2018

Emory Law has been recognized by the Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) with a 2018 CLEO Edge Founders Award in honor of CLEO's 50th anniversary.

John Witte Jr. has been invited as a Gifford Lecturer for 2020, a celebratory year that marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Scottish jurist Adam Lord Gifford, founder of the esteemed lecture series begun in 1888.

Emory Law is a collaborator in enforcing the rule of law ¿ internationally and cosmically.

Emory Law professors teach advocacy across the world and bring home the benefits of exposure to other legal systems.

Two students spend the summer studying international law in the Netherlands for their Bederman Fellowship.

Alumni demonstrate how their legal education enables them to practice law in the international sphere.

Dorothy Brown has been selected to receive the Vulcan Teaching Excellence Award, given through the Georgia Independent College Association (GICA).

Emory Law celebrates Veterans Day by saluting the many veterans among our students, faculty, staff, and alumni. We also recognize the sacrifices of those whose loved ones serve.

Emory Law teams bring home trophies for wins at two mock trial competitions in the same weekend.

Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Dwight A. McBride details how "profoundly important this transition is both for Emory and for Emory Law."

The American Law Institute has elected L. Q. C. Lamar Professor of Law Barbara Bennett Woodhouse as one of its thirty-one new members.

Emory just announced its Class of 2018 '40 under 40,' which includes four Emory Law alumni. They are: Brandon Goldberg, Stacy Tolos Kane, Kurt Kastorf and Sara Toering.

Emory Law's chapter of the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) has received the IRAP Best Chapter Award for 2018

Emory Law and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints partnered to launch Community Legal Clinic - an organization handling immigration issues at no cost.

Representatives from the Turner Environmental Law Clinic, Georgia Tech's Strategic Energy Institute, and the University of Georgia have published the Georgia Model Solar Zoning Ordinance and accompanying explanatory guide.

The Emory Global Health Institute (EGHI) has announced the recipients of its 2018 Seed Grant Program, including Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law Margo Bagley.

With the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy and the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to succeed him, much may change on the United States Supreme Court. Justice Kennedy served as the deciding vote in many closely contested cases, including siding with his more liberal colleagues in rulings affirming the right to same-sex marriage, upholding affirmative action in higher education, and protecting the right to an abortion.

Laurie Blank, Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the International Humanitarian Law Clinic, will lead Emory Law's Center for International and Comparative Law.

The recent decision of Husted v. A Philip Randolph Institute, delivered on June 11, 2018, illustrates how leaving a gap between state and federal control of voting regulation can frustrate the purposes of the statute.

In Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, decided on May 21, the Supreme Court continued its steady march of enforcing adhesion clauses that require individual (and forbid aggregate) arbitration. Again, the court split 5-to-4, and there is a vigorous dissent. The majority aptly refers to the "mountain of precedent" under the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) that thwarts the dissent. Epic Systems must be seen in the context of that "mountain."

The Supreme Court dealt a significant blow to public-sector unions in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, ruling 5 to 4 that states could not require government employees to pay union fees.

The nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to fill Justice Anthony Kennedy's slot on the U.S. Supreme Court comes at one of the most divided times in the court's history, says Emory's Robert Schapiro, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law.

Emory Law faculty members will participate in the Poland-US Conference on the Rule of Law on June 26 in Warsaw.

Professor Jonathan Nash has assumed the role of director of the Emory University Center for Law and Social Science.

When the Supreme Court agreed to hear the Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, many believed the court would answer the vexing question of which policy interest prevails when nondiscrimination laws and religious liberties collide. But the court did no such thing. Instead, the justices effectively punted, leaving that question unanswered.

Emory University School of Law announced the selection of Carol D. Newman, transactional professor of law at the University of Missouri School of Law, as the inaugural winner of the Tina L. Stark Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Transactional Law and Skills.

Mindy Goldstein has co-authored the new Georgia Climate Research Roadmap and has been named one of inaugural Sustainability Faculty Fellows.

The Emory Law Houses program helps advise students both on the traditional requirements for the law degree and on the skills required to finish the marathon of earning the law degree.

