Ms. Clare Rivka Norins

University of Georgia School of Law

Clare R. Norins is a clinical associate professor and director of the University of Georgia  School of Law's First Amendment Clinic, which represents clients in federal and state court on a range of free expression and media law issues. Norins is the co-recipient of the national Clinic Legal Education Association's 2021 award for Excellence in a Public Interest case. Her scholarship has been published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, the Washington & Lee Law Review Online, and the George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal. She is a board member of the Georgia First Amendment Foundation and an executive committee member of the American Association of Law Schools' Section on Communication, Media & Information Law.

Previously in private practice at Beldock, Levine & Hoffman, LLP, Norins focused on issues of police misconduct and employment discrimination. She also served as an assistant attorney general for the State of New York, receiving the Louis J. Lefkowitz Award for outstanding performance. Immediately before joining the UGA Law School, Norins was the assistant director of the UGA Equal Opportunity Office.

Norins received both her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and clerked for the Honorable Michael H. Dolinger in the Southern District of New York.