Courses Offered:

Copyright
Administrative Law
Civil Procedure
Remedies

Professional Biographical Information:

David E. Shipley joined the University of Georgia School of Law faculty as dean and professor of law in July 1998. He led the school through the completion of a strategic planning process; a $3.2 million renovation of several classrooms and the law library's Carl E. Sanders Reading Room; a school-wide technology upgrade; the creation of the director of advocacy position; the establishment of the Land Use Clinic; and the successful passage of an ABA site inspection. Also, under his leadership, there was a steady improvement of incoming student credentials. He resigned as dean in June 2003 to return to teaching full time as the Thomas R.R. Cobb Professor of Law.

Shipley has been teaching courses on civil procedure, copyright, administrative law and remedies since returning to the classroom. He also helped establish the law school's new semester abroad program at England's historic Oxford University. This program, administered jointly with Ohio State's law school, started in 2006. Shipley served as the program's professor in residence at Oxford in 2007, teaching international intellectual property and comparative administrative law to 20 law students from UGA and Ohio State.

Prior to coming to UGA, Shipley was dean and professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law (1993-98); dean, director of the Law Center and professor at the University of Mississippi School of Law (1990-93); and associate dean for administrative affairs and professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law (1989-90). He joined the faculty at the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1977 as a visiting assistant professor after practicing law with the firm Tillinghast, Collins & Graham for two years in Providence, R.I. In addition, he was a visiting professor at William & Mary in 1983-84 and at Ohio State in 1986-87.

Shipley is a co-author of the casebook Copyright Law: Cases and Materials (with Sheldon Halpern and Howard Abram, 1992) and two editions of a treatise and practice manual, South Carolina Administrative Law (2d ed., 1989). He also writes and speaks frequently on issues regarding copyright, intellectual property and legal education at seminars and conferences in Georgia and across the country.

Shipley is an active member of the American Bar Association and the Association of American Law Schools. He has also chaired and served on several ABA accreditation inspections.

Shipley earned his undergraduate degree in history with highest honors from Oberlin College and a law degree from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was executive editor of the University of Chicago Law Review.

Shipley enjoys working in his yard, trying to break 100 with consistency in golf, running, swimming and spending time with his family.