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Digital Commons @ Georgia Law Dean’s Report Archives 1-1-2013 Dean's Report, 2013 Rebecca White University of Georgia School of Law, [email protected] Recommended Citation White, Rebecca, "Dean's Report, 2013" (2013). Dean’s Report. 1. https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/dean_report/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives at Digital Commons @ Georgia Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dean’s Report by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Georgia Law. Please share how you have benefited from this access For more information, please contact [email protected]. Dean’s Report 2013 Dear Alumni and Friends, Each year, I welcome the opportunity to prepare this annual Dean’s Report as it allows me to reflect on the activities of the previous 12 months. Having just completed This past summer, phase three of our multiyear, my 10th year as the multimillion dollar renovation process was completed. dean of the University This most recent construction involved updating the of Georgia School hallways on the second and third floors to aesthetically Dean Rebecca Hanner White of Law, I continue link with the work previously completed on the first to find the loyalty floor, the Rotunda and the northern end of the law and affection demonstrated by you, our alumni and school’s primary building. If you have not been to friends, to be inspiring. Relying upon the talents of our campus recently, I encourage you to come and see this dedicated faculty and staff as well as our intelligent renovation for yourself. The law school’s main building and engaging students, the school has accomplished is now simply stunning. It still has that familiar feel, but many goals and has seized many opportunities. It has the look is brighter and more open. also faced challenges; however, I want you to know that Much of the work completed over the past three years your law school is thriving, and our future is bright. was designed with our students in mind, and these As you may be aware, one of our changes have helped to repurpose underutilized areas own now leads our university. On and to address overcrowding. Approximately 4,000 July 1, Jere W. Morehead (J.D.’80) square feet of building space was “captured,” the assumed the helm of UGA, after Sutherland Courtyard was transformed into a beautiful being unanimously selected by and useable space, and several study/interview rooms the University System of Georgia were created in addition to new student organization Board of Regents earlier in the offices. Last fall, the second floor foyer, near the year. I am confident President Alexander Campbell King Law Library main entrance, UGA President Jere Morehead (J.D.’80) Morehead will lead our state’s flagship institution of higher education to new heights, and I take great comfort in the fact that he understands and appreciates the value of our law school and the role it plays within the greater university. He has said one of the most important things he can do as president is to keep the university focused on being the strongest academic institution that it can possibly be. I know you join me in Last fall, the law school’s second floor foyer, near the Alexander wishing him well and desiring nothing but the best for Campbell King Law Library main entrance, was named in honor of UGA and our law school. Kathelen Amos (J.D.’82). The 2012–2013 University of Georgia School of Law Annual Report 1 Dean’s Report 2013 was named in honor of Kathelen V. Amos (J.D.’82) in Christina Mulligan, who recognition of a leadership gift made to the law school specializes in intellectual property to assist with these physical improvements. I want to and the relationship between law thank Kathelen and her husband, Dan, for their support and technology, previously served as well as the many others of you who helped make as a postdoctoral associate and these renovations possible. Considering the fact that lecturer for the Information much of the school’s primary building had not been Society Project at Yale Law updated since the late 1960s, this remodeling was well School. Additionally, she was a overdue. Again, I encourage you to come and see for staff attorney at the Institute for yourself the remarkable physical transformation that Assistant Professor Justice and served as a judicial Christina Mulligan has taken place at your law school. clerk for Judge Charles F. Lettow of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Christina earned On the faculty front, this fall we welcomed three new her bachelor’s degree cum laude and her law degree assistant professors who came to Athens after holding cum laude from Harvard University, where she served positions at three of our nation’s top law schools—Yale as a production and an article editor for the Harvard University, Stanford University and New York University. Journal of Law & Technology. Jason A. Cade, who is teaching I am