Assistant Professor Meighan Parker participated in the “Navigating Telehealth’s Crossroads: Access, Quality, and the Push for Parity” panel discussion during the 48th Annual Health Law Professors Conference held at Boston University in June.
UGA Interim Vice Provost for Academic Affairs & Kirbo Chair Elizabeth Weeks presented “Healthism and Invisible Conditions” as part of the “Health Discrimination & Civil Rights” panel during the 48th Annual Health Law Professors Conference held at Boston University in June.
Post Professor Pamela Foohey presented her forthcoming co-authored book Debt’s Grip: Risk and Consumer Bankruptcy (University of California Press, 2025) as part of the “New Books in Health Law & Reproductive Justice” panel during the 48th Annual Health Law Professors Conference in June.
Assistant Professor Assaf Harpaz was featured in Newsweek regarding states that waive property taxes for senior citizens. The article titled “Map Shows States Exempting Elderly People From Paying Property Taxes” was written by Giulia Carbonaro and published 6/2/25.
Brumby Distinguished Professor in First Amendment Law Sonja R. West presented as part of a panel titled “The Future of Press Freedom” at the Democracy, Law, and Independent Journalism conference held at the University of Oxford in June.
Congratulations to 1999 alumnus Christopher P. "Chris" Twyman on becoming president of the State Bar of Georgia. He also serves as managing partner and leads the litigation practice at the law firm Cox Byington Twyman based in Rome, Georgia.
Distinguished Research Professor & Shackelford Distinguished Professor in Taxation Law Emeritus Walter Hellerstein's treatise State Taxation was cited by the Wisconsin Court of Appeals regarding federal Public Law 86-262.
This fall, the School of Law will proudly welcome four new faculty members - Chaffin Chair of Fiduciary Law Victoria J. Haneman, Alston Chair in Corporate Law Anne M. Tucker, Professor William Ortman and Assistant Professor Eileen R. Prescott. Hanenman will lead classes in the areas of trusts and estates and securities litigation, while Tucker will teach Corporations and Corporate Governance. Ortman will teach Evidence, and Prescott will instruct in the area of criminal law.
Regents' Professor of International Law & Woodruff Chair in International Law Diane Marie Amann published “Inge Viermetz, Woman Acquitted at Nuremberg” in 19 FIU Law Review 487 (2025).
Brumby Distinguished Professor in First Amendment Law Sonja R. West presented as part of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights Comparative Media Law Workshop at the University of Oxford.
Regents' Professor of International Law & Woodruff Chair in International Law Diane Marie Amann presented “Justice for Child-Taking and Other Crimes against and affecting Children” online as part of the 24th Specialization Course in International Criminal Law for Young Penalists held at the Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights in Italy during May.
Congratulations to Foreign and International Law Librarian Anne Burnett for receiving the 2025 Daniel L. Wade Outstanding Service Award from the American Association of Law Libraries Foreign, Comparative and International Law Special Interest Section, honoring her outstanding leadership, notable service and encouragement of others in the field.
Clinical Associate Professor & Business Law Clinic Director Willow Tracy published “Values-Ambiguous Clinics” in 31 Clinical Law Review 379 (2025).
Assistant Professor Thomas E. Kadri co-authored “Evaluating and Extending Techniques for Fine-Grained Text-Topic Prediction for Digital Forensic Data” which was published in Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime (Springer, 2025).
Emerging Scholar Shanée Brown published “What’s in a Name? Policing, Juliet” in 78 SMU Law Review Forum 38 (2025).
Post Professor Pamela Foohey presented “The Chapter 13 Storybook” (forthcoming) as part of a panel titled “Bankruptcy, Insolvency, and Place” at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting in Chicago during May.
Congratulations to Associate Director for Research Services Sarah C. Slinger on being awarded the 2025 Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award by the American Association of Law Libraries for Complete Periodical Literature of Law Librarianship (with M.J. Slinger). This award honors original works that represent “meaningful advancement of law librarianship.”
Assistant Professor Assaf Harpaz presented “Artificial Intelligence and Taxpayer Entity” at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting in Chicago during May. Additionally, he chaired a panel on local governments and tax benefits.
Twenty students are studying abroad this summer as part of the Dean Rusk International Law Center’s Global Governance Summer School with 15 of the participants being part of the School of Law’s J.D. program. The focus of this year’s for-credit program, operated in partnership with the Leuven Centre for Global Governance, is comparative constitutional law. Site visits will include NATO, the European Parliament, the European Commission, the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice and other international governance offices.
This summer, 24 School of Law students are gaining global practice experience with the Global Externships Overseas program through the school’s Dean Rusk International Law Center. They will enhance their legal studies by working in a variety of private and public legal settings with placements based in Asia, Australasia, Europe and the Americas.