An Educational Resource on the Office of State Attorney General
Going beyond the headlines to examine the often overlooked issues and cases that highlight the wide-ranging impact and role of state attorneys general.
Peter Harvey, CLS '82, has been named the monitor of the new federal consent agreement with the Newark, N.J. Police Department. Peter is a long time friend of the AG Program, and is quoted here on why he left federal prosecution to join the NJ Office of Attorney General.
See: YouTube, Columbia Law AG Program, Peter Harvey '82
On the long-running nightly PBS interview program Charlie Rose, a conversation about the process of building consensus among state attorneys general in the fight against tobacco companies. Full transcript available.
StateAG.org offers in-depth analysis of the role of state attorneys general in the American legal system. It was founded by James E. Tierney, former Attorney General of Maine and a Lecturer at Harvard Law School where he also directs the Harvard Attorney General clinic. For thirteen years he was Director of the National State Attorneys General Program at Columbia Law School.
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