Posts Tagged: imported

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 »

Jonathan Todres comments on debate surrounding UN Convention on the Rights of the Child May 4, 2009 In a story published by numerous major media outlets, Georgia State University College of Law Professor Jonathan Todres told the Associated Press there’s no evidence that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child will impinge on… Read more »

Edmundson named Regents’ Professor September 15, 2010 ATLANTA – The Board of Regents voted at its August meeting to name College of Law Professor William A. Edmundson a Regents’ Professor. He is one of only 30 at Georgia State University to receive this recognition. A Regents’ Professorship represents the highest academic status bestowed by the… Read more »

Following the vision of Ben Johnson Ron Freeman sat in the room at the Georgia State Capitol and listened. It was 1982, and Freeman, then a senior at Morehouse College, was an intern for Senator John Foster, chairman of the Senate Education Committee, which was discussing the establishment of a new law school in Downtown… Read more »

College of Law rises in new U.S. News and World Report rankings April 14, 2008 Georgia State University’s College of Law advanced five spots in the latest rankings of graduate schools by U.S. News & World Report.  The College of Law tied for 77th alongside Pennsylvania State, Rutgers-Camden, Rutgers-Newark and Santa Clara University in U.S…. Read more »

Friends, colleagues rally around “Team Nancy August 19, 2008 While tending to her garden this spring, Nancy Johnson felt a strange pain in her stomach. The pain grew intense and her doctor told her to visit an emergency room. It was that day, May 22, in the ER, the Georgia State University College of Law… Read more »

Stephens Named College of Law Professor of the Year May 21, 2007    Professor Corneill Stephens  Corneill A. Stephens was selected by the student body of Georgia State University’s College of Law as the 2006-2007 Professor of the Year. Professor Stephens received the award during the recent Barristers Ball held at the Sheraton Midtown Colony… Read more »

Jonathan Todres publishes op-ed on human rights in Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Recent grad Luis A. Velez publishes opinion piece in AJC on Arizona’s immigration bill June 24, 2010 ATLANTA—Arizona Senate Bill 1070, which attempts to use criminal sanctions to reduce illegal immigration, sadly reprises a familiar two-step ranchera dance in terms of America’s poor treatment of Mexicans, recent Georgia State University College of Law graduate Luis A…. Read more »