www.law.uga.edu

Jamie Baker Roskie

Managing Attorney, Land Use Clinic

B.A., Lewis and Clark College
J.D., University of Georgia

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Courses

Land Use Clinic

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Biographical Information

Jamie Baker Roskie has been the managing attorney of Georgia Law's Land Use Clinic since 2002. 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 a list and description of clinic projects, visit the clinic's website 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. For example, she has co-authored several TDR feasibility studies for Georgia counties, and she assisted with the implementation of the TDR program in Beaufort, S.C. From 2002 to 2009 she was a policy and legal analyst for the UGA River Basin Center (RBC), which integrates science and policymaking to protect water resources and habitat. She 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. She is a graduate of the Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership (IGEL), a training program for environmental leaders. She is the co-author of "Adequate Public Facilities Ordinances: A Comparison of their Use in Georgia and North Carolina" in the Southeastern Environmental Law Journal and of "Being Smart (Growth) about Justice: Can the Obama Administration Undo Decades of Environmental Injustice via Smart Growth?" in the Seattle Journal of Environmental Law & Policy.  She is also the co-editor of the Land Use Prof Blog, http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/land_use/, part of the Law Prof Blog network.

Roskie is an active practitioner of mindfulness meditation and yoga.  She is the co-facilitator of the Athens-based group "Just Mindful."  This group is made up of lawyers and law professionals practicing mindfulness together to alleviate stress and increase effectiveness in law practice. In 2010 she completed a 42 hour training Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction teacher training at the Mind-Body Institute of Athens Regional Medical Center.

Before joining the university, Roskie worked as an associate in the law firm of Shaw Pittman in Washington, D.C., where she represented clients in various land use and immigration matters. Roskie earned her 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 and Georgia bars.

 

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