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