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Delaware Corporation Law And Transaction Cost Engineering, Charles R.T. O'Kelley

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I have a passionate belief that a very good way to teach Corporations is to structure the course around a core goal--to teach Delaware corporate law systematically--not just bits and pieces of it, but the entire system, much the way we approach the teaching of constitutional law. This Essay is an elaboration of my reasoning and strategies, organized as a presentation and discussion of the core rationales for organizing the course in this way. The first justification flows axiomatically from the following proposition: we create value for many of our students, and harm none, by giving them an opportunity to …

Introduction To Law For Second-Year Students?, Alan Watson

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The casebook method of teaching is, in fact, an exercise in futility. It is the students themselves who are expected to build up a picture of law from the few generally disconnected scraps available to them and with virtually no tools. Students are left to guess what the editors' view of the law is rather than getting to what the law is all about. Instead of looking at the reasoning of a case in the light of the developed conceptual thought that preceded it, and of its place in a structured web of reasoned principle, they are provided in the …

Law And Literature Defining Itself, Paul J. Heald

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Earlier this spring, the University of Chicago Law School convinced Martha Nussbaum, University Professor of Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and Classics at Brown University, to join its faculty to teach law and literature. At Michigan and Duke, James B. White and Stanley Fish have long held joint appointments in their respective law schools and English departments. What use can law schools possibly have for literary critics? Although over 60 law schools, including Georgia, currently offer a class in law and literature, the focus of this interdisciplinary enterprise remains somewhat fuzzy.

Georgia's Historic Law Schools -- Part Ii: University Of Georgia - History Of The University Of Georgia School Of Law, C. Ronald Ellington

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In June 1859, Joseph Henry Lumpkin, William Hope Hull, and Thomas R.R. Cobb, under the authority of the University of Georgia's Board of Trustees, issued a printed announcement of the opening session of a law school on October 1 of that year. Law courses had been offered up to that time as one part of the curriculum of the Franklin College, but the reorganization plan unveiled called for the establishment of a law school with a faculty of three. The law professors would be unsalaried and were to be compensated from tuition collected. The School of Law was formally created …

Competency And Professionalism In Modern Litigation: The Role Of Law Schools, Ronald L. Carlson

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This Article opens with an historical analysis of the forces that stimulated the growth of trial practice training. It then shifts the focus to the current concern of the bar with raising the level of professionalism among lawyers. Part III discusses the role of law schools in helping their students meet both competency and professionalism challenges. To this end, Part III addresses (1) the need of any trial practice course to incorporate litigation ethics in a meaningful way, perhaps within the context of creative and challenging problems materials; and (2) the need for instructors in the field to add quality …

The Role Of Law In The World, Sam Nunn

Law Day Lectures

Lecture delivered by Sam Nunn, U.S. Senator from Georgia. Georgia Law Review and Moot Court Board banquet address delivered by Pasco Bowman, Judge, Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. Distinguished Service Scroll awarded to Robert Heard, Robert Reinhardt, and Sigmund Cohn.

A full summary of this event was published in the Advocate Magazine Volume 20, Issue 1, Summer 1984 on page 8: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/advocate/vol20/iss1/1/

Transcripts Of Meetings Of The State Of Georgia Constitutional Revision Committee To Revise Article Iii, Vol. I, State Of Georgia

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Why Equality Matters, Kenneth L. Karst

Sibley Lecture Series

Kenneth L. Karst, a prolific author in the field of constitutional law, gave the fall quarter Sibley Law Lecture October 28.The UCLA law professor addressed the topic "Why Equality Matters" in his lecture, which was the 56th in the John A. Sibley Lecture Series.

A full summary of this event was published in the Advocate Magazine Volume 19, Issue 1, Spring 1983 on page 2: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/advocate/vol19/iss1/1/

Arguing The Law: The Advocate's Duty And Opportunity, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.

