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 at Georgia State University College of Law

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 BABSEACLE. 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