Laurie Ann Taylor

Laurie Ann Taylor joined the School of Law in 2026 as a lecturer teaching legal writing.

Before coming to UGA, she was an associate and then counsel at Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, where she worked on a variety of complex litigation matters, including a products liability case that resulted in what was then the largest verdict in Georgia history. She also worked as an attorney advisor at the U.S. Copyright Office in Washington, D.C., drawing on her background as a professional musician. While at the Copyright Office, she researched and drafted sections of the office’s advisory reports on artificial intelligence, advised other government agencies on important copyright cases pending before federal courts such as the U.S. Supreme Court, and collaborated with stakeholders from a variety of industries to draft and revise regulations issued under the Copyright Act. 

Taylor served as a judicial clerk for Judge Cormac J. Carney of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and as a law student intern for Judge Timothy C. Batten Sr. of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.  

She earned her Bachelor of Arts with highest honors from Emory University, majoring in music and minoring in religion and Italian studies, and earned a Master of Music in voice performance from the University of Michigan. She received her Juris Doctor cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she served as the editor-in-chief of the Harvard Negotiation Law Review and symposium chair of the Harvard Journal of Legislation and worked as a student attorney in the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program’s Dispute Systems Design Clinic.

Her teaching experience includes multiple fellowships held at Harvard University while attending law school. She was the head teaching fellow for Harvard Law School’s CopyrightX course designed by Professor Terry Fisher and has taught the course multiple times to individuals with no legal background working in creative fields, international lawyers and scholars, and legal librarians. She has also enjoyed working with undergraduate students as the head teaching fellow for Professor Daniel Shapiro’s course at Harvard College titled “Conflict Resolution in a Divided World.” For her teaching contributions, Taylor twice earned the Harvard Certificate of Distinction in Teaching.

Outside of UGA, Taylor is passionate about advancing cancer research and helping patients and caregivers navigate their medical care as a volunteer with the Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation. She continues to enjoy opera, musical theater, choirs and other great music and welcomes robust discussion of good dogs.