Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
Regents' Professor of International Law & Woodruff Chair in International Law Diane Marie Amann presented as part of the “Legal Challenges Posed by the Large-Scale Russian Invasion of Ukraine” conference co-sponsored by the University of Notre Dame Law School and the Ukrainian Catholic University Law School and held during May.
Brock Associate Professor in Professional Responsibility Nathan S. Chapman presented “The Doctrine of Qualified Immunity” and “Judicial Review in the US as a Tradition of Moral Reasoning” as part of the Oxford University Faculty of Law's Programme on Foundations of Law and Constitutional Government during April.
Callaway Chair of Law Emeritus Ronald L. Carlson's book Carlson on Evidence (with M. Carlson) was recently cited by the Georgia Court of Appeals in the case Interest of A. G. regarding the introduction of evidence of a victim's past violent misconduct. This citation brings the total to 63 times that this text has been used by Georgia appellate courts to resolve evidentiary issues.
Brock Associate Professor in Professional Responsibility Nathan S. Chapman's scholarship was recently cited in three U.S. Supreme Court opinions. His 2012 Yale Law Journal article titled “Due Process as Separation of Powers” was cited in Wooden v. United States and in United States v. Vaello-Madero, while his 2017 Washington Law Review article titled "Adjudicating Religious Sincerity" was cited in Ramirez v. Collier.
Clinical Assistant Professor & Prosecutorial Justice Program Director Melissa D. Redmon was featured in The Augusta Chronicle regarding the stopping and searching of a bus of Delaware State University athletes. The article titled "'It was disturbing': Attorneys question Liberty County deputies' search of Delaware State bus" was written by Abraham Kenmore and published 5/12/22. The article was picked up by USA Today and other media outlets.