The Executive Mock Trial Board cordially invites all students, faculty and staff to attend the final round of the 2020 Beaird 1L Closing Argument Mock Trial Competition.
Help us kick off Random Acts of Kindness Week on National Random Acts of Kindness Day (Feb. 17)!
The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation wants you to make kindness the norm all week, and so do we. The Path to Lawyer Well-Being even recommends law students help fellow law students to create a community of well-being.
Dr. Jonathan Peters, Associate Professor of Journalism at UGA's Grady College, will be leading the discussion.
Panelists will include:
Ilze Brands Kehris, the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Christof Heyns, the Human Rights Committee Rapporteur who drafted General Comment No. 37 Yuval Shany, former Chair of the Human Rights Committee, and H?l?ne Tigroudja, member of the Human Rights Committee.
Join some of your favorites from the Law Library and Student Affairs as we host Game Night on Thursday 4/22 at 4:30pm until ? Take your mind off exams for a little bit the night before the last day of class to channel your competitive energy into beating us at our favorite virtual games. Separate Zoom rooms will be offered for games such as Jackbox games (Trivia Murder Party, Joke Boat, etc.), virtual chess, and Among Us. If you don't know what any of those things are - please join us anyway. We will teach you! Register at the link below.
J. Jarpa Dawuni is Associate Professor of Political Science at Howard University, Washington D.C. She is a qualified Barrister-at-Law before the Ghana Superior Courts of Judicature. She holds a Doctorate in Political Science from Georgia State University. Her primary areas of research include judicial politics, women in the legal professions, gender and the law, international human rights, women's civil society organizing and democratization.
After one week off, we'll pick up again with renowned attorney and UGA Law alumnus Emmet Bondurant, who will engage in a conversation with Professor Ringhand about the law and practice of partisan gerrymandering, especially in light of the upcoming census and a recent Supreme Court decision declaring the practice a non-justiciable political question. Read more about Emmet Bondurant's life in the law here.
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.
With blood supplies at a low level, the UGA chapter of the American Red Cross is hosting a blood drive at Memorial Hall. You can sign up for a blood drive appointment at https://forms.gle/9QiH7cZ6RVeaTnvd7 .
Join BLSA for a screening of the timely and powerful documentary 13th, which traces the history and transformation of slavery from the plantation to the prison industrial complex.