Technology companies depend on professionals from foreign countries to remain innovative and competitive, but experts say the difficulty such professionals face in navigating the immigration system and securing green cards is contributing to a so-called reverse brain drain, with talented engineers leaving the US and returning to work in their home countries, including India and China.

Emory's International Humanitarian Law Clinic (IHLC) celebrates ten years in operation during the 2017-2018 academic year.

In 2014, digital music downloads and streaming subscriptions overtook CD sales for the first time. The development raised a pointed question. Who owns what in the digital age?

Blockchain technology has the potential to dramatically change document storage management and to transform how people authenticate a variety of transactions. It also stands to reinvent the time-consuming processes of writing, revising, and handling contracts.

It was a lonely first few days for Seruwaia Nayacalevu-Masi 18L when she started her studies at Emory University School of Law. Now, Nayacalevu-Masi can claim friends from China, South Korea, Brazil, Russia, Afghanistan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Jamaica, India, England, Vietnam, Liberia, Germany, Venezuela, and the United States of America.

Rachel Stone 18L recently received her Juris Master degree from Emory University School of Law. In a Q & A, she shared what led her to the school, how she plans to use her degree, and how she managed the rigor of law school and a full-time career.

The possibility of world change achieved through justice was the common theme at Emory Law's Diploma Ceremony today, as 440 members of the Class of 2018 became alumni.

Victoria Sparks, president of the Emory Black Law Students Association, says the most important lesson she learned at Emory is "don't run from the excellence others see in you."

Nicole Schladt 18L has been awarded the Brittain Award, Emory's highest student honor for her leadership and commitment to community service, including co-founding Emory LGBTQ Legal Services

Alexander "Sasha" Volokh, chair of Emory's Committee for Open Expression (CFOE) worked with various Emory administrators on changing and updating the Respect for Open Expression Policy.

After thirty-seven years, Frank S. Alexander, Sam Nunn Professor of Law and founding director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, will conclude his teaching career at Emory Law at the end of this academic year.

Emory Law Professor Martha Albertson Fineman received the Miriam M. Netter `72 Stoneman Award from Albany Law School in recognition of her efforts to expand opportunities for women.

Kiyong Song 19L talks about joining the Emory Law community and his military background as he prepares for his role as EILR's editor-in-chief for the 2018-2019 school year.

Sydney Kaplan 19L has been elected president of the university-wide Graduate Student Government Association.

On Monday, April 2, the faculty of Emory Law honored sixty years of law teaching for their colleague, Johan D. van der Vyver, I. T. Cohen Professor of International Law and Human Rights and Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Law and Religion.

Fiona O'Carroll 18L has been named a 2018 Law360 Distinguished Legal Writing Burton Award winner, an honor given to only 15 people for articles submitted by the nation's top law schools.

John L. Latham 79L of Atlanta, partner with Alston & Bird, has been elected to the Board of Trustees at Emory University.

Emory Law alum Elizabeth L. "Lisa" Branch of Georgia has been nominated to serve as a Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Emory Law welcomed Lieutenant General Charles N. Pede, Judge Advocate General of the United States Army, as speaker for its second annual Global Leaders Lecture.

In a conversation with Emory constitutional law scholar Fred Smith Jr., Sonia Sotomayor, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, reflected on her personal experiences and how the crux of law is "about helping people."

The Emory Public Interest Committee has announced the recipients of the 22nd EPIC Inspiration Awards. EPIC annually honors a student and three community members for their outstanding contributions to public service.

Michael Broyde, CSLR Fellow and Professor of Law at Emory, has won a Fulbright award to spend the 2018-2019 school year at Hebrew University in Israel, studying religious arbitration in diverse western democracies.

Emory Law launches Emory LGBTQ Legal Services (ELLS), an organization created to provide pro bono legal assistance to members of the LGBTQ community in the Atlanta area.

Interim Dean James B. Hughes, Jr.'s message of diversity and service at Emory University Schoo of Law on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Rev. Raphael G. Warnock PhD, senior pastor of Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, addressed the Emory Law community Thursday night as part of the university's Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebratory activities.

Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, will participate in a discussion with Emory Law professor Fred Smith Jr., at an event for the law school community on Tuesday, Feb. 6.