Courses Offered:

Non-Public Business Associations
Contracts II
Business Planning

Professional Biographical Information:

Usha Rodrigues joined the University of Georgia School of Law in the fall of 2005 and leads courses in contracts, business planning and business associations.

Prior to becoming a Georgia Law faculty member, Rodrigues was a corporate associate with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Reston, Va., where she specialized in corporate law and technology transactions. She also served as a judicial law clerk to Judge Thomas L. Ambro of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.

Her scholarly interests lie in corporate law, corporate governance and corporate legal history. She is the author of "From Loyalty to Conflict: Addressing Fiduciary Duty at the Officer Level" in the Florida Law Review, "The Fetishization of Independence" in the Journal of Corporation Law, "The Seductive Comparison of Shareholder and Civic Democracy" in the Washington & Lee Law Review and "Let the Money Do the Governing" in the Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance. Her article "Placebo Ethics" is forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review. She is also now blogging at the Conglomerate and has been named the reporter for the American Bar Association's Special Joint Task Force on the Impact of the Troubled Asset Relief Program on Corporate Governance.

Rodrigues earned her bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Georgetown University, her master's degree in comparative literature summa cum laude from the University of Wisconsin and her Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia, where she served as editor in chief of the Virginia Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif.