Courses Offered:

Land Use Clinic

Professional Biographical Information:

Jamie Baker Roskie joined the University of Georgia in the fall of 2002 as managing attorney of the Land Use Clinic. She supervises students in a variety of projects assisting local governments and other stakeholders with regulatory solutions to help preserve the environment while promoting quality growth. For example, along with students of the clinic, she co-authored the first comprehensive Transferable Development Rights (TDR) ordinance in Georgia, designed for the Chattahoochee Hill Country (For a list and description of clinic projects, visit the clinic's Web site at http://www.law.uga.edu/landuseclinic/ ).

She also provides expertise to state and local agencies and nonprofits on a variety of land use related topics and has co-authored several TDR feasibility studies for Georgia counties. She has also served as a member of the Georgia Planning Association's Legislative Advisory Committee and is currently a policy and legal analyst for the UGA River Basin Center (RBC), which integrates science and policymaking to protect water resources and habitat. She has served on the RBC's Etowah Habitat Conservation Plan Development Team, which won a Regional Director's Conservation Award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for its innovative work, and she is a graduate of the university's Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership (IGEL), a training program for environmental leaders in Georgia. She is also the co-author of "Adequate Public Facilities Ordinances: A Comparison of Their Use in Georgia and North Carolina," 15 Southeastern Envtl. L.J. 345 (2007) (with J. Blasingame Custer).

Before joining the university, Roskie worked as an associate in the law firm of Shaw Pittman LLP in Washington, D.C., where she represented clients in various land use and immigration matters. Roskie obtained a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs from Lewis and Clark College in 1989. She worked as a freelance writer/editor and ran an immigration law clinic for a refugee services agency before attending law school. In 2001, she graduated magna cum laude from the University of Georgia School of Law, where she was inducted into the Order of the Coif. She is a member of the Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Georgia bars.