Paul Kurtz '72 (BA'68) passes the baton to Lonnie Brown '89 at UGA Law

Wed, 15 May 2013 07:00:00 GMT

Source: law.vanderbilt.edu --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Lonnie T. Brown Jr. ’89 has been named associate dean of academic affairs at the University of Georgia School of Law. Brown replaces another Vanderbilt Law graduate, Paul M. Kurtz ’72 (B.A. ’68), who is retiring this summer after 22 years as UGA Law’s associate dean and 38 years on UGA’s law faculty. Kurtz, who is the J. Alton Hosch Professor of Law, specializes in criminal law and family law. Active in legislative issues throughout his career, he was reporter for the Georgia Supreme Court's Indigent Defense Reform Commission, the driving force behind landmark legislation enacted in 2003. He served on Georgia’s 11-member Public Defender Standards Council, which is responsible for delivering indigent criminal defense services within Georgia’s criminal justice system, from 2003-09. He was also instrumental on the Public Interest Loan Repayment Task Force, which wrote legislation creating a state fund for this cause passed by the Georgia Legislature in 2002. Kurtz has also represented Georgia on the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and was a member of the NCCUSL’s drafting committee of the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act. He is a member of the American Law Institute and served as adviser on the ALI Project on Principles of Family Dissolution in 1998-99. Kurtz clerked for Chief Judge Harry Phillips of Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and then taught at the law schools of Boston University and Boston Colle ...