Staff Events

California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu will deliver the 119th John A. Sibley Lecture titled "Who's Going to Law School? Trends in Law School Enrollment Since the Great Recession."

Lui joined California's highest court in 2011. Previously, he was an associate dean and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law specializing in constitutional law, education law and policy, and diversity in the legal profession.

Liu continues to teach constitutional law as a visiting professor at both Harvard and Stanford universities.

Professor Monica Hakimi of the University of Michigan Law School will present "Making Sense of Customary International Law" as part of the International Law Colloquium Series.

Are you interested in elections? Do you care about democracy? UGA Law's American Constitution Society (ACS) invites you to volunteer as a poll monitor to protect the right to vote during the 2020 elections!

Every voter deserves to vote without fear or unfair barriers- that's the cornerstone of our democracy. Become a trained nonpartisan volunteer to be the first line of defense against extremely long lines, broken voting machines, and outright acts of intimidation.

When private companies perform governmental functions and governments own companies, which acts should be attributed to the state? Which should be attributed to the corporation? And whose religious beliefs, speech rights, and moral standing can those entities claim?

You are invited to the first One Read event of the semester, our One Read Book Talk on "We Shall Not Be Moved: The Desegregation of the University of Georgia by Robert A. Pratt" Wednesday evening, September 30, from 7-8pm on Zoom.

This conference will address three crucial questions of global health governance. It will consider, first, whether and how the ailing global public health infrastructure might be reinvigorated; second, how the pandemic has threatened and exposed limitations of the social safety net in the United States and other economies around the world; and, finally, the phenomenon of vaccine refusal and what national and international legal institutions might do to curb it.