Davenport-Benham Black Law Students Association March
BLSA is organizing a march to take place on September 4, 2020. The purpose of this event is to bring awareness to issues affecting law students at UGA (specifically black and brown students) and issues affecting the minority community in Athens, GA.
Masks required. All participants must stay on the sidewalk.
Book Repair Clinic
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.
2020 Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation Clinic Virtual Conference
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.
Faculty Colloquium-Andrea Roth-Berkeley Law
Andrea Roth joined the Berkeley Law faculty in 2011, after 3 years as a Grey Fellow at Stanford and 9 years as a trial and appellate public defender in Washington, D.C. Her research focuses on how pedigreed concepts of criminal procedure and evidentiary law work in an era of science-based prosecutions.
150 Years of Voting in America presented by Georgia Law Review
The day-long virtual symposium will discuss a range of topics related to voting in the United States, including the history of the Civil Rights and Suffrage movements, the Electoral College, and the future of voting rights litigation. This past election cycle has highlighted the importance of emerging swing states like Georgia. We invite students, practitioners, scholars, and any other interested parties to join us for this exciting discussion. The event is free to UGA students, staff, faculty, community members, and attorneys not seeking CLE credit.
Faculty Colloquium - Khiara Bridges
Khiara M. Bridges is a professor of law at UC Berkeley School of Law. She has written many articles concerning race, class, reproductive rights, and the intersection of the three.
Periodic, intermittent outages of campus Internet access and campus information systems
UGA EITS will conduct network maintenance that will result in periodic, intermittent outages of campus Internet access and campus information systems on Saturday, October 24. The maintenance will begin at 6:00 a.m. and end at 11:59 p.m. The outages associated with the maintenance will be unpredictable, so the UGA community should assume that network services will be unavailable during the entire day.
Faculty Colloquium - Karen Tani
Karen M. Tani is a scholar of U.S. legal history, with broad interests in poverty law and policy, administrative agencies, rights language, federalism, and the modern American state. Her current research is about the history of disability law in the late twentieth century. She teaches torts, legal and constitutional history, and social welfare law.