William P. Quigley

Professor of Law and Director of the Loyola Law Clinic & the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center
B.A., 1971, Purdue University; J.D., 1977, Loyola University New Orleans.

Bill Quigley is a law professor as well as Director of the Law Clinic and the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center at Loyola University New Orleans. Bill has been an active public interest lawyer for over 25 years. Bill has served as counsel with a wide range of public interest organizations on issues including public housing, voting rights, death penalty, living wage, civil liberties, educational reform, constitutional rights, and civil disobedience. Bill has litigated numerous cases with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc and with the ACLU of Louisiana, for which he served as the General Counsel for over 15 years. Bill teaches in the clinic and teaches courses in poverty law and Catholic social teaching and law. His research and writing has focused on minimum wage, the right to a job, legal services, community organizing as part of effective lawyering, civil disobedience, high stakes testing, and a continuing history of how the laws have regulated the poor since colonial times. He has served as an advisor on human and civil rights to Human Rights Watch, the Open Society Institute, the Rockefeller Foundation, and served as the Chair of the Louisiana Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Bill is the author of Ending Poverty As We Know It: Guaranteeing A Right to A Job At A Living Wage (Temple University Press, 2003). Bill was named the Pope Paul VI National Teacher of Peace by Pax Christi in 2003. Bill is the recipient of the 2004 SALT Teaching Award presented by the Society of American Law Teachers.

E-mail: quigley@loyno.edu
Office Phone: 504-861-5591
Homepage: http://law.loyno.edu/~quigley/

Publications

Legal Publications and Book Contributions:

• Author, "Enforcing International Law Through Civil Disobedience: The Trial of the St. Patrick's Four," in Jeremy Brecher, Jill Cutler and Brendan Smith, IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY: American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond (Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and company, New York 2005)
• Author, "Make No Mistake: Peace, Justice, and Love For The Gospel Tells Us So," in Neil Paynter & HelenBoothroyd, editors, HOLY GROUND: Liturgies and Worship Resources for an Engaged Community (Wild Goose Publications, Glasgow 2005)
• Author, A Radical Revolution of Values Addressing Poverty, Wealth and the Working Poor: The Social Responsibility of Lawyers," Wash. U.J.L. & Pol'y (forthcoming)
• Author, “The Case for Closing the School of Americas,” BYU J. Pub. L. (forthcoming)
• Author, “Reflections from the Journals of Prosecution Clinic Students,” U. Miss. L.J., (forthcoming 2005)
• Author, “The Story of the Trial of the St. Patrick’s Four: Jury Votes 9-3 to Acquit Peace Activists Despite Admission They Poured Blood in Military Recruiting Center,” 61 Guild Prac., Number 2, 110, Spring 2004 (published November 2004)
• Author, “Catholic Social Thought on Work and Prisons,” 44 Santa Clara L. Rev. 1159 (2004)
• Author, “Seven Principles for Catholic Law Schools Serious About A Preferential Option for the Poor,” 1 St. Thomas L.J. 128 (2003)
• Author, “Catholic Social Thought and the Amorality of Corporations: Time to Remove Corporate Personhood,” in 5 Loy. J. Pub. Int. L. 109 (2004)
• Author, Book Review, Human Rights Review, John H. Scott, WITNESS TO THE TRUTH: My Struggle for Human Rights in Louisiana (Spring 2004)
• Author, “Ending Poverty by Creating a Constitutional Right to a Living Wage,” JURIST, September 24, 2003.  Reprinted in OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS: Social Justice (OVPSJ) 2005.
• Author, “The Necessity Defense in Civil Disobedience Cases: Bring in the Jury” 38 New Eng. Journal of Law 3 (2003)
• Author, “Just Compensation,” Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd edition, (Macmillan Reference USA 2003)
• Author, ENDING POVERTY: Guaranteeing a Right to a Job at a Living Wage (Temple University Press, 2003)
• Author, “America, Yes! War, No.” JURIST, November 12, 2002
• Author, “The earliest years of Federal Social Welfare Legislation: Federal Poor Relief Prior to the Civil War,” 79 U. Det. Mercy L. Rev. 157 (2002)
• Author, “Full-time Workers Should Not Be Poor: The Living Wage Movement,” 36 U. Miss. L.J. 889 (2001). Reprinted in WORK LAW: Cases and Materials (Lexis 2005).
• Author, “Due Process Rights for Grade School Students Facing High-Stakes Testing,” 10 B.U. Pub. L.J. 284 (2001)
• Author, "Predictions for Poverty Law," 47 La. B.J. 407 (February 2000)
• Author, “Yesterday my friend chose prison,” Hospitality, July 2003
• Author, “Jesuit students and faculty member convicted of standing for justice at School of Americas,” National Jesuit News April/May 2003
• Author, “Justice in a too narrow courtroom,” SOAW website, www.soaw.org, March 2003
• Author, “Censorship in New Orleans,” Maroon, February 28, 2003
• Author, “Dispatches from Iraq: A Witness for Peace Makes Desert Journey,” Hospitality, January 2003, 6-8
• Author, “Report on Peace Conversation,” SALT Equalizer, Fall 2002
• Author, “Reflections on Iraq,” SALT Equalizer, Fall 2002
• Author, “Emails from Iraq,” excerpts printed in: Hope House Newsletter, Fall/Winter 2002; NUVO, Fall 2002; Hospitality 2003
• Author, “Ten Ideas for Social Justice Organizing After September 11,” Blueprint for Social Justice, November 2001 (also printed in AALS Poverty Law Section Newsletter, on www.nonviolence.org, other social justice web sites, in Hospitality- February 2002, and 15 Radical Grace, Number 1, January-March 2002
• Co-Editor/Publisher, Louisiana Legal Services and Pro Bono Desk Manual, Fall 2001
• Author, “Fact-finding Report on Charleston 5,” for the Catholic Committee of the South, November 1, 2001
• Author, “Bombing for Justice?” Loyola Maroon, October 26, 2001 (copy can be found on Blueprint web page)
• Author, “Who Will Inherit the Reign of God? The Bible and the Facts,” Hospitality, October 2001
• Author, “Thou Shall Not Kill: Reflections on the Executions of Timothy McVeigh and Juan Raul Garza,” Hospitality, July-August 2001
• Author, “The Living Wage Movement,” Blueprint for Social Justice, Volume LIV, Number 9, May 2001
• Author, “Justice for the Poor,” Hospitality, May 2001, published by Open Door Catholic Worker Community, Atlanta
• Author, “If We Execute Timothy McVeigh Are We Any Better?” Maroon, Spring 2000 and in Spring 2000 newsletter of Moratorium 2000
• “Predictions Depend on Which 20-Year Span Repeated,” in “Predictions, Legal Practice in 2020,” 47 La. B.J. 407 (2000)
