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STLA advances in Buffalo Georgia State Law’s Student Trial Lawyers Association team advanced to the top 16 and Francis Dixon (J.D. ’13) earned the Best Closing Argument award in the recent national mock trial competition in Buffalo, N.Y. The other competing members on Georgia State Law’s team were Randal Hughes (J.D. ’14), John Eric Schleicher… Read more »

Ten Faculty Fellowships Awarded to Promote Public Health Law Education ATLANTA – Georgia State University College of Law and its Center for Law Health & Society have selected 10 faculty fellows to participate in the Future of Public Health Law Education: Faculty Fellowship Program. The program is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to… Read more »

Office of Communications The Office of Communications advances the College of Law’s mission and strategic vision through the design, development and implementation of strategic communications that inform, educate and gain support for the college. The office provides public relations, marketing, publications, Web design, development and content management, social networking and other media support. Staff members… Read more »

Breaking Ground on New Building ATLANTA — Georgia State University and its College of Law will commemorate the groundbreaking of its new building at 10:30 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 12, at the corner of John Wesley Dobbs Avenue and Park Place. University President Mark P. Becker and distinguished guests, including the chancellor of the University System… Read more »

Article Suggests Common Rule Changes Change Common Rule to Address Underrepresentation of Minorities An article to be published in the American Journal of Public Health recommends changing the federal regulations that govern oversight of human subjects research (“the Common Rule”) to address continued underrepresentation of minorities in research studies. Co-written by Bill Rencher (M.P.H. ’12),… Read more »

Segall Named Ashe Professor Eric Segall has been named Kathy and Lawrence Ashe Professor of Law after recent approval by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. “This is a fitting testament to Eric’s lifelong dedication as a teacher and scholar and his nationally acclaimed body of work on the role of… Read more »

Revamp for Bachelor/J.D. Program Georgia State University Honors College students can complete their undergraduate and law degrees in six years instead of the usual seven through an updated dual-degree program with the College of Law. “The students in the Honors College have exceptional abilities,” says Cheryl Jester-George, senior director of admissions at the College of… Read more »

Deal Signs Budget with Law Building Funds May 9, 2013 ATLANTA — Gov. Nathan Deal signed into law Tuesday a state budget that includes $58.8 million in bonds allocated to constructing a new building for Georgia State University College of Law. The law building was included in Deal’s original fiscal year 2014 budget proposal and… Read more »

Bliss Advances Legal Education in Myanmar Lisa Radtke Bliss, Georgia State University College of Law director of experiential education, co-director of the Health Law Partnership Legal Services Clinic and associate clinical professor, was a member of the training team for the first Myanmar Clinical Legal Education Workshop on July 12-14 at the University of Yangon…. Read more »

Shutdown Shapes Congressional Fellowship When alumna Lindsey Herbel left for Washington, D.C., in August to prepare for her Congressional Fellowship program, a partial federal government shutdown was not on her agenda. Herbel (B.S. ’06, M.S. ’08, J.D. ’13, Ph.D. ’14) was more concerned with settling in her D.C. apartment, learning the city and getting acclimated… Read more »