
By Rachel Evans & Marie Mize
The latest installment of this series highlighting works of art from our Law Library Archives collection focuses on one of the works found in our reading room, right by the large floor-to-ceiling windows that give the space the iconic and memorable view students have come to love. Just before you exit the reading room, and enter the annex bridge, the bust is located on your right.
More About the Artwork
According to an article published in our law school’s long-runing magazine The Advocate, (page 24 of volume 39, issue 2), a group of law students presented the school with the bust of scholar and legendary faculty member R. Perry Sentell Jr. (LL.B. ’58) early in 2005, soon after his retirement in 2004.

Photo of Bust Dedication from page 24 of Vol. 39, Issue 2, Spring/Summer 2005 Advocate Magazine.
A photograph was taken to commemorate this with the students, the bust artist Kathryn Sekeres, and Sentell in the area of our reading room that it now graces. The article included quotes from students sharing the tremendous impact he had on their legal education, including learning this valuable lesson which they stated they would never forget:
“Class, the life of the law is in the details.” – R. Perry Sentell
More About the Subject
In addition to being a faculty member at the University of Georgia School of Law for more than 45 years, Sentell was also a prolific scholar. Our library’s physical collection includes more than 50 titles authored by or related to Sentell, and more than 30 items are accessible online in our Digital Commons repository. While teaching, the courses he led included Torts, Municipal Corporations, and Law of Legislative Government. Sentell is an excellent example of how our physical collections including art, video, and faculty scholarship meet and converge across physical and web-based spaces: from the reading room permanent exhibit, to our physical faculty writings collection in the archives, to our digitized series of faculty articles, books, events and even law school publications like our beloved Advocate Magazine.