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

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Clinical Associate Professor & Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation Clinic Director Emma M. Hetherington was featured on WJCL TV regarding a recently released report on Georgia's foster care system. The segment titled "Foster Care System Failures: How Georgia's foster care system led to abuse of children" was reported by Tia Maggio and aired 4/10/24.

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Clinical Associate Professor & Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation Clinic Director Emma M. Hetherington was featured on WSAV TV regarding a recently released report on Georgia's foster care system. The segment titled "Sen. Ossoff's report on failures of Georgia's foster care system outlines prolific child abuse" was reported by Christine Queally and published 4/9/24.

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Dean Peter B. "Bo" Rutledge and second-year student Genevieve L. Pfister published "Arbitration at the Supreme Court" in the Daily Report on 4/9/24.

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Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch's book Mass Tort Deals: Backroom Bargaining in Multidistrict Litigation was featured in The Legal Intelligencer regarding "repeat players" in multidistrict litigation. The article titled "Ozempic Leadership Fight Escalates: Proposed Co-Leads Are 'Losing Control'" was written by Amanda Bronstad and published 4/8/24. 

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University Professor & Kilpatrick Chair of Corporate Finance and Securities Law Usha Rodrigues was featured on France 24 regarding the Digital World Acquisition Corporation and Trump Media & Technology Group merger. The article titled "Stock listing offers windfall for Trump as bond deadline looms" was published 3/22/24.