Courses Offered:

Law and Religion
Race and Law
Constitutional Law
Jurisprudence

Professional Biographical Information:

After almost 30 years of teaching at Georgia Law, Caldwell Professor in Constitutional Law Milner S. Ball retired in 2007.

Ball led courses in such fields as constitutional law, law and theology, Native American law, and jurisprudence. He was a proponent of the practice of public interest law and founded the school's Public Interest Practicum in 1992. An ordained Presbyterian minister, Ball first came to Athens as a campus minister in 1966 and graduated from Georgia Law in 1971, where he was editor in chief of the Georgia Law Review and graduated first in his class. He then taught at Rutgers-Camden before returning to Athens in 1978.

He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Called by Stories: Biblical Sagas and Their Challenge for Law (2000), The Word and The Law (1993) and Lying Down Together (1985). His articles have appeared in a variety of journals including the Stanford Law Review, the Harvard Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the Texas Law Review, the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, Studies in Law and Literature and the Cardozo Law Review. Ball was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Tubigen and a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Iceland. 

He holds degrees from Princeton (1958, bachelor's), Harvard (1961, divinity) and Georgia (1971, law). He is married to the artist June Ball.