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The University Of Georgia School Of Law And Early Legal Education, Paul Deforest Hicks

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The history of the University of Georgia School of Law examines how developments in American legal education and local attitudes and traditions influenced its formative years. Founded in 1859 as the Lumpkin Law School, it was among the newest of 21 university law schools (those that awarded law degrees) on the eve of the Civil War.

To head the revived law school, the UGA board of trustees chose William L. Mitchell. As chairman of the board’s Prudential Committee, he was a principal architect of the 1859 reorganization of the university that included creation of the law school.

Almost all southern …

Dean's Report 2009, Rebecca H. White

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This year marks the 150th anniversary of our law school, one of the nation’s oldest and most successful public law schools. Although legal education has changed in significant ways over the past 150 years, the markers of a great law school have not. Putting academically rigorous teachers into classrooms with intellectually serious and highly motivated students results in a first class learning experience that produces professionals of the highest caliber. We are committed to continuing that proud tradition at Georgia Law and to enhancing what is already an outstanding work product. It is my pleasure to provide you this report …

Student Handbook, 2009-2010, Office Of Registrar

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Awards Day 2009, Office Of Registrar

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Dean's Report 2008, Rebecca H. White

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Dear Alumni and Friends,

This is a very exciting time in the University of Georgia School of Law's history. Next year, we will be celebrating the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the law school.

As you may recall, the school's founders -- Joseph Henry Lumpkin, Georgia's first chief justice; Thomas R.R. Cobb, a preparer of the code of the state of Georgia; and William Hope Hull, solicitor for the U.S. Treasury -- opened the institution in the fall of 1859 and graduated the first class in the summer of 1860. Much has happened over the past 15 decades, and …

2008-09 Faculty Appointments & Honors, Office Of Communications And Public Relations

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The faculty at Georgia Law also continues to build upon the school’s longstanding tradition of producing meaningful and thought-provoking legal scholarship used by Supreme Court justices, by judges at other levels of the judiciary and by academic peers. Our faculty’s books have been published or are forthcoming from the following publishers: Oxford University Press, Harvard University Press, Edinburgh University Press, Aspen Publishers, Foundation Press, LexisNexis and Thomson/West, among others. Furthermore, articles have been published or are forthcoming in journals associated with top universities such as: California at Berkeley, California at Los Angeles, Chicago, Duke, Georgetown, Michigan, Minnesota, Northwestern, Notre Dame, …

Awards Day 2008, Office Of Registrar

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2007-08 Faculty Appointments & Honors, Office Of Communications And Public Relations

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The law faculty at the University of Georgia routinely produces some of our country’s leading legal scholarship. Recent books have been published by or are forthcoming from Oxford University Press, Harvard University Press, Cambridge University Press, Yale University Press, Aspen Publishers, Thomson/West and LexisNexis, among others. Scores of articles have been selected to appear in law journals associated with top universities and colleges such as Duke, Georgetown, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Washington, Washington and Lee, Vanderbilt and Yale, just to name a few.

Awards Day 2007, Office Of Registrar

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Awards Day 2006, Office Of Registrar

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Awards Day 2005, Office Of Registrar

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Awards Day 2004, Office Of Registrar

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2002-03 Faculty Appointments And Honors, Office Of Communications And Public Relations

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Dean David A. Shipley and the faculty of the University of Georgia School of Law are proud to announce faculty appointments, promotions and honors.

Dean's Report 1987, J. Ralph Beaird

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In the Annual Report for last year, I indicated that I planned to devote the 1986-87 report to a review of the preceding decade and attempt to provide an historical perspective to this period. It is an appropriate time to undertake this review, for on October 14, 1986 I marked my tenth anniversary as Dean of the School of Law. Counting my service as Acting Dean in 1972 through 1974, I have served this Law School as administrative head for thirteen years, a span of time characterized by much change and development in American legal education.

This past year was …

Dean's Report 1981, J. Ralph Beaird

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The highlight of the 1980-81 academic year at the University of Georgia School of Law was the opening of the new Law Library Annex. The building was dedicated May 2, 1981 in ceremonies marking the Law Day observance. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun was the dedication speaker.

The new annex contains 25,000 square feet divided among three floors of library, office and instructional space. With this new addition the law school physical plan now totals 138,000 square feet. The annex includes 20 offices for the editorial staffs of the Georgia Law Review and the Journal of International and Comparative …

Clinical Education: A Report To The Faculty, University Of Georgia School Of Law

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The increased student interest in clinical education at the University of Georgia, as manifested by the Symposium held here last spring, lead to the formation of the ad hoc Faculty Committee on Clinical Education. The Committee's basic purpose was to examine clinical legal education at the University and to formulate clinical programs which would improve and in some instances increase student opportunities in this phase of the law school's curriculum.

This report presents the conclusions and recommendations of the Committee. The report consists of a brief description of the major trends in American legal education over the last 100 years …

Tightening Clinical Training : Improvements In Legal Education Support Programs : Final Report, Student Bar Association Symposium On Clinical Legal Education, University Of Georgia School Of Law

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Within the last decade, Langdell's case method of legal education has ceased to be the exclusive means of instruction in the Nation's law schools. The increasing support of the traditional academic curriculum at Georgia with seminars, simulation and burgeoning clinical programs clearly demonstrates that legal education here is no longer inextricably bound to the case method.

