Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
Assistant Clinical Professor and Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation Clinic Director Emma M. Hetherington published "Access to the civil court system for survivors of child sexual abuse in Georgia: Observations and recommendations from the clinical legal education experience" in 53 Georgia Law Review Online 35 (2019) (with M. Nunnally (J.D.'19)).
Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch was featured on Bloomberg Law regarding the Mallinckrodt opioid settlement. The article titled "Company to pay $24 million and donate $6 million in products" was written by Chris Dolmetsch, Jef Feeley and Riley Griffin and was published 9/6/19.
University Professor & Kilpatrick Chair of Corporate Finance and Securities Law Usha Rodrigues was featured in Law360 regarding the duty of a board of directors to monitor a company's activities. The article titled "Why Opioid Suits Avoid GCs - And Why That Could Change" was written by Michele Gorman and published 9/6/19.
Georgia Athletic Association Professor David E. Shipley was appointed to a three-year term as the NCAA Infractions Appeals Committee representative on the new five-member Infractions Referral Committee. The IRC is charged with approving or rejecting requests to transfer infractions cases to the new independent accountability resolution structure that was established by the NCAA in response to the Rice Commission Report. The appointment was effective August 1, 2019.
Distinguished Research Professor & Shackelford Distinguished Professor in Taxation Law Emeritus Walter Hellerstein published "US Experience and Recent Developments in the Collection of Tax on Online Sales" in CJEU: Recent Developments in Value Added Tax 2018 (M. Lang, et al., eds.) (Linde, 2019).