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Legacy of Morgan, Maleski rewards law faculty Professors continue to influence through work of peers Thirty years is a short history for a law school, but long enough for impassioned professors to make a lasting impact – even in careers cut short by illness. At Georgia State University’s College of Law, which was founded in… Read more »

Student Story: Exonerating the Innocent My PILA Fellowship Experience  by Lindsay Anglin After hearing the executive director of the Georgia Innocence Project speak about her work at a Public Interest Law Association career panel last fall, I knew I wanted to assist the project in its mission to use DNA evidence to free those unjustly… Read more »

Graduate Spotlight: At the Intersection of Public Interest and Health Law Lisa Liang, a 2008 graduate of the College of Law, is working as a staff attorney with the Health Law Unit of Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Inc. During law school, Liang interned for Legal Aid, and she continued volunteering there after graduation until a… Read more »

Erin Ann O’Mara (J.D. ’05) Chosen for Fellowship Forsyth County assistant solicitor-general Erin Ann O’Mara (J.D. ’05) was selected to participate in the National Association of Prosecutor Coordinators/National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Prosecutor Fellow Program, which is awarded to only one prosecutor nationwide for up to two years.  “I am deeply honored to have been… Read more »

Welcome: Timothy Kuhner This semester the Georgia State University College of Law welcomes associate professor Timothy Kuhner to campus. Kuhner joins the faculty from the University of Navarra School of Law in Pamplona, Spain, where he served as associate professor of Anglo-American law for three years. At Georgia State, he will teach comparative law, public… Read more »

Keynote: Vision and Commitment “Lawyers have always had the talent and skill set to change the world. It’s part of why we’re here,” said Michael Manely (J.D. ’89) during the 2013 Law Week keynote speech on Monday. Manely, a family and international law practitioner based in Marietta, Ga., presented a brief and un-sanitized story of… Read more »

Center for Law, Health & Society | News and Events | Center News | 2012 Archive | Students Compete in National Health Law Competition Students Compete in National Health Law Competition January 31, 2012 ATLANTA –  The Student Health Law Association sent a team of three health law students to compete at the National Health… Read more »

Impressive finish for Moot Court team in Brazil April 3, 2012 Georgia State Law’s Moot Court team was awarded a fourth-place finish in the Inter-American Sustainable Development Law Moot Court Competition, held March 1-3 in Fundaçao Getúlio Vargas Law School in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Seventeen teams from North and South American countries competed in… Read more »

A Celebration of Seven Careers As the GSU College of Law sends off the class of 2012, the school is also bidding a fond farewell to several longtime faculty members. Professors Mark Budnitz, Anne Emanuel, Bernadette Hartfield, Lynn Hogue, Nancy Johnson, E. R. Lanier and Charles Marvin are retiring at the end of this school… Read more »

Welcome: Sam Donaldson A proponent of access to education, Sam Donaldson has taught at the university level for 17 years, though he says his education career started much earlier. “In kindergarten I would come home and line up my stuffed animals and teach them what I had learned in school,” says Donaldson, a new professor… Read more »