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Carlson\u27s book cited by the Georgia Court of Appeals
No full textCallaway Chair of Law Emeritus Ronald L. Carlson\u27s book Carlson on Evidence (with M. Carlson) was recently cited by the Georgia Court of Appeals in the case Baker v. Cuthbertson to explain the standard for measuring prejudice in a civil case when a party claims prejudicial evidence was used against them at trial. This citation brings the total to 78 times that this text has been used by Georgia appellate courts to resolve evidentiary issues
Nolan presents at AALL Annual Meeting
No full textInstruction and Faculty Services Librarian Savanna Nolan co-presented as part of the Experience Active Learning Implementation at the American Association of Law Libraries 2024 Annual Meeting (with W. Moore, H. Simmons and A.Taylor)
Foohey chosen as American College of Bankruptcy Fellow
No full textCongratulations to Professor Pamela Foohey who was selected for inclusion in the 36th class of American College of Bankruptcy fellows. The American College of Bankruptcy is dedicated to the enhancement of professionalism, scholarship and service in bankruptcy and insolvency law and practice
Scartz elected to the EJW Alumni Advisory Council
No full textClinical Associate Professor & Wilson Family Justice Clinic Director Christine M. Scartz has been elected to the Equal Justice Works Alumni Advisory Council. Equal Justice Works is the nation’s largest facilitator of opportunities in public interest law. The advisory council is “comprised of 21 Equal Justice Works alumni who provide counsel in support of the organization’s alumni engagement initiatives.” Scartz was a fellow with Equal Justice Works in 1995
Graduates and friends partner with UGA Foundation for 15 major gifts supporting scholarships
No full textThursday, August 8, 2024
Authentic partnerships and connections provide an important foundation for everything we do at the University of Georgia School of Law. A perfect example is the recent coming together of the University of Georgia Foundation and graduates and friends to increase scholarship support for our student body, including the creation of four new funds, according to School of Law Dean Peter B. Bo Rutledge.
At the start of UGA’s new fiscal year on July 1, UGAF announced a limited opportunity for donors to have their gifts matched for the creation or expansion of scholarships. For the law school, it meant 15 new commitments – valued at $750,000 – that will benefit hundreds of students in the years to come.
Among the funds affected are: the Barrett Law Scholarship, the Dove Family Student Leadership Scholar Fund, the Judge B. Avant Edenfield Scholarship, the Stacey Godfrey Evans Scholarship, the Kenneth M. Henson Distinguished Law Fellowship, the Law School Mission Endowment, the Rajesh Raj Mehta Memorial Endowment for Family Justice, the Robert E. (Robbie) Robinson Endowment, the Peter B. (Bo) Rutledge Family Scholarship, the Peter J. Shedd Scholarship, the Reggie and Leigh Smith Law School Scholarship, the George Gardiner Thompson Scholarship, the Gabriel M. Wilner Scholarship, the Joel O. Wooten Distinguished Law Fellowship and the Zimmerman Family Endowment.
A 2014 alumnus who saw the value in this partnership is David B. Dove, who also serves on the Law School Association Council and is a member of the University System of Georgia Board of Regents. David said he and his wife Courtney “feel strongly that investment in a scholarship fund not only ensures the success of Georgia Law for the next generation, but also provides the opportunity to directly impact the lives and future success of our students.”
Rutledge said, I cannot thank the Doves and the other 14 donor families enough for believing in the law school and our vision of being one of the best returns on investment in legal education. I am also grateful to UGA President Jere W. Morehead (J.D.’80) and the UGA Foundation, under the leadership of Chair Allison C. Ausband, for their ongoing support.
He added that through the strength of these relationships, the School of Law is redefining what it means to be a great national public law school – one that provides a world-class, hands-on and purpose-driven educational experience with a deep commitment to affordability
Wilbanks CEASE Clinic assisted over 55 survivors last year
No full textThe Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation Clinic, which began operations eight years ago, continues to demonstrate the value of quality, trauma-responsive legal representation for survivors. Last year, more than 55 survivors in 12 Georgia counties received direct client services from the clinic, while dozens more received indirect advocacy through the clinic’s partnerships with law firms, child advocacy centers and other agencies across the state. The clinic was established in 2016 thanks to a founding gift from 1986 School of Law alumnus and Board of Visitors Chair Marlan B. Wilbanks
Brokered Abuse
Get PDFThis chapter examines how data brokers, companies that collect, sell, and trade personal information, enable and intensify interpersonal abuse. The article analyzes the data brokerage industry’s role in undermining personal obscurity, the relative safety that comes from being difficult to find or understand, and explores how current laws not only fail to address these harms but can make them worse. The chapter argues that existing privacy regimes, particularly those requiring victims to request data removal from individual brokers, impose psychological burdens and can retraumatize victims
Criminal Law Drafting Manual
Get PDFThis textbook was created under a Round 19 Mini-Grant. It is hosted on the Open ALG (Affordable Learning Georgia) Projects platform. 2024 edition.https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/books/1166/thumbnail.jp
Child-Taking
Get PDFA ruling group at times takes certain children from their community and then tries to remake them in its image. It tries to rid the child of undesired differences, in ethnicity or nationality, religion or politics, race or ancestry, culture or class. There are too many examples: the colonialist residential schools that forced settler cultures on Indigenous children; the military juntas that kidnapped dissidents’ children; and today’s reports of abductions amid crises like that in Syria. Too often nothing is done and the children are lost. But that may be changing, as the International Criminal Court is seeking to arrest President Vladimir Putin and Child Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova for the war crimes of unlawfully deporting or transferring children from Ukraine to Russia. This Article examines the criminal phenomenon that it names “child-taking.” By its definition, the crime occurs when a state or similar powerful entity, first, takes a child, and second, endeavors to alter or erase the child’s identity. Using the ICC case as a springboard, the Article relies on historical and legal events to produce an original account of child-taking. Newly available trial transcripts help bring to life a bereft mother and five teenaged survivors, plus the lone woman defendant, who testified at a little-known child-kidnapping trial before a postwar Nuremberg tribunal. Their stories, plus an account of the evolution of international child law, inform the Article’s definition. These sources further reveal child-taking to be what the law calls a matter of international concern. At its most serious, child-taking may constitute genocide or another crime within the ICC’s jurisdiction. Yet even if circumstances preclude punishment in that permanent criminal court, child-taking remains a grave offense warranting prosecution or other forms of local and global transitional justice. This is as true for the Indigenous children of residential schools in North America, Australia, and elsewhere, and for children in Syria and many other places in the world, as it is for the children of Ukraine