Courses Offered:

Civil Procedure I
Civil Procedure II
Legal Profession
Conflict of Laws

Professional Biographical Information:

Lonnie T. Brown, Jr., joined the faculty of the University of Georgia School of Law in the fall of 2002 and teaches courses in civil procedure, legal profession and conflict of laws.

His recent scholarship includes: "Representing Saddam Hussein: The Importance of Being Ramsey Clark" in the Georgia Law Review (forthcoming, 2007), "Ramsey Clark" in the Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law (forthcoming, 2007), "'Lawyers' not 'Liars': A Modified Traditionalist Approach to Teaching Legal Ethics" in the Saint Louis University Law Journal (2007) and "Reconsidering the Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege: A Response to the Compelled-Voluntary Waiver Paradox" in the Hofstra Law Review (2006). He is currently continuing his biographical research regarding former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark and is working on a piece that examines the problems created by existing choice of law rules in the context of reciprocal disciplinary actions against attorneys.

Prior to joining UGA, Brown was an assistant professor at the University of Illinois College of Law and served as a visiting assistant professor at Vanderbilt University. In addition, he taught at Emory University as an adjunct professor. He served as a law clerk for Judge William C. O'Kelley of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. From 1991 to 1999, he practiced law as an associate and a partner at Alston & Bird in Atlanta, GA.

Brown was appointed by the Supreme Court of Georgia in 2004 to a three-year term as a member of the Review Panel of the State Disciplinary Board for the State Bar of Georgia and has served as the vice chair of that body for the past year. In addition, he has served on the Executive Committee for the Professional Responsibility Section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) and is currently a member of the AALS Committee on Bar Admission and Lawyer Performance as well as a member of the American Bar Association's Center for Professional Responsibility. He is also a master in the Joseph Henry Lumpkin Inn of Court.

In 2007, Brown was the recipient of the inaugural C. Ronald Ellington Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Student Bar Association's Faculty Book Award for Excellence in Teaching. In both 2005 and 2006, he received the Student Bar Association's Professionalism Award.

Brown earned his Juris Doctor from Vanderbilt University, where he was a Patrick Wilson Scholar and editor in chief of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. He earned his bachelor's degree from Emory University. At Emory, Brown was a Robert W. Woodruff Scholar, student body president and recipient of the Marion Luther Brittain Award.

He and his wife, Kim, have two daughters, Sophie and Olivia.