Emanuel to receive Lifetime Achievement Award

Emanuel to receive Lifetime Achievement Award   March 21, 2012 ATLANTA – Georgia State University College of Law Professor Anne S. Emanuel has been named the recipient of the first Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southern Center for Human Rights for her accomplishments as a legal educator, author, speaker and advocate, and continuing efforts to… Read more »

Welcome: Erin Fuse Brown

Welcome: Erin Fuse Brown New College of Law professor Erin Fuse Brown grew up in Hawaii, went to college in the Northeast and has lived in many different parts of the country, but Atlanta and the Southeast were never really on her radar. That changed last summer when the health law and policy expert attended… Read more »

Manely ’89 to Argue Before U.S. Supreme Court in Chafin v. Chafin

Manely ’89 to Argue Before U.S. Supreme Court in Chafin v. Chafin Georgia State University College of Law graduate Michael Manely (’89) with the Manely Firm PC will argue before the U.S. Supreme Court in Chafin v. Chafin on Dec. 5. Manely represents U.S. Army Sgt. Jeff Chafin in his bid regain custody of his… Read more »

STLA Team Takes First Place in National Competition

STLA Team Takes First Place in National Competition ATLANTA — A Georgia State University College of Law Student Trial Lawyers Association team won the 13th annual National Trial Advocacy Competition on Oct. 25-28 at Michigan State University College of Law in East Lansing. The team of Matthew Hurst (J.D. ’13), Vandana Murty (J.D. ’13), Carolyn… Read more »

Visiting Professor Considers Atlanta, Rio

Visiting Professor Considers Atlanta, Rio Romulo Sampaio, professor of environmental law at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, is visiting Georgia State University College of Law this month to lecture on land use law and urban planning in South America. It is Sampaio’s third year lecturing at Georgia State Law as part of… Read more »

Alumna Returns for Supreme Court Arguments

Alumna Returns for Supreme Court Arguments “I had the opportunity to watch appellate arguments while in law school, and recall feeling that no amount of preparation could ever fully ready an attorney for every curveball thrown,” said Meri K. Benoit (J.D. ’99) after oral arguments in Wellstar v. Jordan. “I still feel that to be… Read more »

Law Review Symposium January 27

Law Review Symposium January 27 January 20, 2012 ATLANTA – Georgia State University Law Review will hold its annual symposium, “The Criminal Justice System in a Time of Economic Meltdown: Crisis or Opportunity for Reform?” on Friday, January 27, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at the Atlantic Station office of Nelson Mullins Riley &… Read more »

Health Law Fellow Receives Johnson Award

Health Law Fellow Receives Johnson Award March 23, 2012 Georgia State University’s College of Law honored prominent health law attorney and GSU faculty fellow Randall L. Hughes with the 19th Ben F. Johnson Jr. Public Service Award in a ceremony on March 22. The award is presented annually to a Georgia attorney whose accomplishments reflect… Read more »