Faculty Events

Please join the School of Law community for food, fun and fellowship on Herty Field. Festivities begin at 12 noon. 

Blood drive with the American Red Cross. More details coming soon. 

Tessa Davis is an associate professor of law specializing in taxation and tax policy at the University of South Carolina School of Law. She is a visiting professor here at the UGA School of Law for 2022-2023.  Davis focuses her research on the ways in which tax law and policy are influenced by cultural context. Her research interests include the intersection of tax with many different areas of law, including immigration law, family law, law and technology, and health law.

Visiting from the University of Cambridge, UK, Professor Cheffins holds the chair in corporate law and also does work in business history and law and economics.  This colloquium will be on a Friday.

Susan Provenzano teaches civil procedure, evidence, employment discrimination, and employment law. Her research applies philosophical, linguistic, and rhetorical theories of meaning across the law in pursuit of what she terms “unsolved interpretive mysteries.”

Please note: this is a faculty-only event

Martin Sybblis is a legal sociologist whose research seeks to understand how communities approach business law reforms, especially those that promise economic growth. At the core, his research is driven by an interest in the economic sociology of law and development.

Stratos Pahis specializes in international economic law and the laws of cross-border business. His research encompasses international trade, international investment, sovereign debt, and international arbitration.

Professor Shapiro is the founder and co-director of Chicago-Kent's Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States (ISCOTUS). Her scholarship is largely focused on the institutions of our constitutional democracy, in particular the Supreme Court, and how those institutions interact, and has appeared in law reviews. She teaches classes in constitutional law, legislation and statutory interpretation, and public interest law and policy.

First faculty meeting of the fall term.  Lunch will be served.

Please join us for a discussion with Ambassador Javier Díaz de León, Consul General of Mexico in Atlanta. This event is part of our ongoing Consular Series. Please note, lunch will be available for students on a first-come basis, and no registration is required.