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The Best Return On Investment In Legal Education, University Of Georgia School Of Law

Dean's Messages

I am pleased to share good news about your law school and its vision to be the best return on investment in legal education.The school is now ranked 27th in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, its second highest ranking in history. This news comes on the heels of the School of Law being named the best value in legal education for the third consecutive year – a first for the National Jurist ranking. For each of the past several years, we have reduced aggregate student indebtedness, average student indebtedness and the percentage of students who need to …

New Endowed Scholarship Fund Named For Benham To Benefit Those With Commitment To Legally Underserved Communities, University Of Georgia School Of Law

Dean's Messages

The University of Georgia School of Law is pleased to share the establishment of the Justice Robert Benham Scholars Program Fund, an endowed fund that will support those who have overcome significant adversity and who have a demonstrated connection with or intent to return to and serve rural or legally underserved communities.

Loudermilks Establish Distinguished Law Fellowship Named For Kurtz, University Of Georgia School Of Law

Dean's Messages

Alumnus Joey M. Loudermilk and his wife, Ramona, have established a premier scholarship to honor former Associate Dean Paul M. Kurtz at the University of Georgia School of Law.

Law Scholarship To Honor Legacy Of Court Pioneer, University Of Georgia School Of Law

Dean's Messages

The late Georgia Court of Appeals Judge Stephen S. Goss is being memorialized with a scholarship bearing his name at the University of Georgia School of Law.

In Memoriam: Dean Edward D. "Ned" Spurgeon, University Of Georgia School Of Law

Dean's Messages

Dean's message announcing the passing of former Dean Edward D."Ned" Spurgeon, who passed away January 2, 2021, at the age of 81. He served as dean of the law school from 1993 to1998 and was a member of the faculty for another five years specializing in law, public policy and aging; taxation of gifts, estates and trusts; and estate planning.

Aba Employment Summary Class Of 2021, University Of Tennessee College Of Law

ABA Disclosures

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Legally Unhappy: How Us News And Law Schools Have Failed And How This Can Be Fixed, Christopher D. Iacono

Touro Law Review

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Inside-Out: Bringing Law Students Face-To-Face With Injustice, Romie Griesmer

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

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Uga Law School Names Rotunda After First Black Graduate, University Of Georgia School Of Law

Dean's Messages

The University of Georgia School of Law has named its iconic rotunda after its first Black graduate, Chester C. Davenport. A portrait of Davenport is being commissioned and will eventually hang in the space located at the main entrance to the law school.

Dean's Report, 2021, Peter B. Rutledge

Dean’s Reports

"In 2021, the University of Georgia School of Law remained committed to providing first-rate legal training to our students. Among our successes are:

• A 95+% Ultimate Bar Passage Rate
• #8 ranking for federal clerkships
• Continued recognition as one of the best returns on investment in legal education in the nation
• 100% of military veterans and first-generation college graduates currently enrolled receive scholarship aid
• Acknowledgement as the highest ranked Georgia law school in the most recent U.S. News rankings"

Did The Pandemic Change Legal Education For Better Or Worse?, Linda Jellum

Articles

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The Covid Crisis In Legal Education, Indiana University Bloomington. Center For Postsecondary Research

AALL Legal Website of the Month

Legal education has been challenged, and the LSSSE Annual Report reveals that while the core of legal education remains relatively unchanged, the “intangibles” of law school learning were certainly affected. Above all, the data show unequivocally that our students have been in crisis. Students have struggled to meet their basic needs, with troubling percentages reporting increased worries about housing, financial instability, and even food insecurity. While most made efforts to build relationships with faculty, staff, and classmates, their overall quality of life declined along with opportunities for academic engagement and professional development. The pandemic is a wake up call for …

Representation In Representation: How The Path To End Racial Injustice Begins With The Legal System, Kia Vernon

North Carolina Central Law Review

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Tradition And Change At The University Of Idaho College Of Law, Richard Henry Seamon

Articles

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Collective Wisdom: One Bit Of Advice, Gary Gildin, Jules Epstein, Robert Little, Kenneth S. Klein, Jim Roberts, Rachel Brockl, H. Scott Fingerhut, Ramona Albin, Charles H. Rose Iii, Kaelyn J. Romey, Catherine E. Stahl, John Singer, Marian Braccia, Elizabeth Lippy, Laura Rosed

Faculty Scholarly Works

Lawyers make mistakes. Read a transcript (your own or that of someone else) or a news media account, go to court and watch, or just learn about it when a colleague describes a trial—with insight and an acknowledgment of missteps or hubris and a peacock display of self-adjudged skill. They are mistakes of omission or commission, but they occur every day. The checklist movement—adapting the checklist model used by surgeons and airplane pilots—is a critical tool for error reduction and elimination and has its place in law.* But beyond granular details that must be checked and double-checked for a particular …

The Discounted Labor Of Bipoc Students And Faculty, Taleed El-Sabawi, Madison Fields

Faculty Publications

Black Law Students experienced a different COVID-19 pandemic than their majority counterparts due in part to the emotional and physical toll caused by the violent, public mistreatment of Black persons at the hands of law enforcement. While some law faculty at some institutions were proactive in identifying the struggles that their Black students were facing, most law faculty and administrators did nothing—prompting Black students to take time away from their studies to organize, draft letters, gather signatures, and have very uncomfortable conversations with university administrators and faculty about the need for change. Meanwhile, Black faculty and faculty of color, who …

A Model For Defunding: An Evidence-Based Statute For Behavioral Health Crisis Response, Taleed El-Sabawi, Jennifer J. Carroll

Faculty Publications

Too many Black persons and other persons of color are dying at the hands of law enforcement, leading many to call for the defunding of police. These deaths were directly caused by excessive use of force by police officers, but were also driven by upstream and institutional factors that include structural racism, institutional bias, and a historic culture of racialized violence. Public outcry against racial inequities has increased as the authority of police departments has expanded to include not only the authority to respond to and investigate criminal activity, but also to respond to calls regarding behavioral health issues and …

What I Learned About Teaching Law By Being An Art Student, Michael T. Colatrella

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

When was the last time you learned a skill? I’m not referring to the time your twelve-year-old daughter taught you how to use the latest social media platform. I mean when was the last time you learned to do something that takes months or years of concerted effort to reach a level of competence? A few years ago, I did just that. I learned to draw and paint. My goal was not to be a professional artist. My goal was to become competent in drawing and painting for pleasure. As with many of us, drawing and painting were parts of …

What We Do: The Life And Work Of The Legal Writing Professor, David I.C. Thomson

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

The life of the legal writing professor in today’s law schools is a challenging yet rewarding one. Out of necessity, over the last thirty years the pedagogy of legal writing has expanded to include much more than just writing skills—it has become every law student’s introduction to a broad set of basic lawyering skills and is more appropriately styled the Lawyering Process (LP). The increasing gravity and responsibility of the Lawyering Process course has led to expansion of credits given to the course and gradually to greater status and equity to the faculty who teach it, although most of us …

Becoming Global Lawyers? A Comparative Study Of Civic Professionalism, John Bliss

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

Through their professional education and training, new lawyers are generally encouraged to adopt a civic vision of professional identity. This article explores convergences and diverges in how new lawyers entering an increasingly globalized legal profession conceive of their civic roles in different national contexts. In particular, I examine corporate lawyers-in-training in the U.S. and China, drawing on interviews and a cross-cultural identity mapping method to compare their accounts of the lived experiences of civic professionalism. I find that professional identity formation in the U.S. sample is largely marked by role distancing and a sense of constrained public-interest expression. In contrast, …