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t the core of any great institution is a dedicated group of skilled faculty who facilitate the learning process by fostering educational and personal growth in the lives of their students. At Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School (AJMLS), our professors combine their real-world legal experience with practical classroom training to provide the most comprehensive and dynamic learning environment for students. In an effort to highlight faculty achievements, the law school is pleased to recognize five of its female professors who have received tenure positions; they are Joanna Apolinsky, Kathleen Burch, Liza Karsai, Lisa Taylor, and Lisa Tripp. In addition, Caprice Roberts is the only tenured professor on the faculty at Savannah Law School. These tenured faculty members balance high expectations with genuine care and compassion. A brief biography of each tenured faculty member is provided below.
Joanna Apolinsky
Professor Apolinsky worked as corporate counsel at Georgia-Pacific Corporation from 1999 until 2004, where she focused on debt finance transactions and corporate law. Prior to joining Georgia-Pacific, she was an associate at King & Spalding LLP in Atlanta, where she specialized in public finance. Professor Apolinsky joined the Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School faculty in 2004. She received her J.D., cum laude, at Georgia State University of Law and her B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, at the University of Texas at Austin. Her publications include Rethinking Liability for Vaccine Injuries, 19 Cornell J. L. & Pub. Pol’y ___ (Issue 3 2009-2010) (with Jeffrey A. Van Detta) and Is There Any Viability to Scheme Liability for Secondary Actors after Stoneridge Investment Partners, LLC v. ScientificAtlanta, Inc.?, Cath. U. L. Rev. 411 (2009).
Kathleen Burch
Professor Burch joined the faculty of Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School in 2003. She developed and directs the Micronesian Externship Program which has placed law students at externship sites in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas,
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the Territory of Guam, and the State of Yap, Federated States of Micronesia. Professor Burch teaches Constitutional Law I and II, Civil Procedure I and II, Education Law, Legal Drafting, and Trial Advocacy. In conjunction with the ACLU of Georgia, Professor Burch has developed and teaches the Civil Liberties Seminar, an experiential course which allows students to work with ACLU cooperating attorneys on impact litigation and to act as ACLU lobbyists in the Georgia General Assembly. From 2005 to 2008, Professor Burch was the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School. She has taught First Amendment at Georgia State University College of Law in Atlanta, Georgia. Before joining the AJMLS faculty, Professor Burch taught at Roger Williams Law School in Rhode Island. From 1995-2001, Professor Burch worked for the Office of the Attorney General for the State of Yap, Federated States of Micronesia, first as the Chief of Litigation, then as the Assistant Attorney General. During her six years in Yap, Professor Burch represented the state in both criminal and civil matters before both the state and national courts. She also advised the Governor and executive branch agencies on economic development, education, and fisheries issues. From 1989-2005, Professor Burch practiced commercial litigation with the law firm of Hopkins & Sutter in Chicago, Illinois. Professor Burch is a member of the ACLU of Georgia’s Board of Directors and chair of its Legal Committee, a member of the National Association of Women Lawyer’s Committee for Evaluation of Supreme Court Nominees, and a member of the Order of the Coif. Professor Burch has presented at the Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia’s Annual Supreme Court Update and at the Pacific Judicial Council’s Biannual Conference. She has also presented at conferences and symposia in the United States and in Pretoria, South Africa, Istanbul, Turkey, and Nairobi, Kenya. Professor Burch frequently comments on current issues in Constitutional Law in the Atlanta media.
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Professor Burch’s publications include Academic Freedom: A Comparative Analysis of Legal Protections in the United States and Turkey, 7 Bahcesehir/Kazanci L.J. 65 (2011); Free Speech in Time of War and Terror in the United States and Turkey, 7 Bahcesehir/Kazanci L.J. 108 (2011); Going Global: Managing Liability in International Externship Programs – A Case Study of Law Schools 36 Journal of College and University Law 455 (2010); Creating the Perfect Storm: How Partnering with the ACLU Integrates the Carnegie Report’s Three Apprenticeships, 3 John Marshall L. J. 51 (2009); The Gun Control Debate and the Power of the Georgia General Assembly: A Historical Perspective, 2 John Marshall L. J. 93 (2009); Marriage Amendment Violates the U.S. Constitution, Fulton County Daily Report at 5, Oct. 28, 2004; and Due Process in Micronesia: Are Fish Due Less Process, 8 Roger Williams U. L. Rev. 43 (2002). Professor Burch earned her J.D., magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. and earned her B.A., cum laude from Rosary College in River Forest, Illinois.
preparation, and national management and coordination of pharmaceutical litigations involving numerous regional and local counsel. Professor Karzai earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of California at Los Angeles and her J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law, summa cum laude. While in law school, Professor Karsai served on Law Review and the Moot Court Executive Board.
