Justice Commission, Georgetown faculty expert on public interest law and poverty law.

  4. What is public interest law? • Clinical legal education • Advice Desk, Low Income Taxpayer Clinic… • Lori Andrews cases • Bart Brown and Hank Perritt’s international efforts • Dan Tarlock’s environmental work • Marty Malin’s law and the workplace • David Rudovsky’s firm

  5. What is public interest law?

  6. Public Interest Law & Policy • What is Public Interest Law? • New Lawyers- - Student Note - -1970 • Rabin’s article-- 1976 • Southworth’s study of the right--2005

  7. New Lawyers- Student Note 1970 • Angry despair • 1930s v 1970 • Lloyd Cutler v. Ralph Nader • Note 3 definition? • process v. “preferred interests and groups”

  8. Lawyers for Social Change- 1976 • 1965- all institutions under fire –Civil Rights, Vietnam • change through litigation-but not OEO • Definitions: • subsidized attorney services • Nature of practice v. source of funds for lawyer • ACLU, LDF, Sierra Club, NRDC, MALDEF • consumer representation? • broad societal majoritarian views? • process definition-under represented but selective about interests they choose.

  9. Conservative Lawyers. . . Southworth’s study -2005 • Emergence of Liberal PILFs • ACLU & LDF powerless minorities • New PILFs --diffuse majorities • Look like law firms • Not dependent on fees • Critiques of legal profession in ’60s- Nader, Halpern—lawyers self interest at odds with public interest

  10. Nader’s View of Lawyers in 1969

  11. Top Law Students Reject Private Practice

  12. Conservative PILFs. . . Southworth’s study • Late ’60s • Amer. for Effective Law Enforcement • Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation • Catholic League & Nat’l Right to Life Committee • 1971-- Powell’s memo • Mid ’70s • Pacific Legal Foundation • Mid America Legal Foundation • Washington Legal Foundation • Federalist Society for Law… • ’80s and ’90s dozens of new conservative PILF’s

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