Sibley Lecture Series

The John A. Sibley Lecture in Law delivered by Yale Law Professor Geoffrey Hazard at the University of Georgia School of Law on February 11, 1982, revised and expanded for publication. There have been many expositions on advocacy, including some delivered as Sibley Lectures. These expositions say pretty much the same thing: be candid, be thorough, be concise, formulate the issue carefully, answer questions directly, and "go fo the jugular." It would be incautious to reject good advice as to technique, and this sort of thing sounds like good advice. Yet the fact that the same advice keeps coming forth …

Unique Activities Of A President, Jimmy Carter

Law Day Lectures

This lecture was delivered on May 1, 1982 on the North Campus Quadrangle in front of the law school and library at 11 am. According to the transcript and recording, in addition to Former President Jimmy Carter speaking, then dean of the law school Dean Bearid also spoke and introduced Carter, along with questioners including David Buttorff, Ronald Cobb, Kim Alexander, and Mrs. Alford.Charles J. Driebe (student bar association president) also spoke.

A full summary of this event was published in the Advocate Magazine Volume 18, Issue 2, Fall 1982 on page 2: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/advocate/vol18/iss2/1/

The Affimative Side Of The First Amendment, Thomas I. Emerson

Sibley Lecture Series

Emerson, who taught law for 35 years and argued numerous cases on First Amendment issues for the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Lawyers Guild, concluded the "Perspectives on the First Amendment" held at the School of Law April 9-11 by presenting the Sibley Lecture. The John A. Sibley Lecture series was expanded to four lecture visits this year in recognition of Emerson's address.

A full summary of this event was published in the Advocate Magazine Volume 17, Issue 1, Spring 1981 on page 9: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/advocate/vol17/iss1/1/

The New Age Of Political Reform: Looking Back, Ralph K. Winter Jr.

Sibley Lecture Series

Ralph K. Winter, Jr. of Yale Law School was the spring quarter Sibley lecturer. He is the author of law review articles in the areas of labor law, constitutional law, antitrust law, employment discrimination, corporate law, evidence, and economic regulation. Winter chose as his subject for the April 10 lecture an analysis of presidential election reform which has taken place since Alexander Bickel wrote The New Age of Political Reform twelve years ago.

A full summary of this event was published in the Advocate Magazine Volume 16, Issue 3, Fall 1980 on page 7: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/advocate/vol16/iss3/1/

Law Day 1979, Griffin Bell

Law Day Lectures

Lecture delivered by Griffin B. Bell, Attorney General of the United States. Law Day luncheon lecture delivered by James T. McIntyre, Jr., Director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget. Distinguished Service Scroll awarded to Sidney O. Smith and William B. Gunther. A full summary of this event was published in the Advocate Magazine Volume 15, Issue 3, Fall 1979 on page 6: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/advocate/vol15/iss3/1/

A Dean's-Eye View Of Thomas F. Green, Jr., Lindsey Cowen

Georgia Law Review

MY first contact with Tom Green occurred six years ago when I was in Athens being interviewed as a prospective dean. I walked into his office and found him behind a desk piled high with books, folders, papers and miscellaneous materials necessary for legal scholarship. Tom's office was filled from floor almost to ceiling, in every available space, with other books and pamphlets. I was aware, of course, of Tom Green's reputation for superior scholarship. Regretfully I must admit that I immediately classified him as an "ivory tower" professor interested primarily in research and publication. My error in so assessing …

A Student's Memories Of Dr. Green, Emmet J. Bondurant Ii

Georgia Law Review

It was with a distinct feeling of pleasure that I accepted the task of writing, from a student's viewpoint, about a former teacher and friend for whom I have much respect and admiration. Yet, as I began to write, I found it extremely difficult, to express adequately the real feeling that I have for Dr. Green.

