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Winter 2004 Law Letter Georgia State University College of Law Georgia State University College of Law Reading Room The Law Letter Publications January 2004 Winter 2004 Law Letter Georgia State University College of Law Follow this and additional works at: https://readingroom.law.gsu.edu/letter Institutional Repository Citation Georgia State University College of Law, "Winter 2004 Law Letter" (2004). The Law Letter. 1. https://readingroom.law.gsu.edu/letter/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Publications at Reading Room. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Law Letter by an authorized administrator of Reading Room. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Law Letter GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW WINTER 2004 Students Tackle Jail Issues in New Pro Bono Recognition Program Initiative Georgia State director of project a reality,” said University College the Southern Associate Dean Anne of Law students have Center, Emanuel. A few students been working with Gibson continued to work at the inmates at the Fulton agreed to jail over the winter break County Jail in an effort give student under Professor Kadish’s to provide relief from volunteers supervision. The project problems caused by access to the resumed full force this severe overcrowding and inmates in semester. understaffing at the jail. an effort to Participants in the Fulton County Jail Project Continued on Page 13 The Fulton County Jail help resolve gather in the Law Library. From Left (first row): Project is the inaugural issues. More Cassandre Galette, Professor Ellen Podgor, John pro bono initiative of the than 40 Molinaro, Elizabeth Ballard, (second row) In This College of Law’s new Pro students Professor Mark Kadish, Emily Pittman, Chris Bono Recognition signed up Harris, Samir Patel, Professor Roy Sobelson, Issue Program, which is to work on (third row) Ernest Napier, Jonathan Poole, Christopher Bracci and Jennifer Hendee designed to emphasize the project. Center and Clinic to law students that They issues. At other times, Updates pro bono service is an attended mandatory they were able to alert the page 4 essential part of their training sessions conducted prison officials to health Donor professional life. The pro by the Southern Center and safety concerns Recognition bono program provides staff and Professor Mark expressed by the inmates. many opportunities and Kadish, director of the All students worked in page 6 college recognition for project, participated in teams accompanied by a ClassActions student volunteer work. interviews at the prison faculty member. A special page 10 After the Southern and follow-up work on thank you extends to Graduate Center for Human Rights behalf of the inmates. Professors Kadish, Podgor Event News filed a lawsuit on behalf Sometimes the and Sobelson. In total, page 11 of inmates at the jail last students are simply able they processed more than Mock Trial June, federal Judge Marvin to provide inmates with 400 inmate requests for Wins Shoob placed the jail in information about their assistance. page 13 the hands of a federal situation: the timing of “We greatly appreciate receiver, John Gibson. In a hearings, the nature of the cooperation of the Founder and meeting between Gibson, the charges, pending Fulton County Jail’s Benefactor Honored Dean Steven Kaminshine charges in other counties administration and staff page 13 and Stephen Bright, and transfer and release in helping make this Law Letter Winter 2004 The Law Letter is published by the Office of Development and Alumni Relations three times a year for graduates, students, faculty, staff and friends of the College of Law. Please send address changes, graduate Dean’s Message news, comments and requests to: Editor he College of Law has come Externship Program and our successful Georgia State University College of Law T Moot Court and Mock Trial programs Office of Development and Alumni Relations very far very fast, and as we P. O. Box 4037, Atlanta, GA 30302-4037 enter our second generation, we are have long offered students excellent Phone: 404/651-2040 • Fax: 404/651-2794 poised to move to the next level on our opportunities for skills development. E-mail: [email protected] This fall we have been able to expand path of becoming a great public law Office of Development school. The secret of our past success these opportunities in two important and Alumni Relations and our optimism for the future is simple ways: the launching of a Criminal Alleen Deutsch, Director Justice Clinic under the leadership of 404/651-2142 or [email protected] to state: we are blessed with a talented Delita Marsland, Associate Director and dedicated faculty and staff, quality Professor Clark Cunningham, and the 404/651-2040 or [email protected] students, and successful and supportive creation of a Pro Bono Recognition Vickie Dye, Associate to the Director Program. Both new programs have 404/651-4360 or [email protected] alumni and friends. This combination Maria Johnson, Administrative Assistant of talent and support is the engine that been enormously successful. Students 404/463-9783 