Special Collections Librarian Sharon Bradley was featured on FactCheck.org regarding the misidentified location of an image in an Earth Day message. The article titled "Meme Uses Litter Photo to Spread Garbage" was written by Angelo Fichera and published 3/25/19.
Congratulations to third-year student Madeline McElhanon and second-year student Ethan J. Rode who placed second on the seller side in the Duke Law Transactional Law Competition. This contest involved drafting a mergers and acquisitions document and marking up the other side's document prior to the competition and then negotiating the terms of the agreement at the tournament. Third-year student Seth Johnson assisted with drafting and served as student coach for the team.
The University of Georgia School of Law took home the top trophy in the Intrastate Moot Court Competition for the second year in a row and the seventh time in 10 years. Second-year law students Huel M. "Kip" O'Kelley IV, S. Frances Plunkett and Justin C. Van Orsdol captured the title for UGA and also won the Best Brief Award. All five law schools in Georgia field two teams in this annual Peach State courtroom contest. The law school's second team, comprised of second-year students Eric S. Abney, Addison Smith and Georgia L. Turner, finished as semifinalists. They were coached by third-year students Thomas Grantham and Timia Skelton.
Woodruff Chair in International Law Diane Marie Amann was featured in Vox regarding her thoughts on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Trump-Russia Report. The article titled "Does AG Barr's summary of the Mueller report 'exonerate' Trump? I asked 15 legal experts." was written by Sean Illing and published 3/24/19.
Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives & Alston Associate Chair in Corporate Law Mehrsa Baradaran was featured on CBS News regarding Sen. Elizabeth Warren's plan to address income inequality. The article titled "2020 Democrats begin to approach topic of reparations for black Americans" was written by Grace Segers and published 3/22/19.
Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives & Alston Associate Chair in Corporate Law Mehrsa Baradaran was featured on Kitco News regarding the Democratic Party's focus on financial inclusion measures. The article titled "Democrats push financial inclusion as 2020 election race heats up" was written by Michelle Price and published 3/22/19.
The School of Law's Lonnie T. Brown Jr., A. Gus Cleveland Distinguished Chair of Legal Ethics and Professionalism, is one of five University of Georgia faculty members who have been named Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professors, the highest university recognition for excellence in instruction.
Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives & Alston Associate Chair in Corporate Law Mehrsa Baradaran was featured in Bloomberg Law regarding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's advisory board makeup under new Director Kathleen Kraninger. The article titled "CFPB's new director is amplifying role of agency advisory boards" was written by Lydia Beyoud and published 3/22/19.
Distinguished Research Professor & Shackelford Distinguished Professor in Taxation Law Emeritus Walter Hellerstein presented "The Challenges of Collecting Taxes on Digital Trade: VAT/GST and Beyond" at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Global Forum on VAT in Melbourne, Australia, during March.
Hosch Associate Professor Kent Barnett was featured in Law 360 regarding Administrative Law Judge Cameron Elliot's decision to leave the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The article titled "SEC Judge At Heart Of Lucia Proceedings Leaving Agency" was written by Rachel Graf and published 3/20/19.
Hosch Professor Lori A. Ringhand was featured in the Arizona Republic regarding her thoughts on Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's confirmation hearing. The article titled "Spectacle of Sandra Day O'Connor's 1981 confirmation hearing foreshadowed today's politics" was written by Ronald J. Hansen and published 3/15/19.
Carter Chair in Tort and Insurance Law Michael L. Wells presented as part of the University of Tennessee College of Law's Faculty Colloquium Series during March.
Congratulations to second-year student DeVaughn J. Swanson for being elected to the National Board of Directors for the National Black Law Students Association. He will serve as a national member-at-large starting April 1. NBLSA is one of the largest student-run organizations in the country. Swanson currently serves as president of the Davenport-Benham Chapter of the Black Law Students Association at the School of Law.
Clinical Professor & Business Law and Ethics Program Director Carol Morgan published "Teaching Communication Skills in Transactional Simulations" in 20 Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law 429 (2018) (with E.J. Gouvin, K.M. Koops, J.E. Moliterno and C.D. Newman).
Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives & Alston Associate Chair in Corporate Law Mehrsa Baradaran participated in a panel titled "The racial wealth divide continues to grow" at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition's Just Economy Conference held during March.
Cleveland Distinguished Chair of Legal Ethics and Professionalism Lonnie T. Brown Jr. led an ethics roundtable discussion regarding his forthcoming book Defending the Public's Enemy: The Life and Legacy of Ramsey Clark with a group of law professors from Fordham University, New York University, Brooklyn Law School and New York Law School during March.
Hosch Professor Lori A. Ringhand presented on the School of Law's Georgia Women in Law Lead (Georgia WILL) initiative and the UGA Provost's Women's Leadership Fellows program to the University of Aberdeen Senior Women's Network during March.
Cleveland Distinguished Chair of Legal Ethics and Professionalism Lonnie T. Brown Jr. presented his forthcoming book Defending the Public's Enemy: The Life and Legacy of Ramsey Clark at Fordham University's Stein Center for Law and Ethics during March.
Assistant Professor Lindsey Simon was featured in Vice News regarding bankruptcy and mass litigation scenarios. The article titled "What Happens to 2,000 Lawsuits Against Oxycontin-maker Purdue Pharma if the Company Files for Bankruptcy" was written by Emma Ockerman and published 3/12/19.
The 2020 U.S. News & World Report law school rankings have been released. We are proud to share that the University of Georgia School of Law is on the rise, moving up an extraordinary five positions to #27. While this is fantastic news, even more exciting is the building momentum toward our vision to be the nation's best return on investment in legal education. With your support, our law school and its alumni/alumnae leadership are executing on a strategy to achieve that goal.