The University of Georgia School of Law has won the 2023 Law School Legal Food Frenzy. This is the second time the School of Law has won this contest championed by Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr. UGA Law students, faculty/staff, graduates and supporters raised $10,064 for the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia. This equates to 40,246 meals for vulnerable individuals in Athens and its surrounding communities.
Congratulations to second-year students Anna E. Von Spakovsky and Sara M. Young for finishing the Magnolia Cup competition as finalists. A second UGA team comprised of second-year students Zoe K. Taylor and Katie F. Wooten were named semifinalists. Hosted by the University of Mississippi School of Law, the Magnolia Cup is an annual negotiation competition that involves "a deal-terms problem and allows competitors to show off their negotiation and transactional law capabilities."
The Dean Rusk International Law Center is pleased to welcome two visiting research scholars. Maisie Hopkins is a Ph.D. candidate at the Utrecht University School of Governance in the Netherlands and is working on a project titled “Complex Global Regulation and Corporate Crime.” Daesun Kim is undertaking comparative administrative law research relating to Vietnam (where he is a practicing attorney) and the United States and examines public-private partnership projects during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Become comfortable being uncomfortable. The Honorable Verda M. Colvin, a Georgia Supreme Court justice and UGA School of Law alumna, shared the value in that statement during UGA's 2023 Holmes-Hunter Lecture. “We all must consciously decide to become comfortable being uncomfortable and engage with one another regardless of racial or cultural differences,” she said. Named in honor of Hamilton Holmes Sr. and Charlayne Hunter-Gault, the first African American students to attend UGA, the lecture is sponsored by the Office of the President and focuses on race relations, civil rights and education.
The Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation Clinic – which is the first of its kind in the nation – offers an overview for decriminalizing child sex trafficking victims, with a focus on the state of Georgia. In a policy brief titled "Child Sex Trafficking and Enhancing Georgia Responses," the clinic relates how common misunderstandings about the realities of child sex trafficking prevent the identification of victims, resulting in survivors being treated more like adult criminals than child victims.