Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch was featured on Bloomberg Law regarding the role in-person meetings can have on environmental damage cases. The article titled "PFAs Plaintiffs Stranded as Virus Bogs Down High-Stakes Lawsuits" was written by Ellen M. Gilmer and published 6/1/20.
Assistant Clinical Professor & Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation Clinic Director Emma M. Hetherington presented "Alternative Justice for Victims: The CEASE Clinic" as part of a Children's Healthcare of Atlanta webinar series during May.
Assistant Professor Sandra G. Mayson published "Detention by Any Other Name" in 69 Duke Law Journal 1643 (2020).
Assistant Professor Jonathan Peters was featured in Variety regarding the president's executive order relating to social media companies. The article titled "Trump Signs Executive Order Targeting Twitter, Facebook That Legal Experts Say Is Likely Unconstitutional" was written by Todd Spangler and published 5/28/20.
Shackelford Distinguished Professor in Taxation Law Gregg D. Polsky presented "The Qualified Small Business Stock Exclusion and Entrepreneurship" at the National Tax Association's Golden Anniversary Symposium: New Thinking on Enduring Questions during May.
Metadata Services & Special Collections Librarian Rachel S. Evans organized and co-facilitated the Georgia Library Association's first virtual workshop titled "Linked Data for the Real World: Leveraging Metadata for Cataloging." The event was delivered live in collaboration with Georgia Public Libraries, and more than 700 librarians from around the world registered for the program.
Dean Rusk International Law Center Interim Director & Hosch Professor Lori A. Ringhand published "First Amendment (Un)Exceptionalism: A Comparative Taxonomy of Campaign Finance Reform Proposals in the United States and United Kingdom" in 81 Ohio State Law Journal 405 (2020).
Hosch Associate Professor Kent Barnett published "Regulating Impartiality in Agency Adjudication" in 69 Duke Law Journal 1695 (2020).
Callaway Chair of Law Emeritus Ronald L. Carlson was featured on HowStuffWorks regarding how you may be affected if you happen to video a crime. The article titled "5 Things to Know Before You Record a Possible Crime" was written by Patrick J. Kiger and published 5/22/20.
Distinguished Research Professor & Shackelford Distinguished Professor in Taxation Law Emeritus Walter Hellerstein's treatise State Taxation (3d ed. 2020) and his law review article, "Construing the Uniform Division of Income for Tax Purposes Act: Reflections on the Illinois Supreme Court's Reading of the 'Throwback' Rule," 45 University of Chicago Law Review 778 (1978), were cited and quoted extensively by the Michigan Supreme Court in Honigman Miller Schwarts and Cohn LLP v. City of Detroit (May 18, 2020) involving Detroit's income tax.
Stembler Family Distinguished Professor in Business Law Christopher Bruner presented "Private Power and Public Good: Harnessing the Corporation for a Sustainable Future" for the University of Oslo Faculty of Law. The online event was organized by Oslo's Research Group Companies, Markets and Sustainability.
Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch was featured on Bloomberg Law regarding Johnson & Johnson's decision to phase out its talc-based baby powder. The article titled "J&J Talc Phase-Out Seen as Possible Prelude to Settling Lawsuits" was written by Jef Feeley and Riley Griffin and published 5/20/20. This article was reprinted by other media outlets across the country.
Smith Professor Hillel Y. Levin published "Stopping the resurgence of vaccine-preventable childhood diseases: Policy, politics, and law" in 2020 University of Illinois Law Review 233 (2020) (with S.P. Kershner, T.D. Lytton, D. Salmon and S.B. Omer).
Woodruff Chair in International Law Diane Marie Amann presented "Intersectional Sovereignties: Dr. Aline Chalufour, Woman at Nuremberg - and at Paris, Ottawa, and Dalat" as part of "Global History and International Law," a seminar organized under the auspices of the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (SciencesPo). Dr. George Giannakopoulos of King's College London and NYU London served as discussant.
Callaway Chair of Law Emeritus Ronald L. Carlson was featured in Newsweek regarding the Ahmaud Arbery case. The article titled "In Ahmaud Arbery shooting, a George Zimmerman-style defense may resonate with Georgia jurors" was written by Roger Parloff and published 5/19/20.
Cleveland Distinguished Chair of Legal Ethics and Professionalism & Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor Lonnie T. Brown Jr.'s book Defending the Public's Enemy: The Life and Legacy of Ramsey Clark (Stanford University Press, 2019) received the 2020 Silver Independent Publisher Book Award in the biography category. This year's winning titles in the 24th Annual Independent Publisher Book Awards came from 44 U.S. states plus Washington, D.C., and Guam; 7 Canadian provinces; and 15 countries overseas.
The First Amendment Clinic won its first case with the assistance of co-counsel Gerry R. Weber Jr. (J.D.'89). The settlement included equitable relief, damages and attorneys' fees on behalf of a Douglas County (Ga.) resident who was blocked from her county commissioner's official-purpose Facebook page. The result was covered by the Douglas County Sentinel. First Amendment Clinic Director and Clinical Assistant Professor Clare R. Norins said she was pleased the newspaper covered the case because it will educate "readers and other politicians about the state of the law on government officials blocking people on social media based on the viewpoint of their speech - i.e., they can't do it!"
Distinguished Research Professor & Shackelford Distinguished Professor in Taxation Law Emeritus Walter Hellerstein published "Distortion of Income in a Single-Factor Sales Formula World" in 96 Tax Notes State 729 (2020).
Callaway Chair of Law Emeritus Ronald L. Carlson was featured in USA Today regarding the video in the Ahmaud Arbery case. The article titled "Ahmaud Arbery video: Legal experts explain how key frames may be used in murder trial" was written by Ryan W. Miller and published 5/13/20. This article was reprinted by other media outlets.
Callaway Chair of Law Emeritus Ronald L. Carlson was featured on NBC News regarding the Ahmaud Arbery case. The article titled "Were pursuit and killing of Ahmaud Arbery 'perfectly legal'? It's not that simple." was written by Erik Ortiz and published 5/13/20.