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Dean Hill Rivkin

College of Law Distinguished Professor of Law
A.B., 1968, Hamilton College
J.D., 1971, Vanderbilt University
Dean Rivkin


Representative 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:

Kotkin & Rivkin, Clinical Legal Education At a Generational Crossroads: Reflections From Two Boomers, 17 Clinical L. Rev. 197 (2010).

Rivkin & Irwin, Strip-Mining and Grassroots Resistance In Appalachia: Community Lawyering For Environmental Justice, 2 Los Angeles Public Interest Law Journal 101 (2010).

Rivkin,  Decriminalizing Students With Disabilities, 54 New York Law School Law Review 909 (2010).

Rivkin, Legal Advocacy and Education Reform: Litigating School Exclusion, 75 Tennessee Law Review 265 (2008).

Rivkin, Environmental Justice: A Universal Discourse, 24 Temple Journal of Science, Technology & Environmental Law 249 (2005)

Association of American Law Schools, Report of the Equal Justice Project (2002).

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).