Lisa Radtke Bliss
Director, Health Law Partnership Legal Services Clinic; Clinical Professor Center for Access to Justice, Center for Law, Health & Society, HeLP Legal Services Clinic- Education
J.D. with honors, University of Florida Levin College of Law
B.A. with honors, University of North Florida
- Specializations
Clinical & Experiential Education
Health Law
Law Practice
- Biography
Lisa Radtke Bliss is a Fulbright Scholar, clinical professor, and the former associate dean of experiential education and clinical programs. She co-directs and teaches in the Health Law Partnership (HeLP) Legal Services Clinic, a civil clinic that is part of a medical-legal partnership. In the clinic, Bliss teaches and works alongside law students, medical students, and graduate students in the fields of social work, public health, and bioethics to represent clients and address their health-harming legal needs. Bliss holds an adjunct faculty appointment in the Department of Pediatrics at Morehouse School of Medicine.
Bliss is a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar. In 2019, she was awarded a Fulbright Distinguished Chair and taught at Palacky University Faculty of Law in Olomouc, Czech Republic.
Bliss is a frequent presenter and consultant on clinical legal education and interdisciplinary education, including the development of law school clinics in the context of medical-legal partnership. She is active in supporting and developing clinical legal education and experiential education generally. For several years, she co-chaired the Clinical Legal Education Association’s Best Practices Implementation Committee. Her study of best practices led to her role as co-editor and author of “Building on Best Practices: Transforming Legal Education in a Changing World,” with Deborah Maranville, Carolyn Kaas and Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, Matthew Bender 2015. In addition, Bliss has authored several other publications based on her work in clinical legal education, medical-legal partnership, and interdisciplinary education.
Bliss has held multiple leadership roles in professional organizations and has received several awards for her work. She is an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Global Alliance for Justice Education, and is in her second three-year term as co-president. In 2017, she chaired the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education, on which she served for six years. During her tenure as Chair, the section received the Section of the Year Award. Bliss also served two terms on the board of directors of the Clinical Legal Education Association. In recognition of her achievements and service to her profession, Bliss received the Georgia State University Faculty Award for Exceptional Service in 2016. In 2014, Bliss received the M. Shanara Gilbert Award from the Association of American Law Schools Section on Clinical Legal Education in recognition of her outstanding contributions to clinical legal education, including her teaching, service, and international clinical work.
Bliss has trained law teachers internationally, particularly in countries in Southeast Asia, including Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam, where she has worked to develop and strengthen experiential education and law school clinics. In 2012 and 2013, Bliss served as an international clinician in residence in Thailand for Bridges Across Borders Southeast Asia Community Legal Education Initiative. In 2013, Bliss was a trainer for the first national clinical legal education training in Yangon, Myanmar, and in 2014 she was a trainer for the first National Clinical Legal Education Summer School in Taunggyi, Myanmar. Bliss also taught at the National Law University in Delhi, India under the government’s Global Initiative of Academic Networks. Bliss has given workshops on teaching in the Philippines, Spain, Turkey, Mexico, Indonesia, England, Italy, Poland, and the Czech Republic.
Bliss is a member of the Center for Law, Health, and Society and teaches Health Law Partnership Clinic, and Interviewing and Counseling. Visit her SSRN Author page here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=358282
- Publications
Books
Building on Best Practices: Transforming Legal Education in a Changing World (Deborah Maranville, Lisa Radtke Bliss, Carolyn Wilkes Kaas, & Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, eds., 2015).
Book Chapters
Lisa Radtke Bliss, Reflections on Reimagining Clinical Legal Education: The US Perspective, Reimagining Clinical Legal Education 237 (Linden Thomas, ed. 2018).
Panarairat Srichaiyarat, Lisa Radtke Bliss, & Withoon Taloodkum, Clinical Legal Education in Thailand: A Pedagogy Whose Time Has Come, in Clinical Legal Education in Asia: Accessing Justice for the Underprivileged (Shuvro Prosun Sarker, ed. 2015).
