Georgia Law

Become part of a 43-year tradition: Georgia Law Master of Laws (LLM)

2016Brochure_TNIn 1973, Edward de Jaegher of Brussels, Belgium, became the first foreign-trained lawyer to earn a Master of Laws, or LLM, degree at the University of Georgia School of Law.

The tradition launched 43 years ago today. Even as our current students complete their final semester of study, we continue to build next year’s LLM student body. We welcome inquiries and applications for the Class of 2017; details here.

Members of that class will join an alumni/ae base of more than 400 Georgia Law LLMs, who have ties to 75 countries, on every continent in the world. They include judges and law firm partners, leaders in governments and in intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, heads of corporate legal departments, and university professors. Here’s just two:

► Oksana G. Wright (LLM’05; 1st law degree from St. Petersburg State University, Russia). Now an Associate at Fox Rothschild LLP in New York City, Oksana writes:

The International and Comparative Law program at UGA was my first exposure to U.S. law and the first stepping-stone of my legal career in the United States. At UGA, I received an opportunity to learn from top professors and fellow practitioners from all over the world. They contributed different views, perspectives, and experience to our discussions of relevant legal topics. This invaluable experience provided me with a competitive edge in my future legal career in New York where I deal with various international legal issues and work with individuals from different countries and backgrounds.

ObeidatOmar_jul15► Omar Obeidat (LLM’97; 1st law degree from Yarmouk University in Jordan). A Partner and the Head of Intellectual Property at Al Tamimi & Co. Advocates & Legal Consultants in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Omar writes:

I was fortunate to join the LLM program at UGA and was especially fortunate to have learned from distinguished professors particularly on intellectual property and copyright. Although I stayed for a short period at Georgia of little over 10 months, it is a period that stuck very well in my memory as a period filled with making good friends and enjoyable learning experience in a beautiful campus and well respected school of law.

Click here to join this tradition of excellence in international professional education.

Live at Leuven

News of the newest Dean Rusk International Law Center partnership, the Global Governance School, is now live at the website of our partner, the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, University of Leuven, Belgium. The site mirrors our own details on this intensive 3-week, 4-ABA-credits-eligible initiative, and also offers information on our great university city location.

We partners look forward to welcoming students in law and other fields, from the United States, Europe, and around the world, to this very special study abroad.

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Georgia Law’s 40-plus-year-old international law review taps board

gjiclDelighted to announce the new managing board of the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, a student-edited review established in 1971 with the support of our Center’s namesake, then-professor Dean Rusk.

Published 3 times a year, GJICL features editions stemming from symposia –  like the recent one on children and international criminal justice – as well as single articles by international law professors, practitioners, and students.

Here’s the just-named leadership for the 2016-17 academic year:

Executive Board

Editor-in-Chief: Gregory W. Donaldson
Executive Managing Editor: Micah David Smith
Senior Managing Editor: Carson E. Masters
Executive Articles Editor: Andrew Zachery Ryan Smith
Senior Articles Editor: Jennifer Joyce Cross
Executive Notes Editor: Caitlin V. Hill
Senior Notes Editor: Brooke E. Hrouda
Executive Editors: Katherine L. Ekstrand and Louis Joe Potente
Executive Conference Editor: Jason T. Vuchinich

Managing Board

Articles Editors
Harold J. Bacon III, Kadan B. Canfield, Janis Katina Dabbs, Bradley Daniel Dumbacher, Faith A. Khalik, Alec Lawrence Manzer, Blake A. McLemore, Charmaine Amy Mech, Chloe L. Owens, and Olivia M. Scofield

Notes Editors
Robin Danielle Burnette, Mark D. Christopher, Kassidy Lenora Dean, Hayes Michael Dever Jr., Fabian J. Goffe, Gregory D. Mark, Edward Graham Newsome, and Calvin A. Webb

Submissions Editors
Reed Lofton Bennett, Thomas A. Giannotti, Morgan Melodie Johnson, Lee A. Mangum, Adam C. Smith, Christopher D. Stokes, and David R. Waldrep

Conference Editors
Elliot C. Kim and Brittany Marie Partridge

Congratulations to all!

