Marjorie Girth

Professor Marjorie Girth teaches a sequence of commercial law courses and the required course in professional responsibility at Georgia State University's College of Law in Atlanta. Marjorie’s scholarship has emphasized the systemic effects of implementing the nation’s bankruptcy laws for consumer debtors. Teaching legal ethics has also provided opportunities for studying the systemic effects of rules that have developed in the effort to establish appropriate ethical norms for American lawyers' behavior. Prof. Girth has written books and professional articles in both fields. She has also engaged in extensive professional service, including repeated appointments as a member of law school accreditation site teams on behalf of the Association of American Law Schools and the American Bar Association.

Earlier in her academic career, Marjorie was a member of the law faculty of the State University of New York at Buffalo.  During that time, she served as a Trustee of the Buffalo Unitarian-Universalist Church. From 1999-2003 she was a Trustee of the Unitarian-Universalist Congregation of Atlanta. Marjorie also was a member of the UUA Mid South District’s Long-Range Planning Committee from 2002 – 04.  In 2007 she served as a member of the Atlanta congregation’s Board Task Force on Ministerial Roles.