At the core of every highly regarded law school is a faculty composed of talented and dedicated professors. The University of Georgia School of Law is no exception. Its faculty includes authors of some of the country's leading legal scholarship, Fulbright Scholars, recipients of the Meigs Award (UGA's highest award for teaching excellence) and former U.S. Supreme Court judicial clerks, many of who have distinguished themselves in the international arena.

Georgia Law faculty who are teaching or researching in the international area are:

Peter A. Appel, Associate Professor of Law
B.A., J.D., Yale University. Courses: Property, Natural Resources Law, Environmental Law, Animal Law. Coauthor of Sustainable Commerce: Public Health Law and Environmental Law Provide Tools for Industry and Government to Construct Globally-Competitive Green Economies, 33 S. Ill. U. L.J. (forthcoming); Kyoto Comes to Georgia: How International Environmental Initiatives Foster Sustainable Commerce in Small Town America, 36 Ga. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 559 (2008).

Milner S. Ball, Harmon W. Caldwell Chair in Constitutional Law (retired)
A.B., Princeton University; S.T.B., Harvard University; J.D., University of Georgia. Courses: Law and Religion, Race and Law, Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence. Fulbright Scholar (twice). Helped to write the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee Report for the 1972 U.N. Conference on the Human Environment.

J. Randy Beck, Professor of Law
B.A., Baker University; J.D., Southern Methodist University. Courses: Property, Trusts and Estates, Constitutional Law, Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought. Co-author of Case Selection in Three Supreme Courts: A Comparative Perspective for the U.S.-Russia Experts Forum.

Daniel M. Bodansky, Associate Dean for Faculty Development & Emily and Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law
A.B., Harvard University; M.Phil., Cambridge University; J.D., Yale University. Courses: Public International Law, International Environmental Law, Foreign Affairs and the Constitution, Perspectives on the Legal Process, International Law Seminar, International Law Colloquium. Former climate change coordinator and attorney adviser at the U.S. Department of State; U.S.-nominated arbitrator under the Antarctic Environment Program; Council on Foreign Relations member; board of editors member, American Journal of International Law; former co-editor-in-chief of Kluwer Law International's book series on international environmental law and policy.

Lonnie T. Brown, Jr., Professor of Law (link to ) B.A., Emory University; J.D., Vanderbilt University. Courses: Civil Procedure, Legal Profession, Conflict of Laws, Ethics in Litigation. His article Representing Saddam Hussein: The Importance of Being Ramsey Clark, 42 Ga. L. Rev. 47 (2007), made SSRN's top 10 download list for international, transnational and comparative criminal law.

Harlan G. Cohen, Assistant Professor of Law
B.A., M.A., Yale University; J.D., New York University. Courses: International Human Rights, International Criminal Law, International Law Colloquium, Foreign Affairs and the Constitution. Former Washington Institute for Near East Policy researcher; Foreign Affairs editorial intern; co-chair, Junior International Law Scholars Association.

Julian A. Cook III, J. Alton Hosch Professor of Law
B.A., Duke University; M.P.A., Columbia University; J.D., University of Virginia. Courses: Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Criminal Law. Author of Inside Criminal Procedure I & II (forthcoming) and Plea Bargaining at The Hague, 30 Yale J. Int'l L. 473 (2005).

Anne Proffitt Dupre, J. Alton Hosch Professor of Law
B.A., University of Rhode Island; J.D., University of Georgia. Courses: Contracts, Education Law, Children and the Law. U.S. State Department Speakers Program presenter, University of Zagreb in Croatia; UGA International Fellow; UGA Management Training Institute participant with China's Jilin University; Educational Law Consortium co-director; UGA Institute of Higher Education Senior Fellow.

María Eugenia Giménez, Associate Director of the Dean Rusk Center
Abogado, University of Mendoza; LL.M., Vrije Universiteit Brussel; LL.M., University of Georgia. Director of Georgia Law's Global Internship Program; co-director of Georgia Law's International Judicial Training Program; Fulbright Scholar; honorary professor, Universidad del Salvador; recipient, Diploma of Recognition and medal from the Federal Military Justice of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Paul J. Heald, Allen Post Professor of Law
A.B., A.M., University of Illinois; J.D., University of Chicago. Courses: International Intellectual Property Law, Trademark Law, Intellectual Property Survey, International Trade, Secured Transactions. Visiting professor, Bournemouth University, Georgia Law Summer Program in China, Université de Lyon, Universität Regensburg, London Law Consortium, Innsbruck Summer School. Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford St. Anne's College.

Walter Hellerstein, Francis Shackelford Distinguished Professor of Taxation Law
A.B., Harvard University; J.D., University of Chicago. Courses: U.S. Taxation of International Transactions, Federal Income Taxation, State and Local Taxation, State and Local Taxation Seminar. Nation's leading academic authority on state and local taxation; consultant to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on cross-order consumption taxation. Editorial advisory board chair, State Tax Notes; State and Local Department editor, Journal of Taxation; editorial advisor, Tax Management Multistate Tax Portfolio Series. Recipient, National Tax Association Daniel Holland Medal, BNA Tax Management Franklin C. Latcham Award.

