www.law.uga.edu

Anne Proffitt Dupre

J. Alton Hosch Professor of Law

B.A., University of Rhode Island
J.D., University of Georgia

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Courses

Contracts
Education Law
Children and the Law

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Biographical Information

Anne Proffitt Dupre joined the University of Georgia School of Law faculty in 1994 and teaches Education Law, Children and the Law and Contracts. In 2004, she became the fourth woman in Georgia Law history to be appointed to an endowed position. She currently occupies a J. Alton Hosch Professorship.

Nationally recognized as an expert in education law and policy, her scholarship includes: "The Story of Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier: Student Press and the School Censor" in Education Law Stories (Foundation Press); "The Spirit of Serrano: Past, Present, and Future" in the Journal of Education Finance; the casebook Children and the Law (2d ed. LexisNexis); "School Finance Litigation: Who's Winning the War" in the Vanderbilt Law Review; "Education Transformation: The Lesson from Argentina" in the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law; "A Study in Double Standards, Discipline and the Disabled Student" in the Washington Law Review; "Disability, Deference, and the Integrity of the Academic Enterprise" in the Georgia Law Review; and "Should Students Have Constitutional Rights? Keeping Order in the Public Schools" in the George Washington University Law Review. She has also authored Speaking Up: The Unintended Costs of Free Speech in Public Schools published by Harvard University Press in January 2009.

Dupre is a Senior Fellow for the UGA Institute of Higher Education. As part of her position with the institute, Dupre is the co-director of the Education Law Consortium, which she founded with Dr. John Dayton of the UGA College of Education. The consortium sponsors the National Student Education Law Conference where students from across the country compete to present papers to professors from UGA and other universities. The winning papers are published in the Education Law Forum, a web-based journal of law and education policy (the first of its kind).

Dupre's scholarship on education law generates many speaking opportunities both in the United States and throughout the world, and she has delivered papers and speeches on such issues as civility and academic freedom, student misconduct and school discipline, family and educational privacy, the First Amendment and public schools, and Title IX and sexual harassment.

As an International Fellow of the university, Dupre extended her research to Argentina, where she visited and studied the Argentine federal education law. She published an article based on her research, "Education Transformation: The Lesson from Argentina" in the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. She has been an active participant in the UGA Management Training Institute with Jilin University, a university in northern China. She was also part of the U.S. State Department Speaker Program at the University of Zagreb in Croatia, where she conducted a seminar on Ethics in Higher Education.

Dupre received the Blue Key Young Alumnus Award presented by UGA's Blue Key chapter in 2000. She has been honored by law students with the Faculty Book Award for Excellence in Teaching, which is now the C. Ronald Ellington Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the John C. O'Byrne Award for Significant Contributions Furthering Faculty-Student Relations. She has received several campus-wide honors, including the UGA Teaching Academy, UGA International Fellow and the UGA Lilly Teaching Fellowship. In May 2007, she was selected to be a UGA Senior Teaching Fellow.

Dupre served as judicial law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun following her clerkship with Judge J.L. Edmondson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. She practiced law with the Washington, D.C., firm of Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge before joining the law faculty.

Dupre earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Rhode Island and her law degree from UGA, where she graduated first in her class and served as editor in chief of the Georgia Law Review.

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