Areas of Expertise
Bar Prep, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Public Benefit Corporations (PBCs), Proactive Management Based Regulation (PMBR), Public-Private-Partnerships (3Ps)
Courses
LAW999: GA Law, Practice, and Procedure
Biography
Franklin B. Lebo joined Emory Law in 2025 as the director of Academic Excellence and an assistant teaching professor. He focuses primarily on preparing students for success on the Georgia Bar Exam. Lebo previously served multiple experiential learning programs at Emory Law from 2022-2024 including the Externship and Professionalism Programs along with the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program and Barton Child Law and Policy Center.
Lebo is also a recurring continuing legal education lecturer for TRTCLE, Inc. delivering weekly addresses to national audiences of attorneys in 29 states including Georgia on topics such as professional responsibility, executive powers, international trade law, judicial discretion, public benefit corporations, corporate social responsibility, and environmental justice. He has published on topics such as administrative discretion, public-private-partnerships (3Ps), and international human rights.
From 2017-2022, Lebo was the co-director of Baldwin Wallace University's Sustainability Program and an assistant teaching professor. There he instructed 25 undergraduate and MBA courses situated in three different schools including Business, Social Sciences, and the Humanities. Examples of courses he delivered include business law, organizational ethics, environmental policy, healthcare law, and constitutional criminal procedure.
Lebo has substantial experience in test prep as he previously taught multiple LSAT, GRE, and SAT courses for Kaplan.
Education: Ph.D., Kent State University; J.D., University of California, San Francisco Law; B.A., Brandeis University