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2008

May 2008
Laurie Fowler was recently selected as a finalist for Campus Compact’s 2008 Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning.
 
Walter Hellerstein, MeadWestvaco and the Scope of the Unitary Business Principle, 108 Journal of Taxation 261 (2008)
 
Ronald L. Carlson was quoted in the Athens Banner-Herald regarding the probability of Georgia's death row inmate William Mark Mize, an Athens area man, being put to death next year.
 
Thomas A. Eaton was quoted in The Macon Telegraph regarding the possible implications of a letter the U.S. Department of Justice sent to the city of Macon, Ga., which warned that it could sue the city for allegedly misusing federal grant money.
 
Walter Hellerstein was named the most influential academic in state and local taxation in a survey conducted by State Tax Notes.
 
E. Ann Puckett was quoted in The Augusta Chronicle regarding accommodating students with health disorders in public institutions.
 
Ronald L. Carlson was quoted in The Mercury News regarding Chinese crew members from the Cosco Busan cargo ship having to stay in the U.S. because they are witnesses in a criminal case against the ship's pilot, John Joseph Cota.
 
Paul J. Heald, speaker, "Testing the Over- and Under-Exploitation Hypotheses: Bestselling Musical Compositions (1913-32) and Their Use in Cinema (1968-2007)," the University of Bournemouth and Birkbeck College, May, 2008
 
Robert P. Bartlett, speaker, "Going Private But Staying Public: Reexamining the Effect of Sarbanes-Oxley on Firms' Going-Private Decisions," the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Law and Economics Association, May, 2008
 

April 2008
Alan Watson, speaker, on his relationship with Nazi jurists after World War II, at the University of Warsaw in Poland, April, 2008
 
Alan Watson, speaker, on comparative law as an academic discipline at the universities of Krakow and Warsaw in Poland, April, 2008
 
Sonja R. West, Sanctionable Conduct: How the Supreme Court Stealthily Opened the Schoolhouse Gate, 12 Lewis & Clark Law Review 27 (2008) (symposium issue)
 
Ronald L. Carlson was quoted in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution regarding whether or not Cobb County Superior Court Judge James G. Bodiford should step down from presiding over the Brian Nichols case.
 
Lonnie T. Brown, speaker, "'No Comment' or 'Anything Goes'--Trial Publicity Under the ABA Canons and Model Rules", ABA 2008 Ethics Centennial Symposium in Washington, D.C., April 18, 2008
 
Walter Hellerstein was quoted on Bloomberg.com regarding the U.S. Supreme Court's upcoming ruling on Kentucky's tax break on municipal-bond interest.
 
Tara J. Melish (visiting professor), speaker, "The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities," Framing Legal and Human Rights Strategies for Change: A Case Study of Disability Rights in Asia, the University of Washington School of Law, April, 2008
 
In its recent opinion in Meadwestvaco Corp. v. Illinois Department of Revenue (No. 06-1413, April 15, 2008), the U.S. Supreme Court made three references to Professor Walter Hellerstein's treatise (State Taxation (3d ed. 2001-2005)) and two references to his article (State Taxation of Corporate Income from Intangibles: Allied-Signal and Beyond, 48 Tax L. Rev. 739 (1993)), in holding that a nonunitary division could not serve an "operational function" in a taxpayer's unitary business.
 
Anne P. Dupre, speaker, "Student Press and the School Censor", Univeristy of Cincinnati conference Education Law Stories: The People and Principles Behind Education's Most Contentious Legal Controversies, April, 2008
 
Visiting Professor Tara J. Melish will deliver a talk on international litigation techniques at the The United States and the Inter-American Human Rights System Conference, as well as participate in the Experts Meeting on the Evolving Inter-American Human Rights System, at Columbia Law School in April.
 
Robert P. Bartlett, Taking Finance Seriously: How Debt Financing Distorts Bidding Outcomes in Corporate Takeovers, 76 Fordham Law Review 1975 (2008)
 
Harlan Cohen, panelist, The Individual and Customary International Law Formation Conference, Indiana University, April, 2008
 

March 2008
Erica J. Hashimoto was featured in the Fulton County Daily Report regarding her research on self-representation.
 
Erica J. Hashimoto was quoted in USA Today regarding defendants who choose to represent themselves.
 
Walter Hellerstein, Is "Internal Consistency" Dead?: Reflections on an Evolving Commerce Clause Restraint on State Taxation, 61 Tax Law Review 1 (2008)
 
Jason M. Solomon, Law and Governance in the 21st Century Regulatory State, 86 Texas Law Review 819 (2008)
 
Tara J. Melish (visiting professor), speaker, "Economic and Social Rights," Georgetown University, March, 2008
 
Alan Watson, "Law and Society" in Beyond Dogmatics: Law and Society in the Roman World (J. Cairns and P. du Plessis, eds.) (Edinburgh University Press, 2007)
 
Sonja R. West was recently named the recipient of the 2008 Distinguished Alumni Award for the Pleasant Valley Community School District and will be inducted into Pleasant Valley High School's "Wall of Honor," which recognizes current and past students for their academic achievements and contributions to society.
 
