Peter B. Rutledge

Peter B. "Bo" Rutledge is the Dean and the Herman E. Talmadge Chair of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law in Athens, Georgia.^[1] An American attorney and a specialist in arbitration law,^[2] he served as a law clerked for Associate Justice Clarence Thomas in 1998.^[3]

Professional career

Rutledge received his undergraduate degree from Harvard and an M.Litt. in Applied Ethics from the University of Aberdeen (Scotland). He earned his J.D. degree with high honors from the University of Chicago School of Law, where he served as an Executive Editor of the University of Chicago Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. He clerked for renowned feeder judge Court of Appeals Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III in 1997. After clerking with Justice Thomas, Rutledge practiced law as an associate at Freshfields and WilmerHale. In 2008, he argued before the Supreme Court in Irrizary v. United States.^[4] He also joined the John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign as a judicial advisory committee member.

Teaching career

In 2003, Rutledge accepted a teaching position as an associate professor of law at the Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America, and was chosen as Professor of the Year for four consecutive years. In 2008, he accepted a position as a tenured associate professor of law at the University of Georgia School of Law. He served as the law school's Associate Dean for Faculty Development from 2013-2014, and became its Dean on January 1, 2015.

Published works

Born, Gary and Peter B. Rutledge. (2006). International Civil Litigation in United States Courts. Aspen Publishers. ISBN 0-7355-6307-1

References

External links

• Faculty profile at the University of Georgia School of Law
• SSRN Author Page
• Amicus curiae brief for Irrizary.