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STLA Team Places Second in Texas SAN ANTONIO — Georgia State University College of Law’s Student Trial Lawyers Association mock trial team of Alex Galvan (JD ’14), Joshua May (JD’13), Lauren Smith (JD’13) and Lynette Jimenez (JD ’13), placed second in the Lone Star Classic Competition on Oct. 11-13 at St. Mary’s University in San… Read more »

STLA Team Places Second in National Mock Trial Competition ATLANTA — Georgia State University College of Law’s Student Trial Lawyers Association mock trial team of Jesika Wehunt (J.D.’13), Marc Hood (J.D.’12), Paul Shuman (J.D. ’14), John Eric Schleicher (J.D. ’14), Joe Huffman (J.D. ’14), and Blake Poole (J.D. ’14) placed second in the William Daniel… Read more »

Law Review Hosts Water Rights Symposium 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8 King & Spalding LLP 1180 Peachtree St., Atlanta, GA 30309   The Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth and the Georgia State University Law Review are holding a one-day symposium examining the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers process of… Read more »

Michael Dorf to Deliver Miller Lecture Michael C. Dorf, distinguished professor of law at Cornell University Law School and U.S. constitutional scholar, will deliver the 52nd Henry J. Miller Distinguished Lecture at noon Thursday, March 7, in the Georgia State University Student Center State Ballroom. Dorf’s presentation, “Commerce, Death Panels and Broccoli: Or Why the… Read more »

Lombardo talks eugenics on CNN January 3, 2012 ATLANTA – Georgia State University College of Law Professor Paul A. Lombardo was a live guest on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 on December 27 following Elizabeth Cohen’s piece on “Forced Sterilization in America.” Cohen’s piece focused on North Carolina, which is the first and only state to… Read more »

Harold Franklin honored by State Bar March 13, 2012 ATLANTA – Attorney Harold E. Franklin, Jr., a partner at King & Spalding and a 1999 graduate of Georgia State University College of Law, recently was honored by both the State Bar of Georgia and the Gate City Bar Association. On February 23, Franklin received the… Read more »

Center for Law, Health & Society | News and Events | Center News | 2012 Archive | Student Awarded Health Policy Fellowship Student Awarded Health Policy Fellowship ATLANTA – The Satcher Health Leadership Institute (SHLI) at Morehouse School of Medicine awarded a health policy fellowship to Georgia State University College of Law student Megan Daugherty,… Read more »

Offering Relief to Victims More than one million people are victims of intimate-partner violence or domestic abuse each year, and national surveys suggest that more than 50 percent of the resulting incidents may go unreported. When the victim is an undocumented immigrant, the likelihood of reporting any type of crime will drop further. College of… Read more »

Center for Law, Health & Society | News and Events | Center News | 2012 Archive | Welcome: Courtney Anderson Welcome: Courtney Anderson As assistant professor Courtney Anderson joins the Georgia State University College of Law this fall, she enters a new phase of her career. She has been a young attorney in private practice… Read more »

Georgia Senator Albers Debates Welfare Act ATLANTA – State Sen. John Albers (R-District 56) spoke to students in Professor Courtney Anderson’s Law and Social Welfare class on Aug. 22, at Georgia State University College of Law. Albers sponsored the senate bill identical to HB 861, also known as Georgia’s Social Responsibility and Accountability Act, which… Read more »