Assistant Professor Jonathan Peters was featured in VICE regarding Supreme Court protections for speech. The article titled "Trump Keeps Suing Newspapers Over Opinions He Doesn't Like" was written by David Uberti and published 3/3/20.
Associate Professor & Veterans Legal Clinic Director Alexander W. Scherr's 2003 Hastings Law Journal article was featured on Reason.com regarding diagnosing mental illness and predicting a person's dangerousness. The article titled "After He Found California's Indefinite Detention of Sex Offenders Wasn't Working, the State Shut Him Down and Destroyed His Research" was written by Steven Yoder and published in the April issue.
The Veterans Legal Clinic has successfully helped a veteran and his extended family avoid a winter eviction. The veteran rented a mobile home in August 2018 but soon had problems with the septic system. After numerous requests by the veteran for help, the landlord retaliated with a threat of eviction. Facing a short deadline, the veteran contacted Congressman Jodi Hice's office, which in turn asked the clinic for help. The Veterans Legal Clinic connected the veteran with experienced landlord-tenant attorney and 2014 School of Law graduate Charles M. McCranie at Georgia Legal Services in Athens. This three-way collaboration helped the veteran find the time and the means to arrange stable, long-term housing, without the need for eviction.
Stembler Family Distinguished Professor in Business Law Christopher Bruner presented "Leveraging Corporate Law: A Broader Account of Delaware's Competition" at the Maryland Law Review 2020 symposium titled "Delaware's Emerging Competition and the Future of American Corporate Law" during February. Bruner participated remotely from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa where he is conducting research for a new book.
Stembler Family Distinguished Professor in Business Law Christopher Bruner presented "Private Power and Public Good: Harnessing the Corporation for a Sustainable Future" at the University of the Witwatersrand School of Law in Johannesburg, South Africa, during February. Bruner is currently writing a book on this subject, for which he is conducting research at Witwatersrand.
Hosch Associate Professor Jason Cade presented on a panel titled "Where are We Now? Unpacking Migration's Present" at the inaugural interdisciplinary Immigration Theory Workshop: "Imagining Migration After Populism," held at the University of Houston Law Center during February.
Woodruff Chair in International Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center Diane Marie Amann was one of 12 scholars from around the globe who participated in a roundtable focusing on Justice in Extreme Cases: Criminal Law Theory Meets International Criminal Law, a forthcoming Cambridge University Press title by Professor Darryl Robinson of Queen's University in Ontario. Contributions to the roundtable will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Temple International and Comparative Law Journal.
First Amendment Clinic Director and Clinical Assistant Professor Clare R. Norins presented on the panel "Under Attack: Assault on the First Amendment and an Open, Free and Unfettered Press" at the Georgia Press Institute's Training for Collegiate Print Journalists during February.
Callaway Chair of Law Emeritus Ronald L. Carlson published Carlson's Guide to Evidence Authentication: Essential Foundations for Georgia Advocates (Carlson on Evidence, 2020) (with M. Carlson).
Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch was featured in The Washington Post regarding the role of bankruptcy in multidistrict opioid litigation. The article titled "Drug Manufacturer Mallinckrodt to pay $1.6 billion to settle opioid claims" was written by Katie Zezima and Katie Mettler and published 2/25/20.
Seven School of Law professors have been elected to serve, or are currently serving, on the executive committees of Association of American Law Schools Sections. They are: Cleveland Distinguished Chair of Legal Ethics and Professionalism & Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor Lonnie T. Brown Jr. with the Professional Responsibility Section, Martin Chair Andrea L. Dennis with the Minority Groups Section, Associate Professor Matthew I. Hall with the Federal Courts Section, Associate Professor Fazal R. Khan with the Law, Medicine and Health Care Section, Hosch Professor Lori A. Ringhand with the Constitutional Law Section, University Professor & Kilpatrick Chair of Corporate Finance and Securities Law Usha Rodrigues with the Securities Regulation Section and Associate Dean for Faculty Development & Kirbo Chair Elizabeth Weeks with the Associate Deans for Academic Affairs and Research Section.
Metadata Services Librarian Rachel S. Evans presented "Apps for Actionable Workflows: Tools to Stay In the Loop and On Top of Tasks" as part of the online conference "Work Smarter, Not Harder: Innovating Technical Services Workflows" managed by the Amigos Library Services organization.
Metadata Services Librarian Rachel S. Evans presented her favorite web-based applications and smartphone apps at the Atlanta Law Librarians Association meeting at the DeKalb County Courthouse Law Library (with G. Kalim).
Distinguished Research Professor & Shackelford Distinguished Professor in Taxation Law Emeritus Walter Hellerstein presented "The US Internal Revenue Service Gig Economy Tax Center" at the meeting of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Technical Advisory Group to Working Party No. 9 on Consumption Taxes in Paris during February.
Student Services Librarian Geraldine Kalim presented her favorite web-based applications and smartphone apps at the Atlanta Law Librarians Association meeting at the DeKalb County Courthouse Law Library (with R. Evans).
Hosch Associate Professor Kent Barnett presented his forthcoming Duke Law Journal article "Regulating Impartiality in Agency Adjudication" at the journal's 50th Annual Administrative Law Symposium during February.
Congratulations to third-year students Eleanor "Nora" Brogan and W. Coleman "Cole" McFerren for placing second in the Duke Law Interscholastic Transactional Law Competition. They were scored on their drafting and negotiation skills on behalf of sellers in a complex stock purchase transaction. One judge described the pair as a "powerhouse."
Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch was featured on Salon.com regarding the role Daubert hearings play in mass tort litigation. The article titled "Where science enters the courtroom, the Daubert name looms large" was written by Peter Andrey Smith and published 2/23/20.
Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch was featured in Crain's Cleveland Business regarding a new offer in a proposed settlement in the opioid litigation. The article titled "McKesson dangles $1 billion legal fund to boost opioid deal" was published 2/21/20.
The School of Law's First Amendment Clinic was featured in the Daily Report regarding it seeking to hire its first legal fellow. The article titled "Help Wanted: JD With Passion for First Amendment Law" was written by Katheryn Tucker and published 2/20/20.