Courses Offered:

Civil Procedure
International Litigation
International Arbitration
International Business Transactions

Professional Biographical Information:

Peter Bowman "Bo" Rutledge joins Georgia Law in the fall of 2008 as an associate professor teaching courses in civil procedure, international litigation, international arbitration and international business transactions.  He comes to UGA from the Catholic University of America where he served as an associate professor and was selected on four different occasions as professor of the year.  Rutledge has also taught at the Washington University Law School and at the CUA Law Summer Program at the Jagellonian University in Poland.  Previously, he served as a judicial clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court and Chief Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.  He also worked as an associate at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (in Austria).  His teaching and research interests include international dispute resolution and criminal law.  Rutledge has co-authored the book International Civil Litigation in the United States, and he has written articles that have been published or are forthcoming in journals such as the Vanderbilt Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review and the Georgetown Law Journal.  Rutledge earned his B.A. in government, magna cum laude, from Harvard University, his M. Litt. in applied ethics from the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) and his J.D. with high honors from the University of Chicago.  At the University of Chicago, he served as executive editor of the University of Chicago Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif.