Emory University School of Law

Emory University School of Law is the law school of Emory University and is part of the University's main campus in Druid Hills, Atlanta, Georgia. It was founded in 1916 and was the first law school in Georgia to be granted membership in the American Association of Law Schools.^[7]

Emory University School of Law
Motto	Cor prudentis possidebit scientiam (Latin) The wise heart seeks knowledge (Proverbs 18:15)
Parent school	Emory University
Established	1916; 107 years ago (1916)^[1]
School type	Private
Endowment	US $43 million^[2]
Parent endowment	$7.31 billion (2018)
Dean	Mary Anne Bobinski
Location	Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Enrollment	815^[3]
Faculty	147^[4]
USNWR ranking	30th (2023)^[5]
Bar pass rate	90.9% (Georgia bar exam, July 2021 first-time takers) ^[6]
Website	www.law.emory.edu

Campus

 

Emory University School of Law

Emory Law is located in Gambrell Hall, part of Emory’s 630-acre (2.5 km²) campus in the Druid Hills neighborhood, six miles (10 km) northeast of downtown Atlanta.

Gambrell Hall

Gambrell Hall contains classrooms, faculty offices, administrative offices, student-organization offices, and a 325-seat auditorium. The school provides wireless Internet access throughout its facilities. Gambrell Hall also houses a courtroom.^[8]

Hugh F. MacMillan Library

Emory's five-story Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library opened in August 1995. The library is situated adjacent to Gambrell Hall and includes access to over 400,000 volumes and more than 4,000 serials subscriptions.^[9]

Admissions and academics

Admission to the law school is selective. For the class entering in the fall of 2017, 238 JD candidates enrolled from an applicant pool of 4,117. The 25th and 75th LSAT percentiles for the 2014 entering class were 156 and 166, respectively, with a median of 165. The 25th and 75th undergraduate GPA percentiles were 3.45 and 3.90, respectively, with a median of 3.81.^[10]

Nearly half of Emory Law students are women, and about 32% are from underrepresented ethnic groups. Approximately 60% of students come from outside the Southeastern U.S.^[11]

It is ranked #30 among ABA-approved law schools in the 2023 rankings by U.S. News & World Report.^[12]

Doctor of Law Degree

The School of Law offers a three-year, full-time program leading to a Juris Doctor degree. Emory Law is particularly known for its expertise in Bankruptcy Law, Environmental Law, Feminist Legal Theory, Intellectual Property Law, International law, Law and Religion, and Transactional Law.

Joint-Degree Programs

Emory Law also offers joint-degree programs through cooperation with the Goizueta Business School (JD/MBA and JM/MBA), the Candler School of Theology (JD/MTS and JD/M.Div.), the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (JD/Ph.D.), the Rollins School of Public Health (JD/MPH), the Emory Center for Ethics (JD/MA in Bioethics), and joint JD and Master of Laws degree (JD/LLM) through Emory University School of Law.

LLM Programs

In partnership with Central European University, Emory also provides an LLM program for students with a U.S. law degree seeking advanced training in international commercial law and international politics. Emory also has a separate LLM program for qualified foreign professionals seeking training in international and comparative law.

Juris Master Program

Emory Law's Juris Master is a 30-credit hour program that is intended to supplement a student's interest or professional experience in allied fields to law. The program offers a range of customized concentrations to allow students to enhance their skills in their home profession or interest area through a greater understanding of the law, legal concepts and frameworks. The coursework can be completed either full-time in nine months or part-time in up to four years.

Clinics and programs

Students' expertise is developed through several clinics and programs. Emory Law also offers several summer study abroad programs in Budapest at the Central European University (CEU) and throughout the world.^[13]

Academic programs

A team from Emory Law's TI:GER IP/patent/technology program, a collaborative program between Emory and Georgia Tech, was featured on CNN Money.^[14] Other academic programs at Emory Law include:

• Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program
• Externship Program
• Transactional Law Certificate Program
• Kessler-Eidson Program for Trial Techniques
• Emory Law School Supreme Court Advocacy Program

Centers^[15]

• Barton Child Advocacy Center
• Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution
• Center on Federalism and Intersystemic Governance
• Center for International and Comparative Law
• Center for the Study of Law and Religion
• Center for Transactional Law and Practice
• Feminism and Legal Theory Project
• Global Health Law and Policy Project
• Project on War and Security in Law, Culture, and Society
• Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative

Clinics^[16]

• Barton Policy and Legislative Clinics
• Barton Appeal for Youth Clinic
• Barton Juvenile Defender Clinic
• International Humanitarian Law Clinic
• Turner Environmental Law Clinic
• Volunteer Clinic for Veterans

Externships^[17]

The law school has a comprehensive externship program. Students have the opportunity to experience what it's like to work in a public defender or prosecutor's office, government agency, nonprofit organization, judge's chambers, or in-house counsel's office in the Atlanta metro area.

