Brumby Distinguished Professor in First Amendment Law Sonja R. West recently served as an advising faculty member for the Aspiring Free Speech Scholars Workshop. The event was cosponsored by the Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and the Stanford University Hoover Institution.
The School of Law regrets to share news of the passing of Erica J. Hashimoto, who was a member of the law school’s faculty from 2004 to 2016. She served as the school’s associate dean for clinical programs and experiential learning and held the Allen Post Professorship. In 2015, Hashimoto was awarded UGA’s highest recognition for excellence in instruction at the undergraduate and graduate levels, a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorship. In addition to teaching courses in criminal law, evidence and criminal procedure, she created and oversaw the law school’s Appellate Litigation Clinic. Please keep the Hashimoto family in your thoughts and prayers during this sorrowful time.
Congratulations to third-year students Caleb A. Smith and Lionel A. Rubio on winning the national Elder Law Moot Court Competition. Third-year students Emma M. Cagwin and Olivia M. Henderson finished the tournament as quarterfinalists. In addition, Henderson was named the competition’s best advocate and Cagwin was recognized as the third-best advocate. This is the second consecutive year UGA Law has won the top trophy at this competition.
The Veterans Legal Clinic recently obtained an honorable service characterization for a client from the military board, who had initially been discharged under an other than honorable conditions characterization. Third-year students Sara T. Helton and Nathan C. Whisamore were the final student team to work with the client through a multi-year process, producing the written submission to the military board requesting the client’s service characterization be upgraded to under honorable conditions.
Congratulations to third-year law students Kennedy R. Nuckles and Mya O’Berry on finishing as national finalists at the 20th Annual Civil Rights and Liberties Moot Court Competition. Nuckles was named one of the top 10 oralists. The team was coached by alumna Nia W. Norwood (J.D.’23).