Alan Morrison, Lerner Family Associate Dean for Public Interest and Public Service Law and Professorial Lecturer in Law at The George Washington University Law School—a winner of the National Law Journal’s Lifetime Achievement award—has dedicated his law career to public interest.

Morrison, who is credited for creating entirely new areas of law, co-founded one of the nation’s preeminent public-interest law firms—Public Citizen Litigation Group (PCLG)—with Ralph Nader in 1972.