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Nominations being accepted for the 2009 Ben F. Johnson Jr. Public Service Award

Peggy Cooper Davis to deliver 44th Miller Lecture March 26 February 26, 2009 ATLANTA–Peggy Cooper Davis, the John S.R. Shad Professor of Lawyering and Ethics at New York University School of Law, will deliver Georgia State University College of Law’s 44th Henry J. Miller Distinguished Lecture at noon March 26 in the Student University Center… Read more »

U.S. News rankings propel Georgia State University College of Law higher in several categories April 23, 2009 ATLANTA – The part-time program of the Georgia State University College of Law has been ranked No. 15 in the country in the U.S. News Media Group’s 2010 edition of America’s Best Graduate Schools, and the Atlanta school… Read more »

Legal Scholars Favor Appointment of Judge Sonia Sotomayor as next Supreme Court Justice July 15, 2009 Direct link full-size video with B-rollATLANTA – Georgia State University professors and legal scholars Eric Segall, L. Lynn Hogue and Neil Kinkopf support Judge Sonia Sotomayor as the next U.S. Supreme Court Justice and first Hispanic woman to be… Read more »

RSVP now for Homecoming Alumni Tailgate on October 2 September 24, 2010 ATLANTA — The Georgia State University College of Law and the Georgia State University Alumni Associations are hosting a Homecoming Alumni Tailgate on Saturday, October 2, before the Morehead State football game.  Festivities begin at 10:30 a.m., so look for the blue tent inside the Alumni Association… Read more »

Law Librarians receive praise for recent article March 20, 2008   Ron Wheeler, Nancy P. Johnson, and Terrance Manion were recently notified that their article “Choosing the Top Candidate: Best Practices in Academic Law Library Hiring”, which appears in volume 100 of Law Library Journal, has attracted the attention of librarians across the country. The… Read more »

Benham Law Camp aims to increase number of African American lawyers and judges June 9, 2008   On the same day Barack Obama made history by locking up the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party, a group of 26 African-American high school students in Atlanta took an important step in securing their own futures through… Read more »

John T. Marshall Honored with 2007 Ben F. Johnson Jr. Public Service Award April 16, 2007   John T. Marshall (L) looks on as Dean Steven Kaminshine and Ben F. Johnson III present the 2007 Ben F. Johnson Jr. Public Service Award  The Georgia State University College of Law honored attorney John T. Marshall, a… Read more »

Alumni among Daily Report’s lawyers under 40 whose stars are rising August 22, 2008 Two Georgia State University College of Law alumni, Barbara Marschalk and J. Matthew Maguire, Jr., were among 12 Atlanta area attorneys recognized in the Fulton County Daily Report’s annual list of lawyers who are on the rise.   Marschalk, a partner at… Read more »

Supreme Court case allowing sterilizations a fraud, law professor writes in new book