Usha Rodrigues, The Fetishization of Independence, 33 Journal of Corporation Law 447 (2008)
 
Ronald L. Carlson was quoted in the Athens Banner-Herald regarding the law of self-defense.
 
Robert P. Bartlett's article "Going Private But Staying Public: Reexamining the Effect of Sarbanes-Oxley on Firms' Going-Private Decisions" was discussed in The New York Times DealBook blog.
 
Robert P. Bartlett, speaker, "Going Private But Staying Public: Reexamining the Effect of Sarbanes-Oxley on Firms' Going-Private Decisions", Boston College Law School, March, 2008
 
Alan A. Cook was quoted in the Walker County Messenger regarding the prosecution of online predators as it relates to Georgia House Bill 1214.
 
Walter Hellerstein, speaker, "ECJ & Direct Taxation," Symposium on European Union Tax Policy at New York University, March, 2008 (with G. Kofler and R. Mason)
 
James M. Donovan, Legal Anthropology: An Introduction (AltaMira Press, 2008)
 
Erica J. Hashimoto will be guest blogging with Concurring Opinions during the month of March.
 
Peter A. Appel was quoted in the Chattanooga Times Free Press regarding the state of Georgia's efforts to move its border north in order to claim a part of the Tennessee River.
 

February 2008
Thomas A. Eaton was quoted in the Fulton County Daily Report regarding Georgia Senate Bill 449, the Landowners Protection Act.
 
Anne P. Dupre, "The Story of Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier: Student Press and the School Censor" in Education Law Stories (M. Olivas and R. Schenider, eds.) (Foundation Press, 2008)
 
Tara J. Melish (visiting professor), speaker, "Maximum Feasible Participation of the Poor: New Governance, New Accountability, and the Rise of National Poverty Hearings," the Junior International Law Scholars Association (JILSA) annual conference, February, 2008
 
Walter Hellerstein, speaker, "Consumption Taxation of Cross-border Trade in Services in an Age of Globalization," Queen's University symposium on Globalization and the Impact of Tax on International Investments, February, 2008
 
Jason M. Solomon, Judging Plaintiffs, 60 Vanderbilt Law Review 1749 (2007)
 
Lonnie T. Brown was quoted in Columns regarding his experience as the first person selected as an UGA Administrative Fellow.
 
Jamie Baker Roskie, speaker, "Local Watershed Protection Ordinances 101: How Nonprofit Organizations Can Benefit From Model Ordinances", Georgia River Network Conference, Rome, GA, February, 2008
 
Tara J. Melish (visiting professor), speaker, "Conventional Thinking: How International Conventions Effect Human Rights at Home," at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Conference on Race, Class, Gender and Ethnicity: Bringing Human Rights Home, February, 2008
 
Ronald L. Carlson was quoted in The Atlanta Journal Constitution regarding the decision not to pursue the death sentence in the trial of Gary Michael Hilton.
 

January 2008
Ronald L. Carlson was quoted in the Fulton County Daily Report regarding DeKalb County Superior Court Senior Judge Hilton M. Fuller Jr.'s decision to step down from the Brian Nichols' trial.
 
Walter Hellerstein, speaker, "The European Commission's Proposed Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base," the Tax Executive Institute's European Chapter Winter Conference, January, 2008 (with C. Staringer)
 
Ronald L. Carlson was quoted in The Gainesville Times regarding the possibility of a guilty plea from Gary Michael Hilton.
 
Walter Hellerstein was cited in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel regarding his opinion on Florida's portability provision.
 
Jamie Baker Roskie, Adequate Public Facilities Ordinances: A Comparison of Their Use in Georgia and North Carolina, 15 Southeastern Environmental Law Journal 345 (2007) (with J. Blasingame Custer)
 
David E. Shipley, Congressional Authority Over Intellectual Property Policy After Eldred v. Ashcroft: Deference, Empty Limitations, and Risks to the Public Domain, 70 Albany Law Review 1255 (2007) (symposium issue)
 
Daniel M. Bodansky, speaker, "The Future of the International Climate Change Regime: The Post-Bali Picture," Focus the Nation, January, 2007
 
Walter Hellerstein was cited by the president of Florida TaxWatch in an Associated Press article for his legal analysis on portability in the state of Florida.
 
R. Perry Sentell Jr., Georgia Local Government Law, 59 Mercer Law Review 285 (2007)
 
Carol A. Watson, Carpe Diem: Establish an Institutional Repository for Your Organization, LLRX.com (2007)
 
Daniel M. Bodansky, speaker, "Is There an International Environmental Constitution?", the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research workshop on Global Constitutionalism: Process and Substance, January, 2007
 
Ronald L. Carlson was quoted in USA Today regarding delays in the Brian Nichols case as well as an alleged breakout plot.
 
Harlan G. Cohen, Finding International Law: Rethinking the Doctrine of Sources, 93 Iowa Law Review 65 (2007)
 
Michael L. Wells, "Sociological Legitimacy" in Supreme Court Opinions, 64 Washington and Lee Law Review 1011 (2007)
 

2007

December 2007
Ronald L. Carlson was quoted in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution regarding proportionality review of death penalty cases by the Georgia Supreme Court.
 
