Georgia Professor Speaks at MC Law School Lecture Series

University of Georgia law professor Randy Beck

University of Georgia professor Randy Beck will be the guest speaker at the Mary Libby Payne Lecture Series at the Mississippi College School of Law.

The September 12 program at the law school’s Student Auditorium on the downtown Jackson campus is free and open to the public. The 90-minute event begins at noon on Friday. The program should be of interest to Mississippi’s legal community and others.

A retired judge, Mary Libby Payne served as the first dean at the MC School of Law. The series addresses a wide range of subjects on Christianity & the Law.

Beck joined the University of Georgia law faculty in 1997 and was named recipient of the Justice Thomas O. Marshall Chair of Constitutional Law in 2011. He teaches property, trusts and estates as well as Christian perspectives on legal thought and constitutional law.

Prior to his law school appointment, Beck served more than five years as a general litigation associate with the law firm Perkins Coie in Seattle, Washington. He worked as a judicial clerk with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and Judge Patrick E. Higginbotham of the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that’s based in New Orleans.

Beck graduated first in his class at Southern Methodist University School of Law in Dallas. At the University of Georgia Law School, he serves as faculty adviser to the Christian Legal Society.

An award-winning teacher, Beck has penned articles in scholarly journals on topics including the Biblical foundations of law and national legal issues dealing with abortion.

For more information, contact Thorne Butler at the MC School of Law at 601-925-7172 or tbutler@mc.edu.