Lynne Rambo
Professor of Law
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Courses: Constitutional Law, Criminal Law Practicum, Evidence, First Amendment, and Supreme Court Seminar. 

Professor Lynne Rambo, who joined the faculty in 1997, brings great passion to her law teaching and scholarship. Her excellent teaching has been recognized by the students, who have three times elected her as the Outstanding Upper Division Professor (2000-01, 2001-02 and 2002-03).

In her teaching and scholarship, Professor Rambo has focused on constitutional law issues. She teaches the core constitutional law course and related courses on the First Amendment and the U.S. Supreme Court.  Professor Rambo also teaches evidence and the criminal law practicum. In 1992, she received the Trustees Award for Distinguished Scholarship. 

Before teaching, Professor Rambo worked for the law firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, litigating employment cases. She also worked as a litigation associate for the law firm of Arnall, Golden & Gregory in Atlanta. After law school, Professor Rambo clerked for the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

Professor Rambo graduated magna cum laude from the University of Georgia School of Law, where she was editor-in-chief of the law review and received Order of the Coif honors. She earned a B.A., with high honors, from Barnard College of Columbia University. Professor Rambo is licensed to practice with the State Bar of Georgia, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits, and the U.S. Supreme Court. She is also a member of the American Bar Association and the Tarrant County Bar Association.

Representative Publications
“The Lawyers’ Role in Selecting the President:  A Complete Legal History of the 2000 Election,” 8 Texas Wesleyan Law Review 105 (2002).

"Impeaching Lying Parties with Their Statements During Negotiations: Demysticizing the Public Policy Rationale Behind Evidence Rule" 408 and the Mediation Privilege 75 Washington Law Review 1037 (2000)

"Can Employers Regulate Appearance, Conduct and Conversation?" Personnel Law Update, Council on Education in Management (1996)

"An Unconstitutional Fiction: The Felony-Murder Rule As Applied to the Supply of Drugs" 20 Georgia Law Review 671 (1986)

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