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Gerry Weber

Adjunct Faculty

Gerry Weber served for seventeen years as Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia litigating significant issues of constitutional law. In addition to a private constitutional law practice, Gerry currently serves as a Senior Staff Counsel at the Southern Center for Human Rights, and is an Adjunct Professor at Emory University School of Law and Georgia State University College of Law in constitutional litigation and the first amendment. Gerry clerked for the Honorable Carolyn Dineen King, Chief Judge of the United State Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

He was named one of the "21 Young Lawyers Leading Us Into the 21st Century" by the American Bar Association and "Top 40 Achievers under 40" by Georgia Trend Magazine.

Mr. Weber has litigated against federal, state and local governments and agencies and some of the largest corporations in the United States. He has struck down numerous laws ranging from state restrictions on the internet to state laws barring fornication and sodomy. He also has chalked up one of the largest monetary awards in the history of the State of Georgia – a $440 million dollar judgment in an international human rights case against a Serbian government torturer.
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