R. Perry Sentell, Jr. Scholarship Fund

The purpose of the R. Perry Sentell, Jr. Scholarship Fund is to provide scholarship support within the School of Law for first-year students who show great promise of being both exceptional law students and leaders in law school activities, and/or for second- and third-year students who have demonstrated that they are exceptional students and leaders in law school activities.

Carter Chair Emeritus R. Perry Sentell Jr. (1934 - 2021), a 1958 law school alumnus, retired in 2004 after 46 years of teaching and service at the University of Georgia.

Perry was a titan in the legal academy and a demanding instructor who set high expectations but with a warm heart for his students. Many of those students went on to hold leadership roles in the bar, the bench and government. Famous for his annual Palsgraf lecture, Professor Sentell taught Torts, Municipal Corporations and Law of Legislative Government and published nearly 30 books. Among his law school honors are a bust in the Alexander Campbell King Law Library, the law school's Distinguished Service Scroll Award and an endowed scholarship fund named in his honor.

Obituary

School of Law Profile

Common Law Taught by an Uncommon Man: A Tribute to Perry Sentell (Advocate, Fall/Winter 2005)

Sentell's Likeness Finds Home in Library (Advocate, Spring/Summer 2005)

The Making of a Legend Sentell Style (Advocate, Spring/Summer 2004)

Distinguished Service Scroll Awards Presented at Savannah Alumni Meeting (Advocate, Fall 1995)

1975 Palsgraf Lecture

Ways to Give:

  • Mail:

Check payable to: UGA Foundation
For: Sentell Scholarship

Attn: Sentell Scholarship
Office of Law School Advancement
University of Georgia School of Law
225 Herty Drive
Athens, GA 30602-6012

  • Phone: (706) 542-7959
  • Stock/Wire Transfer Instructions (available upon request)

The Law School Advancement Office welcomes the opportunity to talk with donors about making gifts to existing funds or creating new funds to benefit the law school. For more information, please contact the Law School Advancement Office at (706) 542-7639 or lawgifts@uga.edu.