Much is a matter of record. During the more than 40 years that he taught as a member of the University of Georgia Law School faculty, Dr. Green achieved both regional and national prominence as a noteworthy legal authority in his primary areas of …

David Meade Feild - A Personal Reminiscence, Edward E. Dorsey

Georgia Law Review

I FIRST met Meade Feild when I was a member of the Mercer University Law School Freshman Class of 1989. That class quickly made a reputation at the School as being a "good" class, and it is not immodest to say that the years have proved this evaluation to have been solid and accurate. We were all children of the depression, and not one of us was at law school without some sacrifice. We had seen, and were to see, hard times and bad times, but this is not to say that we were hard- bitten or in any way …

D. Meade Feild, Sidney 0. Smith, Jr.

Georgia Law Review

In the post World-War II invasion of the University of Georgia by returning veterans, the Law School received over 500 of the most mature, most critical, and most independent of the group. Truly the years of 1945-50 were exciting ones at Athens and those days of crowded classrooms, split sessions, and twelve months' operation produced a large number of graduates to fill the great need in the legal profession existing at the time. Many of that group now hold positions of leadership and responsibility (for better or worse!) in the bar, the courts, and government of the state. All were …

The Three Faces Of Meade, Wylie H. Davis

Georgia Law Review

Y OUTH and middle-ager, I have known David Meade Feild for nigh-on thirty years. But since my first encounter with him in 1939 at Mercer University-as one of his naive freshman law students -my aggregate daily association with him has been a mere three years. Even this all-too-short span has been fragmented by events into three very different time and experience phases. My impressions of Professor Feild and his impact on me bring to mind a fabled phenomenon of human observation and reporting aptly described by a former col- league: The process is remindful of [three] blind men feeling the …

Some Personal Observations About Professor David Meade Feild, Edward W. Killorin

Georgia Law Review

IT is fitting that this Review should dedicate an issue to a man who is at his prime in a great career as Law Professor, rather than wait until all comments must be post mortem. It should not always be left for historians to distinguish the superlative. The D. Meade Feild I know would never permit an institutional convention such as "retirement for age" to end his career. It is heartening to learn that he will continue to preside over law classes after taking a change of venue from the Athens Division to the Macon Division of the Middle District …

A Tribute To Professor D. Meade Feild, R. Perry Sentell, Jr.

Georgia Law Review

T HE members of the Editorial Board pay me high honor in requesting that I contribute a few lines to this issue so appropriately dedicated to Professor David Meade Feid on the occasion of his retirement from teaching in the Law School. Professor Feid is a man of so many interesting facets, however, that one is awed by under- taking to meet such a request. Because attempting to write about him is a little like grasping at the wind (and, more practically, because I shall no doubt have to debate with him each statement that I make), I wish simply …

There Is A South Of Union And Freedom, Hugo L. Black

Georgia Law Review

The formal dedication of these magnificent buildings and equipment at the University of Georgia Law School is an inspiring event in which my wife and I-both native Alabamians-are particularly happy to participate. There are special reasons for our feelings. The present soil of Alabama was a part of the soil of Georgia when, even before the United States was created, your University was chartered by the Georgia General Assembly in 1785. And my ancestral ties with Georgia are even stronger than that. In April of the year 1835, in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, a few miles from where I now stand, …

Gober's Georgia Form Book And Procedure, A Collection Of Legal Forms With Annotations From The Reports Of The Supreme Court And The Court Of Appeals Of Georgia On Questions Relating To Forms And Procedure; Prepared For The Use Of The Judiciary, The Bar, The Officers Of Court, And Business Me, George Fletcher Gober

Historical Treatises

Excerpt from the preface:

The work of preparing this volume has developed out of all proportion to what I anticipated in the outset. The great trouble under our system is that there are so many things that are not fixed and determined. Our system of pleading provides that a party must plainly, fully and distinctly set forth his cause of action, and this leaves the form to be passed upon under the discretion of about one hundred trial judges in the City and Superior Courts, and this discretion, in many instances, is controlled by individual and particular ideas. For this …

A Manual On Land Registration, Arthur Gray Powell

Historical Treatises

Excerpt from the preface:

I decided that my labors would prove most useful if I attempted to write a practical, rather than a learned treatise on the subject. While the subject is one that might bear much fruit under learned treatment, still what the present moment most demands is a practical handbook which will inform the profession and the officers who are to administer the law what to do and how to do it, when a landowner comes seeking to register his land.

