Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
Associate Professor & Veterans Legal Clinic Director Alexander W. Scherr has been elected to a three-year term on the board of the National Law School Veterans Clinic Consortium. An accredited veterans service organization, the consortium advocates for veterans in judicial, legislative and administrative forums. It also supports veterans clinics in law schools through an annual conference, online resources, and regular seminars and case rounds for students in veterans clinics.
The University of Georgia School of Law has received a $1.355 million grant from The Stanton Foundation to help reduce the neglect and abuse of dogs. The school’s Practicum in Animal Welfare Skills will use the funding to create resources for animal control personnel, law enforcement, prosecutors, law students, advocates and the general public.
Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch published "Perceptions of Justice in Multidistrict Litigation: Voices from the Crowd" in 107 Cornell Law Review 1835 (2022) (with M.S. Williams).
Associate Dean for International Programs & Post Professor Melissa J. "MJ" Durkee presented “Pledging World Order” (forthcoming in the Yale Journal of International of Law) virtually as part of the Brooklyn Colloquium on International Economic Law, sponsored by the Block Center for International Business Law at New York’s Brooklyn Law School during January.
Alston Associate Chair in Corporate Law Lindsey Simon was featured on Law.com regarding the 3M/Aearo Technologies' combat ear plugs litigation. The article titled "Earplug lawyers: Talc Dismissal 'Knocks the Props Out' of 3M Bankruptcy" was written by Amanda Bronstad and published 2/3/23.