Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
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 Jones v. State and by the Supreme Court of Georgia in the case Corley v. State. These citations mark the 48th and 49th Georgia appellate court decisions wherein the courts utilized Carlson's book to resolve evidentiary issues.
Professor Joseph S. Miller presented "'Justice X, dissenting': A Citation-Network Approach to Mapping Judicial Ideology" as part of the University of Virginia Law School's OWCAL (On-Line Workshop in Computational Analysis of Law) forum. Dr. Sofia Amaral-Garcia, a law and economics professor at KU Leuven (Belgium), served as the discussant for his paper. The meeting took place virtually using Zoom so attendees from Europe and across the United States could participate.
Adjunct Professor Titus T. Nichols was featured on Fox News regarding foreign governments being immune to lawsuits from citizens. The article titled "How China can be held legally accountable for coronavirus pandemic" was written by Hollie McKay and published 3/21/20.
University Professor & Kilpatrick Chair of Corporate Finance and Securities Law Usha Rodrigues was featured in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution regarding indicators of insider trading. The article titled "Loeffler among senators whose stock trading during coronavirus raises questions" was written by Tia Mitchell and published 3/20/20.
Distinguished Research Professor & Shackelford Distinguished Professor in Taxation Law Emeritus Walter Hellerstein published "The Application of Formulary Apportionment to Related Entities: Lessons from the US Experience" in The Allocation of Multinational Business Income: Reassessing the Formulary Apportionment Option (Wolters Kluwer, 2020) (R. Krever and F. Vaillancourt, eds.).