Donald E. Wilkes Jr. was quoted in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution regarding banishment sentences.
 
David E. Shipley, Thin But Not Anorexic: Copyright Protection for Compilations and Other Fact Works, 15 Journal of Intellectual Property Law 92 (2007)
 
Erica J. Hashimoto, The Price of Misdemeanor Representation, 49 William and Mary Law Review 461 (2007)
 
Walter Hellerstein was quoted in an Orlando Sentinel commentary regarding Florida’s “Save Our Homes” tax amendment.
 
Daniel M. Bodansky presented a paper he co-authored titled "Towards an Integrated Multi-Track Climate Framework" at the UN climate change conference, December, 2007
 
C. Ronald Ellington was recently presented with the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association Lifetime Achievement Award.
 
David A. Brennen, The Commerciality Doctrine as Applied to the Charitable Tax Exemption for Homes for the Aged: State and Local Perspectives, 76 Fordham Law Review 833 (2007) (symposium issue)
 
Lonnie T. Brown, Representing Saddam Hussein: The Importance of Being Ramsey Clark, 42 Georgia Law Review 47 (2007)
 
Michael L. Wells, The "Order-of-Battle" in Constitutional Litigation, 60 SMU Law Review 1539 (2007)
 

November 2007
Walter Hellerstein was quoted in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel regarding the portability provision in the state of Florida.
 
Ronald L. Carlson was quoted in The Gainesville Times regarding how being assigned a death penalty case affects a judge's workload.
 
Donald E. Wilkes Jr., State Postconviction Remedies and Relief Handbook, 3d ed. (Thomson/West, 2007-2008)
 
Robert P. Bartlett's article "Taking Finance Seriously: How Debt-Financing Distorts Bidding Outcomes in Corporate Takeovers" was recently listed on SSRN's top 10 download list for entrepreneurship and finance.
 
Margaret V. Sachs, Securities Litigation and Enforcement: Cases and Materials, 2d. ed. (Thomson/West, 2007) (with D. Nagy and R. Painter)
 
David A. Brennen was quoted in the Macon Telegraph regarding donor-advised funds.
 
Robert P. Bartlett, speaker, "Going Private But Staying Public: Reexamining the Effect of Sarbanes-Oxley on Firms’ Going Private Decisions", the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and the University of Georgia Finance Department, November, 2007
 
Donald E. Wikes Jr. was quoted in the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer regarding the possibility of a new trial in the Troy Davis death penalty case.
 
Donald E. Wilkes Jr. was featured in the Savannah Morning News regarding the extraordinary motion for a new trial in the death-penalty case of Troy Anthony Davis who was convicted of killing a Savannah police officer.
 
Peter A. Appel, panelist, "Contemporary Issues in Human-Animal Relations," Animal Instincts: Allegory & Anthropomorphism art exhibit, November, 2007
 
Anne Proffitt Dupre, Blood and Turnips in School Finance Litigation: A Response to Building on Judicial Intervention, 36 Journal of Law and Education 481 (2007) (with J. Dayton)
 
Walter Hellerstein was quoted in an Associated Press article regarding Kentucky's municipal bond case that is being heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.
 
Walter Hellerstein was quoted in The Wall Street Journal regarding the U.S. Supreme Court's upcoming ruling on a case challenging Kentucky's tax break on municipal-bond interest.
 
Paul J. Heald, speaker, "Property Rights and the Efficient Exploitation of Copyrighted Works," the Empirical Legal Scholars Conference, November, 2007
 
Walter Hellerstein was quoted on Bloomberg.com regarding whether the state of Kentucky is violating the Constitution by taxing income earned on out-of-state bonds while exempting interest on ones issued by its own cities.
 
Walter Hellerstein, speaker, "Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Fairness and Simplification Act of 2007," hearing before the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, of the House Committee on the Judiciary, 110th Congress, November, 2007
 
Harold S. Lewis Jr. (visiting professor), speaker, "Mitigating Liability Through Offers of Judgment," State Bar of Georgia's Liability of Local Governments Conference, November, 2007
 
Jamie Baker Roskie, speaker, "How Transferable Development Rights Can Work in Georgia", Chattahoochee Hill Country Conservancy, November, 2007
 

October 2007
Walter Hellerstein was quoted in the St. Petersburg Times regarding the state of Florida's tax cut plan known as portability.
 
Ronald L. Carlson and Donald E. Wilkes Jr. were quoted in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution regarding the handling of the Brian Nichols trial by Superior Court Judge Hilton Fuller.
 
Donald E. Wilkes Jr. wrote an opinion piece for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution regarding the Genarlow Wilson case.
 
Russell C. Gabriel was quoted in an Associated Press article regarding the creation of a legislative panel to review how Superior Court Judge Hilton Fuller has handled the Brian Nichols case.
 
Lonnie T. Brown Jr. co-authored an article that appeared in the Athens Banner-Herald regarding the University of Georgia's efforts to conserve water.
 
Daniel M. Bodansky, "Targets and Timetables: Good Policy but Bad Politics?" in Architectures for Agreement: Addressing Global Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto World (J. Aldy and R. Stavins, ed.) (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
 
Walter Hellerstein was quoted in Barron's regarding the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the topic of tax-free treatment of interest from in-state bonds.
 
