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Join us for a conversation with Professor Ringhand on the nuts and bolts of election regulation. Many of the most contentious issues surrounding this year's presidential election involve basic election administration. Professor Ringhand will talk us through the basic laws undergirding voter registration, mail in and absentee voting, polling place operation, and the Electoral Count Act to help all of us become better consumers of news on election night. Register here.
The Women's Law Student Association is hosting the 38th Annual Edith House Lecture featuring Georgia Supreme Court Justices Carla Wong McMillian and Sarah Hawkins Warren. They will share their backgrounds, experiences as women in the legal profession and paths to the state of Georgia's highest court.
The link to the webinar will be sent to the law school community the morning of the event.
The UGA community will be in a contest with Auburn University in today's blood drive to see which university's members will donate the most number of pints. The drive is open to the entire UGA community with t-shirts and insomnia cookies being given out to participants.
Book Repair Clinic is back! On Wednesday and Thursday, February 19th-20th, members of the Law Library's Collection Services department Rachel Evans and David Rutland will offer a clinic in the law library foyer for making small repairs to your law textbooks for free! Examples include: if a few pages are coming out or torn, or if the front cover is loose or has detached from the book, or if the spine is damaged. Come get these things patched up! Plan to drop your book off with us and pick it up later with a claim ticket that we'll give you.
The 2020 Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation Clinic Virtual Conference will be held in a webinar format. Topics will focus on the commercial and sexual exploitation of children, LGBTQ+ Youth in foster care and creative justice for survivors. The virtual conference's keynote lecture will be delivered by Director Tom C. Rawlings of the Georgia Division of Children and Family Services. Attorneys participating in the live webinar may earn up to 4 CLE credits.
Tom Syring is an expert in international refugee and migration law and policy, Chairman of the Oslo-based Human Rights Research League, and co-editor of Still Waiting for Tomorrow: The Law and Politics of Unresolved Refugee Crises."
Lunch will be offered. RSVP is encouraged but not required.
Harvard's Kyle Courtney will talk on copyright and other IP issues related to fair use and emergency remote teaching. The School of Law's Stephen Wolfson, Joe Miller and David Shipley will facilitate the discussion.