There has been no effort at style, except that I have striven to state matters in a …

The Law Of Personal Injuries And Incidentally Damage To Property By Railway-Trains, Based On The Statutes And Decisions Of The Supreme Court Of The State Of Georgia, John L. Hopkins

Historical Treatises

From the front matter:

Testimonials From the Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of Georgia

Atlanta, May 22, 1902.

We have given the book prepared by Hon. John L. Hopkins, entitled "The Law of Personal Injuries," etc., a sufficient examination to enable us to say, without hesitation, that it is a work of great merit and utility. It will surely save the hard-worked judge and busy lawyer much time and labor by making the decisions of this court, bearing on the subjects treated, readily accessible in available form. The distinguished author's wel1 - executed plan of grouping …

The Georgia Form Book, Or, A Collection Of Legal Forms Under Georgia Law : Designed To Aid Attorneys-At-Law, Judges, Ordinaries, Clerks, Coroners, Sheriffs, Justices Of The Peace, Constables, Road Commissioners, Etc, Etc., As Well As Business Men In General, Silman & Thompson

Historical Treatises

Excerpt from the preface:

Testimonials.

Atlanta, Ga., September 26th, 1881.

Under special employment for the purpose, by Messrs. Silman & Thompson, I have carefully examined the collection of legal forms which they have prepared. As a result of the examination, I can and do recommend these Forms, each and all, as safe and sufficient. They are calculated to serve the wants, not only of attorneys at law, Ordinaries, County Commissioners, Clerks, Sheriffs, Coroners, Justices of the Peace, and others engaged in administering the law or executing its process, but, also, in some degree, of business men in general, such as …

A Treatise On The Law Of Executors, Administrators, And Guardians, William M. Reese

Historical Treatises

From the preface:

On account of the many changes made in the Laws of Georgia relating to Executors, Administrators and Guardians, and on account of the codification of the same, I have, upon the request of many valued friends, prepared this work. It might be styled a third edition of the Manual for Ordinaries, Executors, Administrators and Guardians, in the State of Georgia; yet, as this work is of more than a local application, I have changed the title of it, following the example of Redfield, Smith, North, and others. In the citation of Sections of Code, I have followed …

Georgia Constitution Of 1877 As Amended Through 1943, State Of Georgia

Current and Historical Georgia Constitutions & Related Materials

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Georgia Constitution Of 1877 As Amended Through 1932, State Of Georgia

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A Stenographic Report Of The Proceedings Of The Constitutional Convention Held In Atlanta, Georgia In 1877, State Of Georgia

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Legal Forms For Common Use In Georgia : Embracing Over Four Hundred Approved Precedents, For Affidavits, Agreements, Bills Of Sale, Deeds, Notes, Etc., Etc., Also, Forms In Judicial Proceedings, Arbitrations, Attachments, Orders, Process, Pleading, Probate Of Deeds, Rules, Wills, Etc., Etc., With Others To Guide Attorneys, Magistrates, Justices Of The Inferior Court, Constables, Sheriffs, Ordinaries, Clerks, Etc., Etc., In The Many Duties Required Of Them By Law : To Which Is Added An Appendix Containing The Statutory Provisions As To County Officers, Magistrates, And Elections, The Rules Of Court, And The Constitution Of Georgia, John B. Hines, Richard K. Hines

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Excerpt from the preface:

The object of the present volume is to furnish the legal profession, magistrates, county officers, and private citizens of this State, with a plain, accurate, and complete Form Book, which shall be cheap in price, and convenient in size, and so arranged that any one, however ignorant of such formulas, can use it when the occasion presents itself. Added to the forms, in the body of the work, are such directions and suggestions as it was supposed would be useful. In the Appendix are the statutory enactments of our State in regard to county .officers, magistrates, …