Hosch Associate Professor Kent Barnett was featured in Bloomberg Law regarding his thoughts on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's payday lending rule rollback. The article titled "CFPB Could Be Prepped for Wrong Payday Fight" was written by Evan Weinberger and published 2/12/19.
Thanks to a $3 million gift--the largest outright donation in school history--the University of Georgia School of Law will be able to continue transforming the legal education experience for many of its first-generation college graduates. The First-Start Scholars Program, created by a lead gift from 1982 alumna Kathelen V. Amos and the Daniel P. Amos Family Foundation, will begin awarding scholarships in the fall of 2019. Students will receive a partial-tuition scholarship as well as a professional development stipend.
Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives & Alston Associate Chair in Corporate Law Mehrsa Baradaran presented her book The Color of Money as part of The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law's Agendas and Procedures of Social Governance Colloquium series during February.
Congratulations to first-year student Amelia Welch for winning the 2019 J. Ralph Beaird 1L Closing Argument Mock Trial Competition. The finalist was Devin Mashman.
Associate Professor Nathan S. Chapman published "Due Process of War" in 94 Notre Dame Law Review 639 (2018).
Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives & Alston Associate Chair in Corporate Law Mehrsa Baradaran presented on her book How the Other Half Banks at a faculty colloquium at the University of Kentucky.
Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives & Alston Associate Chair in Corporate Law Mehrsa Baradaran presented on the political economy at the Law and Political Economy Conference at Yale Law School during January.
Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives & Alston Associate Chair in Corporate Law Mehrsa Baradaran was featured on Southern California Public Radio's "Air Talk" regarding a proposal to privatize the U.S. Postal Service. The story aired on 2/4/19.
Congratulations to the team of third-year students Gabriel "Gabe" Gonzales-Acevedo and Amanda Payne and second-year student Chelsea R. Feagle, who finished as regional finalists at the regional round of the National Trial Competition. Additionally a second UGA School of Law team comprised of third-year students Jennifer Cotton and Philip Poole and second-year student Andrew H. Tyner finished the competition as regional semi-finalists. The team was coached by third-year student Jared Koebble and alumnus Jeremy Daily (J.D.'14).
The University of Georgia School of Law announces the Butler Commitment, a new initiative that will guarantee financial aid to 100 percent of veterans who matriculate in the fall 2019 entering class. "Thanks to the generous support to date, the School of Law has reached the point where every veteran currently enrolled in the entering class will receive financial aid," School of Law Dean Peter B. "Bo" Rutledge said. "What better way to honor military women and men for their service than to provide them monetary support for their education. I am grateful to renowned trial attorney and 1977 law school alumnus Jim Butler for supporting this initiative."
Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives & Alston Associate Chair in Corporate Law Mehrsa Baradaran presented "How the Other Half Bank" as the keynote speaker of the 2019 Policy Conference at the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy during January.
Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch was featured in The New York Times regarding her thoughts on mass tort litigation. The article titled "As Pelvic Mesh Settlements Near $8 Billion, Women Question Lawyers' Fees" was written by Matthew Goldstein and published 2/1/19.
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.
Brumby Distinguished Professor in First Amendment Law Sonja R. West was featured in The Washington Post regarding public figures and inaccurate media coverage. The article titled "When they go low, Melania Trump calls her lawyers" was written by Emily Heil and published 1/30/19.
Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives & Alston Associate Chair in Corporate Law Mehrsa Baradaran was featured on NPR's "The Takeaway" regarding her thoughts on payday lenders benefiting from the government shutdown. The program titled "Payday Lenders and Pawnbrokers Were Winners in the Government Shutdown" aired 1/29/19.
Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives & Alston Associate Chair in Corporate Law Mehrsa Baradaran's book The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap was reviewed on the London School of Economics Review of Books.