Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
Distinguished Research Professor & Shackelford Distinguished Professor in Taxation Law Emeritus Walter Hellerstein presented "U.S. Experience and Recent Developments in the Collection of Tax on Online Sales" at a conference titled "Court of Justice of the European Union: Recent VAT Case Law" held at the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law at Vienna University of Economics and Business in Vienna, Austria, during January.
Hosch Associate Professor Melissa J. Durkee presented a paper titled "Interstitial Space Law" at a faculty colloquium at the University of British Columbia Allard School of Law during January.
Associate Dean & Professor Emeritus Paul M. Kurtz and Superior Court Judge Lawton E. Stephens (J.D.'81) were featured on Athens StoryCorps regarding their friendship that started at the School of Law. Their segment titled "Athens StoryCorps: Paul Kurtz and Lawton Stephens" was published on 12/19/18.
Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives & Alston Associate Chair in Corporate Law Mehrsa Baradaran was featured on Project Syndicate regarding her book How the Other Half Banks. The article titled "Five Lessons from the US Government Shutdown" was written by Simon Johnson and published 1/31/19.
Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch will receive the 2019 Mangano Dispute Resolution Advancement Award for her groundbreaking scholarship in the area of multidistrict litigation settlement. Presented by the St. John's University Hugh L. Carey Center for Dispute Resolution, the award recognizes scholars whose published empirical research has furthered the advancement and understanding of the values and skills of dispute resolution. The honor will be formally presented in March.