George Rutherglen
- Distinguished Professor of Law
- Earle K. Shawe Professor of Employment Law
George Rutherglen joined Virginia's law faculty in 1976. He teaches admiralty, civil procedure, employment discrimination and professional responsibility.
While he was a student at law school, Rutherglen was articles editor of the California Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. After graduation, he clerked for Judge J. Clifford Wallace of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Diego, and Justices William O. Douglas and John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Rutherglen has chaired the advisory committee on Fourth Circuit Rules and served as director of the Graduate Program for Judges at the Law School. He has written widely on employment discrimination, civil rights and admiralty.
Scholarship Profile: Connecting Civil Rights and Civil Procedure (Virginia Journal 2006)
Education
- J.D.University of California at Berkeley School of Law1974
- A.B.University of California at Berkeley1971
Current Courses
All Courses
Admiralty
Employment Discrimination
Institute for Practical Ethics Co-Sponsored Seminars
Professional Responsibility
Sex Discrimination
Seminar in Ethical Values