Veterans Legal Clinic featured in Daily Report
The School of Law's Veterans Legal Clinic and its director, Alexander W.
The University of Georgia School of Law is redefining what it means to be a great national public law school. The following news items demonstrate the School of Law community’s commitment to providing Service to State and Society – including world-class, hands-on, purpose-driven educational experiences – while also supporting the school’s vision to be the best return on investment in legal education.
2022 UGA Blue Key award recipients include two law graduates
Awardees and initiates were recognized at the University of Georgia’s annual Tucker Dorsey Blue Key Awards Banquet on Oct. 14 at the UGA Center for Continuing Education & Hotel.
UGA law school unveils portrait honoring first Black graduate
The University of Georgia School of Law recently unveiled the portrait of its first Black graduate, the late Chester C. Davenport, and the painting will hang in the law school’s iconic rotunda that bears his name.
Students log more than 94,000 service-learning hours
During the 2021-22 academic year, more than 435 School of Law students enrolled in one of the school's 17 clinic/externship programs and cumulatively engaged in 94,129 service-learning hours. Nearly 28,000 of those hours occurred under the direct supervision of law school faculty members dir
Criminal Defense Practicum secures full acquittal for client
The Criminal Defense Practicum, in partnership with the DeKalb County Public Defender’s Office and the Southern Center for Human Rights, secured a full acquittal for its client facing a mandatory life sentence without the possibilit
New federal legislation created to help child sexual abuse survivors explained, resource guide created by UGA law school clinic
Earlier this month, President Joe Biden signed the Eliminating Limits to Justice for Child Sexual Abuse Victims Act of 2022, which eliminates the statute of limitations for a variety of federal civil claims, such as sexual abuse of a minor and sexual exploitation of chil
Appellate Litigation Clinic wins case before the 11th Circuit
The Appellate Litigation Clinic has won its case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Third-year student Roby A. Jernigan presented oral argument in the case Jordan v.
Appellate Litigation Clinic featured in Law360
Appellate Litigation Clinic Director Thomas V. Burch and clinic participants third-year student Noah C. Nix and 2021 graduate Jared R.
Community HeLP Clinic team featured in preLaw
The 2021-22 School of Law Community Health Law Partnership Clinic team was featured in preLaw magazine regarding the clinic's work with the school's First Amendment Clinic - and four other clinics from Harvard, Columbia, Texas A&M and Boston universities - representing women who
Georgia Court of Appeals to hear oral arguments at UGA School of Law
The University of Georgia School of Law will host the Georgia Court of Appeals on September 28 for oral arguments in four cases involving ineffective assistance of counsel, the scope of discovery, the TV Act, and service of process by substituted service.
The cases being heard are: