Courses Offered:

Constitutional Law
Election Law
State and Local Government

Professional Biographical Information:

Lori A. Ringhand joins Georgia Law in the fall of 2008 as an associate professor teaching courses in constitutional law, election law, and state and local government.  Ringhand comes to UGA from the University of Kentucky College of Law where she was an associate professor and her research focuses on empirical work regarding the voting patterns and practices of U.S. Supreme Court justices.  Her work has been published or is forthcoming in journals such as the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Constitutional Commentary, the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law and the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies.  She has also served as a visiting scholar at the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law.  Additionally, Ringhand received a grant from the University of Kentucky to create a database capturing statements made by Supreme Court nominees at their Senate confirmations hearings.  Ringhand earned her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Wisconsin, where she graduated second in her class and served on the Wisconsin Law Review.  Additionally, she obtained a B.C.L., with distinction, in European comparative law from Oxford University.