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School of Law receives $5M gift from the Stanton Foundation
No full textLargest donation in school history to benefit the First Amendment Clinic
The University of Georgia School of Law is pleased to share news of its largest gift in history – a 1 million to establish the First Amendment Clinic roughly five years ago. Since then, it has provided significant funding for the law school’s Practicum in Animal Welfare Skills and other initiatives for an overall investment in the school of almost $8.5 million. Our law school’s partnership with the Stanton Foundation has been transformative, Rutledge said. I am grateful to the Stanton Foundation for its steadfast commitment to our institution and our students. The foundation’s remarkable generosity, which is helping to educate the next generation of legal leaders, will have an immense and lasting impact. Stanton Foundation co-director Liz Allison said, “The Foundation looks for investment opportunities as eagerly as schools look for donors, and no one has done more to identify opportunities for impactful giving at UGA than Dean Bo Rutledge. He has provided unwavering support as Director Norins shaped the First Amendment Clinic and has expertly connected us to multiple other giving opportunities within the university.”Rutledge added that the School of Law is redefining what it means to be a great national public law school through strong relationships like this one with the Stanton Foundation. Together, we are providing our students world-class, hands-on and purpose-driven experiences with a focus on remaining one of the best returns on investment in legal education today.
The Stanton Foundation was established by former television broadcasting executive Frank Stanton, who was a longtime president of CBS. The core objectives of the foundation include protecting the First Amendment, supporting work in nuclear security and promoting the welfare of dogs and strengthening the human/dog bond. In addition to the School of Law, the foundation has provided substantial support to UGA’s College of Veterinary Medicine and the School of Public and International Affairs.
Pictured above are First Amendment Clinic team members: (front, l. to r.) Charlotte Umanoff, Adoris Gibbs, Ellie Wilson-Wade, Clinic Director Clare Norins, Jessica Cooper, Clinic Fellow Urub Khawaja, (back, l. to r.) Carsen Christy, Jackson Rowe, Alex Klein, Joseph Will, Avery Hill and Clinic Fellow Christina Lee
Rodrigues named dean of the UGA School of Law
No full textRodrigues named dean of the UGA School of LawShe currently serves as associate dean for faculty development
Usha R. Rodrigues, associate dean for faculty development, M.E. Kilpatrick Chair of Corporate Finance and Securities Law and University Professor, has been named the next dean of the University of Georgia School of Law. She will begin her new role on Jan. 1, 2025, when Peter B. “Bo” Rutledge steps down as dean after 10 years of service.
“During her tenure at the University of Georgia, I have come to know Usha Rodrigues as a distinguished teacher, a respected scholar and an extraordinary university citizen,” said President Jere W. Morehead. “She has a deep commitment to the School of Law and the University of Georgia, and she has a clear vision for advancing the school’s outstanding reputation as one of the best public law schools in the nation.”
Rodrigues’ appointment follows a nationwide search. A 15-member search advisory committee chaired by Ben Ayers, dean of the Terry College of Business, helped identify finalists for the position.
“It is a true honor to have been chosen to serve as the next dean of the University of Georgia School of Law,” said Rodrigues. “Working with our terrific faculty, students, staff and alumni, I hope to build on our strengths as we continue to redefine what it means to be a great national public law school. I am so grateful to be a part of this community.”
A member of the UGA faculty since 2005, Rodrigues also served as UGA’s interim vice provost for academic affairs from 2022 to 2023. Her teaching and research focus on corporate law, business ethics and United States securities regulation, and she is often cited as an expert on special purpose acquisition companies.
As associate dean for faculty development, Rodrigues leads the School of Law’s promotion and tenure unit and supports faculty scholarship. She first held this position from 2015 to 2018 and was reappointed to the post earlier in 2024. Her accomplishments included leading a committee to revise the school’s promotion and tenure standards for the first time in 12 years. She also spearheaded an effort to encourage faculty to seek external funding. Over the course of three years, the law school’s grant submissions substantially increased, and the school continues to build on the foundation she laid roughly 10 years ago.
Rodrigues’ many honors include being named a University Professor in 2019 in recognition of her significant impact on UGA. In 2022, the law school’s graduating class chose her for the C. Ronald Ellington Award for Excellence in Teaching, its highest teaching honor. Graduates also selected her to serve as honorary class marshal in 2013, 2022 and 2024. In 2016, she was elected to the American Law Institute, the preeminent learned society in the field.
In addition to her academic work, Rodrigues remains active in the legal profession, serving as an expert in both litigation and transactional matters. She has provided expert testimony before the House Financial Services Committee, and she has presented before the Securities and Exchange Commission three times. She has been quoted in The New York Times, the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Bloomberg and other media outlets.
Prior to joining UGA, Rodrigues was a corporate associate with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Reston, Va., where she specialized in corporate law and technology transactions. She also served as a judicial law clerk to Judge Thomas L. Ambro of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
“I was fortunate to work closely with Usha Rodrigues during her time as vice provost for academic affairs, and I have seen firsthand her dedication to our students, staff and faculty,” said S. Jack Hu, the university’s senior vice president for academic affairs and provost. “The UGA School of Law is widely recognized for excellence, and I know that Usha will help the school chart a path toward even greater heights in the years to come.”
