Faculty Events

Paul Ohm is a Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. In his research, service, and teaching, Professor Ohm builds bridges between computer science and law, utilizing his training and experience as a lawyer, policymaker, computer programmer, and network systems administrator. His research focuses on information privacy, computer crime law, surveillance, technology and the law, and artificial intelligence and the law.

Join us for a celebration of the birthday of our namesake, Dean Rusk. This open house event will also be the debut of our new exhibit, featuring items and papers from Rusk's life, particularly his time as a professor at Georgia Law.

Kerrel Murray teaches and writes about constitutional law, election law, and race and the law, among other topics. His scholarship interrogates what democracy demands of our legal rules and institutions as well as the role of law in mediating conflict and disagreement.

Sadie Blanchard teaches and writes about contracts and international business law. Her research examines how legal institutions interact with social forces to shape behavior, especially in markets.

Evelyn Douek is a Lecturer on Law and S.J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School, Associate Research Scholar at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, and Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. She studies online speech regulation and platform governance.

Will Moon’s teaching and research interests include contracts, corporate law, and private international law. His current research focuses on corporate charter competition, documenting the rise of offshore jurisdictions competing in the emerging international market for corporate law.

The Southeastern Conference Law Schools are hosting A Series of Conversations on Name, Image, & Likeness and the Future of Intercollegiate Athletics. Associate Professor Laura Phillips Sawyer will serve on a panel with the University of Missouri's Thomas Lambert and Gary Myers discussing the topic Alston and Antitrust.

The event is free and open to the public. The Zoom link and passcode follow.   

Georgia Supreme Court Justice Sarah Hawkins Warren, who is currently serving as the law school’s Hines Jurist in Residence, will deliver a lecture focusing on professionalism.

A reception will follow in the Davenport Rotunda.

Planning an event? Pulling together a lot of information from different sources? Trying to schedule a meeting for a large group? All the above? What if we told you there are a suite of tools and resources you have access to that could make those projects way easier?

Join the Law Library for “Fantastic Forms and Cool Calendars.” Our librarians will be showing you how to use Google Forms, Qualtrics, Zoom, and Outlook to take all the messy parts out of event planning and let you focus on the important stuff.

Judge Walter W. Davis of the Georgia Statewide Business Court will serve as the 2022 Lecturer for the Legal Studies Speaker Series, hosted by the Terry College of Business Certificate in Legal Studies. Davis will share his experience as a business lawyer and his current role as judge of the new business court in Georgia. He was appointed by Gov. Brian Kemp as the first judge of the new court in July 2019. Davis is currently an adjunct professor at the School of Law.