Faculty News

02/15/2024
Shana Knizhnik
Addressing the annual alumni reception hosted by OUTLaw, Dean Troy McKenzie ’00 recalled the time when a joke among 1L…
02/15/2024
“Reconstructing the Reconstruction Amendments,” a daylong symposium on February 2, served as both an occasion to honor…
02/14/2024
Michael Ohlrogge
Academic scholarship can shape law and policy, but tracing a direct line between the two is often difficult. Not so…
02/14/2024
Forum artwork
In December 2023, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Moore v. US, a high-profile tax case that has inspired…
02/02/2024
Nancy Morawetz with Aidan Langston ’23, Keiana James ’23, and Lily Gutterman ’23
The Immigrant Rights Clinic at Law has secured an important victory in the US Court of Appeals for the Second…
01/25/2024
Clayton Gillette Ideas Story Photo
In March 2020, as the spread of COVID-19 prompted office workers everywhere to switch abruptly to remote work, Clayton…
01/23/2024
Mark Geistfeld
Law professor Mark Geistfeld and alumni Steven Barth ’99, Josh Bowers ’01, Natasha Merle ’08, and Cedric Merlin…
01/22/2024
Mariana Lopez in South Carolina
South Carolina wants to build a road through a historic Black neighborhood over residents’ objections. Law’s Civil…
01/19/2024
Lily Batchelder
Lily Batchelder will return to Law in Spring 2024 after serving as assistant secretary for tax policy at the US…
01/11/2024
On December 18, the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) announced that two Law professors are among the 2024…
01/09/2024
Ideas Tort Law and AI Ideas Artwork
A wooden wheel on a 1909 Buick collapses; a bottle of Coca-Cola explodes in a waitress’s hand; an advertisement…
01/09/2024
Gregg Polsky and Patrice Wylly
Gregg Polsky, the Francis Shackelford Distinguished Professor in Taxation Law at the University of Georgia School of…
12/21/2023
Christine Gottlieb ’97, the current director of Law’s Family Defense Clinic, will join the Law School faculty as an…
12/18/2023
Ionic columns
With a ban on affirmative action in college admissions, a finding of fraud against former President Trump in a civil…
12/14/2023
Faculty books ideas story illustration
The role of cities in environmental regulation; Edmund Burke’s and James Madison’s views on violent revolution; and to…
12/14/2023
Paul G. Chevigny, the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law Emeritus, died on December 11, Dean Troy McKenzie has…
12/08/2023
Catherine Sharkey ideas story artwork
The sweeping executive order on artificial intelligence (AI) signed by President Biden on October 30, 2023, emphasizes…
12/06/2023
Jason Schultz at clinic anniversary event
On November 10, Professor of Clinical Law Jason Schultz, director of Law’s Technology Law and Policy Clinic, and…
12/04/2023
Jose Alvarez
The American Society of International Law (ASIL) announced that José Alvarez, Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of…
12/04/2023
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Welcoming the audience to “Artificial Intelligence: Crime, Security and International Regulation,” an all-day…