Please join ACS for a Lunch and Learn on February 15, 2022, and hear from social worker Jocelyn Crumpton and Professor Ahmed on their experience serving the unhoused population through their responsive positions and how the criminalization of homelessness affects all of us. RSVP at https://forms.gle/toEzGvAcvcyjjSLD6.
Join the Business Law Society for the Spring General Body Meeting! In this meeting, BLS leadership will overview the planned events for the spring semester, discuss applications for executive positions, and bring the community together in preparation for the spring semester.
The PB&J Bar returns! Give your brain a break while you create a custom snack with a wide variety of breads (toasters available!), nut butters, jams, jellies, spreads, toppings, etc. Selection will be friendly to allergies and dietary restrictions.
Activate the artistic side of your brain with a gingerbread cookie decorating study break! We will have all the supplies you need to create your gingerbread designs.
This program, presented by the UGA School of Law’s First Amendment Clinic, will explore legislation introduced in Georgia in reaction to wide-scale national protests and social movements. It will explain how this legislation chills First Amendment speech and assembly rights and explore legal challenges to such bills. This is a topical presentation in light of the anti-protest bills we are likely to see in the 2023 Georgia legislative session. Speakers: Lindsey Floyd, Aradhana Chandra, Hanna Esserman.
Join us for a discussion about Health Law related courses and externships with HLS and Corporate Counsel Externship Director Scott Lowry!
HLS is a great opportunity to learn more about the wide array of opportunities within the health law field-- from transactional opportunities to litigation opportunities, from firm opportunities to in-house opportunities, and from corporate opportunities to service opportunities.
Zoom information has been emailed to the student event listserv.
On Monday, November 14th at noon, please consider joining ACS for a Lunch & Learn about voter disenfranchisement and voting rights litigation in Classroom A. We will be hearing remarks from Caitlin May, a Double Dawg and current voting rights attorney at the ACLU of Georgia. After election day, this will be a moment to reflect on invidious forms of voter suppression and consider how lawyers can make a difference through impact litigation and other legal strategies moving forward.
The Hines Jurist in Residence Lecture will be delivered by Georgia Supreme Court Justice Verda Colvin (J.D.'90). Her talk is titled "Leadership in the 21st Century and Beyond: Where are the lawyers?" As a School of Law graduate herself, Justice Colvin will challenge our community to think nationally and globally about our place in our world as lawyers and our obligation to the greater good.
A reception will follow the lecture.
Superior Court judges conduct pre-selected interviews with 3Ls and recent graduates, for full time post-graduate judicial clerkships and staff attorney positions.