Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch was featured in The Washington Post regarding the role of bankruptcy in multidistrict opioid litigation. The article titled "Drug Manufacturer Mallinckrodt to pay $1.6 billion to settle opioid claims" was written by Katie Zezima and Katie Mettler and published 2/25/20.
Seven School of Law professors have been elected to serve, or are currently serving, on the executive committees of Association of American Law Schools Sections. They are: Cleveland Distinguished Chair of Legal Ethics and Professionalism & Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor Lonnie T. Brown Jr. with the Professional Responsibility Section, Martin Chair Andrea L. Dennis with the Minority Groups Section, Associate Professor Matthew I. Hall with the Federal Courts Section, Associate Professor Fazal R. Khan with the Law, Medicine and Health Care Section, Hosch Professor Lori A. Ringhand with the Constitutional Law Section, University Professor & Kilpatrick Chair of Corporate Finance and Securities Law Usha Rodrigues with the Securities Regulation Section and Associate Dean for Faculty Development & Kirbo Chair Elizabeth Weeks with the Associate Deans for Academic Affairs and Research Section.
Metadata Services Librarian Rachel S. Evans presented "Apps for Actionable Workflows: Tools to Stay In the Loop and On Top of Tasks" as part of the online conference "Work Smarter, Not Harder: Innovating Technical Services Workflows" managed by the Amigos Library Services organization.
Metadata Services Librarian Rachel S. Evans presented her favorite web-based applications and smartphone apps at the Atlanta Law Librarians Association meeting at the DeKalb County Courthouse Law Library (with G. Kalim).
Distinguished Research Professor & Shackelford Distinguished Professor in Taxation Law Emeritus Walter Hellerstein presented "The US Internal Revenue Service Gig Economy Tax Center" at the meeting of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Technical Advisory Group to Working Party No. 9 on Consumption Taxes in Paris during February.