Georgia Law students recently captured all of the top positions at the Intrastate Moot Court Competition, which pits two teams from each of the state’s five law schools against each other. This is the eighth consecutive year Georgia Law has won this tournament and the 10th its students have authored the best brief. Additionally, Georgia Law won the Best Brief Award at the American Bar Association Law Student Division National Appellate Advocacy Competition and finished the contest among the top 16 teams nationally. They also finished as quarterfinalists at the Second Annual South Texas Mock Trial Challenge and among the top eight at the Dean Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Moot Court Competition
Adjunct Professor Charles H. Kuck was quoted in the Athens Banner-Herald regarding legislation that could deny teaching English to unauthorized migrants. The article was written by Andre Gallant and appeared on 4/14/13.
Second-year law student Kaitlin M. Ball was elected president of the International Law Students Association. In this role, she will be the chief student officer of ILSA, which is a worldwide organization dedicated to educating students and lawyers across the globe on the importance of international law through academic conferences, publications, student chapters and the administration of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.
Assistant Professor Mehrsa Baradaran has published "How the Poor Got Cut Out of Banking" in 62 Emory Law Journal 483 (2013).
Director of the Law Library Carol A. Watson, Student Services Librarian Maureen Cahill and Acquisitions Librarian Wendy Moore presented "Innovative Library Tech: Practices & Services" at the 28th Annual Computers in Libraries conference in Washington, D.C., during April.
Learn more about Georgia Law and the prominent Georgians who once graced the school's hallways by viewing oral histories that have been recorded.
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