Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
Clinical Assistant Professor & Prosecutorial Justice Program Director Melissa D. Redmon was featured on VICE News regarding her thoughts on suppressed evidence in relation to jury selection in the Ahmaud Arbery murder trial. The article titled "Court Mistakenly Gave Potential Jurors Access to Ahmaud Arbery's Mental Health History" was written by Trone Dowd and published 10/19/21.
Callaway Chair of Law Emeritus Ronald L. Carlson was featured in The New York Times regarding the Ahmaud Arbery Trial. The article titled "In the trial of Ahmaud Arbery's accused killers, unsettling video will have a starring role" was written by Richard Fausset and published 10/17/21. The article was reprinted in the Boston Globe and other media outlets around the country.
Callaway Chair of Law Emeritus Ronald L. Carlson was featured in USA Today regarding the Ahmaud Arbery Trial. The article titled "'Race will be front and center' in Arbery trial" was written by N'dea Yancey-Bragg and was published 10/15/21.
Callaway Chair of Law Emeritus Ronald L. Carlson was featured on ABC News regarding the Ahmaud Arbery Trial. The segment titled "Ahmaud Arbery murder case may evoke Georgia's history on race: Experts" was reported by Bill Hutchinson and aired 10/17/21.
Callaway Chair of Law Emeritus Ronald L. Carlson's book Carlson on Evidence (with M. Carlson) was recently cited by the Georgia Court of Appeals in the case Marshall v. State regarding jury deliberation privacy. This citation brings the total to 60 times that this text has been used by Georgia appellate courts to resolve evidentiary issues.