Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
Interim UGA Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, University Professor & Kilpatrick Chair of Corporate Finance and Securities Law Usha Rodrigues was featured in a Bloomberg article regarding special purpose acquisition companies. The article titled "Richard Branson Reshapes Fortune with SPACs as Investors Torched" was written by Benjamin Stupples and Tom Maloney and was published 7/11/22.
Associate Dean for International Programs & Post Professor Melissa J. "MJ" Durkee virtually presented "The Pledging World Order" (forthcoming in the Yale Journal of International Law) as part of the "International Law, Global and Communities" panel of the hybrid 2022 Annual Conference of ICON•S, the International Society of Public Law, which was held at the University of Wrocław, Poland, during July.
Stembler Family Distinguished Professor in Business Law Christopher M. Bruner presented his new book, The Corporation as Technology: Re-Calibrating Corporate Governance for a Sustainable Future (Oxford University Press, 2022), at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, during July.
Regents' Professor of International Law & Woodruff Chair in International Law Diane Marie Amann published "Ukraine Settlement Options Paper: Children" as part of the Ukraine Settlement Peace Project of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge. The project includes invited articles by experts from around the world on peace-settlement issues ranging from land claims to detainee release. A summary of the article was published on Opinio Juris under the title “Options for a Peace Settlement in Ukraine: Options Paper IX – Children” on 7/1/22.
Clinical Assistant Professor & First Amendment Clinic Director Clare R. Norins was featured in the Georgia Recorder regarding the clinic's amicus brief in the Georgia Supreme Court case involving Camden County’s spaceport project. The article titled “Georgia Supreme Court’s spaceport case pits 1st Amendment vs. county home rule” was written by Stanley Dunlap and published 7/6/22.