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 as an assistant professor, where she 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 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

Her scholarly interests lie in corporate law, corporate governance and corporate legal history. She is the author of “The Seductive Comparison of Shareholder and Civic Democracy" in the Washington & Lee Law Review (forthcoming), "Let the Money Do the Governing” in the Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance, and “Race to the Stars: A Federalism Argument for Leaving the Right of Publicity in the Hands of the States” in the Virginia Law Review. Her article, "An Inconsistency in SEC Disclosure Requirements? The Case of the 'Insignificant' Private Target," co-authored with Michael Stegemoller, is forthcoming in the Journal of Corporate Finance.

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.