Courses Offered:

Labor Law
Employment Discrimination
Employment Law
Labor Arbitration
Comparative Labor Law

Professional Biographical Information:

Rebecca Hanner White, J. Alton Hosch Professor of Law, became the permanent dean of the School of Law on October 1, 2004, after serving as interim dean for 14 months. Previously, she served as associate provost and associate vice president of academic affairs for the University of Georgia. She specializes in the areas of labor law, employment discrimination, employment law and labor arbitration.

White's scholarship, cited by federal and state courts across the country, includes numerous articles on employment discrimination and labor law. In addition, she is a coauthor with Charles Sullivan and Michael Zimmer of Employment Discrimination (3rd ed., Aspen 2002) and Cases and Materials on Employment Discrimination (6th ed., 2003). White also serves on the editorial board of The Labor Law Journal.

In 2000, White received the Josiah Meigs Award, UGA's highest honor for teaching excellence. She has been selected by law graduates six times as the recipient of the Faculty Book Award for Excellence in Teaching and has also received the John C. O'Byrne Award for Contributions Furthering Student/Faculty Relations. She served as a UGA senior teaching fellow in 2000-01 and was inducted into UGA's elite new Teaching Academy. In 2002, she was selected as a senior faculty fellow for the university's Foundation Fellows program.

White earned an undergraduate degree from Eastern Kentucky University and graduated first in her class from the University of Kentucky College of Law, where she was editor-in-chief of the Kentucky Law Journal. She served as a judicial law clerk to Chief Judge George C. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, then practiced labor and employment law at the law firm of Dinsmore & Shohl in Cincinnati, Ohio, for seven years before beginning her teaching career at UGA.