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- Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal - Professional journal published by students at the State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Law, and committed to publishing articles pertaining to public interest law and policy affecting traditionally underrepresented populations.
- Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal - University of Connecticut Law School's journal on legal aspects of public interest priorities.
- Iowa Public Interest Research Group - Iowa PIRG is a nonprofit public interest organization dedicated to preserving the environment, protecting consumers and holding government accountable to the public interest. Located in Des Moines, Iowa.
- Public Interest Law Initiative in Transitional Societies - Supporting human rights principles and public interest law through assisting the development of public interest law communities in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia. Sponsored by Columbia Law School.
- Iowa Public Interest Research Group - Iowa PIRG is a public interest organization dedicated to preserving the environment, protecting consumers and holding government accountable to the public interest. Located in Des Moines, Iowa.
- Business and Professional People for the Public Interest (BPI) - A public interest law and policy center that works to transform segregated public housing, revitalize economically disadvantaged communities, improve public education, and promote sensible metropolitan growth strategies
- Florida Public Interest Research Group - Speaks up for the public interest against the special interest, on issues in the news and below the surface.
- Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PAIC) - A non-profit organization that provides legal and research services on behalf of consumer interests, and, in particular, vulnerable consumer interests, concerning the provision of important public services.
- Public Knowledge - Washington, D.C.-based public interest advocacy organization dedicated to promoting the public interest in access to information.
- Media Access Project - A non-profit, public interest law firm which promotes the public's First Amendment right to hear and be heard on the electronic media.
Wikipedia Articles
- Public interest privilege - Under common law, public-interest privilege prevents the compulsory disclosure of documents or information which is against the public interest. There is a balance between public interests- if the public interest in secrecy is greater than the public interest in disclosure, it will be privileged.
- Public interest defense - In the context of secrecy laws, a public interest defense is a defense which allows a defendant who disclosed classified or protected information to avoid criminality, if he can establish that the public interest in disclosure of the information outweighs the public interest in non-disclosure. This is aimed at protecting whistleblowers of government misconducts.
- Harvard Law School Public Interest Auction - The Harvard Law School Public Interest Auction began in 1994 as a student-run fundraising event to support Harvard Law students working in full-time public interest positions during the summer. Since then, it has raised over $800,000 for students involved in public interest work.
- Austrian Association for Public and Social Economy - [Austrian Association for Public and Social Economy (Verband der Öffentlichen Wirtschaft und Gemeinwirtschaft Österreichs (VÖWG) is the austrian] [[lobbying|lobby of enterprises and institutions of public interest, as well as establishments, which carry out services of general interest, whatever their ownership or status, also in the form of Public-Private Partnerships. VÖWG also acts as the Austrian section of the European Centre of Enterprises with Public Participation and of Enterprises of General ...
- Laurier Students' Public Interest Research Group - The Laurier Students' Public Interest Research Group (LSPIRG) is located at Wilfrid Laurier University. Incorporated in February of 2006 LSPIRG is the newest Public Interest Research Group in Ontario.