pleased to share with Immigration Law and will lead the you that Lonnie T. Brown law school’s newest experiential Jr. is now serving as the law learning program—the Medical- school’s associate dean for Legal Partnership Clinic—joins academic affairs. (A post he us from NYU, where he taught assumed after the retirement of and assisted with the school’s Associate Dean and Professor Immigration Rights Clinic. Emeritus Paul M. Kurtz on June Previously, he practiced in small Assistant Professor 30.) Lonnie brings academic Associate Dean for Jason Cade firm and nonprofit settings as administrative experience to this well as clerked for Magistrate Academic Affairs Lonnie Brown role as he served as the inaugural Judge Steven M. Gold of the U.S. District Court for the Administrative Fellow in UGA’s Eastern District of New York. He earned his bachelor’s Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic degree from the University of North Carolina at Affairs and Provost during the 2007-08 year. Chapel Hill and his law degree magna cum laude from Specializing in civil procedure and legal ethics, he is Brooklyn Law School, where he was executive articles also the current holder of the Cleveland Distinguished editor of the Brooklyn Law Review. Chair of Legal Ethics and Professionalism. Very Formerly the executive director active in the broader legal community since joining of Stanford’s Constitutional Law the Georgia Law faculty in 2002, Lonnie presently Center, Nathan S. Chapman is serves on the Drafting Committee for the Multistate teaching in the areas of law Professional Responsibility Exam and is the principal and ethics, law and religion, substantive consultant for the U.S. District Court for and Georgia practice. While at the Northern District of Georgia’s Local Rules Revision Stanford, Nathan was presented Project. Moreover, he is currently with the Knight Favorite organizing the 14th Annual Legal Ethics and Professionalism Assistant Professor Professor Award. Before entering Nathan Chapman academia, he was an associate Symposium that will focus on at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale ethical and professionalism and Dorr in Washington, D.C., and clerked for Judge issues facing the bench and will Gerald B. Tjoflat of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the be hosted by Georgia Law this 11th Circuit. His bachelor’s degree is from Belmont coming February. University, while his master’s and law degrees are from In addition, Peter B. “Bo” Associate Dean for Duke University, where he was an articles editor for the Faculty Development Rutledge was named associate Duke Law Journal. Bo Rutledge dean for faculty development, a 2 The 2012–2013 University of Georgia School of Law Annual Report The 2012–2013 University of Georgia School of Law Annual Report Dean’s Report 2013 post that was held for the past two years by University Elizabeth Weeks Leonard (J.D.’99) was promoted to Professor and Caldwell Chair in Constitutional Law the rank of full professor. Dan T. Coenen. In this role, Bo will work closely Associate Professor Hillel Y. Levin was granted tenure with members of the law school faculty, especially and was presented with the C. Ronald Ellington Award for its untenured professors, to expand and promote Excellence in Teaching by our student body in the spring. scholarly activities. Bo, who also holds the law school’s Talmadge Chair, has teaching and research interests Assistant Professor Timothy Meyer was one of only that include international dispute resolution, arbitration, approximately 20 academic and professional experts international business transactions and the U.S. from around the world who served as a contributing Supreme Court. author for the U.N. Industrial Development Organization’s report titled “Networks for Prosperity: Other honors bestowed on our faculty in the past year Connecting Development Knowledge Beyond include Woodruff Chair in International Law Diane 2015,” which analyzed the nexus between the global Marie Amann’s appointment as the special adviser connectedness of a country and its economic success, to the International Criminal Court on children in and sustainability and government effectiveness. affected by armed conflict. She was also given the American Society for International Law Prominent Lisa Milot was promoted to associate professor with Woman in International Law Award, which honors the tenure. “work of outstanding women” in this field. Sibley Professor in Corporate and Business Law Lonnie Brown was presented with the Student Bar Larry D. Thompson, who is currently on leave from Association Professionalism Award in April. Georgia Law and working as PepsiCo’s executive vice Associate Professor Elizabeth Chamblee “Beth” Burch president, government affairs, general counsel and was elected to serve as a member of the American Law corporate secretary, was elected as a counsellor for Institute, an organization that produces scholarly work ASIL’s executive council.