Georgia Law Cobb Professor David E. Shipley will succeed UGA Vice President for Instruction Jere W. Morehead as faculty athletics representative effective July 1, 2010. The faculty athletics representative, a position required under NCAA bylaws, is responsible for assuring academic compliance with NCAA regulations and academic success for student athletes.
Georgia Law graduating classes celebrating an anniversary reunion will have a candlelight dinner Nov. 6 from 6:30-9 p.m. on the North Campus quadrangle. The next day, a barbeque will be held for alumni, faculty, staff and students on the quad beginning two and a half hours before kickoff. For registration and information, see www.law.uga.edu/upcoming-events
University of Utah Professor of Law Amos N. Guiora will deliver a lecture titled "Morality in Armed Conflict: Dilemma of the Decision Maker in Operational Counterterrorism" on Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 12:30 p.m. The lecture is presented by Georgia Law's Dean Rusk Center in coordination with the Consulate General of Israel to the Southeast. It will take place in the Larry Walker Room of Dean Rusk Hall, located on North Campus.
University of Virginia Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law Frederick Schauer will deliver Georgia Law's 105th Sibley Lecture. Schauer's lecture is titled "When and How (If at All) Does Law Constrain Official Action?" and will take place Wednesday, Oct. 28, at 4:30 p.m. in the Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom. The event is free and open to the public.
Georgia Law was recently included in a listing of "Best Value Law Schools" by The National Jurist. The ranking placed the law school at 16th and appeared in the September edition of the magazine