Sarah Gerwig-Moore

Associate Professor

Involvement:

Commissioner, Macon-Bibb County Planning & Zoning Commission

Co-Chair, College Hill Corridor Commission

Bootle Inn of Court

Grants Chair, Central Georgia Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure

Appointed member, State Bar of Georgia Indigent Defense Committee

Society of American Law Teachers (Mercer Law School representative)

Clinical Legal Education Association

Mercer University Service Learning Advisory Board

Bar Memberships:

United States Supreme Court

Georgia Supreme Court

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Northern District of Georgia

Publications:

Sarah Gerwig-Moore (with Leigh S. Schrope), Hush, Little Baby, Don’t Say a Word: How Seeking the “Best Interests of the Child” Fostered a Lack of Accountability in Georgia’s Juvenile Courts, 58 Mercer L. Rev. 531 (2007).

Presentations:

Panel moderator, Georgia Bar YLD Academy, "Ethical Considerations in Pro Bono Representation" (2007)

Poster Presentation, AALS Clinical Legal Education Conference, "The Habeas Project" (2007)

Small-group leader, Appellate & Habeas Discussion Group, AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education (2007)

Macon Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys, "Special Topics in Georgia Appellate Procedure (2007)

GPDSC Advanced Appellate Training, small group leader (2006)

GPDSC Appeals Basic Training, "Nuts and Bolts of Appellate Procedure," "Writing an Effective Statement of Facts" (2006)

GPDSC Fundamentals of Public Defense Workshop, “Advanced Attorney Training: Ineffective Assistance of Counsel,” Unicoi, Georgia (January 2006) 

GPDSC Appeals Basic Training, “Nuts and Bolts of Appellate Procedure,” (2005)

Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University, “A Comparison: The Right to Counsel in the US and UK Systems of Criminal Justice,” Cambridge, UK (2003)

Trinity Hall Law Society, Cambridge University, “A Case Study: Teenagers Tried, Convicted, and Housed as Adult Offenders,” Cambridge, UK (2003) 

GIDC Juvenile Training Seminar, “Appeals in Juvenile Cases,” Atlanta, Georgia (2003) 

Habeas Corpus Resource Center, Fall Seminar, “Religious Practice on California’s Condemned Row,” San Francisco, CA (2002) 

Honors:

Young Lawyers Division of the State Bar of Georgia "Commitment to Justice" Award (2006)

"Case of the Year Award," Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (2006)

Myki Mobley Award for Academic Excellence and Social Concern (Candler School of Theology)

Herman Dooyeweerd Prize in Law and Religion (Emory Law School)

Phi Kappa Phi National Graduate Fellowship

Outstanding Senior in Great Books (Mercer University College of Liberal Arts)

Teaches:

The Habeas Project; Public Interest Practicum I; Public Interest Practicum II; Introduction to Law Study

Prior Teaching and Legal Experience:

Special Studies Instructor, the Chautauqua Institute (Crime and Punishment in America and The Death Penalty in America), 2007

Adjunct Instructor of Law, Emory Law School (2006)

Senior Appellate Supervising Attorney, Georgia Public Defender Standards Council (2005-2006)

Staff Attorney, Appellate Division, Georgia Public Defender Standards Council (formerly GIDC) (2002-2005)

Adjunct Instructor, First Year Seminar, Mercer University College of Liberal Arts (2002)