Lisa Radtke Bliss & Deborah Maranville, A Conscious Institutional Strategy for Expanding Experiential Education, in Building on Best Practices: Transforming Legal Education in a Changing World (Deborah Maranville, et al., eds., 2015).
Lisa Radtke Bliss & Donald C. Peters, Delivering Effective Education in In-House Clinics, in Building on Best Practices: Transforming Legal Education in a Changing World (Deborah Maranville, et al., eds., 2015).
Deborah Maranville, Cynthia Batt, Lisa Radtke Bliss, & Carolyn Wilkes Kaas, Incorporating Experiential Education Throughout the Curriculum, in Building on Best Practices: Transforming Legal Education in a Changing World (Deborah Maranville, et al., eds. 2015).
Lisa Radtke Bliss, Sylvia Caley, Patty Roberts, Emily Suski, & Robert Pettignano, Interprofessional Education, in Building on Best Practices: Transforming Legal Education in a Changing World (Deborah Maranville, et al., eds., 2015).
Lisa Radtke Bliss, et al., Moving Into the Future: Legal Education in Thailand, in Legal Education in Asia (Shuvro Prosun Sarker ed., 2014).
Lisa Bliss, Sylvia Caley, & Robert Pettignano, Client and Patient Relationships: Understanding Cultural and Social Context, in Poverty, Health and Law (Elizabeth Tobin Tyler, et al. eds., Carolina Academic Press, 2011).
Articles
Susan McLaren, Lisa Radtke Bliss, Christina Scott, Pam Kraidler, & Robert Pettignano, Applying a Social Ecological Model to Medical Legal Partnership Practice and Research, 51 J. L. Med. Ethics 817 (2023).
Sylvia B. Caley & Lisa Radke Bliss, Charity Scott: Teacher, Mentor, Collaborator, Interdisciplinarian, 52 J.L. Med. & Ethics 243 (2024).
Symposium, Clinicians Reflect on COVID-19: Lessons Learned and Looking Beyond, 28 Clinical L. Rev. 15 (2021)
Lisa Bliss et. al., Creating Online Education Spaces to Support Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Wellbeing, 14 J. Marshall L.J. 1 (2021)
Kate Seear, Lisa Bliss, Paula Galowitz, & Catherine F. Klein, Exploring the Role of Emotions in Clinical Legal Education: Inquiry and Results From an International Workshop for Legal Educators, 53 Law Tchr. 487 (2019).
Beryl Blaustone & Lisa Radtke Bliss, The Role of the Lawyer and the Essential Skills to Teach Law Students in an Era of Fake News, Alternative Facts, and Governing by Disruption, 19 Loy. J. Pub. Int. L. 139 (2018).
Lisa Radtke Bliss, Book Review, 67 J. Legal Educ. 338 (2017) (reviewing Learning from Practice: A Text for Experiential Legal Education (Leah Wortham, Alexander Scherr, Nancy Maurer, & Susan L. Brooks, eds. 3d ed. West Academic 2016).
Robert Pettignano, Lisa Bliss, Susan McLaren, & Sylvia Caley, Interprofessional Medical-Legal Education of Medical Students: Assessing the Benefits for Addressing Social Determinants of Health, Acad. Med. (Feb. 7, 2017), DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001581.
Leslie E. Wolf, Stacie Kershner, & Lisa Bliss, A Concentrated Certificate Program Incorporating Experiential Education: Helping Students Prepare for a Career in the Dynamic Area of Health Law, 24 Int'l J. Clinical Legal Educ. 3 (2017).
Robert Pettignano, Lisa Bliss, & Sylvia Caley, The Health Law Partnership: A Medical-Legal Partnership Strategically Designed to Provide a Coordinated Approach to Public Health Legal Services, Education, Advocacy, Evaluation, Research, and Scholarship, 35 J. Legal Med. 57 (2014).
Lisa Radtke Bliss & Supamas Chinvinijkul, Preparing Law Students for Global Practice: An Innovative Model for Teaching Lawyering Skills and Social Justice in a Large Enrolment Law Course, 1 Asian J. Legal Educ. 1 (2014).
