Richard Freer has been named Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law. Freer has significantly influenced the law of civil procedure and federal courts. He is the only academic to serve as a contributing author to both of the standard multivolume treatises on federal jurisdiction and practice: Moore’s Federal Practice and Wright & Miller’s Federal Practice and Procedure. Both are widely cited by courts and scholars alike. Freer is the author or coauthor of 15 books and has published more than 40 articles. He is a lifetime member of the American Law Institute, a leading independent group that works to reform and improve US law.Michael Kang has been named Thomas Simmons Professor of Law. Kang is one of the nation’s leading scholars of law and politics. A prolific author, his work has been published in most of the country’s top law journals, including the flagship journals at Yale, Stanford, Cornell, Georgetown, Michigan, Minnesota, Southern California, and Virginia. Kang also serves as coeditor of the book series Studies in Election Law and Democracy (Cambridge University Press). He is an active commentator on election law and is quoted regularly by the national news media. Kang’s research has contributed to political conversations in both academic and public forums, especially on the controversial US Supreme Court case
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg cited his work in her opinion in
Williams-Yulee v. Florida Bar.
Jonathan Nash has been named Robert Howell Hall Professor of Law. Nash specializes in the study of federal courts and jurisdiction, courts and judges, and domestic and international environmental law. Nash is a prolific scholar who has published more than 30 articles and essays in top law school journals, including those at Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Iowa, Michigan, Southern California, Vanderbilt, and Virginia, as well as in the
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. Nash’s book,
Environmental Law and Policy, was published in 2010 by Aspen Publishers. Nash regularly presents at conferences, both domestically and internationally. His work has been cited in more than 500 legal publications. He is also an important public scholar via his regular articles for
The Hill, where he writes on a wide range of issues, including climate change, the Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Court, and the work of federal agencies in relationship to Congress.
Sue Payne has been named the William and Jane Carney Professor of Transactional Law and Practice. Payne is the executive director of the Center for Transactional Law and Practice. She came to Emory in 2012 from Northwestern University School of Law, where she had been a clinical assistant professor since 2005. At Northwestern, she taught basic contract drafting to upper-level law and business students and pioneered a contract drafting module taught to all first-year law students. Her book,
Basic Contract Drafting Assignments: A Narrative Approach, was published by Aspen Publishers in 2011. Before joining academia full time, Payne practiced law for 20 years. She was an associate and then partner at the law firm of Butler, Rubin, Saltarelli & Boyd in Chicago. Her practice focused on employment law and litigation. She then became vice president and corporate counsel at Information Resources Inc., also in Chicago.
Polly J. Price 86C 86G has been named Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law. Price holds appointments at both Emory Law and Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health. She is an internationally recognized scholar of US and comparative legal history, immigration, and public health. She was recently named one of the Carnegie Corporation’s Andrew Carnegie Fellows for 2017. Her publications include two books, 22 articles, five book chapters, and numerous essays and opinion pieces. Her articles have appeared in leading journals, including the
Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, the
Virginia Law Review, the
American Journal of Legal History, the
Journal of Supreme Court History, and
Public Health Reports. Her most recent book,
Judge Richard S. Arnold: A Legacy of Justice on the Federal Bench (Prometheus Books 2009), includes a foreword by US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and was featured on C-SPAN Book TV.
Teemu Ruskola has been named Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law. Ruskola’s wide-ranging scholarship addresses questions of legal history and theory from multiple comparative and international perspectives, frequently employing China as a vantage point. Ruskola is an affiliated faculty member of the following Emory University departments: Comparative Literature; East Asian Studies; History; and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. He has received national and international awards and fellowships at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the American Council of Learned Societies, and Princeton University. His book,
Legal Orientalism: China, the United States, and Modern Law (Harvard University Press 2013), received the 2017 Distinguished Book Award from the Association of American Law Schools.
Earlier in the academic year, the Board of Trustees approved
Margo Bagley 96L as Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law. Bagley has earned global acclaim for her work in international and comparative patent law, particularly relating to biotechnology and pharmaceutical protections. She has published numerous articles and book chapters, as well as two books for which she served as coauthor:
International Patent Law & Policy (Bagley, Okediji, and Erstling eds., West Publishing 2013) and
Patent Law in Global Perspective (Okediji and Bagley eds., Oxford University Press 2014).
