The Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation Clinic was featured in the Daily Report regarding its recently published white paper titled "Statute of Limitations for Child Sexual Abuse Civil Lawsuits in Georgia: Update on Case Findings and Opportunities for Reform." The article titled "Grim Findings Mix With Hope in UGA Law Clinic's Child Sex Abuse Report" was written Katheryn Tucker and published 5/3/19.
Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch was featured on Bloomberg regarding the McKesson Corporation's opioid settlement with the state of West Virginia. The article titled "Drug distributor to pay $37 million for mishandling pain drugs" was written by Jef Feeley and published 5/2/19.
Distinguished Research Professor & Shackelford Distinguished Professor in Taxation Law Emeritus Walter Hellerstein presented "The Application of Formulary Apportionment to Related Entities: Lessons from the U.S. Experience" at the Formulary Apportionment Workshop sponsored by the Center for Interuniversity Research and Analysis of Organizations (CIRANO) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, during April.
Associate Professor & Veterans Legal Clinic Director Alexander W. Scherr was selected to be a member of the editorial board of the Clinical Law Review, a semi-annual peer-edited journal devoted to issues of lawyering theory and clinical legal education that is jointly sponsored by the Association of American Law Schools, the Clinical Legal Education Association and the New York University School of Law.
Brumby Distinguished Professor in First Amendment Law Sonja R. West was featured in IMEMC News regarding the censorship of students. The article titled "Twitter May Have Been Bought By Israel" was published 5/2/19.
Hosch Associate Professor Melissa J. Durkee presented "Interstitial Space Law" at Loyola University Chicago during April.
Associate Director of Admissions and Diversity Programs Jenna L. Jackson (J.D.'14) featured on UGA Today for earning a Master of Public Administration from UGA this spring. Of note, her father, John W. Jackson, will deliver the address at the Terry College of Business Convocation during graduation weekend. The article titled "Father, daughter share in graduation celebrations" was written by Sara Freeland and published 5/2/19.
Wilner/UGA Foundation Professor in International Law Harlan G. Cohen published a book review of Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World (by S. Moyn) in 113 American Journal of International Law 415 (2019).
The University of Chicago Law School's David Strauss served as the law school's 117th John A. Sibley Lecturer - and a 2018-19 UGA Signature Lecturer - and pondered the seemingly simple question: Are Supreme Court decisions the law of the land? The lecture was featured in Columns in an article written by Leigh Beeson and was published 4/29/19.
Assistant Professor Sandra G. Mayson was featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer regarding her research on racial biases in the criminal justice system. The article titled "In Philly, your race predicts whether you'll be locked or go free until trial, study says" was written by Samantha Melamed and published 4/29/19.
Assistant Professor Jonathan Peters published "Here's how to stop think skinned bullies suing the media constantly" in the Columbia Journalism Review on 4/29/19 (with J. Schroeder). The article was featured in Politico's Morning Media and CNN's Reliable Sources.
Assistant Clinical Professor Melissa D. Redmon was featured in the Daily Report regarding the role of prosecutors in the justice system. The article titled "DA Paul Howard's Conviction Review Unit to Start With Wayne Williams Case" was written by Katheryn Tucker and published 4/29/19.
The Daily Report tracked 82 lawyers who made partner in 2019 at Atlanta law firms. University of Georgia School of Law graduates outnumbered the field with 13. Class of 2008 alumnus Naveen Ramachandrappa and his partnership path were featured. The article titled "Atlanta's New Partner Class Has A Lot More Women" was written by Meredith Hobbs and published 4/26/19.
The University of Georgia has become a national leader in the use of free online textbooks, and a new grant program funded by the Provost's Office will help save students even more money while improving the quality of their learning experience. This semester, 14 faculty members in 10 academic units - including the School of Law's Amy Taylor, clinical services and research librarian and Stephen Wolfson, research and copyright services librarian - received funding through the Affordable Course Materials Grant program to transition from costly textbooks to open educational resources. The $50,000 that was distributed through the program is expected to save 7,400 students a total of $770,000 in textbook costs each year.
Smith Professor Hillel Y. Levin, who has written extensively about vaccination law and policy and co-authored model legislation designed to improve vaccination compliance, advises schools about what policies they must, should, may, and may not adopt to protect their students. His recommendations were featured on WJCL-TV, the ABC affiliate in Savannah, on 4/30/19.
Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives & Alston Associate Chair in Corporate Law Mehrsa Baradaran's book The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap was awarded the 2019 Best Book in Urban Affairs Award, which is presented by the Urban Affairs Association.
Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch was featured in Legal NewsLine regarding her thoughts on a law firm that gave some of its clients two days to decide whether to dismiss their lawsuits or accept a settlement from Johnson & Johnson. The article titled "Pelvic mesh lawyers pressured clients to dismiss cases to avoid costs of trial" was written by Daniel Fisher and published 4/25/19.
Brumby Distinguished Professor in First Amendment Law Sonja R. West's article "The Fragility of the Free American Press" (112 Northwestern University Law Review 47 (2017) (with R.A. Jones)) was cited by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida in the case of Folta v. The New York Times and Lipton.
Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives & Alston Associate Chair in Corporate Law Mehrsa Baradaran was featured in a Public Broadcasting System documentary titled "Boss: The Black Enterprise Business" that aired 4/23/19.
Brumby Distinguished Professor in First Amendment Law Sonja R. West presented "Physicians and Free Speech: How Doctors Ended Up in the Crosshairs of Political Court Battles" as part of the University of Florida's "Science: Unsilenced" series during April.