Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
Associate Dean & Community Health Law Partnership Clinic Director Jason A. Cade presented "Rapid-Response Legal Support for Movements: Seeking Immigration Protections for Organizing Workers" and “Wide Ranging Litigation and Advocacy as Resistance and Resilience in a Law School Clinic” at the Association of American Law Schools' 2024 Conference on Clinical Legal Education during May.
Clinical Assistant Professor & First Amendment Clinic Director Clare R. Norins co-presented “The Privacy Paradox: Balancing Transparency and Privacy in the Quest for Justice” and “Wide Ranging Litigation and Advocacy as Resistance and Resilience in a Law School Clinic” at the Association of American Law Schools' 2024 Conference on Clinical Legal Education during May.
Callaway Chair of Law Emeritus Ronald L. Carlson's book Carlson on Evidence (with M. Carlson) was recently cited by the Georgia Supreme Court in two cases: Sauder v. State to decide whether a statement by a murder case defendant was admissible in his trial and Pittman v. State to define standards for relevant evidence in a malice murder prosecution. These citations bring the total to 74 times that this text has been used by Georgia appellate courts to resolve evidentiary issues.
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Hosch Professor Kent Barnett published "Chevron and Stare Decisis" in 31 George Mason Law Review 475 (2024) (with C.J. Walker).
Brumby Distinguished Professor in First Amendment Law Sonja R. West, who has served as a senior visiting research fellow at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University for the 2023-24 academic year, participated in a symposium focused on her year’s work titled “The Future of Press Freedom: Democracy, Law, and the News in Changing Times.” During the event, West moderated a panel, conducted a Q&A with former Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow and gave closing remarks.