Todres’ Conference on U.N. Treaty on Children featured in AJC Editorial

Todres’ Conference on U.N. Treaty on Children featured in AJC Editorial November 26, 2007 An Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial by Maureen Downey highlights the issues addressed at the National Briefing Day on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child hosted by Professor Jonathan Todres on Friday, November 16, 2007.   Read the article…

COL Student’s Battles for the Innocent Receive Well-Deserved Recognition

COL Student’s Battles for the Innocent Receive Well-Deserved Recognition March 17, 2006    Lindsay Reese Lindsay Reese often felt like she was investigating a crime scene as she read hundreds of prisoners’ letters and trial transcripts as an intern at the Georgia Innocence Project. The second-year Georgia State University College of Law student is among… Read more »

Litigation Honors Recipients named for Spring 2006

Litigation Honors Recipients named for Spring 2006 July 28, 2006 John Leland Ammons   Millie Baumbush Robin Ann Besaw Tana Brackin Grant Brim Elizabeth Bulat Christopher Calhoun Mazie Lynn Causey Jocelyn Cerrito Henry DeBardeleben Leanne Mitchell Defoor Wesley Charles Dunlap Andrea Leigh Espie Katherine Mary Field Robert N. Friedman Brian Gardner Edward Terrell Gilbert Lee Gillis… Read more »

Team Wins Bioethics Mock Trial Competition

Team Wins Bioethics Mock Trial Competition December 4, 2006 Georgia State University’s College of Law won the 1st Annual NCCU Bioethics Mock Trial Competition Nov. 11 in Durham, North Carolina. The competition was hosted by North Carolina Central University’s Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Law Institute as an annual civil mock jury trial competition for U.S. law… Read more »

COL Alumni Featured in Daily Report’s “On the Rise: 15 to Watch”

COL Alumni Featured in Daily Report’s “On the Rise: 15 to Watch” September 13, 2007  Davis  Franklin  Ingram  Jones  Muholland COL alums accounted for one third of the list of 15 Georgia lawyers under the age of 40 the Fulton County Daily Report thinks you should know more about. In the publication’s recent annual special… Read more »

Juergensmeyer, Land Use Pioneer, Publishes Updated Land Use

Juergensmeyer, Land Use Pioneer, Publishes Updated Land Use December 3, 2007 As urban and suburban areas rapidly develop and redevelop, the field of land use law faces constant change. And as new case law has been established and new concepts have emerged, Julian Conrad Juergensmeyer has closely monitored those changes and for decades been an… Read more »

Georgia Court of Appeals Hears Oral Arguments at College of Law

Georgia Court of Appeals Hears Oral Arguments at College of Law March 28, 2006    (L-R) Associate Dean Anne Emanuel, Prof. Marjorie Girth, Judge Herbert E. Phipps, Chief Judge John H. Ruffin Jr., Presiding Judge J.D. Smith, COL Board of Advisors Chairman John T. Marshall and Dean Steve Kaminshine   As a celebratory event during… Read more »

College of Law Alum Named 2006 Georgia Solicitor General of the Year

College of Law Alum Named 2006 Georgia Solicitor General of the Year August 3, 2006    Shawn Ellen LaGrua (’87) Congratulations to COL alum Shawn Ellen LaGrua (’87), DeKalb County Solicitor General, who has been named 2006 Solicitor General of the Year by the Association of Georgia Solicitors General. LaGrua was sworn in as the… Read more »