or [email protected] drives the law school, and this past fall in the new clinic have tackled a demanding caseload and had the Receptionists has been no exception. Student Services, 404/651-2048 Beginning in August, the College rare opportunity this fall to defend Faculty, 404/651-2096 launched its first two centers, the (successfully) a client charged with Center for Law, Health and Society and murder. With the Pro Bono Recognition Law Library Circulation Desk, 404/651-2478 the Center for the Comparative Study Program students have responded to Reference Desk, 404/651-4143 of Metropolitan Growth. These centers the call for pro bono service with promise to enhance the College’s incredible gusto and enthusiasm. Administration Steven J. Kaminshine, Interim Dean, 404/651-2035 reputation regionally and nationally, We also have been most fortunate Anne Emanuel, Interim Associate Dean for Academic expand educational opportunities for this year to continue to benefit from Affairs, 404/651-2090 students, and serve as catalysts for the support and involvement of our Bill Prigge, College Administrative Officer, 404/651-4161 alumni and friends. Our Board of Cheryl Jester-George, Director of Admissions, research, community partnerships, 404/651-4162 and attracting resources. Under the Visitors, under the leadership of new Vickie Brown, Director of Career Services, 404/651-2705 leadership of Professor Charity Scott, chair, John T. Marshall, partner at Nancy Johnson, Law Librarian, 404/651-4140 Powell Goldstein, has formed six key the Health Center already has launched Board of Visitors a distinguished speaker series, a faculty working committees that will assist us Miles J. Alexander, Kilpatrick Stockton fellows program to attract leading in examining issues that are important Randall L. Allen, Alston & Bird to the law school’s future. This fall we Representative Kathleen B. Ashe, District 56 national figures in the health law field, Byron Attridge, King & Spalding an innovative Health Law Partnership also saw the formal establishment of Judge Dorothy Toth Beasley, State of Georgia (HeLP) with Children’s Healthcare of two significant alumni-led initiatives: Joel Cowan, Cowan and Associates the Intellectual Property Advisory Larry M. Dingle, Wilson Brock & Irby Atlanta and Atlanta Legal Aid, and a Linda DiSantis, City of Atlanta legislative advocacy program for Board which will help the College build Gail H. Evans, Consultant students interested in health legislation a nationally recognized Intellectual David H. Flint, Schreeder Wheeler & Flint and policy. Under the leadership of Property program, and the Graduate Sharon Gay, McKenna Long & Aldridge Cathy Henson, Georgia School Council Institute Professors Colin Crawford, Julian Health Law Network which will help Allen E. Hill, United Parcel Service Juergensmeyer, and Janice Griffith, the support the development of the new R. William “Bill” Ide, McKenna Long & Aldridge Metro Growth Center has been equally Health Law Center. In November, the Judge Edward H. Johnson, Georgia Court of Appeals Graduate Leadership Council expanded Richard Jones, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta active in its first year, creating an Paul Kilpatrick Jr., Pope McGlamry Kilpatrick Morrison “Urban Fellows” program that will its annual “Newly Minted Lawyers” & Norwood provide forums for law students to meet reception in honor of our most recent Judge Phyllis Kravitch, U. S. Court of Appeals, graduates to add an orientation 11th Circuit with public and private policymakers, a Paula Lawton-Bevington, Marcus Institute foreign enrichment course to be taught program about alumni activities and Joey M. Loudermilk, American Family Life Assurance by visiting international scholars, and giving opportunities. And in December Company of Columbus the College of Law faculty hosted a Morris W. Macey, Macey Wilensky Cohen Wittner & an international studies program to Kessler begin this summer in Rio de Janeiro. luncheon for College of Law alumnus John T. Marshall, Powell Goldstein (Board of Visitors As we plan programs for the future, Glenn Richardson, Class of ’84, in Chair) we must also strive to offer students honor of his becoming the next Charles R. Morgan, Attorney at Law Susan Neugent, Fernbank Museum of Natural History fresh opportunities for developing the Speaker of the Georgia House of Mary Margaret Oliver, Stuckey, Manheimar & Oliver lawyering skills demanded by today’s Representatives, the first College of Stephanie Parker, Jones Day practice and an understanding of the Law graduate to hold statewide office. W. Scott Petty, King & Spalding Kenneth Southall, Troutman Sanders expectations that come with being a Joining the celebration were other law Elizabeth V. Tanis, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan member of the profession. Our alums who hold seats in the Georgia Patricia Tate, McKenna Long & Aldridge nationally acclaimed Tax Clinic, Assembly: Rick Golick ’92, Bill Judge Peggy H. Walker, Douglas County Juvenile Court Hugh W. Welborn, Attorney at Law Gene Mac Winburn, Winburn Lewis & Stolz Continued on Page 3 Dom H.
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