University of Georgia School of Law

University of Georgia School of Law
Motto	Justitia (Latin for Justice)
Established	1859; 165 years ago (1859)
School type	Public law school
Parent endowment	$1.8 billion (2021)[1][2]
Dean	Peter B. Rutledge
Location	Athens, Georgia, United States
Enrollment	577
Faculty	107
USNWR ranking	20th (2024)[3]
Bar pass rate	95.32% (2020 first-time takers, all jurisdictions)[4]
Website	www.law.uga.edu

The University of Georgia School of Law (Georgia Law) is the law school of the University of Georgia, a public research university in Athens, Georgia. It was founded in 1859, making it among the oldest American university law schools in continuous operation.^[5] Georgia Law accepted 14.77% of applicants for the class entering in 2023.^[3][6]

Georgia Law recent graduates include 11 governors, over 110 state and federal legislators, approximately 70 federal judges, and numerous state supreme court justices, practitioners, government officials, ambassadors, trial court judges, academics and law firm principals. Notable recent alumni of Georgia Law include former acting United States Attorney General Sally Yates, former President Pro Tempore of the U.S. Senate Richard B. Russell Jr., former Chief Judge and present Senior Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals Larry Edmondson, and Ertharin Cousin, named to the TIME 100 most influential people in the world list and Payne Distinguished Professor at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.^[7]