Fredrick W. Huszagh, Professor of Law Emeritus (retired)
B.A., Northwestern University; J.D., LL.M., J.S.D., University of Chicago. Course: Fiduciary Law - Agency and Partnership, Corporations. Founding executive director of the Dean Rusk Center. Coauthor of Comparative Facts on Canada, Mexico and the United States: A Foundation for Selective Integration and Trilateral Integration.

C. Donald Johnson, Director of the Dean Rusk Center
B.A., J.D., University of Georgia; LL.M., London School of Economics; certificate in private and public international law from The Hague Academy of International Law. Courses: Law and Policy in International Trade, U.S.-China Trade Issues Under the WTO. Director of Georgia Law's Summer Program in China; former U.S. ambassador; chief textile negotiator and principal adviser to both the president and the U.S. trade representative on all textile and apparel trade matters; U.S. congressman for the 10th district of Georgia; Georgia state senator.

Fazal Khan, Assistant Professor of Law
B.A., University of Chicago; J.D., M.D., University of Illinois. Courses: Health Law, Public Health Law. Author of The Human Factor: Globalizing Ethical Standards in Drug Trials Through Market Exclusion, 57 DePaul L. Rev. 877 (2008).

James F. Ponsoldt, Joseph Henry Lumpkin Professor of Law (retired)
A.B., Cornell University; J.D., Harvard University. Courses: Antitrust, Communications Law, Criminal Procedure, Comparative Antitrust Law Seminar, Business Crime. Visiting lecturer, Université Jean Moulin-Lyon 3.

Lori A. Ringhand, Associate Professor of Law
B.A., University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire; J.D., University of Wisconsin; B.C.L., University of Oxford. Courses: Constitutional Law, Election Law, State and Local Government. Former visiting scholar, Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law.

Peter B. "Bo" Rutledge, Associate Professor of Law
B.A., Harvard University, M.Litt., University of Aberdeen: J.D., University of Chicago. Courses: Civil Procedure, International Litigation, International Arbitration, International Business Transactions. Member, Institute of Transnational Arbitration Academic Council, American Arbitration Association delegation to the United Nations' Commission on International Trade Law.

David E. Shipley, Thomas R.R. Cobb Professor of Law
B.A., Oberlin College; J.D., University of Chicago. Courses: Copyright, Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Remedies, International Intellectual Property, Comparative Administrative Law. Director of Georgia Law's Oxford program and 2007 professor in residence; former dean of the law schools at UGA, the University of Kentucky and the University of Mississippi.

Alan Watson, Distinguished Research Professor & Ernest P. Rogers Chair of Law
M.A., LL.B., University of Glasgow; B.A. (by decree), M.A., D.Phil., D.C.L., Oxford University; LL.D., University of Edinburgh; six honorary doctorates. Courses: Comparative Law, Jurisprudence, Law in the Gospels, Western Legal Tradition. Regarded as one of the world's foremost authorities on Roman law, comparative law, legal history, and law and religion; attended several sessions regarding the development of a common law for the European Union; served as a member of the two-person U.S. team helping to revise the draft civil code for the new Republic of Armenia at the request of the U.S. Agency for International Development; co-editor-in-chief, Annals of the Faculty of Law in Belgrade (international edition); editorial board member, Juridical Review, Journal of Legal History, Journal of Comparative Law, Belgrade Law Journal, IURA, European Lawyer Journal, American Journal of Legal History.

Michael L. Wells, Marion and W. Colquitt Carter Chair in Tort and Insurance Law
B.A., J.D., University of Virginia. Courses: Torts, Federal Courts, Constitutional Law, Insurance, Constitutional Litigation. Visiting scholar, University of Aix-Marseille; visiting professor, Université Jean Moulin-Lyon 3; professor, Duke-Geneva Institute in Transactional Law.

Donald E. Wilkes Jr., Professor of Law
B.A., J.D., University of Florida. Courses: Criminal Procedure, English Legal History, Postconviction Relief, Habeas Corpus, Criminal Procedure Seminar. Authority on the writ of habeas corpus and the Dreyfus Affair.

Gabriel M. Wilner, Associate Dean of International and Graduate Legal Studies, Executive Director of the Dean Rusk Center & Charles H. Kirbo Chair in International Law
A.B., College of William and Mary; D.P.A., University of Exeter; LL.B., LL.M., Columbia University; Graduate Legal Study, Université Libre de Bruxelles. Courses: International Law, International Legal Transactions, Law of Transnational Investment, European Union Law, International Commercial Arbitration. Fulbright Scholar; director of Georgia Law's LL.M. program; director of the Brussels Seminar on the Law and Institutions of the European Union; former legal officer, U.N. Office of Legal Affairs; legal consultant to UNCITRAL and other U.N. bodies and to African and Asian regional institutions; a drafter of the 1988 Georgia Arbitration Code; arbitrator in transnational disputes; former legal officer in the technology transfer division of the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development; former director of studies at The Hague Academy of International Law; visiting professor, Université Jean Moulin-Lyon 3, Université Paris II (Panthéon-Assas); adjunct professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Université Libre de Bruxelles; former editor-in-chief, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law.