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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 »

Center for Law, Health & Society | News and Events | Center News | 2012 Archive | Graduate Spotlight: Finding a Formula for Success Graduate Spotlight: Finding a Formula for Success Derek Empie, Associate General Counsel at Indiana University Health, Inc. (IU Health) and a 2002 College of Law graduate, was recently honored to be… Read more »

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 “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 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 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 »

PILA Wins with Technology A Note from PILA Auction Chair Amy Jurden When I took over as Auction Chair for this year’s 20th Platinum Anniversary Auction my only goal was to find a way to grow the number of opportunities we could make available to students.  That meant raising more funds. We hit the mark:… Read more »

Charity Scott takes on new leadership roles July 23, 2012 ATLANTA – Charity Scott, Catherine C. Henson Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law, Health & Society, has joined leadership in two national associations. She has joined the Board of Directors of the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics (ASLME) and… Read more »

Hensel establishes roadmap for faculty development In April, professor Wendy Hensel became the associate dean for research and faculty development to help the College of Law cultivate young professors as longtime faculty members begin to retire. The goal, Hensel says, “is to both mentor and develop junior faculty as excellent teachers and as productive scholars,… Read more »

Kozinski Says Show, Don’t Tell ATLANTA − While intellectual property used to be a legal niche, Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, says with the rise of new technology it has become the bread and butter of many law firms. Kozinski, one of the foremost jurists and… Read more »