Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
Metadata Services & Special Collections Librarian Rachel S. Evans presented "From Task Management Apps to Accessible Training and Procedures: Tools and ADA Compliant Tech for Teleworking Librarians" as part of an American Association of Law Libraries Technical Services Special Interest Section webinar series during December (with M. Cheney).
Legal Writing Instructor Jean Mangan was recently awarded a Continuous Improvement Grant from Affordable Learning Georgia, a University System of Georgia initiative to promote student success by supporting the implementation of affordable alternatives to expensive commercial textbooks, particularly Open Educational Resources (OER) and open textbooks. Mangan will use the grant to add, expand and revise chapters in her Legal Writing Manual.
Metadata Services & Special Collections Librarian Rachel S. Evans and Web Developer Leslie Grove presented "Born Digital: The Art of Archiving Photos with Script & Batch Processing" at the Society of Georgia Archivists Annual Meeting during November (with S. Bradley).
Assistant Professor Thomas E. Kadri was featured in the United Kingdom's The Telegraph regarding social media platforms censoring content. The article titled "Mark Zuckerberg set for Republican grilling after Facebook suppresses voter fraud claims en masse" was written by Margi Murphy and Laurence Dodds and was published 11/15/20.
Distinguished Research Professor & Shackelford Distinguished Professor in Taxation Law Emeritus Walter Hellerstein's treatise State Taxation: Third Edition (2020 Rev.) was quoted by the Oregon Tax Court in Comcast Corp. v. Department of Revenue (Nov. 25, 2020).