Publications

• Emory Law Journal, which hosts the annual Randolph W. Thrower Symposium.
• Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal, the only national bankruptcy journal edited and produced entirely by law students, which hosts an annual symposium and banquet.^[18]
• Emory Corporate Governance and Accountability Review, a law journal focusing on corporate law and compliance issues.
• Emory International Law Review, which publishes articles on topics ranging from human rights to international intellectual property issues.^[19]
• IP Theory (online only, published jointly with Indiana University Maurer School of Law)
• Journal of Law and Religion, a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal edited by the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, with student participation, and published in collaboration with Cambridge University Press

Employment

According to Emory's official 2017 ABA-required disclosures, 71.5% of the Class of 2017 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required, non-school funded employment nine months after graduation.^[20] Emory's Law School Transparency under-employment score is 13.2%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2017 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation, and an additional 3.7% were in school funded positions.^[21]

Costs

The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) at Emory for the 2013–2014 academic year is $75,716.^[22] The Law School Transparency estimated debt-financed cost of attendance for three years is $290,430.^[23]

Notable alumni

Business and private practice

• John Chidsey, current CEO of Subway (restaurant), former Executive Chairman and CEO of the Burger King Corporation^[24]
• John Dowd, President Trump's personal attorney (and leader of his legal team);^[25] investigator and author of the Dowd Report, which detailed betting on baseball games by Pete Rose in the 1980s; represented Senator John McCain (R-AZ) during the Senate ethics investigation known as the Keating Five in the hearings held in 1990 and 1991
• C. Robert Henrikson, former chairman, president, and CEO of MetLife
• Boisfeuillet Jones, Sr., Atlanta philanthropist
• Jim Lanzone, President and CEO of CBS Interactive; Chief Digital Officer of CBS Corporation^[26]
• Raymond W. McDaniel Jr., president and chief executive officer of Moody's Corporation

Government and politics

• David I. Adelman, former United States Ambassador to Singapore
• Luis A. Aguilar, commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (LL.M.; J.D. University of Georgia School of Law)
• Thurbert Baker, Attorney General of Georgia, 1997–2011
• Sanford Bishop, current U.S. Representative for Georgia's 2nd congressional district
• Benjamin B. Blackburn, former U.S. Representative for Georgia's 4th congressional district
• James V. Carmichael, former member of the Georgia General Assembly, former president of Scripto pen company, candidate for governor of Georgia in 1946
• John James Flynt, Jr., former U.S. Representative from Georgia (attended but did not graduate)
• Tillie K. Fowler, former U.S. Representative for the 4th District of Florida
• Wyche Fowler, former President of the Atlanta City Council, former United States Congressman 5th Congressional District of Georgia, former United States Senator Georgia, former United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
• Gordon Giffin, former United States Ambassador to Canada
• Carte Goodwin, former United States Senator of West Virginia
• Ben F. Johnson, former member of the Georgia State Senate and Dean of the Emory University School of Law and the Georgia State University College of Law
• Robb LaKritz, former Advisor to the Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary, appointed by President George W. Bush
• Elliott H. Levitas, former U.S. Representative from Georgia
• Christian Miele, member of the Maryland House of Delegates
• Joe Negron, elected to replace Mark Foley as the Republican candidate in the 16th District of Florida in the 2006 election
• Sam Nunn, former United States Senator from Georgia 1972–1997; businessman
• Sam Olens, Attorney General of Georgia, 2011–2016; formerly president of Kennesaw State University
• Randolph W. Thrower, former U.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
• Teresa Tomlinson, 69th Mayor of Columbus, Georgia, 2011-2019
• Fani Willis, first female District Attorney of Fulton County, Georgia

Judiciary

• Anthony Alaimo, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia
• Marvin S. Arrington, Sr., former Fulton County Superior Court judge and author of Making My Mark: The Story of a Man Who Wouldn’t Stay in His Place, GA's 45th "Book of the Year"
• Rowland Barnes, former Fulton County Superior Court judge murdered in his courtroom
• Stanley F. Birch, Jr., Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
• Elizabeth L. Branch, Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
• Fred P. Branson, Associate Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, served as Chief Justice 1927–1929
• Ada E. Brown, Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, former appellate justice on the Fifth Court of Appeals of Texas
• Mark Howard Cohen, judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
• Clarence Cooper, Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
• Kristi DuBose, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama
• J. Robert Elliott, Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia
• Orinda D. Evans, former chief district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
• J. Owen Forrester, Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
• Richard Cameron Freeman, Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
• Leo M. Gordon, Judge of the United States Court of International Trade
• Steven Grimberg, Judge of the United States District Court for the North District of Georgia
• Catharina Haynes, Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
• Lynn Carlton Higby, Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida
• James Clinkscales Hill, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
• Frank M. Hull, Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
• Willis B. Hunt Jr., Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
• Hugh Lawson, Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia
• Charles Allen Moye Jr., Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
• R. Kenton Musgrave, Judge of the United States Court of International Trade
• William Clark O'Kelley, Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
• John Andrew Ross, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
• Leah Ward Sears, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia
• George Ernest Tidwell, Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
• Robert H. Whaley, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

Other

• W. Watts Biggers, co-creator of the animated TV series Underdog
• Glenda Hatchett, former Chief Judge of Fulton County Juvenile Court, and star of the television show Judge Hatchett
• Bobby Jones, former amateur golfer, founder and designer of the Augusta National Golf Club
• Bernice King, minister, daughter of Coretta and Martin Luther King Jr.
• Larry Klayman, founder and former Chairman of Judicial Watch
• Josh Luber, co-founder of luxury resale website StockX
• Robert Shemin, real estate investor and author
• Bob Varsha, on-air personality for Speed

Notable faculty

• Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
• Frank S. Alexander
• Dorothy A. Brown
• Michael Broyde
• Kathleen Cleaver
• Martha Albertson Fineman
• Richard D. Freer
• Michael J. Perry
• Charles A. Shanor
• Johan D. van der Vyver
• John Witte Jr.

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External links

• Official Site