Publication Date
2007
Abstract
Milner is one of the most accomplished and well-known scholars on our faculty; this symposium issue in his honor is testament to that. But when I heard him deliver a keynote address at a university academic conference many years ago, I learned how extraordinarily powerful and gifted a teacher he is as well. Milner can make ideas come alive in the classroom. His attention to communicating his own ideas to others, and to drawing on his research in the process, powerfully demonstrated to me that outstanding scholarship and teaching can and should go hand in hand. Milner taught me much about teaching by way of his example. I was surprised when Milner decided, not too long after I had joined the faculty, that he wanted to experience first-hand the challenges of lawyering. Milner became involved in the Legal Aid Clinic in order to enhance his understanding of the practice of law, and he did so from a student perspective, participating fully in the law school's clinical program there. To put it mildly, it is the unusual scholar who takes such a path. Through this experience, Milner brought back to the law school curricular innovations on lawyering that enriched our program of study, and he demonstrated to his faculty colleagues the opportunities that exist for creatively challenging ourselves and for productively reaching outside of our comfort zones. But it is Milner's passion for public interest law, and the transformative effect it has had on our law school, that is perhaps Milner's most powerful legacy.
Recommended Citation
White, Rebecca H.
(2007)
"Milner Ball: Mentor, Teacher, and Friend,"
Georgia Law Review: Vol. 41:
No.
3, Article 2.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/glr/vol41/iss3/2