Rodrigues earned her bachelor\u27s degree summa cum laude from Georgetown University, her master\u27s degree in comparative literature summa cum laude from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Virginia Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif.
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100% of first-gen college graduates receive aid
No full textWith more than 75 first-generation college graduates currently earning their Juris Doctor at the School of Law, we are pleased to share that 100% of them are receiving aid.
This cohort is currently supported by approximately 25 scholarship funds, including the First-Start Scholars Program established by 1982 alumna Kathelen V. Amos and the Daniel P. Amos Family Foundation. This initiative has grown from first-generation students in the 2019 J.D. entering class receiving a scholarship to every first-gen J.D. student getting aid for the fourth year in a row.
Starting this fall, the First-Start Scholars Program now bears a new name – the Rutledge Family First-Start Scholars Program, and awards range from the equivalent of a one-quarter scholarship to a full-tuition plus scholarship.
The School of Law is redefining what it means to be a great national public law school by offering a world-class, hands-on, purpose-driven educational experience with a pioneering commitment to accessibility and affordability, according to School of Law Dean Peter B. “Bo” Rutledge.
Some recent statistics supporting this statement include: #1 Best Value Law School for five of the last seven years (National Jurist, 2018-24). Top-20 Law School for two years in a row (U.S. News & World Report, 2023/24 & 2024/25). Near perfect Ultimate Bar Passage rate (99.48% for the Class of 2021). 95% Full Credit Employment Outcomes (Class of 2023). 18 clinics and externships, with 91% participation (Class of 2024). For 2023-24, 50% of students did not borrow. Extremely competitive tuition and fees (the lowest among the Top-20 law schools ranked by U.S. News & World Report).
Pictured above are First-Generation Law Student Association leaders (l. to r.) Vice President Gordon Wayne, Secretary Carsen Christy, Alumni Relations Chair Justin Davenport and President Rosalie Vendrell
Ringhand’s book selected as 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
No full textHosch Professor & Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor Lori A. Ringhand’s book Supreme Bias: Gender and Race in U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings (Stanford University Press, 2023) (with C.L. Boyd and P.M. Collins) was named a 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title. This prestigious list reflects the best scholarly titles reviewed by Choice during the previous calendar year, as chosen by the editors. The book also received a Pritchett Award earlier this year
LeClercq\u27s UC Irvine article reviewed in JOTWELL
No full textAssistant Professor Desirée LeClercq\u27s article Labor Strife And Peace (forthcoming in the UC Irvine Law Review) was reviewed by Joseph Slater in JOTWELL (Dec. 10, 2024). In Strife, Labor , Peace, and Returning NLRA Section 7 Law to its Original Purpose, Slater says LeClercq\u27s article is impressive, thorough, original, and convincing
Graduates honor Professor Wells with named faculty fund
No full textThe University of Georgia School of Law has been fortunate to have many professors who remain vital and engaged members of our faculty for decades, according to School of Law Dean Peter B. Bo Rutledge. These professors provide the foundation for the learning environment that makes our intellectual community so special, he said.
In a few weeks, Mike Wells, the Carter Chair in Tort and Insurance Law, will retire after more than 45 years of dedicated service. To help commemorate this milestone, a few former students have chosen to honor him by endowing a new faculty support fund.
The Michael L. Wells Faculty Support Fund will assist the law school with recruiting and retaining our world-class faculty by providing support for their professional development and research initiatives.
Christy Hull, a 2000 alumna who made the lead gift, said, “In his nearly 50 years at UGA Law, Professor Wells taught foundational principles of tort law to generations of lawyers. His gentle but probing style challenged us to think harder and sharper. More than 25 years after serving as Professor Wells’ T.A., I still apply those fundamental lessons in my toxic tort defense practice. I was thrilled to contribute to the Michael L. Wells Faculty Support Fund to honor his legacy and ensure the continuation of excellent scholarship at UGA Law.”
Alongside Christy’s gift, three other former students – Alice Snedeker (J.D.’09), Catherine Curlet (J.D.’11) and Ellen Clarke (J.D.’14) – made significant contributions to help the fund achieve the endowment threshold to honor this respected torts, federal courts and constitutional litigation scholar.
Alice’s connection to Professor Wells includes serving as his research assistant and co-authoring an article with him. She said great faculty members like Professor Wells add to the value of the law school and her degree. Her participation was fueled by her desire to establish a long-term way to honor him while also helping students.
When telling people why she loved her time at UGA Law, Catherine said it was the quality and accessibility of the professors that made the experience so rich. “Professor Mike Wells is at the top of that list. I had the privilege of being a student in his torts class as a 1L and later supported him as a Teaching and Research Assistant; I cannot thank him enough for the mentorship and all I learned from him.”
Ellen said she wanted to honor Professor Wells and ensure future generations of law students benefit from the same caliber of educators. “Professor Wells exemplifies the qualities that make the faculty at the University of Georgia School of Law exceptional, and I hope this fund will help the law school continue to attract and retain outstanding professors.”
