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Biography:
Professor Metzger joined the Tulane faculty in 2001 as Director of the Criminal Law Clinic. After her graduation from law school, Professor Metzger worked as associate attorney in the Federal Defender Division of the Legal Aid Society of New York, and then as associate at a private firm in New York. She has taught in the criminal litigation area at Brooklyn Law School, and at the law schools of Fordham University and Washington and Lee University. Professor Metzger is editor of the Clinical Law Blog. In 2007, Professor Metzger was selected by the AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education as the recipient of the Shanara Gilbert Emerging Clinician Award. In the announcement of the award, special note was made of Professor Metzger's work to re-build the Orleans Parish criminal justice system after Hurricane Katrina.
Courses:
Fall 2012 - Criminal Law
Spring 2013 - Constitutional Criminal Procedure: Adjudication; Legal Profession
Other courses - Constitutional Criminal Procedure: Investigation; Right to Counsel Seminar; Constitutional Law
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| The Times-Picayune, "Justice system failings in wake of Hurricane Katrina left wounds that remain unhealed," Sunday, October 18, 2009 |
| New Orleans CityBusiness, "MOVING TARGET: The NOPD baits the homeless and other perpetrators with beer, candy and cigarettes to net burglary arrests," Monday, July 14, 2008 |
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| NPR, "Louisiana Overhauls Public-Defender System," September 14, 2007 |
| USA Today, "Louisiana nursing home case puts Katrina response on trial," August 8, 2007 |
| The Times-Picayune, "Courts assess flood's toll on justice: Some cases survive missing evidence," April 26, 2007 |
| The Times-Picayune, "120-day wait in jail urged for La. suspect: Plan to toughen law resisted by Jordan," April 23, 2007 |
| Daily Report, "Suit filed over jailing of poor defendants," March 9, 2007 |
| The National Law Journal, "New Orleans' Legal System Still Feeling Pain of Hurricane Katrina," February 13, 2007 |
| The Times Picayune, “Group tries to loosen legal logjam: Students to gather case information,” Saturday, December 16, 2006
"Poor people are entitled to have lawyers with names and voices," she said. |
| L.A. Times, "Justice on Katrina time: Hundreds, if not thousands, languish behind bars without their day in court," Tuesday, December 12, 2006 |
| the Times Picayune, "Public defenders board, judges agree to truce: Contempt hearing called off, compromise attempted," Friday, December 08, 2006 |
| The National Law Journal, "Law students flock to New Orleans," December 6, 2006 |
| the New York Times, "In New Orleans, Rust in the Wheels of Justice," November 21, 2006 |
| USA Today, "City's public defender system troubled before Katrina," May 23, 2006 |
| New York Times, "Judge Steps In for Poor Inmates Without Justice Since Hurricane," May 23, 2006 |
| Times Picayune, "Man in Jail for Months Amid Mix-up," April 21, 2006 |
| Times-Picayune, "Indigent Defendants Remain Jailed," April 21, 2006 |
| The Times Picayune, "Katrina Brings Disorder to the Court," April 17, 2006 |
| Washington Post, "In New Orleans, Justice on Trial," April 15, 2006 |
| Times Picayune, "Katrina Leaves Inmates in Limbo," March 18, 2006 |
| Los Angeles Times, "New Orleans Legal System Increasingly on Defensive," March 10, 2006 |
| Associated Press, "Tulane Law Clinic head says funding of defenders unconstitutional," March 9, 2006 |
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| Times Picayune, "Judge Halts Prosecutions of New Orleans Indigent Defendants," February 10, 2006 |
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