Lisa R. Bliss, Sylvia Caley, & Robert Pettignano, Bridging the Quality Gap with Medical-Legal Partnerships, Physician Executive J., May 1, 2013, at 44.
Robert Pettignano, Lisa Bliss, & Sylvia Caley, Collaborative Diagnosis: Interdisciplinary Problem-solving Between Physicians and Lawyers, 2 Int'l J. Health Wellness & Soc'y, no. 2, 2013, at 37.
Robert Pettignano, Lisa Radtke Bliss, Sylvia B. Caley, & Susan McLaren, Can Access to a Medical-Legal Partnership Benefit Patients with Asthma Who Live in an Urban Community?, 24 J. Health Care for the Poor & Underserved 706 (2013).
Lisa Bliss & Sylvia Caley, Exploring Cultural Competence in the Context of Medical-Legal Partnership, Recent Developments in Health Care Law: Culture and Controversy, 25 HEC Forum 14 (2013).
Lisa Bliss, Sylvia Caley, & Robert Pettignano, A Model for Interdisciplinary Clinical Education: Medical and Legal Professionals Learning and Working Together to Promote Public Health, 18 Int'l J. Clinical Legal Educ. 149 (2012).
Emily A. Benfer, John J. Ammann, Lisa Bliss, Sylvia Caley, Liz Tobin Tyler, & Robert Pettignano, Advancing Health Law & Social Justice in the Clinic, the Classroom and the Community, 21 Annals Health L. 237 (2012).
Lisa Bliss, Colorado Denies Privilege for Guardian Ad Litem, Litig. News (Dec. 20, 2011).
Lisa R. Bliss, Manufacturer and Supplier Fail to Establish Joint Privilege, Litig. News (Nov. 1, 2011)..
Lisa R. Bliss, Section Sponsors Training for Public-Interest Litigators, Litig. News, June 16, 2011.
Robert Pettignano, Sylvia Caley, & Lisa R. Bliss, A Case for Including Lawyers on the Care Team, Physician Executive J., Mar.-Apr. 2011, at 34.
Lisa Bliss, Sylvia Caley, & Robert Pettignano, An Interdisciplinary Collaborative Approach to Wellness: Adding Lawyers to the Healthcare Team to Provide Integrated Care for Patients, 1 Int'l J. Health Wellness & Soc'y 129 (2011).
Robert Pettignano, Sylvia B. Caley, Lisa R. Bliss, Medical-Legal Partnership: Impact on Patients with Sickle Cell Disease, 128 Pediatrics e1 (2011).
Lisa R. Bliss, Representing Clients with Limited English Proficiency, ABA Litigation News (Oct. 13, 2010).
Lisa Radtke Bliss, Class Action Challenge to N.Y. Public Defender System Moves Forward, Litig. News (July 15, 2010).
Lisa R. Bliss, ABA Supports Retooling Immigration Court System, Litig. News (Apr. 19, 2010).
Lisa R. Bliss, Restrictions on Legal Aid Organizations Do Not Violate First Amendment, Litig. News, Spr. 2010, at 19.
Jonathan Todres, Children's Health Rights and the "Double Burden" of Disease, Recent Developments in Health Care Law: Partners in Innovation, 22 HEC Forum 106 (2010).
Lisa Bliss & Sylvia Caley, Medical-Legal Partnerships to Improve the Health and Well-being of Patients: Promising Collaborative Initiatives, 22 HEC Forum 102 (2010).
Lisa R. Bliss & Jeffrey R. Teeters, ABA Ethics Opinion Guides Lawyers in Outsourcing, Litig. News, Winter 2009, at 16.
Lisa R. Bliss, Lawyers Heed Call to Volunteer Pro Bono Service, Litig. News (Apr. 8, 2009).
Lisa Radtke Bliss, A Civil Right to Counsel, Litig. News, Spring 2009, at 2.
Rachel Arnow-Richman, et al., Teaching Transactional Skills in Upper-Level Doctrinal Courses: Three Exemplars, 2009 Transactions (Special Rep.) 367 (2009).
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