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California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu will deliver the 119th John A. Sibley Lecture titled "Who's Going to Law School? Trends in Law School Enrollment Since the Great Recession."

Lui joined California's highest court in 2011. Previously, he was an associate dean and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law specializing in constitutional law, education law and policy, and diversity in the legal profession.

Liu continues to teach constitutional law as a visiting professor at both Harvard and Stanford universities.

He obtained his bachelor's degree from Stanford and attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship earning his master's degree. Upon returning to the United States, he helped launch the AmeriCorps national service program in Washington, D.C., and worked for two years as a senior program officer at the Corporation for National Service.

Liu graduated from Yale Law School in 1998, becoming the first in his family to earn a law degree. A former judicial clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Judge David Tatel, he also worked as special assistant to the deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Education and practiced law in the Washington, D.C., office of O'Melveny & Myers.

Please be sure to RSVP to Amy Weaver at amyhill@uga.edu by March 26 to receive a Zoom link prior to the event.

This event is part of the University of Georgia's Signature Lectures series.

The Sibley Lecture Series, established in 1964 by the Charles Loridans Foundation of Atlanta in tribute to the late John A. Sibley, is designed to attract outstanding legal scholars of national prominence to the School of Law. Sibley was a 1911 graduate of the law school.

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