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A Reputation for Excellence
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Highly Regarded Consistently considered as one of the nation's leading law schools.
Collegial Environment Supportive student body led by faculty scholars who are also committed teachers.
Impressive Faculty Includes authors of some of our country's leading legal
scholarship, recipients of UGA's highest
award for teaching excellence,
Fulbright scholars, a Pulitzer Prize winner, former law clerks to the U.S. Supreme Court and
other federal courts, and former editors in chief of law reviews as well as former trial and
corporate attorneys.
Talented Student Body
Among the most selective public law schools in the nation, with LSATs of
entering students near the top 10 percent of test takers nationwide and outstanding undergraduate GPAs.
Affordable Legal Education Tuition costs continue to be among the lowest in the nation.
Comprehensive Curriculum
- International education and employment programs.
- Nine civil and criminal service learning programs for hands-on experience and community service.
Job Market Success Virtually every graduate employed within nine months of graduation.
Accomplished Advocacy Programs
- Four national titles, 11 regional crowns and four state trophies in the last five years.
- National Moot Court Competition -- two national
championships and 24 regional trophies.
- Jessup
International Law Moot Court Competition -- four national titles and one world crown.
- Association
of Trial Lawyers of America (now the American Association for Justice)
Mock Trial Competition -- one national championship and five regional
titles.
Acclaimed Legal Journals Three, frequently cited.
Superior Law Library Ranked 18th
in print title holdings, more than 519,000 volumes, state-of-the-art technology.
Exceptional Quality of Life Active and affordable, an excellent place to study law.
Outstanding Facilities Centralized complex includes a $1 million renovation in 2006.
Distinguished Alumni To
date, Georgia Law graduates include 11 governors, more than 35 U.S. and
state senators and representatives as well as scores of distinguished
federal and state judges, prominent attorneys and corporate leaders.
Alumni have simultaneously led all three branches of state government -
executive, judicial and legislative - twice in Georgia’s history, most
recently in 2002.
Counting the October 2007 term, Georgia Law graduates have served
our nation's highest court as judicial clerks for three consecutive
years, placing Georgia Law among the top five public law schools in the
nation for supplying clerks to the U.S. Supreme Court since 2000.
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