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Georgia State Law students win regional moot court competition March 31, 2009 Georgia State University College of Law students Alexis Fairweather and Matthew McNeill won first place in the Southern Regional Competition of the 2009 Giles Sutherland Rich Memorial Competition, held in Houston, Texas, March 20-22. Now in its thirty-sixth year, the AIPLA Moot Court… Read more »

Record number of students headed for Brazil this summer May 18, 2009 For 19 Georgia State University College of Law students, summer school will mean trekking into the Atlantic rain forest to study the threat urbanization poses to one of the world’s most delicate ecosystems, or a trip inside one of the world’s most impoverished… Read more »

Students invited to special sitting of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit October 14, 2010 ATLANTA — Georgia State University College of Law students are invited to a special sitting of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Tuesday, November 2, at 2 p.m. at the Supreme Court of Georgia, 244 Washington… Read more »

Scholars, lawmakers discuss controversies in stem cell research January 18, 2008 When scientists announced a decade ago they had isolated human cells with the potential to become virtually any type of cell or tissue in the body, a storm of controversy followed that still rages in some circles today. On one side are supporters who… Read more »

Law Librarians Win Photo Contest April 30, 2008 The GSU Law Library was one of the big winners in the 2008 Day in the Life of the Law Library Community Photo Contest conducted by the American Association of Law Libraries. Law Libraries all over the country sent in photos of their activities to compete for… Read more »

COL Student Plays Key Role in Release of Wrongly Imprisoned Man January 26, 2007 Georgia State College of Law student Cliff Williams was a youngster in Cartersville, GA, when Willie O. “Pete” Williams was wrongfully imprisoned in nearby Fulton County almost 22 years ago. But today the third-year law student‘s internship with the Georgia Innocence… Read more »

Eugenics Resolutions Passed May 30, 2007 As an internationally recognized scholar and historian of the 20th century eugenics movement, Professor Paul Lombardo can recount in depth the now-disparaged 100-year history of state-sanctioned forced sterilizations of people who were deemed unfit to reproduce and the uses of eugenics as a tool of public health policy around… Read more »

Mock trial team looks to local competition

Jack Williams speaks with national media on rise in bankruptcies January 21, 2010 Georgia State University College of Law Professor Jack Williams was quoted in several print and online stories on the recent rise in bankruptcies and other bankruptcy issues. Williams, Resident Scholar at the American Bankruptcy Institute, has spoken recently with several media outlets, which… Read more »

Health Law Program Ranked No. 6 by U.S. News April 1, 2009 ATLANTA – The highly regarded Health Law program at Georgia State University College of Law ranked 6th in the country in the latest rankings published in U.S. News Media Group’s 2010 edition of America’s Best Graduate Schools, tied with Georgetown University and Seton… Read more »