• Author, “The Demise of Law Reform and the Triumph of Legal Aid: Congress and the Legal Services Corporation from the 1960's to the 1990's,” 17 St. Louis U. Pub. L. Rev. 241-264 (1998) [reprinted in part in West Publishing Company casebook SOCIAL JUSTICE: PROFESSIONALS, COMMUNITIES AND LAW, by Martha R. Mahoney, John O. Calmore and Stephanie M. Wildman, 4-03]. Cited as a reference in Alan W. Houseman and Linda E. Perle, SECURING EQUAL JUSTICE FOR ALL: A Brief History of the Civil Legal Assistance in the United States, CLASP (November 2003).
• Author, “The Right to Work and Earn a Living Wage: A Proposed Constitutional Amendment,” 2 C.U.N.Y. L. Rev. 139-182 (1998) [reprinted in part in West Publishing Company casebook POVERTY LAW, Cases and Materials, Second Edition, edited by Juliet M. Brodie pending 2004].
• Author, “Backwards to the Future: Welfare Reform in the Millenium Using Poor Law Principles from the Middle Ages,” 9 Stan. L. & Pol'y Rev. 101 (1998)
• Author, “Rumblings of Reform: Northern Poor Laws 1820-1860,” 26 Cap. U. L. Rev. 739-74 (1997)
• Author, “The Quicksands of The Poor Law: Poor Relief Legislation in a Growing Nation, 1790-1820,” 18 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 1-98 (1997)
• Co-author, “The Significance of Race: Legislative Racial Discrimination in Louisiana, 1803-1865,” 24 S.U. L. Rev. 145-205 (1997)
• Author, “Reluctant Charity: Poor Laws in the Original Thirteen States,” 31 U. Rich. L. Rev. 111-78 (1997)
• “The Right to Work and Earn a Living Wage: A Proposed Constitutional Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,” 50 Blueprint for Social Justice (May 1997)
• Author, “Work or Starve: Colonial American Poor Laws,” 31 U.S.F. L. Rev. 35-83 (1996)
• “In Memoriam: Dean Louis Westerfield,” 42 Loy. L. Rev. 409-411 (1996)
• Author, “Five Hundred Years of English Poor Laws, 1349-1834: Regulating the Working and Nonworking Poor,” 30 Akron L. Rev. 73-128 (1996)
• Author, Book Review of The War Against the Poor by Herbert Gans, 1 Det. C.L. Rev. 17 (1996)
• “The Rich Get Richer: So What?,” 175 America 8-9 (Aug. 17, 1996)
• Author, “De-Mythologizing Welfare: Book Review of Faces of Poverty: Portraits of Women and Children on Welfare,” 2 Loy. Pov. L.J. 179-215 (1996)
• Author, “A Fair Day's Pay for a Fair Day's Work: Time to Raise and Index the Minimum Wage,” 27 St. Mary's L.J. 513-56 (1996) cited by U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit in their decision upholding the living wage ordinance of Berkeley CA June 16, 2004. See Rule One Corporation v. City of Berkeley, USCA, 9th Cir. 02-15762, June 16, 2004.
• Author, “Primer on Minimum Wage and Overtime Issues Under the Fair Labor Standards Act for Low Wage Workers and Their Advocates,” 29 Clearinghouse Rev. 925-43 (1996)
• Author, "Louis Westerfield, 1949-1996," Black Issues in Higher Education, Volume 13, No. 16, October 3, 1996
• Co-Author, "Remembering Dean Louis Westerfield: Thoughts from Friends, Colleagues, and Former Students," 42 Loy. L. Rev 405, 409-11 (1996)
• Author, “Introduction to Clinical Teaching for the New Clinical Teacher: A View from the First Floor,” 28 Akron L. Rev. 463-96 (1995). Used at South Asia Clinical Education Conference 1995; used in conference for south Africa clinical educators at University of Maryland November, 1995; used in conference for south America clinical educators by Gonzaga Law School April, 1996; translated into Polish November, 1996; translated into Chinese 2002; used at AALS New Clinical Teacher Workshops.
• “The Minimum Wage and the Working Poor,” 172 America 6-8 (June 3, 1995)
• Author, Book Review of The Selling of the South, 1 Loy. Pov. L.J. 119-24 (1995)
• Author, “Billing Issues for Legal Services Advocates,” sidebar comments in “Federal Statutory Attorney Fees: Common Issues and Recent Cases,” 28 Clearinghouse Rev. 752 (November 1994)
• Author, “Reflections of Community Organizers: Lawyering for Empowerment of Community Organizations,” 21 Ohio N.U. L. Rev. 455-80 (1994) [reprinted in part in West Publishing Company casebook SOCIAL JUSTICE: PROFESSIONALS, COMMUNITIES AND LAW, by Martha R. Mahoney, John O. Calmore, and Stephanie M. Wildman, April 2003]
• Author, “The Unmet Civil Legal Needs of the Poor in Louisiana,” 40 La. B.J. 477 (1993)
• Author, “The Unmet Civil Legal Needs of the Poor in Louisiana,” 19 S.U. L. Rev. 273-96 (1992)
• Author, “Affirmative Action: Necessary and Good,” 2 Am. Const. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 20 (1992)
• Author, Book Review of Stepping Stones: Successful Advocacy for Children, 37 Loy. L. Rev. 401 (1991)
• Author, annually revised course materials for Laws and Poverty 1991 - present
• Author, “Constitutional Law,” in Fifth Circuit Symposium, 34 Loy. L. Rev. 881 (1989)

