Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:

Veterans Legal Clinic Staff Attorney Katie Becker successfully persuaded the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to award benefits to a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the early 2000s. The veteran's experiences as a combat medic caused him post-traumatic stress disorder, and an explosive blast caused a traumatic brain injury. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs initially denied the veteran benefits, finding no current diagnosis. Using a Veterans Legal Clinic-funded psychologist, Becker obtained an evaluation of the veteran with which she persuaded the VA that the veteran experiences both PTSD and TBI. The decision resulted in a substantial retroactive award and ongoing monthly payments to the veteran.

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Brumby Distinguished Professor in First Amendment Law Sonja R. West will join the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University as a visiting senior research scholar for the 2023-24 academic year. She will work with the University of Utah's RonNell Andersen Jones to "explore how law and policy can better protect journalism and core press functions in the United States." The pair will engage scholars and practitioners in law, media studies, technology, history and political science in a series of regional workshops and blog posts, leading up to a major symposium on the "contours and future of press freedom" to be held spring 2024.

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Assistant Professor Thomas E. Kadri received an Affordable Course Materials Grant for his course titled Regulating Digital Abuse. Awarded by the UGA Provost's office, the purpose of the grant is "to support the transition from costly course materials such as textbooks to educational resources that are free for students or cost less than $40." Notably, this is Kadri's third course materials grant. He previously created learning resources for his torts and cybercrime classes. 

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Associate Professor & Veterans Legal Clinic Director Alexander W. Scherr has been elected to a three-year term on the board of the National Law School Veterans Clinic Consortium. An accredited veterans service organization, the consortium advocates for veterans in judicial, legislative and administrative forums. It also supports veterans clinics in law schools through an annual conference, online resources, and regular seminars and case rounds for students in veterans clinics.

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The University of Georgia School of Law has received a $1.355 million grant from The Stanton Foundation to help reduce the neglect and abuse of dogs. The school’s Practicum in Animal Welfare Skills will use the funding to create resources for animal control personnel, law enforcement, prosecutors, law students, advocates and the general public.