Professor Wells is the author of three books and more than 60 articles in leading journals such as the Cornell Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Virginia Law Review, William & Mary Law Review, Constitutional Commentary and Yale Journal of International Law. He is a member of the American Law Institute and, last year, he was named associate reporter for the institute\u27s Restatement of the Law, Constitutional Torts project that will examine the law of 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
Over the years, his teaching portfolio has included his scholarly specialties in addition to Insurance, Constitutional Law and European Union Law. Fluent in French, Professor Wells has served as a visiting professor at the University of Lyon (III) on six occasions and as a professor at the Duke-Geneva Institute in Transactional Law. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of Aix-Marseille.
I want to thank Christy, Alice, Catherine and Ellen who made it possible to create this fund honoring Professor Wells. If you would like to join them in contributing to this lasting tribute, please click here, Rutledge said.
As we talk about our school redefining what it means to be a great national public law school, I want to emphasize that our faculty play a pivotal role in fulfilling our core mission of educating the next generation of legal leaders, he added. Professors like Mike Wells – whose lessons and thought leadership remain as guiding forces long after graduation – enable our students to serve state and society with distinction. I am grateful for his more than four decades of service to our institution. Please join me in wishing him well on his impending retirement
A Nuremberg Woman and the Hague Academy
No full textThis article, which forms part of the journal\u27s special review series marking the centenary of the Hague Academy of International Law, draws from the author\u27s ongoing research into the roles that lawyers and other women professionals played at post-World War II trials. The article focuses on the life of one “Nuremberg woman,” Dr. Aline Chalufour, who attended the Academy in 1937 and again in 1957. In between, she worked in what is now Vietnam as a colonial schoolteacher, in Canada as a Free French propagandist for de Gaulle, at Nuremberg and Hamburg as a war crimes prosecutor, and in France as one of the country\u27s first women judges. Chalufour\u27s experiences shed light on how marginalized groups fared during the Hague Academy\u27s first 100 years. They further call upon the Academy, and the field it promotes, to do better in the next 100 years
Antisocial Innovation
Get PDFInnovation is a form of civic religion in the United States. In the popular imagination, innovators are heroic figures. Thomas Edison, Steve Jobs, and (for a while) Elizabeth Holmes were lauded for their vision and drive and seen to embody the American spirit of invention and improvement. For their part, politicians rarely miss a chance to trumpet their vision for boosting innovative activity. Popular and political culture alike treat innovation as an unalloyed good. And the law is deeply committed to fostering innovation, spending billions of dollars a year to make sure society has enough of it. But this sunny vision of innovation as purely beneficial is mistaken. Some innovations, like the polio and Covid-19 vaccines, are unquestionably good for society. But many innovations are, on balance, neutral, and many more are simply bad for society (cigarette additives, worker surveillance, firearm bump stocks), or potentially catastrophic (artificial intelligence). Moreover, some neutral innovations transfer wealth from one group to another in ways that might be morally objectionable (pricing algorithms). This Article argues that a fuller conception of innovation’s costs and benefits counsels a reorientation of law and policy. It begins with a taxonomy of various kinds of antisocial innovation, cataloging and describing individual, environmental, competition, labor, privacy, and societal harms. Then, the Article presents a series of policy recommendations to begin addressing antisocial innovation’s risks. We also consider further opportunities for law to engage in ex ante regulation of some kinds of innovation, to prevent harms before they arise
Blue Carbon Law
Get PDFThis Article explores the emerging law of blue carbon, defined as rules governing human interventions into Earth’s marine carbon cycles. Blue carbon law is of growing importance today as pressure mounts to incorporate coastal conservation and restoration activities into market-based carbon sequestration schemes, and as the planet’s deep oceans are evaluated for their carbon sequestration potential. The Article conceptualizes two broad trends in blue carbon law: the international law of carbon credit markets creating incentives to commodify and monetize blue carbon resources; and the responsive integration of commodification concepts into existing laws that already manage and influence blue carbon systems. In the United States, the rise of blue carbon appears to be posing a fundamental challenge to long-established international norms and rules for carbon crediting, as U.S. state actors are increasingly pushing to qualify for carbon finance for existing conservation activities. These developments, in turn, raise questions about the valuation of mandated conservation and the potential for the carbon market system to compensate the maintenance and protection of ecosystem services
41st Edith House Lecture with Janet Judge
No full textThe 41st Edith House Lecture, sponsored by the Georgia Association of Women Lawyers, was held on March 19 at 3:30pm in the Larry Walker Room of Rusk Hall at the University of Georgia School of Law.
The school welcomed Janet Judge, co-founder of the Education & Sports Law Group, who regularly represents and advises NCAA Division I, II and III schools and conferences re: Title IX athletic equity compliance, sexual misconduct prevention and response, and athlete well-being, including administrative and judicial proceedings.
The conversation was focused on the legal landscape of college sports and was moderated by Darrice Griffin, UGA Senior Deputy Director of Athletics. A reception followed.
This event was not recorded