Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch was featured in the Detroit Free Press regarding attorney fees in mass tort settlements. The article titled "Attorneys fees in Flint deal controversial" was written by Paul Egan and published 3/24/21.
Former Prosecutorial Justice Program Director Alan A. Cook and Adjunct Professor Titus Nichols were featured in The Daily Beast regarding false statement charges in legal proceedings related to the 2020 election in Georgia. The article titled "Georgia Prosecutors Eye 'False Statement' Charges for Rudy Giuliani and Team Trump" was written by Jose Pagliery and Asawin Suebsaeng and was published 3/24/21.
Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch was featured in the Detroit Free Press regarding attorney fees in mass tort settlements. The article titled "Concerns mount over attorney fees in Flint water settlement. Here's Why." was written by Paul Egan and published 3/23/21.
Brumby Distinguished Professor in First Amendment Law Sonja R. West presented on the "Interpreting the Press Clause" panel as part of the "Crisis of the Press and Democracy: Saving the Press Function" conference hosted by Yale Law School's Information Society Project during March.
The University of Georgia School of Law is pleased to announce that it will begin offering an undergraduate minor in the fall of 2021. The minor's flexible curriculum is specifically designed for UGA undergraduate students by allowing them to integrate their legal studies with other academic interests and courses of study. There are two required courses that are taught by School of Law faculty - Foundations of American Law and Law, Justice, and the State - while the other three elective courses can be chosen from classes taught by faculty at the law school or other units across the university.
Hosch Professor Joseph S. Miller published "United States Supreme Court IP Cases, 1810-2019: Measuring & Mapping the Citation Networks" in 69 Catholic University Law Review 537 (2020).
Associate Dean and Martin Chair of Law Andrea L. Dennis published "The Music of Mass Incarceration" in 13 Landslide 14 (2020).
Hosch Associate Professor Kent Barnett's article, "Resolving the ALJ Quandary" (66 Vanderbilt Law Review 797 (2013)), was cited in an opinion piece in The New York Times. The op-ed titled "How to Tame the Presidency After Trump" was written by John A. Dearborn, Desmond S. King and Stephen Skowronek and published on 3/16/21.
Callaway Chair of Law Emeritus Ronald L. Carlson was featured in the Daily Report regarding his thoughts on attorney-client privilege in the Hemy Neuman trial. The article titled "Attorney-Client Privilege Takes Center Stage in Case Before Georgia Supreme Court" was written by Cedra Mayfield and published 3/16/21.
Distinguished Research Professor & Shackelford Distinguished Professor in Taxation Law Emeritus Walter Hellerstein published "John Due's Wisdom Only Ripens With Age" in 99 Tax Notes State 1159 (2021) (with C.E. McLure Jr.).
A free virtual legal clinic for Georgia veterans will be held Saturday, March 27, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Veterans in the southern part of Georgia will be able to access the clinic through physical locations located near the southeastern and southwestern Georgia/Florida borders, while veterans from across the state can connect for services via webcam or telephone. The Georgia Veterans Outreach Project provides quick advice and brief service on issues with special relevance to former military members, including veterans and military benefits and other civil legal matters, such as consumer, family, housing, shelter and other civil issues, but not criminal legal issues.
For the third year, the Provost's Affordable Course Materials Grant program will help save students money on course materials, enhance the quality of their learning experience in the classroom and increase their opportunities for success. This semester, 13 faculty members in nine schools and colleges - including the law school's Assistant Professor Thomas E. Kadri and Washington, D.C., Semester in Practice Director Jessica L. Heywood - received funding through the program to transition from costly textbooks to open and affordable educational resources. The grant program is expected to save students more than $155,000 in textbook costs per academic year.
Associate Professor Matthew I. Hall published "The Nature of Standing" in 29 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 67 (2020) (with C. Turner).
Associate Professor Christian Turner published "The Nature of Standing" in 29 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 67 (2020) (with M. Hall).
Callaway Chair of Law Emeritus Ronald L. Carlson's book Carlson on Evidence (with M. Carlson) was recently referenced on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show" as the "definitive guide to Georgia evidence." The segment relating to "Georgia prosecutor investigating Trump hires racketeering expert" aired 3/9/21.
The First Amendment Clinic authored an amicus brief on behalf of 18 law professors challenging North Carolina's Property Protection Act, which prohibits speech based on information obtained from the nonpublic premises of any property owner. Written by clinic Director Clare Norins, third-year student Michael Sloman and second-year student Mark L. Bailey, the brief urges the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to declare the law unconstitutional under the First Amendment because it fails to survive heightened scrutiny and is substantially overbroad.
Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch was featured on Bloomberg Law regarding opioid litigation settlements. The article titled "Two firms lost billions over opioids. CEOs got bonuses anyway." was written by Anders Melin and Jef Feeley and was published 3/3/21.
Congratulations to third-year students Shelby J. Bensinger, Grace B. Callanan, Blake A. Reed and Ashton T. Williams who finished as regional semifinalists in the American Association for Justice National Student Trial Advocacy Competition recently. The AAJ sponsors this annual competition to help law students develop and practice their trial advocacy skills before distinguished members of the bar and bench.
Assistant Professor Thomas E. Kadri was featured on WUGA-FM's "Athens News Matters" regarding cyber abuse. The segment titled "Cyber Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence" was reported by Jessica Wurst and aired 3/5/21.
Diane Marie Amann, holder of the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law at the University of Georgia School of Law, was recently elected to the Council on Foreign Relations. The council is an independent, nonpartisan organization and thinktank that is composed of the most prominent foreign policy leaders, including top government officials, renowned scholars, business executives, acclaimed journalists, prominent lawyers and distinguished nonprofit professionals.