Underlying the recent trend among law schools to revitalize the academic curriculum with supplementary practical experience is the growing realization of a public obligation to produce technically competent and professional lawyers by graduation. Defining clinical legal education as "lawyer-client work by a law student, …

P.A.D. Directory 1973-74, Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity

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The members and associates of the Stephens Chapter of Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity International have prepared this 1973-74 edition of the University of Georgia Law School Directory as part of our continuing program of service to the student, the law school and the profession. We hope that it will be helpful to you, and that it will contribute to building a feeling of community within the law school.

P.A.D. Directory 1972-73, Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity

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The members and associates of Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity International have prepared this 1972-73 edition of the University of Georgia Law School Directory as part of our continuing program of service to the student, the law school and the profession. We hope that it will be helpful to you, and that it will contribute to building a feeling of community within the law school.

P.A.D. Directory 1971-72, Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity

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The brothers and associates of Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity have prepared this 1971-72 edition of the University of Georgia law School Directory as part of our continuing program of service to the students, the law school, and the profession. We hope that it will be helpful to you, and that it will contribute to building a feeling of community within the law school.

P.A.D. Directory 1970-71, Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity

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The brothers and associates of Phi Alpha Delta Law fraternity welcome the Class of 1973 to the University of Georgia Law School. We hope that this 1970-71 edition of the Law School Directory will serve to facilitate your adaptation to the law school life.

Dean' Report 1968, Lindsey Cowen

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The year 1967-1968 was the first full year of what might appropriately be called Phase II of the campaign to move the University of Georgia School of Law into the front rank of legal education. The year's activities were highlighted in the fall with the Dedication Exercises, at which the Honorable Hugo L. Black, Associate Justice of the United State Supreme Court, gave the principal address; and in the spring by the appearance of the Honorable Dean Rusk, Secretary of State of the United States of America, as our Law Day speaker. These address were supplemented during the year with …

Placement Brochure 1967, University Of Georgia School Of Law

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A Message From the Dean
For each of the past several years, the Student Bar Association of the University of Georgia School of Law has prepared and distributed to the members of the bar of Georgia a Placement Brochure, designed to introduce, by photographs and brief biographical statements, the members of that year's senior law class. The purpose has been and is to bring to the attention of the members of the bar seeking new associates those prospective graduates most likely to meet their particular needs. In a sense, the Placement Brochure for 1967 is like its predecessors in that …

Dean' Report 1963, J. Alton Hosch

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The School of Law has had a good year, but has suffered as a result of quite inadequate physical facilities. This matter has been referred to in my Annual Report for years, but now we at the Law School are pleased that, upon the recommendation of the Administration of the University, the Board of Regents has made provisions for additional facilities.

Dean' Report 1962, J. Alton Hosch

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The School of Law has had a good year, but has suffered as a result of quite inadequate physical facilities. This matter has been referred to in the Annual Reports for years past but the situation is now most critical. Therefore, the most important part of this Report has to do with the urgency of the need of additional physical facilities that is discussed in Section IV PHYSICAL FACILITIES of this Report.

Dean' Report 1961, J. Alton Hosch

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I have the honor to submit the following Report for the School of Law for the year 1960-1961.

Aristotle once said: "All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of Empires depends upon the education of youth." So it seems to me that the fate of the bar of this country depends upon the education of the young men and women who are admitted to the bar. For over a century now the University of Georgia Law School has been engaged in this high endeavor. We are indeed proud of our alumni …

Dean' Report 1940, J. Alton Hosch

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An adequate library is absolutely essential for the operation of a modern law school. Fortunately the law building is satisfactory in most respects due to the generosity of the alumni and friends of the Law School. We have now reached the point, however, where additional stacks are necessary. The present stacks are arranged so that a glass floor can be laid on them and thereby provide two floors in the stackroom. Additional stacks may be placed on this second floor and we shall then be able to properly take care of our books. The stackroom was constructed with this end …

Dean' Report 1939, J. Alton Hosch

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An adequate library is absolutely necessary for the operation of a modern Law School. Fortunately the present quarters and physical equipment are satisfactory due to the generosity of alumni and friends of the Law School. Progress has been made during the past few years in providing essential books, but I wish to point out again certain deficiencies that should be taken care of as soon as possible.

Last fall a survey of the University of Georgia Library was made by the committee on behalf of the American Library Association. The report on page twenty-two contains the following statement concerning the …

Dean' Report 1938, J. Alton Hosch

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For the past two years the faculty of the School of Law of The University of Georgia has been studying the curriculum of this School as well as the curricula of the other leading law schools in the country for the purpose of effecting such revision as seemed desirable to better serve the needs of the students. The bulletin of the Law School, which has been issued recently, gives the details of the new curriculum which has been prepared by the law faculty and approved by the President of the University. The members of the faculty believe that the changes …

Dean' Report 1937, J. Alton Hosch

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You are familiar with the report made by Dean Herschel W. Arant, Dean of the College of Law of Ohio State University and Secretary of the Association of American Law Schools following his inspection of the Law School last September. His report included the following recommendations concerning the Library:

(1) "That the dean be advised that expenditures in the immediate future would be made wisely if a few complete sets of the better law reviews not now in the library were added."

(2) "That the dean be advised that the library should add eight or ten more statutory compilations to …