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.
Monica Bell is an Associate Professor of Law at Yale Law School and an Associate Professor of Sociology at Yale University. Her areas of expertise include criminal justice, welfare law, housing, race and the law, qualitative research methods, and law and sociology. The title of her presentation is "The Case for Racism Response Funds: A Collective Response to Racist Acts."
Professor Thomas Kadri will be the host for this lecture.
Please RSVP to Nikko.Terry@uga.edu by November 9 to receive the Zoom link prior to the event.
The University of Georgia School of Law invites you to join us on Tuesday, October 20 at 12:00pm as we dive into the telling of a remarkable story about a tireless advocate who secured justice for families following an environmental disaster. Erin Brockovich? No! University of Georgia's own Corey Stern.
The background: Flint, Michigan. Once a thriving part of the nation's automotive industry - only to later become a national nightmare.
From 7-7:15am, join Metadata Services Librarian Rachel Evans LIVE from the Law Library's Sanders Reading Room for an early morning Sound Bath. Rachel will play soothing sounds while you relax, gather your thoughts, and start your day. Check 6 Ft. Together for the Zoom link.
Russell Gold teaches Criminal Law, Legal Analysis, Writing & Research, and Litigation Drafting. Professor Gold's research focuses largely on comparative analysis between civil and criminal procedure.
Law Librarians Carol Watson and Heather Simmons will present a Lunch n' Learn on Administrative Law topics such as guidance documents and formal regulations.
No reservation required! Pizza will be served, but please bring your own beverage.
Yale Law School's Cromwell Professor Stephen Carter will serve as the inaugural Judge Horace J. Johnson, Jr. Lecturer on Race, Law and Policy
In celebration of Open Access Week (October 19-25), the law library will host a panel of University of Georgia School of Law faculty to provide greater context for the film, what open access is, how it relates to open educational resources, and legal implications of digital and information activism.