Peter B. Rutledge

Peter Bowman "Bo" Rutledge is an American legal scholar. He is the Herman E. Talmadge Chair of Law and a former dean of the University of Georgia School of Law. He is a specialist in international business transactions, international dispute resolution, litigation, arbitration, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He has filed more than 70 briefs and petitions in the Supreme Court of the United States and in other federal appellate courts and state supreme courts for corporations, industry associations, and individuals. He also joined the John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign as a judicial advisory committee member.

Teaching career In 2003, Rutledge accepted a teaching position as an associate professor of law at the Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America, and was chosen as Professor of the Year for four consecutive years. In 2008, he accepted a position as a tenured associate professor of law at the University of Georgia School of Law. There, he has won numerous teaching and service awards and honors. disputing the premise of a report by Public Citizen. The Public Citizen report said that private arbitration lacked necessary safeguards to protect consumers and that consumers lost 94 percent of cases (mostly involving debt collection) adjudicated by arbitration firm National Arbitration Forum.

Finally, Rutledge has performed peer-review work for publications such as the Stanford Law Review, the Oxford University Press, and others, and has conducted workshops and given speeches for such organizations as the Columbia Law School, University of Georgia School of Law, New York University School of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School, London School of Economics, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, Washington University School of Law, American Bar Association, City University of Hong Kong School of Law and many others.