The Dean Rusk International Law Center is pleased to welcome two visiting research scholars. Maisie Hopkins is a Ph.D. candidate at the Utrecht University School of Governance in the Netherlands and is working on a project titled “Complex Global Regulation and Corporate Crime.” Daesun Kim is undertaking comparative administrative law research relating to Vietnam (where he is a practicing attorney) and the United States and examines public-private partnership projects during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Become comfortable being uncomfortable. The Honorable Verda M. Colvin, a Georgia Supreme Court justice and UGA School of Law alumna, shared the value in that statement during UGA's 2023 Holmes-Hunter Lecture. “We all must consciously decide to become comfortable being uncomfortable and engage with one another regardless of racial or cultural differences,” she said. Named in honor of Hamilton Holmes Sr. and Charlayne Hunter-Gault, the first African American students to attend UGA, the lecture is sponsored by the Office of the President and focuses on race relations, civil rights and education.
The Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation Clinic – which is the first of its kind in the nation – offers an overview for decriminalizing child sex trafficking victims, with a focus on the state of Georgia. In a policy brief titled "Child Sex Trafficking and Enhancing Georgia Responses," the clinic relates how common misunderstandings about the realities of child sex trafficking prevent the identification of victims, resulting in survivors being treated more like adult criminals than child victims.
Congratulations to second-year students M. Larkin Carden and Kendra Hansey who finished as regional finalists at the ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition. A second law school team, comprised of Allison J. Fine and J. Briana Hayes, completed the tournament as semifinalists. Notably, Hayes was named the competition's best oralist and Fine was selected fourth best oralist. The teams were coached by Assoc. Director of Advocacy Joe Lester and third-year students Ellen T. "Ellie" Williams and E. Reed Ferguson.
Congratulations to second-year students Leila Y. Harrison, Andrew C. Haygood and Isabel M. White for finishing as national semifinalists in the Jeffrey G. Miller National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition. The team was coached by Assistant Professor Adam D. Orford. More than 50 teams from law schools across the nation competed in this annual tournament.