Second-year student Madison Graham recently shared her thoughts on finishing an externship in Norfolk, Virginia, in the legal department of HQ SACT, a leading unit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This externship forms part of the School of Law’s D.C. Semester in Practice initiative in partnership with NATO Allied Command Transformation.
Congratulations to 2024 graduate Megan K. Cherry for her selection for the Equal Justice Works Regional Public Interest Award for the Gulf Region. Recipients were chosen for "their exemplary commitment to public interest law and pro bono work" with each student being recognized for "providing outstanding service through clinics, volunteer work, internships, extracurricular projects, and other initiatives."
During April, Assistant Dean for Career Development Tony Waller completed his tenure as the president of NALP (the National Association for Law Placement), an international association of over 3,000 legal career professionals who advise law students, lawyers, law offices and law schools. Of note, he is the first person from the state of Georgia to serve in this leadership capacity in over 20 years.
The School of Law is pleased to share that a scholarship fund named in memory of civil rights attorney and alumnus Robert E. “Robbie” Robinson has been endowed. The Robinson Endowment will now be able to permanently honor the late legal leader by assisting those who come from rural or legally underserved communities in Georgia, have a desire to serve those communities and/or plan to pursue public interest work in service to our state.
Thirteen law students are studying abroad this summer as part the Dean Rusk International Law Center's Global Governance Summer School. The focus of this year's for-credit program, operated in partnership with KU Leuven's Leuven Centre for Global Governance, is comparative administrative law. Studies will take place in both Belgium and the Netherlands with briefings scheduled at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, the Permanent Court of Arbitration, private law firms and NGOs.