Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch was featured in a Reuters article regarding diversity in multidistrict litigation lead counsel appointments. The article titled "'The needle is moving': Another MDL judge cites diversity in lead counsel appointments" was written by Alison Frankel and published 1/25/21.
Assistant Clinical Professor & Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation Clinic Director Emma M. Hetherington presented as part of the CARE Atlanta Global Innovation Hub's Tuesday Talks session titled "Tackling Human Trafficking" during January.
Woodruff Chair in International Law Diane Marie Amann presented as part of "Children of Syria - The Lost Hope," an event discussing the Ninth Annual Report on Violations against Children in Syria issued by the Syrian Network for Human Rights, a nongovernmental organization. Other participants in the event, which was livestreamed via Zoom, included officials from the United Nations and the governments of Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.
Associate Professor Logan E. Sawyer III published "Originalism from the Soft Southern Strategy to the New Right: Constitutional Politics of Sam Ervin Jr" in 33 Journal of Policy History 32 (2021).
Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch's book Mass Tort Deals: Backroom Bargaining in Multidistrict Litigation was review by The New York Review of Books. The article titled "Medicine Is Made for Men" was written by Alexandra D. Lahav and published in the 2/11/21 issue.