# William P. Quigley

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**William P. Quigley** is a law professor and Director of the Law Clinic and the [Gillis Long Poverty Law Center](/source/Loyola_University_New_Orleans_College_of_Law#Academics) at [Loyola University](/source/Loyola_University_New_Orleans) [New Orleans](/source/New_Orleans). He was named the [Pope Paul VI National Teacher of Peace](/source/Pax_Christi_USA_Pope_Paul_VI_Teacher_of_Peace_Award) by [Pax Christi](/source/Pax_Christi) USA in 2003.

## Career

An active public interest lawyer since 1977, Quigley has served as counsel to public interest organizations on issues ranging from [Hurricane Katrina](/source/Hurricane_Katrina) [social justice](/source/Social_justice) issues, voting rights, public housing, [death penalty](/source/Death_penalty), living wage, educational reform, civil liberties, constitutional rights, and civil disobedience. Quigley has litigated cases with the [NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund](/source/NAACP_Legal_Defense_and_Educational_Fund),[1] the [Advancement Project](/source/Advancement_Project), and was the General Counsel to the ACLU of Louisiana.[2]

Quigley teaches courses in the Law Clinic, in the areas of Law and Poverty and [Catholic Social Teaching](/source/Catholic_social_teaching) and Law. His foci have been on [living wage](/source/Living_wage), the right to a job, legal services, community organizing as part of effective lawyering, [civil disobedience](/source/Civil_disobedience), high-stakes testing, international human rights, revolutionary lawyering, and a continuing history of how the laws have regulated the poor since colonial times. In the past, he has been an adviser on human and civil rights to [Human Rights Watch USA](/source/Human_Rights_Watch), [Amnesty International USA](/source/Amnesty_International_USA), and served as the Chair of the Louisiana Advisory Committee to the [US Commission on Civil Rights](/source/United_States_Commission_on_Civil_Rights).[3][4]

Quigley has received many awards. He is the recipient of the 2006 Camille Gravel Civil Pro Bono Award from the Federal Bar Association New Orleans Chapter, received the 2006 [Stanford Law School](/source/Stanford_Law_School) National Public Service Award, and the 2006 [National Lawyers Guild](/source/National_Lawyers_Guild) Ernie Goodman award.

He is an active volunteer lawyer with [School of the Americas Watch](/source/School_of_the_Americas_Watch)[5] and the [Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti](/source/Institute_for_Justice_%26_Democracy_in_Haiti).

Quigley is the author of *Ending Poverty As We Know It: Guaranteeing A Right to A Job At A Living Wage* (Temple University Press, 2003).[6] He is the recipient of the 2004 SALT Teaching Award presented by the Society of American Law Teachers.[7]

He is married to Debbie Dupre Quigley, an oncology nurse.[8]

## References

1. [Co-counsel with NAACP Legal Defense Fund](http://www.loyno.edu/~quigley/litigation.html)

1. [ACLU of LA -- Tangipahoa Board of Education Suit Filed](http://www.laaclu.org/News/1999/Roe%20v%20TPBoE%20news%20release.htm)

1. [Respected Activist Lawyer Bill Quigley Will Be New CCR Legal Director | Center for Constitutional Rights](http://ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/respected-activist-lawyer-bill-quigley-will-be-new-ccr-legal-director)

1. *The United States and torture : interrogation, incarceration, and abuse*. New York: New York University Press. 2012. ISBN 9780814769829. [OCLC 778271101](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/778271101)

1. [American Civil Liberties Union : ACLU of Georgia Challenges Mass Searches at School of Americas Protest](https://www.aclu.org/freespeech/protest/11090prs20021113.html)

1. [Temple University](http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1675_reg.html)

1. [Past recipients of the Great Teacher Award, given out at the SALT Annual Dinner](http://www.saltlaw.org/salt-annual-dinner)

1. ["For a Crusading Lawyer, Winning Isn't the Only Thing"](https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/02/nyregion/for-a-crusading-lawyer-winning-isnt-the-only-thing.html). *The New York Times*. 2005-10-02. Retrieved 2022-01-12.

## External links

- [http://law.loyno.edu/faculty-staff/william-p-quigley](http://law.loyno.edu/faculty-staff/william-p-quigley)

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