Other Publications :

• Author, “MLK in Port au Prince Prison with Pere Jean-Juste,” Counterpunch and others, January 17, 2006
• Author, “No Home for the Holidays: Stop Eviction of Katrina Evacuees” Common Dreams and others, November 23, 2005
• Author, “World Human Rights Leaders Call for Freedom for Pere Jean Juste and Yvon Neptune,” Counterpunch, November 29, 2005
• Author, “Why Are They Making New Orleans a Ghost Town?” Mother Jones, San Francisco Bay View, and others, October 31, 2005
• Author, “New Orleans: Leaving the Poor Behind Again,” Common Dreams and others, October 11, 2005   
• Author, “Thank God There’s No One to Bomb,” Counterpunch and others, September 6, 2005
• Co-author, “Letter from a Haitian Prison: We Hear Hope Coming,” Haiti Action, August 18, 2005
• Author, “Pere Jean Juste in Isolation,” Truthout, July 25, 2005
• Author, “Haitian Priest Attacked in Church and Arrested for Murder,” Truthout, Common Dreams, July 22, 2005
• Author, “Travels in Haiti with Fr. Jean-Juste: Father you must stop feeding the children and come to jail.”  Counterpunch, July 20, 2005
• Author, “Pere Jean-Juste Free For Now,” Haiti Action, July 20, 2005; Political Affairs Magazine
• Author, “Human Rights Report on Judicial Independence in Haiti,” Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, July 2005
• Author, “Human Rights in Haiti,” Conference of International Association of Democratic Lawyers, Paris, June 2005, Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, www.ijdh.org and several other sites
• Author, “Social Justice Movies and Social Justice Documentaries,” Blueprint for Social Justice, April-May 2005
• Author, “The Liberation of Pere Jean-Juste,” Blueprint for Social Justice, February 2005
• Author, “Progressive American Catholic Manifesto,” Common Dreams, Counterpunch, others April 21, 2005
• Contributor, “The Trial of the St. Patrick’s Four,” in WAR CRIMES?: AMERICAN RESPONSIBILITY IN IRAQ AND BEYOND (Holt/Metropolitan) (forthcoming 2005)
• Author, “Resistance to the War in Iraq: Have You Heard About the St. Patrick’s Four?” Common Dreams and Counterpunch, March 17, 2005
• Author, “The Liberation of Pere Jean-Juste,” Year One, Jonah House, Winter 2005
• Author, “Haitian Police Open Fire on Nonviolent Demonstrators,” Counterpunch and Common Dreams, February 28, 2005
• Author, “Haiti’s Most Famous Political Prisoners Announce Hunger Strike,” Haiti Action, February 22, 2005
• Author, “Twenty Questions: Social Justice Quiz,” Common Dreams, Counterpunch, Information Clearinghouse February 11, 2005; Catholic Peace Voice March/April 2005
• Author, “Haiti: The Land of Torturers,” Sri Lanka Sunday Observer, January 2, 2005
• Author, “Death Watch for Human Rights in Haiti,” Counterpunch, December 23, 2004; Znet, December 24, 2004; Common Dreams, December 27, 2004
• Author, “Report on Jailed Priest in Haiti,” Autonomy and Solidarity Network, November 7, 2004
• Author, “I Held the Bullet in My Palm: Masked Haitian Police Shoot Children While Arresting Priest,” Counterpunch, October 22, 2004, reprinted several places       
• Author, “Haitian Priest Jailed Indefinitely,” Z-net, October 21, 2004, reprinted several places including THE HUMAN QUEST, March-April 2005
• Author, “Message from a Jailed Priest in Haiti,” Common Dreams, October 18, 2004, reprinted several places
• Author, “Aftermath of a coup: The other disaster in Haiti,” co-authored with Thomas Gumbleton. Counterpunch, October 13, 2004; Fellowship of Reconciliation website, October 13, 2004; also published on Z-net, October 13, 2004; published in Catholic New Times (Canada), December 5, 2004
• Author, “Report of Pax Christi USA Human Rights Mission to Haiti,” October 12, 2004, published on Pax Christi USA website and several other human rights sites
• Author, “Social Justice Spirituality: A Meditation on Micah 6:8," Blueprint for Social Justice, September 2004
• Author, “Every Hour is a Victory: The Trial of the St. Patrick’s Four,” HOSPITALITY, July 2004 and August 2004  www.opendoorcommunity.org/hospitality.htm and Ithaca News, April 26, 2004, archived at www.ithacanews.org
• Author, “Jailed for Justice,” Southern Perspectives of Jesuit Volunteer Corps South, Spring 2004
• Author, “State Criminal Charges Dismissed Against Blood Pouring Peace Activists: Federal Prosecutors Step In” published in web version of COUNTERPUNCH, June 15, 2004; published on web at www.antiwar.com June 16, 2004; commondreams.org June 16, 2004
