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 Dean
Hill Rivkin
College of Law Distinguished Professor of Law
A.B., 1968, Hamilton College
J.D., 1971, Vanderbilt University
Environmental Law and Policy; Environmental Justice and Community Lawyering;
Advocacy for Children and Families; Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiation;
Legal Profession; and in the Legal Clinic.
Rivkin@libra.law.utk.edu
Professor Rivkin brings to the classroom hands-on experience in a variety
of legal areas. During his years as a member of the UT faculty, he has
been an advocate for the rights of children and families, a protector
of the environment, and a supporter of public interest law. Professor
Rivkin has been counsel in public interest litigation concerning such
issues as air pollution and TVA, a challenge to the Tennessee Barratry
Statute, the defense of the Tennessee Surface Owner Protection Act, the
rights of children in special education, and the right to education for
students who are expelled from school. He was a member of the Southern
Appalachian Mountain Initiative, a comprehensive effort to combat the
adverse effects of air pollution on the national parks and wilderness
areas in the Southeast. Professor Rivkin is a frequent presenter of programs
on clinical legal education and the rights of disabled school children,
and he has delivered papers to ABA and AALS conferences on clinical education
and public interest law. During 2004 he also has lectured on environmental
law at four universities in China. Since 2000, he has served as Director
of the AALS Equal Justice Project. Prof. Rivkin has served as a visiting
professor at the UCLA Law School, the University of Maryland Law School,
and, in 2002 and 2004, at Harvard Law School.
Selected Publications
Books, Chapters & Other
Publications :
Equal Justice Bibliography, Association
of American Law
Schools, Equal
Justice Project
(2000).
Rivkin & McGee, Disability Advocacy in Juvenile Delinquency Representation,
A Practical Guide
for Juvenile Defense
(1997).
The Environmental Impact Assessment Process, Administrative Decision-making,
Citizen Advocacy, and the Courts, in The
Role of Environmental
Impact Assessment
in the Decision-making Process
(H. Paschen, ed., 1989).
TVA, The Courts, and the Public Interest, in TVA: Fifty
Years of Grass-Roots
Bureaucracy (P. Conkin &
E. Hargrove, eds., Univ. of Illinois Press, 1983).
Remarks on Teaching and Testing Clinical Skills, in Legal
Education and Lawyers
Competency: Curricula
for Change (F. Dutile, ed., Univ.
of Notre Dame Press, 1981).
Articles & Other Works:
Pursuing Equal Justice: Law Schools and the Position of Legal Services
(2002).
AALS Project Provides Forum for Collaborative Thinking and Action,
5 ABA Dialogue 1 (2001).
Lawyering, Power, and Reform: The Legal Campaign to Abolish the Broadform
Mineral Deed, 66 Tenn. L. Rev.
467 (1999).
Lawyering, Power, and Reform: The Legal Campaign to Abolish the Broadform
Mineral Deed, 66 Tenn. L. Rev.
467 (1999).
Lawyering for Reform: Is the Highway Alive Tonight,” 64 Tenn.
L. Rev. 1065 (1995).
Doing Environmental Justice in Appalachia: Lawyers at The Grassroots
and Aspirations of Social Change, 96 W. Va.
L. Rev. 1109 (1994).
The Evolution of In-House Clinical Field Work Programs, in ABA
National Conference on Professional Skills and Legal Education, 19 N.
Mex. Law
R. 42 (1989).
The Reform Mission of Clinical Legal Education, in panel discussion,
Clinical Legal Education: Reflections on the Past Fifteen Years and Aspirations
for the Future, 36 Cath. L. Rev.
340 (1987).
The TVA Air Pollution Conflict: The Dynamics of Public Law Advocacy,
49 Tenn. L. Rev.
843 (1982).
Recent Professional Presentations and Service
Member, Policy Committee, Southern Appalachian Mountain Initiative,
1993-present.
"Lawyering Admidst Inequality," paper presented to Harvard
Law School Faculty Workshop (2002).
"Relationships with Clients," talk delivered to AALS Clinical
Workshop (2002).
"Nonlawyers and Special Education Advocacy: The Import of the Arons Case,"
Talk delivered to Council of Parents, Advocates, and Attorneys (March
2000).
Director, AALS Equal Justice Project (2000-present).
ABA site evaluation visit, Pontifical Catholic University Law School
of Puerto Rico (1999),
UNLV Law School (2000), NYU Law School (2000)..
“Public Interest Law,” Litigation Section, Association of American Law
Schools, January 1996.
“Clinical Legal Education: Pedagogical, Programmatic, and Personal Perspectives,”
American University, Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C., June
1995.
“School Discipline, Students with Disabilities, and the Juvenile Court,”
CLE conference sponsored by the Tennessee Council of Juvenile and Family
Court Judges, February 1995.
“The Dynamics of Special Education Law and Advocacy,” Annual Meeting
of the Tennessee Association of School Psychologists, 1994.
Consultant, Administration of Justice Project, United States Agency for
International
Development, La Paz, Bolivia, August 1993.
“The Future of Environmental Law and Litigation,” National Environmental
Law Moot Court Competition, February 1989.
Panelist, “Political Interference With Clinical Legal Education Section,”
January 1989.
Pro bono counsel, East Tennessee Chapter, Society of Professional Journalists.
Selected Achievements and Affiliations
Thomas Jefferson Prize, University of Tennessee (2001).
Member, Tennessee Bar Association Juvenile Justice Commission.
Member, Board of Directors, Highlander Research and Education Center,
1994-2001.
Represented plaintiffs in Carver v. Knox County re: jail conditions,
1988-present.
Board of Governors, Society of American Law Teachers, 1988-94.
Appointed, AALS Special Committee on Ethical and Professional Responsibilities
of Law Teachers, 1988-90.
First Amendment Award, National Society of Professional Journalists,
November 1986.
Works in Progress
Article on the transformation of public interest lawyering.
Article on advocacy for students with educational disabilities, school
discipline, and juvenile courts.
April 26, 2004
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