Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
Callaway Chair of Law Emeritus Ronald L. Carlson was featured in USA Today regarding the Ahmaud Arbery Trial. The article titled "'Race will be front and center' in Arbery trial" was written by N'dea Yancey-Bragg and was published 10/15/21.
Callaway Chair of Law Emeritus Ronald L. Carlson was featured on ABC News regarding the Ahmaud Arbery Trial. The segment titled "Ahmaud Arbery murder case may evoke Georgia's history on race: Experts" was reported by Bill Hutchinson and aired 10/17/21.
Callaway Chair of Law Emeritus Ronald L. Carlson's book Carlson on Evidence (with M. Carlson) was recently cited by the Georgia Court of Appeals in the case Marshall v. State regarding jury deliberation privacy. This citation brings the total to 60 times that this text has been used by Georgia appellate courts to resolve evidentiary issues.
Metadata Services and Special Collections Librarian Rachel Evans, Access Services Manager Marie Mize and Access Services Associate Szilvia Somodi co-presented "Process Before Technology: UGA Law Library's Item Request Webform" as part of the Georgia Library Association's annual conference during October. Additionally, Somodi and Mize presented "Taking Care of Business and Student Employees During the Pandemic."
Brumby Distinguished Professor in First Amendment Law Sonja R. West's article "The U.S. Supreme Court's Characterizations of the Press: An Empirical Study" (with R.A. Jones) was reviewed by Helen Norton in JOTWELL (Oct. 8, 2021). In the review titled "How the Supreme Court talks about the press (and why we should care)," Norton calls West's and Jones' study an "impressive empirical work" that details "the dramatic deterioration in both the frequency and the positivity of the Court's description of the press."