The University of Georgia School of Law honored four individuals for their service during the school’s recent Awards Dinner at the State Botanical Gardens of Georgia. Law school graduates Nancy E. Rafuse, Gregory L. “Greg” Roseboro and Marlan Wilbanks received the law school alumni/alumnae association’s highest honor – the Distinguished Service Scroll Award – for their outstanding dedication and service to the legal profession and the law school. Additionally, David Dove was presented with the Young Alumni/Alumnae of Excellence Award.
Congratulations to LL.M. students Alexandra F. “Lexa” Lampe, John A. Omotunde and Tatyana Popovkina, who won the tenth LL.M. International Commercial & Investment Arbitration Moot Competition hosted by American University. The team was coached by Dean Peter B. “Bo” Rutledge and LL.M. student Gloria María Correa. Additionally, LL.M. student Olha Kaliuzhna was named the competition’s best oralist and Lampe was selected as an honorable mention. According to American University, this event, created specifically for LL.M. students, fosters the study of international arbitration for the resolution of international business and investment disputes.
Congratulations to the School of Law's American Constitution Society student group for being named Student Chapter of the Week by its national organization for the week of March 20. The law school's chapter been very active during the 2022-23 academic year. Covering a range of topics, planned events have addressed voting rights, reproductive justice, prisoners’ rights, environmental justice, the Witness to Innocence Project, demystifying the law school experience, National Farmworkers Awareness Week, Transgender Day of Visibility and gun control, among other subjects.
The School of Law is pleased to share news of five scholarship funds that are being established through gifts from individual donors and a partnership with the University of Georgia Foundation. These contributions are helping the School of Law school to redefine what it means to be a great national public law school by offering a world-class, hands-on, purpose-driven educational experience while never surrendering its commitment to accessibility and affordability.
Assistant Professor Adam D. Orford provides insight into U.S. Supreme Court case Arizona v. Navajo Nation. Orford says the chief legal question is: Whether tribal water rights the Supreme Court has previously found to be implied by tribal treaties (“Winters” rights) are enforceable in a suit for breach of trust given prior Supreme Court precedent indicating such enforcement requires a right expressly accepted by the U.S.