Cutting-edge law: Georgia-Leuven Global Governance Summer School

For students everywhere, we are delighted to announce a new opportunity to global study law and policy:

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Applications are welcome for a brand-new Global Governance Summer School (GGSS), spanning 3 weeks at the University of Leuven, located just minutes from Belgium’s main airport. Students in law and related disciplines, from the United States, Europe, and across the globe, are welcome to enroll. All students will receive a certificate, and U.S. law students also may earn 4 American Bar Association-approved credits.

GGSS launches a new partnership between the Dean Rusk International Law Center, University of Georgia School of Law – which has sponsored summer study abroad in Belgium since 1973 – and the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies at the University of Leuven, one of Belgium’s premier research institutions.

Cutting-edge issues will be explored July 10-30, 2016, through 4 courses, all taught in English by leading experts in regional, transnational, and international law and policy:

wouters_jan► Global Governance Overview: GGSS Co-Director Jan Wouters (left), Jean Monnet Chair ad personam EU and Global Governance, Director of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies

► Global Human Rights & Security Governance: GGSS Co-Director Diane Marie Amann (right), Associate Dean for International Programs & Strategic Initiatives and Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law, Dean Rusk International Law Center, University of Georgia School of LawcropCohen_harlan_columns2012

► Global Economic Governance: Harlan Grant Cohen (left), Associate Professor of Law, University of Georgia School of Law, and Managing Editor, AJIL Unboundaxel

► Global Governance Practicum: Dr. Axel Marx (left), Deputy Director, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, and Kathleen A. Doty (below right), Associate Director for Global Practice Preparation, Dean Rusk International Law Center, University of kate - CopyGeorgia School of Law

Pivotal to GGSS is a 2-day experts conference to be held at Leuven’s campus in the center of Brussels, capital of Belgium and numerous European Union agencies.

Also supplementing formal study will be professional development trips to the headquarters of the North
europarl_bruxAtlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Parliament (left) in Brussels, as well as the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. Rounding out the GGSS offerings will be an optional trip to Flanders Fields, formerly a site of battle and now the resting place of many World War I combatants of all nationalities.

Deadline for applications is Monday, April 4, 2016. Details here; U.S.-based students, apply here. All others, including U.S.-based students seeking more information, should contact Kathleen A. Doty, doty[at]uga[dot]edu.

“Adventures in International Legal Research” this Monday

UGA_Law_LibraryWEB3 “Crossing Borders: Adventures in International Legal Research,” is the topic of a workshop that Anne Burnett, foreign and international law librarian at Georgia Law’s Alexander Campbell King Library, will present this Monday, February 29, from 12:30-1:20 p.m. in Hirsch Hall Room H.

The Dean Rusk International Law Center will host this international legal research workshop, which will provide an overview of the resources and processes for researching international law topics. It’s appropriate for students of all class years and legal-research-experience levels. Brown bag lunches are welcome.

Questions? Email Kathleen A. Doty, the Center’s Associate Director for Global Practice Preparation, doty[at]uga[dot]edu.

Exchange of Notes débuts

We at the Dean Rusk International Law Center are very pleased to announce the début of Exchange of Notes.

With this web platform, we look forward to giving news of events and initiatives at the Center, which has served since 1977 as the nucleus for global research, education, and service at the University of Georgia School of Law.

Exchange of Notes also will provide brief accounts – drafted by our community of faculty, staff, and students – of developments in international law, research, and policy.

Picture1As international lawyers well know, “exchange of notes / échanges des notes” refers to a series of documents, signed by diplomats or similar high-ranking officials, by which countries may enter into agreements. (image credit) The term bears special meaning for us, given that our namesake is former Georgia Law Professor Dean Rusk, whose role in the Cabinets of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson ranks him as the 2d-longest serving Secretary of State.

We look forward to our own long run.