Interim UGA Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, University Professor & Kilpatrick Chair of Corporate Finance and Securities Law Usha Rodrigues was featured in Wired magazine regarding special purpose acquisition companies. The article titled "Quantum Startups' Stock Market Dreams Are Decohering" was written by Amanda Hoover and published 1/18/23.
Metadata Services & Special Collections Librarian Rachel Evans published "How We Digitized a Special Collection With a Little Help From Our Friends" in 43.1 Computers in Libraries 3 (2022) (with M. Mastrovita and M. Willoughby).
Associate Professor Jonathan Peters has been appointed to the OSCE-ODIHR Panel of Experts on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association. The panel is part of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and its Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. The panel serves as an advisory body to the OSCE and its participating countries in developing and maintaining legislation regarding the freedoms of peaceful assembly and association. Peters is one of two panelists from the United States on the 16-member Panel of Experts, and he will serve a four-year term, which began January 1.
Congratulations to Jaquarius Raglin on his receipt of a President's Fulfilling the Dream Award. The 2023 winners demonstrated a commitment to the Athens-Clarke County community, the Clarke County School District and the University of Georgia through their civic engagement by utilizing Dr. King’s philosophy to resolve conflict and foster goodwill.
Interim UGA Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, University Professor & Kilpatrick Chair of Corporate Finance and Securities Law Usha Rodrigues was featured in Law360 regarding special purpose acquisition companies. The article titled "Delaware Ruling Increases Scrutiny of SPAC Economic Costs" was written by Tom Zanki and published 1/12/23.
UGA Associate Provost & Kirbo Chair Elizabeth Weeks published "Rewritten Opinion, National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius" in Feminist Judgments: Health Law Rewritten (S. Mohapatra and L.F. Wiley eds.) (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
Interim UGA Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, University Professor & Kilpatrick Chair of Corporate Finance and Securities Law Usha Rodrigues' article "Disclosure’s Limits" (Yale Journal on Regulation) and paper "Redeeming SPACs" were cited by the Delaware Court of Chancery in the case of Richard Delman v. Gigacquisitions3, LLC, Avi Katz, Raluca Dinu, Neil Miotto, John Mikulsky, Andrea Betti-Berutto and Peter Wang.
Hosch Professor Logan E. Sawyer III was selected for a 2023-24 Willson Center Research Fellowship to support his research project titled "Partisan Jurisprudence."
Distinguished Research Professor & Shackelford Distinguished Professor in Taxation Law Emeritus Walter Hellerstein published “The Internet Tax Freedom Act at 25” in 107 Tax Notes State 7 (2023) (with A. Appleby).
Associate Dean for International Programs & Post Professor Melissa J. "MJ" Durkee presented “Inclusion and Exclusion of For-Profit Stakeholders in IO Rulemaking: Considerations and Pathways” at the Improving Inclusiveness of International Organization Rule-Making forum sponsored by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies. The Secretariat of the OECD invited Durkee and other forum participants to prepare recommendations for a planned publication on rulemaking procedures for international organizations.
Callaway Chair of Law Emeritus Ronald L. Carlson was featured on Business Insider regarding the latest legal developments relating to a grand jury investigating the 2020 election. The article titled "A Georgia special grand jury finished its report into Trump's attempts to overturn 2020 election results. Another grand jury has to decide whether to indict him." was written by Jacob Shamsian and published 1/9/23.
Associate Professor Fazal R. Khan was featured on WSB-TV regarding online prescriptions and the ending of public health emergency rules. The segment titled "At-home ketamine treatment a concern for Georgia doctor" was reported by Tom Regan and aired 1/9/23.
During 2022, the Business Law Clinic provided 2,400+ hours of individual-client work, which included partnering with UGA’s Innovation District to provide free legal services and self-help resources to entrepreneurs and small businesses, assisting a sustainability-focused tech startup align its products with existing and emerging environmental regulations and forming a nonprofit organization seeking to establish a Black history museum in Athens, among others.
Smith Professor Hillel Y. Levin published "Righting a Reproductive Wrong: A Statutory Tort Solution to Misrepresentation by Reproductive Tissue Providers" in 60 Houston Law Review 1 (2022) (with Y. Heled, T.D. Lytton and L. Vertinsky).
Brock Associate Professor in Professional Responsibility Nathan S. Chapman presented on "Christianity and U.S. Constitutionalism" at the Liberalism, Christianity, and Constitutionalism symposium hosted by the Notre Dame Law Review.
Marshall Chair of Constitutional Law Randy Beck published "Popular Enforcement of Controversial Legislation" in 57 Wake Forest Law Review 553 (2022).
The Honorable Verda M. Colvin, a Georgia Supreme Court justice and School of Law alumna, will present the 2023 UGA Holmes-Hunter Lecture on Feb. 28 at 2 p.m. in the Chapel. Named in honor of Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Hamilton Holmes Sr., the first African American students to attend the University of Georgia, the lecture is sponsored by the Office of the President and focuses on race relations, civil rights and education. It has been held annually since 1985.
Assistant Professor Thomas E. Kadri published "Juridical Discourse for Platforms" in 136 Harvard Law Review Forum 163 (2022).
Distinguished Research Professor & Shackelford Distinguished Professor in Taxation Law Emeritus Walter Hellerstein's treatise, State Taxation, was cited by the Minnesota Tax Court in Cities Management, Inc. v. Commissioner of Revenue, Minn. Tax Ct. (Dec. 20, 2022).
Interim UGA Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, University Professor & Kilpatrick Chair of Corporate Finance and Securities Law Usha Rodrigues was featured on Grid regarding her thoughts on the impact of stock sell-offs. The article titled "While Elon Musk is distracted running Twitter, Tesla's stock has taken a nosedive. Investors are starting to freak out." was written by Benjamin Powers and published 12/21/22.