Peter A. Appel, speaker, "Changing Intellectual Property and Corporate Legal Structures to Promote the U.S. Environmental Management and Technology Systems Industry," Boston College's The Greening of the Corporation Symposium, October, 2007 (with School of Law third-year student R. Irvin)
 
Walter Hellerstein was quoted in The Bond Buyer regarding whether or not the U.S. Supreme Court should uphold a lower court ruling against preferential state tax treatment of municipal bonds in the case Davis v. Kentucky.
 
Daniel M. Bodansky, speaker, "The Role of International Law in Addressing Climate Change," the American Branch of the International Law Association's International Law Weekend, October, 2007
 
Lonnie T. Brown Jr., expert commentator, "Lawyering at the Edge: Unpopular Clients, Difficult Cases, Zealous Advocates," a legal ethics conference sponsored by the Hofstra University School of Law, October, 2007
 
Lonnie T. Brown Jr. was quoted in The Red and Black regarding the Ad-Hoc University Task Force on Water Resources created by the University of Georgia to study the water shortage.
 
Ronald L. Carlson was quoted in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution regarding the seven-year delay of the trial of a man accused of the molestation of three teenage boys.
 
Ronald L. Carlson was quoted in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution regarding the death sentence review of Jack Alderman, a man convicted of killing his wife for life insurance proceeds.
 
Donald E. Wilkes Jr., speaker, "The Nightmare With No End," Fall Into Athens Anti-War Rally, October, 2007
 
Donald E. Wilkes Jr. wrote an opinion piece featured in theAthens Banner-Herald regarding proposed legislation to reform Georgia police eyewitness identification procedures.
 
Walter Hellerstein, panelist, "Municipal Bonds, State Income Taxes, and Interstate Commerce: Davis v. Kentucky Department of Revenue," American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research Event, October, 2007
 
Anne Proffitt Dupre has been selected to serve as a UGA senior teaching fellow. She is one of eight faculty members selected campus-wide for this honor that recognizes dedicated teaching scholars and values the synergistic relationship between teaching, research and service.
 
Sarajane N. Love was quoted in The Red and Black regarding the findings of a gender equity report done by the University of Georgia that sought to determine whether differences exist between male and female faculty members' salaries.
 
Daniel M. Bodansky, speaker, "International Sectoral Approaches in a Post-Kyoto Climate Framework," workshop in Tokyo, Japan, sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Japanese Business Federation (Keidanren), October, 2007
 
Sonja R. West, The Story of Me: The Underprotection of Autobiographical Speech, 84 Washington University Law Review 905 (2006)
 
Alan A. Cook was quoted in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution regarding the various ideas on death penalty reform.
 

September 2007
Alexander W. Scherr has received a $100,000 National Science Foundation grant to conduct qualitative research titled “Legalizing Community: Lawyers and Citizen Activism in Neighborhood Disputes,” in which he will study the impact that legal practices have on the formation of community identity. Scherr is the first full-time UGA law professor to receive a grant from the NSF.
 
Anne Proffitt Dupre recently moderated a forum on "Campus Free Speech" at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
 
Anne Proffitt Dupre, speaker, "Youth Rights Inside and Outside of School," the American Bar Association's National Law-Related Education Leadership Conference in New Orleans, September, 2007
 
J. Randy Beck's paper "Where's the Syllogism?: Gonzales, Casey and the Viability Rule" was recently listed on SSRN's top 10 download list for law and positive political theory.
 
Alan A. Cook was quoted in an Associated Press article regarding adequate defense funding in the Brian Nichols case.
 
Alan A. Cook was quoted in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution regarding the death penalty in armed-robbery murder cases.
 
Daniel M. Bodansky, speaker, "The International Climate Regime Post-Kyoto: An Integrated, Multi-Track Framework," University of Toronto, September, 2007
 
Donald E. Wilkes Jr., Federal Postconviction Remedies and Relief Handbook, 5th ed. (Thomson/West, 2007-2008)
 
Alan A. Cook was quoted in The Florida Times-Union regarding a physician arrested under Georgia's felony murder law.
 
E. Ann Puckett, speaker, "How Potential Employers Approach Disability: A Survey of Law Students in Georgia," Emory University's Conference on Ethics and Professionalism: Lawyers and Disability, September, 2007
 
Dan T. Coenen wrote an article featured in The Red and Black regarding the merits and success of the Constitution.
 
C. Ronald Ellington led a panel discussion on "Universal Standard of Civility in the Legal Profession" as part of the Federal Bar Association Annual Meeting and Convention, September, 2007.
 
Thomas A. Eaton led a panel discussion on "Civil Rights in the South" as part of the Federal Bar Association Annual Meeting and Convention, September, 2007.
 
Erica J. Hashimoto was featured on HDNet's "World Report" regarding the Genarlow Wilson case.
 
Paul J. Heald, speaker, "Property Rights and the Efficient Exploitation of Copyrighted Works," Waseda University in Tokyo, September, 2007.
 
