Join us for this year’s Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation Conference January 26-27, 2018! For more information, visit our conference website. Read the full article
Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation Conference January 28, 2017
Georgia Law is excited to announce its first annual Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation Conference on Saturday, January 28, 2017. Conference registration includes 5 CLE credits (including 1 ethics hour), a light breakfast, lunch, and an afternoon snack. Registration also includes a ticket to the premiere of a short documentary on survivors of child…
CEASE Names Its First Post-Graduate Fellow
Meredith Gardial (JD ’16) joins the Wilbanks CEASE Clinic as its first Post-Graduate Fellow. Over the course of the twelve-month fellowship Meredith will assist CEASE Clinic Director Emma Hetherington (JD ’11) in litigating cases on behalf of surivors of child sex abuse. Meredith will not only be instrumental in advancing the clinic’s mission of assisting survivors, but also…
CEASE Clinic featured in The Verdict
The Wilbanks CEASE Clinic was featured in the Spring 2016 issue of the Journal of the Georgia trial Lawyers Association. The featured story is on page 39. Read the full article
Wilbanks CEASE Clinic Mentioned in Macon Telegraph
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New fellowships expand public interest opportunities at Georgia Law
Athens, Ga. – The University of Georgia School of Law has three new fellowship opportunities, which combined with existing support will allow more than 20 rising second- and third-year students to take summer positions in the public interest arena. Public interest fellowship recipients will spend the next few months working in legal placements including public…
CEASE Clinic featured in Flagpole Magazine
Dear Ms. Applebum, The young lady who wrote to you about having survived incest alongside her sister, perpetrated by their birth father, does indeed have reparative relief locally and free of charge. In fact, to my knowledge, this time-sensitive, vitally important assistance has not been covered by your fine periodical, but needs to be shouted…
Dennis Hastert gets 15 months in prison in hush money case
Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert on Wednesday was sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay $250,000 to a victims’ fund in a hush money case that revealed he was being accused of sexually abusing young boys as a teacher in Illinois. He was also sentenced to two years of supervised release once he…
University of Georgia School of Law Hires Director for New Child Sex Abuse Legal Clinic
The University of Georgia School of Law has hired Emma Hetherington as the director of its innovative legal clinic to represent victims of child sexual abuse in civil suits against their abusers. “It was an opportunity I could not say no to,” Hetherington, a 2011 Georgia Law graduate, said of her new job. “It combines everything I’ve done in…
UGA law school alumnus funds nation’s first child sexual abuse victim clinic
The University of Georgia School of Law will be the first in the nation to have an experiential learning opportunity dedicated solely to the assistance of victims of child sexual abuse. The Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation Clinic will open January 2016. Initial funding for the clinic has been donated by Georgia Law alumnus…