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Atlanta Legal Aid’s Steven Gottlieb to receive Ben F. Johnson Jr. Public Service Award March 9, 2009 Steven Gottlieb, executive director of the Atlanta Legal Aid Society, is the recipient of the 2009 Ben F. Johnson Jr. Public Service Award, to be awarded at an invitation-only event Thursday, April 2, at the Commerce Club in… Read more »

Nancy Johnson to receive Frederick Charles Hicks Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Law Librarianship May 1, 2009 Associate Dean for Library and Information Services and Professor of Law Nancy Johnson has been named the 2009 recipient of the Frederick Charles Hicks Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Law Librarianship. This award recognizes the individual… Read more »

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Robert M. Dukes reports on his summer experience working for the DeKalb County District Attorney September 17, 2010 ATLANTA — I spent my summer working for the DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office.  I worked in the Special Victims Unit and the Domestic Violence / Sexual Assault Unit.  The Special Victims Unit handles crimes were there has… Read more »

Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic helps residents resolve IRS disputes April 10, 2008 She didn’t know it at the time, but for years Renee Thomas was racking up debt with the Internal Revenue Service. When her husband died in 2003, she found out they both owed more than $41,000 in income taxes, fines and fees going back… Read more »

Students’ project becomes Georgia law July 28, 2008 When businesses and nonprofits work with Georgia agencies to coordinate relief efforts in times of crisis, they can now be assured some level of liability protection thanks to new legislation that got its start in a Georgia State University College of Law classroom. The Corporate Good Samaritan… Read more »

GSU Law Library Wins 2nd Place in National Law Library Photo Contest May 9, 2007 The Georgia State University Law Library won 2nd place in the category of “Librarians as Teachers and Trainers” in the 2007 American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) annual Day in the Life of the Law Library Comunity Photo Contest.  The… Read more »

Lecture to explore link between reproductive technology, stem cell research

Withholding LSAT scores from rankings data will diversify classes, says SALT’s Curcio May 25, 2010 ATLANTA—The Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) has urged law schools to stop providing U.S. News & World Report with their incoming students’ LSAT scores on the theory that the immense pressure to snag incoming students with high scores is making… Read more »

Paul Lombardo speaks on history of eugenics at Vatican conference March 11, 2009 Georgia State University College of Law Professor Paul Lombardo in February traveled to Rome, where he was invited to speak at a conference at the Vatican on “New Frontiers of Genetics and the Danger of Eugenics,” sponsored by the Pontifical Academy for… Read more »