• Editor, Loyola University BLUEPRINT FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE, 2004-
• Author, “Ending Poverty,” Blueprint for Social Justice, March 2004
• Author, “Catholic Social Thought and the Amorality of Corporations: Time to Remove Corporate Personhood,” published on internet web site of University of St. Thomas, John A. Ryan Institute for Catholic Social Thought, papers from “Business as a Calling: The Calling of Business,” Fifth International Symposium on Catholic Social Thought and management Education, 2003  http://www.stthomas.edu/cathstudies/cst/mgmt/Bilbao
• Author, “Voices Say No to Fines,” THE CATHOLIC WORKER, October-November 2003
• Co-author, Call for Ramadan Solidarity, Voices in the Wilderness, Pax Christi USA Teachers of Peace, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Muslim Peace Fellowship, October 10, 2003
• Author, “Dear Justice Scalia: An Open Letter on Catholic Social Teaching About the Death Penalty from a Catholic Law Professor to a Catholic Supreme Court Justice,” BLUEPRINT for Social Justice, LVII, No. 2, October 2003
• Author, Legal Response of Voices in the Wilderness to Prosecution by US Government for $20,000 fines, posted on www.nonviolence.org/vitw August 2003
• Author, “Make No Mistake,” HOSPITALITY, January-February 2004; Catholic Peace Voice, Vol. XXVIII, No. 5, September-October 2003;  Via Pacis, newsletter of Des Moines Catholic Worker community, August 2003, vol 27, No 3; Locusts and Honey, High Desert Catholic Worker, Fall 2003; and on Pax Christi USA website
• Author, “Legal Briefing for People Considering Civil Disobedience at SOA Protest,” August 2003 and updated in following years on School of Americas Watch website
• Author, “Yesterday my friend chose prison,” Hospitality, July 2003; SALT EQUALIZER, May 2004, page 12
• Author, “Jesuit students and faculty member convicted of standing for justice at School of Americas,” National Jesuit News April/May 2003, page 5
• Author, “Justice in a too narrow courtroom,” SOAW website, www.soaw.org, March 2003
• Author, “Censorship in New Orleans,” Maroon, February 28, 2003
• Author, “Dispatches from Iraq: A Witness for Peace Makes Desert Journey,” Hospitality, January 2003, 6-8
• Author, “Report on Peace Conversation,” SALT Equalizer, Fall 2002
• Author, “Reflections on Iraq,” SALT Equalizer, Fall 2002
• Author, “Emails from Iraq,” excerpts printed in: Hope House Newsletter, Fall/Winter 2002; NUVO, Fall 2002; Hospitality 2003
• Author, “Ten Ideas for Social Justice Organizing After September 11,” Blueprint for Social Justice, November 2001 (also printed in AALS Poverty Law Section Newsletter, on www.nonviolence.org , other social justice web sites, in Hospitality, February 2002, and 15 Radical Grace, Number 1, January-March 2002
• Co-Editor/Publisher, Louisiana Legal Services and Pro Bono Desk Manual, Fall 2001, Fall 2005
• Author, “Fact-finding Report on Charleston 5,” for the Catholic Committee of the South, November 1, 2001
• Author, “Bombing for Justice?” Loyola Maroon, October 26, 2001 (copy can be found on Blueprint web page)
• Author, “Who Will Inherit the Reign of God? The Bible and the Facts,” Hospitality, October 2001
• Author, “Thou Shall Not Kill: Reflections on the Executions of Timothy McVeigh and Juan Raul Garza,” Hospitality, July-August 2001
• Author, “The Living Wage Movement,” Blueprint for Social Justice, Volume LIV, Number 9, May 2001
• Author, “Justice for the Poor,” Hospitality, May 2001, published by Open Door Catholic Worker Community, Atlanta
• Author, “If We Execute Timothy McVeigh Are We Any Better?” Maroon, Spring 2000 and in Spring 2000 newsletter of Moratorium 2000
• Author, “Our Experiences at Fort Benning,” Blueprint for Social Justice, Volume 53, No. 1, September 1999
• Co-author, “Jesuit rebuffs bishops, activists on ending lockout,” National Catholic  Reporter, April 16, 1999   
• Author, “Justice Challenges for Today and Tomorrow: A Living Wage is Part of the Answer,” Blueprint for Social Justice, Volume 52, No. 6, February 1999
• Author, “The Right to Work and Earn a Living Wage: a Proposed Amendment to the U. S. Constitution,” 50 Blueprint for Social Justice, May 1997
• Author, "The Rich Are Getting Richer: What Does That Mean for Social Justice," America, August 17, 1996, 8
• Author, "The Minimum Wage and the Working Poor," America 6-8, June 3, 1995, Vol 172

Updated February 8, 2006