Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
Awards and initiates were recognized at the university’s annual Tucker Dorsey Blue Key Alumni Banquet on Nov. 22 at the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education & Hotel. Bo Rutledge and Kathy Pharr were awarded the 2024 faculty Blue Key Service Awards. Rutledge is the dean of the UGA School of Law and holds the Talmadge Chair of Law. Pharr is the vice president for marketing and communications and chief of staff to the president of the university.
Clinical Associate Professor & Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation Clinic Director Emma M. Hetherington was featured in USA Today regarding parental rights. The article titled “Mom arrested after her 10-year-old son went on a walk alone” was written by Jeanine Santucci and published 11/27/24.
Congratulations to Clinical Professor Emerita Eleanor Crosby Lanier for receiving the 2024 Chief Justice Harold G. Clarke Award from the Supreme Court of Georgia Commission on Dispute Resolution and the Dispute Resolution Section of the State Bar of Georgia. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to alternative dispute resolution in Georgia, and Lanier was honored for her lifelong commitment to the field.
Regents' Professor of International Law & Woodruff Chair in International Law Diane Marie Amann presented “Bearing Witness in the Nuremberg Era: ‘An Irish Governess, Miss Mary O’Shaughnessy’” as part of the International Law Seminar Series at the Trinity College Dublin School of Law in Ireland during November.
UGA Associate Provost & Kirbo Chair Elizabeth Weeks published “What I Talk about When I Talk about Charity Scott” in 52 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 284 (2024).