Lisa Taylor
Professor Taylor is beginning her tenth year on the faculty at Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School, where she has taught courses in Civil Procedure, Employment Law, Remedies, and Contracts. In addition to these courses in the law school’s J.D. program, Professor Taylor also teaches and advises in the law school’s online LL.M. in Employment Law program, which she helped design and establish in 2010. Professor Taylor’s scholarship dovetails nicely with her teaching, focusing on issues that lie at the intersection of civil procedure and employment law. Her most recent publications include The Pro-Employee Bent of the Roberts Court, 79 Tenn. L. Rev. 803 (2012); Untangling the Web Spun By Title VII’s Referral & Deferral Scheme, 59 Cath. U. L. Rev. 427 (2010); and Parsing Supreme Court Dicta to Adjudicate Non-Workplace Harms, 57 Drake L. Rev. 75 (2008). Outside of the classroom, Professor Taylor is intimately involved in various facets of faculty governance and has served as faculty adviser to several student organizations. At home, she is a mother to four busy children (ages 17, 6, 4, and 3), and she trains for and races, triathlons, and marathons.
Lisa Tripp
Liza Karsai
Prior to joining the John Marshall Law School faculty in 2007, Professor Karsai was a Partner at New York City’s Kaye Scholer LLP, where she was national counsel to pharmaceutical companies in mass tort litigation. She has extensive experience in complex litigation, including product liability, antitrust, and environmental. Her experience includes trials in the U.S. and abroad, as well as various aspects of trial strategy and
8th. She teaches Contracts, Federal Courts, Jurisprudence, and Judicial Power & Restraint and formerly served as Associate Dean of Faculty Research & Development, and Chair of the Remedies Section of AALS. She has won several awards for her teaching and publications; recent articles include “Teaching Remedies from Theory to Practice” (Saint Louis University Law Journal, 2013); “The Case for Restitution and Unjust Enrichment Remedies in Patent Law” (Lewis & Clark Law Review, 2011; reprinted in Intellectual Property Law Review (WEST, 2011). She is an elected member of the American Law Institute and also serves on the Mentor Committee and the Scholarly Research Committee of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools. Professor Roberts graduated from Rhodes College where she received her B.A. degree cum laude, (Phi Beta Kappa) and from Washington & Lee University School of Law where she received her J.D. magna cum laude, Order of the Coif. She then clerked for the Honorable Julia Smith Gibbons of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee and the Honorable Ronald Lee Gilman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She practiced civil and criminal litigation for three years with the Government Enforcement Litigation Section of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in Washington, D.C. In 2002, she joined the faculty of West Virginia College of Law. She has also served as a visiting professor at Florida State University College of Law, The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law, and Washington & Lee University School of Law. She is admitted to practice law in Georgia, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C.
Caprice Roberts
Caprice Roberts is a Professor of Law at Savannah Law School and the co-author of a leading remedies casebook, Remedies
Lisa Tripp is an Associate Professor at Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School, in Atlanta Georgia. She teaches Health Care Law, Torts and Remedies. Professor Tripp practiced health care law for a private law firm and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services prior to joining the faculty of Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School in 2006. As an attorney for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Professor Tripp focused primarily on long
term care enforcement. She litigated many cases involving physical and sexual abuse, elopements, falls, neglect and substandard quality of care. Professor Tripp currently serves as the Chair of the Leadership Council of The National Consumer Voice for Quality LongTerm Care and has served on health quality measurement committees and panels for the National Quality Forum and the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). She is a consultant to CMS and has provided training to survey agencies in North Carolina, Kentucky, Oregon, Wisconsin and Oklahoma and provided some consulting to industry groups. Professor Tripp received her law degree, with honors, from George Washington University Law School, in Washington, D.C.
Here are some of the professor’s thoughts on what it means to be a female professor: “Ideally, it should not matter that I am a female professor versus a male professor; a good professor is a good professor. However, if because I am female - I can positively impact a student differently than a male professor could, or influence and motivate a student to do more than that student believed he or she was capable of, then that is extremely important.” – Joanna Apolinsky “It was an honor and a privilege to be a member of the first class of tenured female faculty in the modern era of Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School. Two female colleagues and I busted the ranks of the previously-all-male tenured faculty in 2010, and we haven’t looked back. Since that time, the tenured female faculty have not only increased in numbers, but we have also increased our presence in the governance and leadership of the institution. In so doing, I believe that we serve as role models for our students as well as the legal community at large. I strive to demonstrate, not only by my words but also by my actions, that it is possible to ‘have it all’ – to be a successful and contributing member of the legal community while also being a dedicated and loving mother.” – Lisa Taylor “I’ve been most inspired by a tireless dedication to the law as embodied in Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. With style and grace, she embraced every aspect of life and law as a litigator, scholar, mother, advocate, professor, and jurist. Her constant and steadfast attention to the cases before her, the clerks she inspires, and the various perennial challenges she has overcome in her personal life, have demonstrated to me what participating in this legal community, vocationally and emotionally, is all about.” – Caprice Roberts
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