Our international, comparative, and transnational law scholars include:

Peter B. "Bo" Rutledge 

Georgia Law Dean and holder of the Herman E. Talmage Chair of Law. An expert in international arbitration, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Vienna, and is the co-author of International Civil Litigation in United States Courts.

Diane Marie Amann

Regents' Professor of International Law, the Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law, and a Faculty Co-Director of our Dean Rusk International Law Center. An expert in public international law, with emphases in criminal justice and human, national, and collective security, she served from 2012-2021 as International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda's Special Adviser on Children in & affected by Armed Conflict.

Harlan G. Cohen

Gabriel M. Wilner/UGA Foundation Professor in International Law and a Faculty Co-Director of our Dean Rusk International Law Center. He is a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law, and his expertise includes global governance, foreign relations law, human rights, and international trade.

Christopher Bruner

Stembler Family Distinguished Professor in Business Law, whose scholarship focuses on corporate, securities, and financial law, including international and comparative dimensions of these fields. His most recent book is Re-Imagining Offshore Finance: Market-Dominant Jurisdictions in a Globalizing Financial World.

Jason A. Cade

A prolific immigration law scholar, who serves as Associate Dean for Clinical Programs and Experiential Learning, J. Alton Hosch Associate Professor of Law, and Director of the University of Georgia School of Law Community Health Law Partnership Clinic.

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Lori A. Ringhand

J. Alton Hosch Professor of Law and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, who served as the Interim Director of the Dean International Law Center from 2020 to 2021. In 2019, she received a Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award to serve as a visiting professor at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, where she explored different approaches to campaign finance regulation taken by the United States and the United Kingdom.

Michael L. Wells 

Marion and W. Colquitt Carter Chair in Tort and Insurance Law, whose teaching and scholarship includes examination of European Union law, often in comparison with laws in the United States.