Reflecting on her year-long term as a Senator, Bogliotti stated:
It was an enriching experience that has significantly impacted my life and broadened my perspective. The opportunity to work with a diverse team of senators was invaluable. The diversity brought a wealth of ideas and skills to the table, which greatly enhanced the goals of the Senate. The senators’ resilience, warmth, and optimism were truly inspiring, as was the tangible impact of our work.
In her role at the Center, Torchia assists with integral Center tasks, including: drafting blog posts, conducting research on international programs at a national level, designing social media graphics assisting with event setup and cleanup, and promoting the law school’s international programs at university-wide events, including the fall 2023 Study Abroad Fair, shown above in the top left.
One of her nominators for the award, Sarah Quinn, director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center, shared the following:
“Not only does Tiffany conduct all of her responsibilities with exquisite attention to detail and professionalism, but she also takes the initiative to make things better. This comes from a place of deeply understanding and believing in the mission of our Center, and also being a caring, conscientious, and thoughtful person.
As a place on campus that welcomes many international students and visitors, having Tiffany as the face of our Center at the desk in our lobby has been an immeasurable asset. She is helpful, kind, empathetic, and patient with stressed-out students who are thousands of miles away from their homes and are engaged in demanding coursework, and she takes the time to greet and speak with everyone who walks through our Center doors as though she is greeting close friends. No matter if we have a consul general or a prospective student walking through our Center doors, I know that Tiffany’s will greet them AND leave them with a positive impression of our Center and the work that we do.“
Each spring, UGA coordinates a selection process and chooses the Student Employee of the Year to recognize the outstanding contributions and achievements of students. For more information about the annual award, please visit the UGA Career Center’s website.
Siefarth is currently a partner at the German law firm Bodenheimer. He took office as President after AtlAS’s plenary meeting at Smith, Gambrell & Russell in March. Siefarth has been active in AtlAS throughout its 14-year history.
Siefarth has significant experience in arbitration throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States. He has participated on many AtlAS conference panels over the years, and he also has led discussions at AtlAS’s plenary meetings, including in December 2022, where the topic was “U.S. Experience with DIS Arbitration.” Siefarth is licensed to practice law in Germany and New York.
AtlAS’ mission is to promote and enhance Atlanta as a place to resolve the world’s business disputes using international arbitration and mediation. The University of Georgia School of Law is a founding organization and hosts its annual lecture every three years. Both Dean & Talmadge Chair of Law Peter B. “Bo” Rutledge and director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center Sarah Quinn serve on the organization’s Board of Directors.
Forming the team at the competition were the three students: Cornelius Bulanov, Agostina Calamari, and Savelii Elizarov. Coaching the team was 2L Gloria María Correa, who completed her LL.M. in 2023 and is now in the J.D. program, as well as Georgia Law’s Dean, Peter B. “Bo” Rutledge, whose specialty is international arbitration. They were accompanied to the competition by Mandy Dixon, the International Professional Education Manager at the Dean Rusk International Law Center.
Each team participated in two rounds the first day, and the Georgia Law team advanced to the semifinals on the second day. The semifinals consisted of 6 teams, and Georgia Law was one of two that advanced to the final round. In the final round, they faced the University of Pittsburgh and finished as the runners up.
In reflecting on the biggest takeaway from the experience, Elizarov stated:
I believe that my participation in this competition provided me with invaluable experience in international arbitration. Of course, gaining knowledge and improving public speaking skills were significant takeaways, it was also crucially important to meet new people, including professionals with many years of experience in this field, as well as fellow students who are just beginning their journey in this area.
Bulanov discussed their continuation of Georgia Law’s excellence in advocacy teams:
It has been an incredible journey from a totally inexperienced moot team to a proud finalist. Furthermore, it was a very special feeling to be able to represent the law school in a competition. We are constantly informed about the great successes that the Georgia Law moot teams regularly celebrate. This was a special motivation to also successfully complete the competition. The fact that it worked out this way makes me proud.
Calamari reflected on the experience in terms of it being an opportunity to learn more about international arbitration:
[W]e had the chance to spend three days with some of the most renowned professionals in international commercial arbitration. We performed in front of them and received their feedback while measuring us against LL.M. peers from other universities. It was such a rewarding experience that also allowed me to experience and understand another niche for international lawyers here in the U.S.
Georgia Law’s Master of Laws (LL.M.) curriculum offers U.S. legal education to lawyers trained overseas. For more information about the curriculum, which is administered by the law school’s Dean Rusk International Law Center, is available here.
