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. An American attorney and a specialist in international business transactions, international dispute resolution, litigation, arbitration, and the U.S. Supreme Court, he served as a law clerked for Associate Justice Clarence Thomas in 1998.

Rutledge received his undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, 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. He also joined the John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign as a judicial advisory committee member.

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. Rutledge teaches Civil Procedure, International Business Transactions and International Litigation and Arbitration. He has lectured at universities such as Oxford University, Cambridge University as well as Fulbright Professor at the Institut für Zivilverfahrensrecht. Besides his teaching and writing, Rutledge is sought for advice and expertise on matters such as litigation, arbitration, the U.S. Supreme Court and international dispute resolution including appearing as an expert witness in both litigation and arbitration, and multiple times testifying before Congress on pending legislation.

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