The 2020 Distinguished Service Scroll Award Winners and the Young Alumni/Alumnae of Excellence Award will be presented at this event.
Registration information to follow.
This is a virtual event.
DSS Award Winners for 2020
The Honorable Valerie E. Caproni (J.D. '79)
B. Lynn Chastain (J.D. '84)
Santhia L. Curtis (J.D. '91)
Young Alumni/Alumnae of Excellence Award Recipient
Lt. Cmdr. Catherine T. (Katie) McMahon
Yale Law School's Cromwell Professor Stephen Carter will serve as the inaugural Judge Horace J. Johnson, Jr. Lecturer on Race, Law and Policy
"Behind Every Great Woman are Great Women"
Presented by Deborah Scott, Executive Director of Georgia STAND-UP, a "think and act tank" for working families, and Obama Administration 2012 "White House Champion of Change Awardee." An accomplished advocate of universal voting rights, economic inclusion, and progressive civic engagement, she is a master organizer, strategist, and highly skilled trainer.
Tom Syring is an expert in international refugee and migration law and policy, Chairman of the Oslo-based Human Rights Research League, and co-editor of Still Waiting for Tomorrow: The Law and Politics of Unresolved Refugee Crises."
Lunch will be offered. RSVP is encouraged but not required.
Alumna Tess Davis (J.D.'09), the Executive Director of The Antiquities Coalition, will be our guest.
Kevin Conboy (J.D.'79) - retired Partner with Paul Hastings - and Philip Ray (J.D.'78) - Principal, PhilRay-IDR in Nurnberg Area, Germany - will be our guests.
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?
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?
Various events will be scheduled throughout the week. See calendar entries.
Register at: https://gail.uga.edu/law/events/alumni-alumnae-week-2021