Lonnie T. Brown Jr., "Lawyers" not "Liars": A Modified Traditionalist Approach to Teaching Legal Ethics, 51 Saint Louis University Law Journal 1119 (2007)
 
David A. Brennen, Foreword: Introducing the Law of Nonprofit Organizations and Philanthropy, 41 Georgia Law Review 1099 (2007) (symposium issue)
 
Russell C. Gabriel was quoted in the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer regarding a case where a man was charged with attempted child molestation after founders of the Web site Perverted-Justice.com posed as a young girl and solicited him.
 
Donald E. Wilkes Jr. was quoted in the Los Angeles Daily Journal regarding shifting the responsibility of making decisions that affect the death penalty from the federal court to the U.S. attorney general.
 
David E. Shipley, Milner S. Ball: Proof That One Professor Can Make a Difference, 41 Georgia Law Review 753 (2007)
 
Rebecca Hanner White, Milner Ball: Mentor, Teacher, and Friend, 41 Georgia Law Review 743 (2007)
 
Paul J. Heald, Meeting of the Minds, Part II: A Dark and Angry God Arises, 41 Georgia Law Review 849 (2007)
 
J. Randy Beck, The Essential Holding of Casey: Rethinking Viability, 75 UMKC Law Review 713 (2007)
 
C. Ronald Ellington, Milner Ball: My Student, My Teacher, 41 Georgia Law Review 749 (2007)
 

August 2007
Ronald L. Carlson and David E. Shipley were quoted in the Athens Banner-Herald regarding a potential candidate for the U.S. attorney general's post.
 
Russell C. Gabriel and Donald E. Wilkes Jr. were quoted in the Macon Telegraph regarding no-knock warrants.
 
Harold S. Lewis Jr. (visiting professor), Rule 68 Offers of Judgment: The Practices and Opinions of Experienced Civil Rights and Employment Discrimination Attorneys, 241 Federal Rules Decisions 332 (2007) (with Thomas A. Eaton)
 
Thomas A. Eaton, Rule 68 Offers of Judgment: The Practices and Opinions of Experienced Civil Rights and Employment Discrimination Attorneys, 241 Federal Rules Decisions 332 (2007) (with Harold S. Lewis Jr.)
 
Ronald L. Carlson was featured on WSB Atlanta 750 AM where he discussed the question "Was Michael Vick Right to Plead Guilty?"
 
Travis M. Trimble, Environmental Law, Eleventh Circuit Survey, 58 Mercer Law Review 1203 (2007)
 
Ronald L. Carlson was featured on WRFC 960 AM regarding the next legal moves in the Michael Vick case.
 
Ronald L. Carlson was featured on WSB-TV with reporter Tom Regan regarding what the guilty pleas by two of Michael Vick’s former friends will mean to the case against Vick.
 
E. Ann Puckett's Uniform Commercial Code Confidential Drafts: Issued by the American Law Institute and the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws through the 1977 Revisions of Article 8 has been selected for inclusion in Hein Online (2007) (with E. Slusser Kelly)
 
Ronald L. Carlson was quoted on CNN Radio and was featured on WGAU 1340-AM regarding the Michael Vick case.
 
Alan A. Cook was quoted on The Morning Edition of NPR radio regarding a case where a comic book store owner is on trial for whether or not he willfully gave a comic book depicting nudity to a child.
 
Dan T. Coenen, The Story of "The Federalist": How Hamilton and Madison Reconceived America (Twelve Tables Press, 2007)
 
Harlan G. Cohen's paper "Finding International Law: Rethinking the Doctrine of Sources" was recently listed on SSRN's top 10 download list for international law and trade journals.
 
Sonja R. West has authored an article regarding the U.S. Supreme Court's rulings this past term in the National Law Journal.
 
Erica J. Hashimoto, Reflections on Hope, 41 Georgia Law Review 843 (2007)
 
Dan T. Coenen, The Future of Footnote Four, 41 Georgia Law Review 797 (2007)
 

July 2007
E. Ann Puckett and Maureen A. Cahill, speakers, "A Friendly Game of Tag: Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in Law Libraries", American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting, July, 2007
 
David A. Brennen is quoted in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution regarding the consequences of an organization falsely claiming nonprofit status.
 
Ronald L. Carlson and Donald E. Wilkes Jr. are quoted in The Christian Science Monitor regarding the Georgia Supreme Court hearing of the Genarlow Wilson case.
 
Paul M. Kurtz and Donald E. Wilkes Jr. are quoted in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution regarding B.J. Bernstein's (J.D. '87) decision to create media buzz in the Genarlow Wilson case.
 
James C. Smith, Real Estate Transactions: Problems, Cases, and Materials, 3d ed. (Aspen Publishers, 2007) (with R. Malloy)
 
Alan A. Cook is quoted by the Associated Press regarding the implications of the release of a tape that show underage teens engaging in sex acts.
 
Donald E. Wilkes Jr. spoke with the Associated Press regarding the denial of a death row inmate's bid to halt his execution.
 
Donald E. Wilkes Jr. is quoted in the Fulton County Daily Report concerning a Douglas County Superior Court judge's decision to deny bond to Genarlow Wilson while he is awaiting his appeal.
 