For over a decade, our international law initiatives have ranked in the top 20 or so among U.S. law schools. In this year’s rankings, our international law curriculum tied with Northwestern University (Pritzker) Law, University of California (Davis) Law, and Vanderbilt University for the No. 20 spot. (The University of Georgia School of Law, as a whole, earned a No. 20 ranking this year for the second year in a row, as is posted here.)
► Superb members of the law faculty, including: Dean Peter B. “Bo” Rutledge, an international arbitration expert; the Center’s Faculty Co-Directors, Professors Diane Marie Amann, an expert in peace-and-security fields including the laws of war, child rights, and international criminal justice, and Christopher M. Bruner, a comparative corporate governance scholar. Among those supporting their efforts are many other Georgia Law faculty and courtesy faculty members, including: Thomas Burch, who leads the Appellate Clinic that has won clients relief under the Convention Against Torture; Anne Burnett, foreign and international law research librarian; Jason Cade and Clare Norins, who recently led a clinical team in securing federal redress for immigration detainees; Nathan S. Chapman, a scholar of due process and extraterritoriality; Jessica L. Heywood, Director of the Washington, D.C. Semester in Practice; Thomas E. Kadri, whose expertise includes cybercrime and global data privacy; Elizabeth Weeks, a health law specialist; Jonathan Peters, a journalism and law professor expert in international media and free speech; Laura Phillips-Sawyer, an expert in antitrust law and policy; Kalyani Ramnath, a global legal historian who focuses on South Asia; Lori A. Ringhand, a scholar of comparative constitutional law and elections law; Tim Samples, whose scholarship includes global digital platforms agreements; Kent Barnett, Sonja West, and Elizabeth Chamblee Burch, who have presented overseas on administrative law, media law, and civil procedure, respectively; Adam D. Orford, an environmental and energy law scholar; Kristen E. Shepherd, who developed and teaches the Legal Spanish curriculum; Walter Hellerstein, a world-renowned tax specialist; and Michael L. Wells, a European Union scholar.
► Visiting Scholars and Researchers, including, Mine Turhan, an assistant professor of administrative law in the Faculty of Law at the Izmir University of Economics in Türkiye, and Daesun Kim, an attorney practicing law in Vietnam who specializes in cross-border M&A, foreign investment, and public-private partnerships.
► Graduates who excel as partners in international commercial law firms, as heads of nongovernmental organizations and international organizations, as in-house counsel at leading multinational enterprises, and as diplomats and public servants – and who give back through participation in our Dean Rusk International Law Center Council, through mentoring, speaking with students (like Kannan Rajarathinam, Eduardo Conghos, Alexander White, Ellen Clarke, and Clete Johnson), and through other support.
With thanks to all, we look forward to continuing to strengthen our initiatives in international, comparative, transnational, and foreign relations law – not least, in the preparation of Georgia Law students to practice in our globalized legal profession.
The Louis B. Sohn Professional Development Fellowship, awarded by the law school’s Dean Rusk International Law Center, supported the Bailey’s travel to the conference. Rahman was supported by a new scholarship, the Naresh Gehi Annual Award.
Reflecting on the most memorable panel discussions she attended during the conference, Bailey stated:
“I particularly enjoyed the panel titled ‘If Nature has Rights, Who Speaks on its Behalf?’ Tribal Attorney and Director of CDER’s Tribal Rights of Nature Program, Frank Bibeau, Senior Lecturer and ARC Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School, Dr. Erin O’Donnell, and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Anne Peters provided valuable perspectives and insightful commentary on the role of international lawyers in the protection of and advocacy for the legal rights of the environment. It was interesting to hear about the balance between environmental rights and sustainable development, as well as the recent developments around the world in establishing rights for rivers.“
Rahman explained how meaningful these types of experiences can be for law students, especially LL.M.s:
“In building a legal career in the U.S. market, and especially with the difficulty of being an international student, one must not stop learning and developing his expertise in their chosen field. This is a long continuous process To that end, it is very necessary to take advantage of opportunities like the ASIL Annual Meeting. Attending the meeting is also helpful for students with ambitions who want not just to see themselves working in big law firms, but working on a bigger platform from a variety of viewpoints.“
To read prior posts about Georgia Law students volunteering at the ASIL Annual Meeting, please click here, here, and here.
This year, 373 teams from 89 jurisdictions around the world competed in Austria. Alongside more than 2,500 students, the Georgia Law team competed for several days.
