What It Means to Have a Life in the Law

Authors

Roberta Cooper Ramo, American Bar Association

A recording of this speech from the University of Georgia Law Library archival collection was digitally preserved from audio cassette tape to digital in 2023 and made publicly available in 2024. Digitization, metadata creation, and increased discoverability of this record was made possible thanks to a grant from the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council. The primary archival object is a digitized audio cassette recording of Ramo's speech.

Event Date

3-17-1995

Abstract

Roberta Cooper Ramo, first female president-elect of the American Bar Association, challenged law schools in the 1995 UGA Law Day Address to lead the way in creating a new educational paradigm for lawyers: teaching students not just to think as lawyers, but also to behave as lawyers.

A full summary of this event was published in the Advocate Magazine Volume 29, Issue 2, Spring 1995 on page 6: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/advocate/vol29/iss2/1/

Repository Citation

Ramo, Roberta Cooper, "What It Means to Have a Life in the Law" (1995). Law Day Lectures. 1.
https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/lectures_pre_arch_lectures_lawday/1