Faculty recognized for broad influence
Holbrook named vice provost, awarded named professorship
As vice provost for faculty affairs, Holbrook will oversee activities across campus that support faculty recruitment, retention and success at the university level, including working with the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence, the Emory University Emeritus College, the Tenure and Promotion Advisory Committee and university policies that impact faculty life.
The University Board of Trustees has also approved the appointment of Holbrook as Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law. This award is a fitting tribute to his contributions to scholarship, teaching, and service to Emory and the broader legal community. As an internationally recognized expert on intellectual property, Holbrook has published more than three dozen articles and essays in national publications and has co-authored one book, Patent Litigation and Strategy. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has cited his work favorably, embracing one of his theories of patent infringement. Holbrook has previously served as associate dean of faculty, was instrumental in founding the Atlanta Intellectual Property Inn of Court, has helped place students in federal clerkships (particularly at the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit), and has long been a champion of diversity and inclusion.
The impact of his scholarship and service has extended through a range of public scholarship. Holbrook is a regular media contributor on issues related to patent law and LGBTQ rights. In recognition of his teaching and work on inclusion, he has received the Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award, the Chestnut LGBT Person of the Year Award at Emory University, the Outstanding Service to the Community Award by the Stonewall Bar Association, the Friends in the Faculty Award from the Division of Campus Life at Emory, and the Professor of the Year award from Emory’s Black Law Students Association.
Faculty receive promotions and honors
Our professors have unique backgrounds and interests, from vulnerability and the human experience to exploring the intersection of law and religion to fighting for justice for military combatants and veterans. They have been honored for their achievements in numerous ways.
Dorothy Brown was named the Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor at Pepperdine Law School for the Spring 2019 semester. She was also the co-recipient of the 2018 Clyde Ferguson Award by the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Minority Groups.
Laurie Blank, director of the International Humanitarian Law Clinic, was named director of the Center for International and Comparative Law.
Michael Broyde won a Fulbright award to spend the 2018-2019 school year at Hebrew University, studying religious arbitration in diverse western democracies.
Mary Dudziak was selected as an Honorary Fellow of the American Society for Legal History.
Mark Engsberg was promoted to Director of Library Services and Professor of Practice.
Martha Fineman won Albany Law School’s Miriam M. Netter ’72 Stoneman Award.
Nicole Morris was promoted to Associate Professor of Practice.
Jonathan Nash was named director of the Emory University Center for Law and Social Science.
Robert Parrish was promoted to Associate Professor of Practice.
Ani Satz was elected president of Faculty Council and University Senate for 2019 –2020. She was also appointed to Emory University’s Class and Labor Steering Committee.
Emory Law Journal dedicated Volume 67 Issue 6 to the scholarship of Martha Albertson Fineman, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law and founder and director of the Feminism and Legal Theory (FLT) Project. Fineman is an internationally recognized scholar and leading authority on family law and feminist jurisprudence. In the issue, colleagues from around the world wrote articles and comments expounding upon her groundbreaking scholarship.
