During September, the School of Law announced two initiatives that speak directly to its vision of redefining what it means to be a great national public law school – one that provides a world-class, hands-on, purpose-driven education with a pioneering commitment to affordability. The first is the Georgia Honors Fellows Program, which has been designed to help address the deficit of prosecutors and public defenders in Georgia communities without adequate access to legal services, and the second is the guarantee of a minimum one-quarter scholarship to every first-generation college graduate and veteran who enrolls at the law school.  Learn more

Pictured above at his Georgia Supreme Court swearing-in ceremony in 2018 are Charlie Bethel (J.D.’01) (third from left) with several of his summer interns – (l. to r.) Abbie Frye (J.D.’19) and Dan Philyaw (J.D.’18), and then-second-year students David Ian, Will Ortiz and Erin McGonigle.