Faculty News

More than 250 scholars from five different continents gathered at Emory Law in November 2024 for the 18th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS). Professors and Society for Empirical Legal Studies co-presidents Tonja Jacobi, Jonathan Nash, and Joanna Shepherd were instrumental in bringing the conference to Emory.

This week, Associate Professor Mark Nevitt provided a written statement for the record for a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that weighed the impact of using military personnel to enforce federal immigration laws.

In 1998, the Turner Foundation established Emory Law’s Turner Environmental Law clinic, which recently celebrated 25 years of public service. The clinic's pro bono work focuses clean and sustainable energy; regenerative agriculture and local food systems; natural resource protection; and environmental justice.

In response to the prosecution by Special Counsel Jack Smith on federal charges arising out of the 2020 election and the events of January 6, 2021, President Trump claimed that as president he was entitled to immunity from criminal prosecution. After losing in the district court and court of appeals, he appealed to the Supreme Court.

The court’s recent decision in Loper Bright Enterprises has enormous implications for environmental law and prospective climate action. While agencies and courts are digesting the ruling, there are four initial takeaways for environmental law.

In June 2024, the United States Supreme Court decided Moore v. United States. The Petitioners in Moore challenged of the Mandatory Repatriation Tax (“MRT”), a provision of the international-tax regime of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”).

This spring, the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization adopted its first new international treaty in over a decade—the first to connect intellectual property with the genetic resources and traditional knowledge of Indigenous peoples.