David A. Brennen, The Tax Law of Charities and Other Exempt Organizations: Cases, Materials, Questions and Activities, 2d ed. (Thomson/West, 2007) (with D. Jones, S. Willis and B. Moran)
 
Donald E. Wilkes Jr.’s books State Postconvention Remedies and Relief and Federal Postconvention Remedies and Relief were cited several times in Lott v. State, a recent Montana Supreme Court decision.
 

June 2007
Donald E. Wilkes Jr. is quoted in the Los Angeles Daily Journal regarding a California judge granting a defendant a new trial due to ineffective assistance of counsel.
 
Anne Proffitt Dupre's article Should Students Have Constitutional Rights? Keeping Order in the Public Schools (65 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 49, 50 (1996)) was quoted in Justice Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion in Morse v. Frederick.
 
Jamie Baker Roskie, Transferable Development Rights, May/June 2007 Georgia County Government 66 (Association County Commissioners of Georgia, 2007) (with D. Jacobson)
 
Russell C. Gabriel is quoted in the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer regarding the constitutionality of police actions in a suspected drug dealer case.
 
Donald E. Wilkes Jr. is quoted in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution regarding the authority a Monroe County Superior Court judge had to order Genarlow Wilson's release.
 
Donald E. Wilkes Jr. weighed in with an op-ed piece in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on the appeal made by Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker in the Genarlow Wilson case.
 
Ronald L. Carlson wrote an op-ed piece for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution regarding Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker's appeal in the Genarlow Wilson case.
 
Paul J. Heald, Transaction Costs and Patent Reform, 23 Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal 447 (2007)
 
Ronald L. Carlson is quoted in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution regarding the recent actions of the prosecution in the Genarlow Wilson case.
 
Donald E. Wilkes Jr. is quoted in the Fulton County Daily Report regarding the application of habeas corpus to the Genarlow Wilson Case.
 
Ronald L. Carlson is quoted in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution regarding the legal precedent being set by the release of Genarlow Wilson ordered by Monroe County Superior Court Judge Thomas H. Wilson.
 
Usha Rodrigues, The Seductive Comparison of Shareholder and Civic Democracy, 63 Washington and Lee Law Review 1389 (2007)
 
Ronald L. Carlson, Adjudication of Criminal Justice, 2d ed. (Thomson/West, 2007) (with D. Brown and S. Crump)
 

May 2007
Michael L. Wells is quoted in the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer regarding an upcoming defamation suit.
 
Lonnie T. Brown Jr.'s paper "Representing Saddam Hussein: The Importance of Being Ramsey Clark" was recently listed on SSRN's top 10 download list for international, transnational and comparative criminal law.
 
Alan Watson has been appointed co-editor in chief of the international edition of the journal Annals of the Faculty of Law in Belgrade.
 
Ronald L. Carlson, Evidence: Teaching Materials for an Age of Science and Statutes, 6th ed. (LexisNexis, 2007) (with E. Imwinkelried, E. Kionka and K. Strachan)
 
C. Donald Johnson, director of the Dean Rusk Center, is quoted in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution regarding a Chinese business delegation's visit to Atlanta.
 
Jamie Baker Roskie, speaker, "Georgia Land Use Law", Planning for Quality Growth Training for the Association County Commissioners of Georgia, May, 2007
 
Donald E. Wilkes, speaker, "President Torture", 29th Athens Human Rights Festival, May, 2007
 
Ronald L. Carlson, speaker, "High Profile Cases and Their Lessons for Law Reform", Forsyth County Bar Association Law Day Program, May 2007
 

April 2007
David A. Brennen, A Diversity Theory of Charitable Tax Exemption - Beyond Efficiency, Through Critical Race Theory, Toward Diversity, 4 Pittsburgh Tax Review 1 (2006)
 
Thomas A. Eaton, Of Frivolous Litigation and Runaway Juries: A View from the Bench, 41 Georgia Law Review 431 (2007)
 
Walter Hellerstein spoke with the Associated Press about a proposed Pennsylvania state tax on oil company profits. He is quoted in Pennsylvania's The Times Leader.
 
Sonja R. West is quoted in the Fulton County Daily Report regarding the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the federal ban on partial-birth abortions.
 
Walter Hellerstein, "The U.S. Supreme Court's State Tax Jurisprudence: A Template for Comparison" in Comparative Fiscal Federalism: Comparing the European Court of Justice and the U.S. Supreme Court's Tax Jurisprudence (R. Avi-Yonah, ed.) (Kluwer Law International, 2007)
 
Ronald L. Carlson is quoted in the Fulton County Daily Report regarding the current process of nominating the next U.S. attorney for Georgia's Southern District.
 
Cathleen S. Wharton, A Practical Guide to Legal Writing and Legal Method, 3d. ed. (Aspen Publishers, 2007) (with John C. Dernbach, Richard V. Singleton II, Joan Ruhtenberg and Catherine J. Wasson)
 
Peter A. Appel is quoted in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution regarding the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling on a case involving the EPA and the Clean Air Act.
 
James F. Ponsoldt, A Comparison Between U.S. and E.U. Antitrust Treatment of Tying Claims Against Microsoft: When Should the Bundling of Computer Software be Permitted?, 27 Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business 421 (2007) (with Christopher D. David)
 

March 2007
David A. Brennen is quoted in The Roanoke Times regarding his testimony in a tax law case involving a retirement community in Virginia.
 