Reflecting on the last six months of Vis, Patrick shared,
“As a member of the Vis Moot team, I worked with my teammates to research, brief, and argue an international commercial arbitration case that reflected a real life issue. At the Vis competition in Vienna, we met and competed against teams from around the world who had all worked on the same case, which was such a unique experience. We were lucky to have the guidance, expertise, and support of Dean Rutledge. Overall, Vis exposed me to the global nature of commercial arbitration and gave me an increased appreciation of international law.“
To learn more about the Vis Moot team at Georgia Law, visit our website here.
Wilson-Wade and Vaughn attended the event with undergraduate and graduate students from across campus, including from the School of Public and International Affairs and from the Washington Semester program. Students were able to hear about Driehaus’ career and ask him questions about the relationship between domestic politics and international development.
Driehaus represented Ohio’s 1st Congressional District from 2008 to 2010. While in the House of Representatives, he focused on issues related to regional development, financial reform, and government accountability. Before serving in the U.S. House, Driehaus spent eight years in the Ohio Statehouse, including time as House Minority whip. He served for three years as Resident Senior Director in Iraq for the National Democratic Institute (NDI), a non-profit NGO that works around the world to safeguard democratic institutions. Driehaus is a founding member of the Good Government Group, a full-service public policy and public relations consulting firm. Additional work experience includes time as the Executive Director of Cincinnati Compass and Country Director for the United States Peace Corps in Morocco and Swaziland.
University of Georgia School of Law student Caden Pruitt, 2L, was selected as a recipient of the UGA Office of Global Engagement’s Asia-Georgia Internship Connection Scholarship to support his upcoming Global Externship Overseas (GEO) at KPMG Law in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Pruitt will be supervised at his externship by Georgia Law alumnus Binh Tran (J.D., ’11), Director at KPMG Law. In addition to the work he will complete as a legal extern, Pruitt will engage in a supervised research project with Professor Christopher M. Bruner, Stembler Family Distinguished Professor in Business Law & Faculty Co-Director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center.
Pruitt’s proposed research project will culminate in a note titled Vietnam: A guide to economic and legal developments,which will involve analyzing risks, opportunities, and the legal environment for foreign direct investors in Vietnam with consideration given to the interests of companies in Vietnam. The note will include three components: an analysis of the motivations for Foreign Direct Investments (“FDI”) in Vietnam, an analysis of the consumer market in Vietnam, and a proposal for contractual approaches to joint-value creation and mitigating risk. It will outline the legal framework for investments under Vietnamese law and will discuss contractual optimization for the resolution of disputes.
The OGE Asia-Georgia Internship Connection Scholarship funds academic, credit-bearing internships and students receiving academic credit for international research opportunities. Preference is given to students traveling to Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
This will be Pruitt’s second GEO; the summer of his first year at Georgia Law, he externed with Bodenheimer in Cologne, Germany, under the supervision of Georgia Law alumnus and Rusk Council member Dr. Christof Siefarth (LL.M., ’86).
In the article, Quinn discusses the Center’s focus on providing Georgia Law students with opportunities to globalize their legal education. She highlights the Center’s student-facing programming, including Global Governance Summer School, Global Externships Overseas, the NATO Externship, and semester-long exchanges with institutional partner O.P. Jindal Global University’s Jindal Global Law School. Explaining how the Center encourages all J.D. students to consider participating in these programs, Quinn states:
“We underscore to our students just how globalized the practice of law is— even [students] aspiring to work domestically can benefit from taking an international law course or gaining work experience abroad.”
Quinn provides information about the Center’s initiatives for foreign-educated law students and professionals, ranging from the 10-month Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree to the Visiting Researcher initiative. She notes that the Center’s events throughout the academic year, including the annual Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law conference, offer opportunities for participation, particularly from alumni/ae and from interested professionals.
The article can be accessed in its entirety here. Global Atlanta is one of the Center’s institutional partners.
Quinn was named the permanent director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center after leading the unit for seven months on an interim basis. Quinn, who joined the School of Law in 2019, previously served as the associate director for global practice preparation. She was instrumental in developing the school’s partnership with India’s Jindal Global University, establishing the Graduate Certificate in International Law and transitioning the Global Governance Summer School into a credit-bearing program. Prior to joining the law school, Quinn worked with the UGA Office of Global Engagement and the U.S. Peace Corps in addition to serving as a director for the American School Language Institute in Morocco. She earned her B.A., B.F.A. and M.I.P. from UGA and her ED.M. from Harvard University.