Charity Scott (May 21, 1951 – March 18, 2023) was an American legal scholar who was a professor of Law Emerita at Georgia State University, known for founding the Center for Law, Health, and Society at Georgia State University.

She attended Stanford University (BA in comparative literature) and graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School (J.D.)

[2] After private legal practice in Baltimore and Atlanta, she first taught at the Emory University Business School and then joined the law faculty at Georgia State University (GSU) in 1988.

This experience was an inspiration to develop programs on healthcare law after her switch to academia.

Scott introduced many innovations into the teaching of law, including the incorporation of techniques from improv comedy in the legal classroom and designing courses on mindfulness and the law.