Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
Clinical Assistant Professor & First Amendment Clinic Director Clare R. Norins authored a guest column in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution regarding the recent U.S. Supreme Court Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L. decision addressing whether public schools may constitutionally regulate off-campus student speech. Norins argues that the ruling leaves students and their parents in limbo as to when, exactly, schools can reach outside the school house gate to regulate off-premises expression. The article titled "Public Schools can still wrongly punish off-campus student speech" was published on 6/28/21.
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 Hewell v. State. This citation brings the total to 58 times that this text has been used by Georgia appellate courts to resolve evidentiary issues.
Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch was featured in The Wall Street Journal regarding the latest opioid litigation developments. The article titled "Johnson & Johnson Settles New York Opioid Case for $230 Million" was written by Sara Randazzo and published 6/26/21.
University Professor & Kilpatrick Chair of Corporate Finance and Securities Law Usha Rodrigues was featured in the Financial Times regarding special purpose acquisition companies. The article titled "Dozens of groups brought to market via Spacs to enter key Russell index" was written by Miles Kruppa and Ortenca Aliaj and was published 6/24/21.
Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L. is the first U.S. Supreme Court decision addressing whether public schools may constitutionally regulate off-campus student speech. The Supreme Court's prior student-speech decisions involved speech on school grounds, during school-sponsored events or in school-sponsored publications. The Supreme Court's 8-1 recent decision in Mahanoy allows both sides to claim victory, according to Clare Norins, director of the University of Georgia School of Law's First Amendment Clinic, who also serves as an assistant clinical professor.