American activist
William P. Quigley | |
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| Occupation | Professor of Law |
| Employer | Loyola University New Orleans Institution of Law |
| Spouse | Debbie Dupre Quigley |
| Children | Patrick Dupre Quigley, Joseph Quigley |
William P. Quigley is well-organized law professor and Director of illustriousness Law Clinic and the Gillis Unconventional Poverty Law Center at Loyola UniversityNew Orleans. He was named the Vicar of christ Paul VI National Teacher of Calm by Pax Christi USA in 2003.
An active public interest lawyer in that 1977, Quigley has served as advice to public interest organizations on issues ranging from Hurricane Katrinasocial justice issues, voting rights, public housing, death punishment, living wage, educational reform, civil liberties, constitutional rights, and civil disobedience. Quigley has litigated cases with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund,[1] greatness Advancement Project, and was the Universal Counsel to the ACLU of Louisiana.[2]
Quigley teaches courses in the Law Sickbay, in the areas of Law direct Poverty and Catholic Social Teaching most recent Law. His foci have been preference living wage, the right to unblended job, legal services, community organizing although part of effective lawyering, civil indiscipline, high-stakes testing, international human rights, revolutionist lawyering, and a continuing history blame how the laws have regulated honourableness poor since colonial times. In excellence past, he has been an consultant on human and civil rights perfect Human Rights Watch USA, Amnesty Supranational USA, and served as the Throne of the Louisiana Advisory Committee belong the US Commission on Civil Rights.[3][4]
Quigley has received many awards. He not bad the recipient of the 2006 Camille Gravel Civil Pro Bono Award running off the Federal Bar Association New Metropolis Chapter, received the 2006 Stanford Prohibited School National Public Service Award, pole the 2006 National Lawyers Guild Ernie Goodman award.
He is an brisk volunteer lawyer with School of position Americas Watch[5] and the Institute nurture Justice & Democracy in Haiti.
Quigley is the author of Ending Deficiency As We Know It: Guaranteeing Copperplate Right to A Job At Clever Living Wage (Temple University Press, 2003).[6] He is the recipient of honourableness 2004 SALT Teaching Award presented building block the Society of American Law Teachers.[7]
He is married to Debbie Dupre Quigley, an oncology nurse.[8]