Walter Hellerstein, speaker, "The Constitutionality of U.S. State Tax Incentives", Queen's University's Law and Economic Speakers Series, March, 2007
 
James F. Ponsoldt, The Antitrust Legality of Pharmaceutical Patent Litigation Settlements, University of Illinois Journal of Law, Technology & Policy 37 (2006) (with W. Hennen Ehrenclou)
 
Robert P. Bartlett, speaker, "The Debt Subsidy in the Market for Corporate Control", University of Missouri School of Law, March, 2007
 
Paul M. Kurtz is quoted in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution regarding Judge Hilton Fuller, who is overseeing the case against Brian Nichols.
 
Paul J. Heald's scholarly work is featured in two blogs - the Lessig Blog and the Legal History Blog.
 

February 2007
Daniel M. Bodansky, The Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law (Oxford University Press, 2007) (co-edited with Jutta Brunnee and Ellen Hey)
 
Ronald L. Carlson is quoted in the Augusta Chronicle regarding prison inmates waiting for their constitutionally guaranteed appeal.
 
Sonja R. West is noted in a press release from the Student Press Law Center for writing and filing a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court regarding public school students' expression outside of school.
 
Prosecutorial Clinic Director Alan A. Cook is quoted in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article on the expense of the Brian Nichols murder trial.
 
Walter Hellerstein's panel discussion at a Municipal Analysts Group of New York meeting is quoted by the Los Angeles Times and Reuters news source.
 
María Eugenia Giménez, speaker, "United States Support for Higher Education Partnership Projects in Palestine: A Path Difficult to Tread," Law and Economic Development Conference: Towards Constructive Engagement in the Middle East hosted by Belgium's Vrije Universiteit Brussel, February, 2007.
 
Walter Hellerstein's report on a Florida tax program is referenced in the Tallahassee Democrat and the Daytona Beach News-Journal.
 
Erica J. Hashimoto, Defending the Right of Self-Representation: An Empirical Look at the Pro Se Felony Defendant, 85 North Carolina Law Review 423 (2007)
 
Margaret V. Sachs, Materiality and Social Change: The Case for Replacing "The Reasonable Investor" with "The Least Sophisticated Investor" in Inefficient Markets, 81 Tulane Law Review 473 (2006)
 
Paul J. Heald is featured in The Red and Black on his recent copyright research.
 
Erica J. Hashimoto, The Under-Appreciated Value of Advisory Guidelines, 37 McGeorge Law Review 577 (2006)
 
Paul M. Kurtz, Harold G. Maier: A World Class Fellow Indeed, 39 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1411 (2006)
 
Walter Hellerstein's recent report on the constitutionality of the "portability" provisions of Florida's "Save Our Homes" homestead tax assessment limitation is the focus of an article in the Palm Beach Post.
 
Lonnie T. Brown Jr., A Teacher's Teacher, 39 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1405 (2006)
 
Daniel M. Bodansky, speaker, "The Authority of International Environmental Standards", Arizona State University College of Law, February, 2007
 
Donald E. Wilkes Jr., The Writ of Habeas Corpus in Georgia, 12 Georgia Bar Journal 20 (Feb. 2007)
 
Erwin C. Surrency, speaker, Georgia's legal reforms during the antebellum period, Georgia State University, February, 2007
 

January 2007
Paul J. Heald's paper titled "Property Rights and the Efficient Exploitation of Copyrighted Works: An Empirical Analysis of Public Domain and Copyrighted Fiction Best Sellers" was recently listed on on three of the Social Science Research Network's "Top Ten" download lists.
 
Walter Hellerstein, speaker, lecture on the constitutionality of discriminatory state taxation of municipal bond income, Municipal Analysts Group of New York, February, 2007
 
Walter Hellerstein, speaker, "Federal Constitutional Challenges to State Property Tax Assessment Limitations", Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Mass., February, 2007
 
R. Perry Sentell Jr., Local Government Law, 58 Mercer Law Review 267 (2006)
 
Dan T. Coenen, A Rhetoric for Ratification: The Argument of the Federalist and its Impact on Constitutional Interpretation, 56 Duke Law Journal 469 (2006)
 
Alan Watson, Evoluzione sociale e mutamenti del diritto (the Italian translation of his book Society and Legal Change), 2 ed. (Dott. A. Guiffre, 2006)
 
Edward J. Larson, speaker, "From Dayton to Dover: A Brief History of the Evolution Teaching Controversy in America," 2006-07 Horning Lecture Series at Oregon State University, January, 2007.
 
Daniel M. Bodansky, presenter, paper on the history of the international climate change regime, conference on climate change diplomacy in Geneva, Switzerland, sponsored by the Graduate Institute of International Studies, January, 2007.
 
Margaret V. Sachs has been elected to serve a three-year term on the executive committee of the Section on Business Associations of the Association of American Law Schools.
 
Ronald L. Carlson is quoted in the Forsyth County News regarding the process of jury selection in death penalty trials.
 
