Lori Ringhand is Interim Director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center & J. Alton Hosch Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law, where she has also served as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and as a Provost's Women Leadership Fellow. A noted expert in

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, and state and local government law, Ringhand's scholarship includes research on the voting patterns and practices of

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Justices. In Spring 2019, she served as a US-UK

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Distinguished Chair at the

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, Scotland, and delivered a Gresham College Fulbright Lecture at the Museum of London. She is the co-author of
Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings and Constitutional Change
(Cambridge University Press, with Paul M. Collins) as well as a constitutional law casebook,
Constitutional Law: A Context and Practice Casebook
(

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, with David S. Schwartz). Her work has been published in academic journals such as the

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, ''Constitutional Commentary'', the

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and the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. Ringhand received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, her J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School, and her B.C.L. from the

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. On July 31, 2018, she testified in the U.S. Senate Judiciary committee in support of breaking up the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

References

*http://www.law.uga.edu/profile/lori-ringhand *http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/opinion/14mon3.html *http://news.lawreader.com/?p=387 Living people Alumni of the University of Oxford University of Wisconsin Law School alumni University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire alumni American scholars of constitutional law Year of birth missing (living people) American legal scholars {{US-legal-academic-bio-stub