The Education Law Consortium (ELC) at the University of Georgia is pleased
will present the ELC Inaugural Lecture featuring Michael A. Olivas, Distinguished
Chair of Law, and Director of the Institute of Higher Education Law &
Governance at the University of Houston on January 6, 2004 at 4 p.m. in Meigs
Hall.The title of Olivas’ lecture is “Classrooms in Conflict: The Law of Teaching.” This event marks the formal establishment of the ELC at The University of Georgia. The ELC is a non-profit, non-partisan research group founded by UGA professors and lawyers John Dayton, of the College of Educcation's department of education administration and policy and Anne Dupre of the law school.
The ELC faculty also include UGA professors and lawyers Mel Hill and Doug Toma, Research Fellows with the ELC, and a multi-disciplinary assemblage of other leading scholars, policy analysts, and practitioners. The ELC will provide lawmakers, education policymakers, and others, with non-partisan information, research and analyses of significant education law and policy issues, to assist in the improvement of education and educational institutions.
The ELC Inaugaral Lecture is sponsored by the Institute of Higher Education at The University of Georgia. The lecture is open to all interested persons. The lecture will be followed by a reception.