First Amendment Clinic Fellow Samantha Hamilton will moderate a panel discussion regarding the growing trend of using rap lyrics as evidence during trials. The panel will feature Associate Dean & Martin Chair Andrea L. Dennis who recently authored the book Rap on Trial. Other panelists will include ATHFactor-Liberty Entertainment founder Montu Miller and Athens-Clarke County Commissioner and hip hop artist Mariah Parker.
Returned Peace Corps Volunteers Heather Huntley, J. Dean Craig, Richard Mo, and Tom Soderberg discuss the impact of international experiences on their professional pursuits in the legal field.
This event is co-sponsored by the Office of Global Engagement.
The Federalist Society will be hosting The Honorable Stephen Dillard of the Court of Appeals of Georgia on September 9th at 12:00pm-12:50pm. All students and faculty are welcome to attend the Zoom meeting and learn about Judge Dillard's perspective on the role of a judge, in addition to his own experience as a valued member of the judiciary.
Come hear Spencer Frye, our Athens representative in the Georgia House, discuss the current legislative session and future of politics in Georgia. Lunch will be served.
Yale Law School's Cromwell Professor Stephen Carter will serve as the inaugural Judge Horace J. Johnson, Jr. Lecturer on Race, Law and Policy
This conference will address three crucial questions of global health governance. It will consider, first, whether and how the ailing global public health infrastructure might be reinvigorated; second, how the pandemic has threatened and exposed limitations of the social safety net in the United States and other economies around the world; and, finally, the phenomenon of vaccine refusal and what national and international legal institutions might do to curb it.