Ronald L. Carlson is quoted in the Los Angeles Times on the upcoming Brian Nichols death penalty trial.
 
Donald E. Wilkes Jr. will serve as a panel speaker this month at a forum on a recent Atlanta police shooting.
 
Julian A. Cook, Crumbs from the Master's Table: The Supreme Court, Pro Se Defendants and the Federal Guilty Plea Process, 81 Notre Dame Law Review 1895 (2006)
 

2006

December 2006
Paul J. Heald's empirical work on copyrighted and public domain best sellers is featured in the United Kingdom's Gowers Review of Intellectual Property.
 
J. Randy Beck, Christian Faith and Political Life: A Dialogue, 41 Georgia Law Review 65 (2006)
 
Donald E. Wilkes Jr. is quoted in the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer on "no-knock" search warrants.
 
Michael L. Wells is quoted in the Gainesville Times on the constitutionality of ordinances that have an effect on illegal immigrants.
 
Ronald L. Carlson comments in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on media feed access during recesses of the Scott Davis murder trial.
 
Kim Van der Borght, presenter, "the Judicialization of the WTO Dispute Settlement System", WTO Dislocations and Opportunities symposium at the Southwest University of Political Science and Law in China, December, 2006
 
Ronald L. Carlson is quoted in the Fulton County Daily Report regarding complaints of an unfair advantage in the Scott Davis trial.
 
David E. Shipley is quoted in the Augusta Chronicle regarding possible copyright infringement.
 
Donald E. Wilkes Jr. is quoted in the Athens Banner-Herald regarding the rights of fired government employees.
 
Donald E. Wilkes Jr. is featured in AthensWorld.com regarding a demonstration for Habeas Corpus.
 
John Neiman is quoted in the Red & Black regarding class action lawsuits.
 
Daniel M. Bodansky, speaker, "Response to 'Interplay: Exploring Institutional Interaction,' by Thomas Gehring and Sebastian Oberthur", International Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC) Synthesis Conference in Bali, Indonesia, December, 2006
 

November 2006
James C. Smith, The Problem of Social Cost in a Genetically Modified Age, 58 Hastings Law Journal 87 (2006) (with Paul J. Heald)
 
Paul J. Heald, The Problem of Social Cost in a Genetically Modified Age, 58 Hastings Law Journal 87 (2006) (with James C. Smith)
 
María Eugenia Giménez and Kim Van der Borght will present their paper titled "Exploring Judicial Studies in Europe" at the European Studies Institute at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in December.
 
Donald E. Wilkes Jr. comments in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on "no-knock" search warrants commonly utilized by police in narcotics cases.
 
Donald E. Wilkes Jr., State Postconviction Remedies and Relief Handbook, 2007 ed. (Thomson/West)
 
Daniel M. Bodansky, speaker, "Possible Lessons for the Climate Change Regime from the International Change Regime", 12th Conference of the Parties of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in Nairobi, November, 2006
 
Kim Van der Borght, speaker, regarding the book "Reform and Development of the WTO Dispute Settlement System" (published in early October by Cameron May Publishers), at a Kansas law school, November, 2006
 
Margaret V. Sachs, Women in Corporate Law Teaching: A Tale of Two Generations, 65 Maryland Law Review 666 (2006) (Women and the "New" Corporate Governance symposium issue)
 
Robert P. Bartlett, Venture Capital, Agency Costs, and the False Dichotomy of the Corporation, 54 UCLA Law Review 37 (2006)
 
Professors Robert D. Brussack and James F. Ponsoldt commented in the Fulton County Daily Report regarding anonymous Internet postings and defamation cases.
 

October 2006
David E. Shipley, speaker, "Limitations on Congressional Power after Eldred v. Ashcroft", Albany Law School's Interdisciplinary Conference on the Impact of Technological Change on the Creation, Dissemination and Protection of Intellectual Property, October, 2006
 
Kim Van der Borght, speaker, "Squandering the European Union's 'Mission Civilatrice' in Global Trade", Columbia Law School's European Studies Center, October, 2006
 
Paul J. Heald, speaker, "Public Domain and Copyright Bestsellers from 1913 to 1932", delivered as the Hosier Scholar at DePaul Law School, October, 2006 (This same talk will also be given at Northwestern Law School.)
 
Paul J. Heald, speaker, "Coase, Transaction Costs, and Patent Reform", Santa Clara University's Patent Policy in the Supreme Court and Congress Conference, October, 2006
 
Donald E. Wilkes Jr., Federal Postconviction Remedies and Relief Handbook (Thomson/West, 2006)
 
Camilla E. Watson, Tax Procedure and Tax Fraud, 3d. ed. (Thomson/West, 2006)
 
Alan Watson, The Shame of American Legal Education, 2d ed. (Vandeplas Publishing, 2006)
 
Erwin Surrency, The Work of the Federal Courts in Georgia Over Two Centuries (Eleventh Circuit Historical Society, 2006)
 
Charles R. T. O'Kelley, Corporations and Other Business Associations: Cases and Materials, 5th ed. (Aspen, 2006) (with R. Thompson)
 
Anne P. Dupre, Children and the Law: Cases and Materials, 2d ed. (LexisNexis, 2006) (with M. Gardner)
 


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