Living out their Legal Education

Classroom achievement is a priority for Emory University School of Law students, but equally - maybe more - important are community engagement and public service. During the 2017 - 2018 academic year, Emory Law students were recognized for their achievements inside and outside of the classroom - for taking their lessons and putting them into action to advance the rule of law.

Student achievement highlights

Emory Law - with much support from the Emory Office of LGBT Life - launched Emory LGBTQ Legal Services (ELLS), an organization created to provide pro bono legal assistance to members of the LGBTQ community in the Atlanta area. Faris Mohammed 18L and Nicole Schladt 18L co-founded the organization and won the National LGBT Bar’s Student Leadership Award for their efforts.

For her wide-reaching advocacy, leadership and service to the Emory community, Nicole Schladt 18L was the 2018 graduate student recipient of the Marion Luther Brittain Award, the university’s highest student honor. The award, which comes with $2,500, is presented to students who’ve performed the most “significant, meritorious and devoted service to Emory University, with no expectations of recognition or reward.”

For the third consecutive year, the Emory Black Law Students Association (BLSA) was awarded the Regional Large Chapter of the Year award at their recent regional convention in Birmingham, AL. They will now advance to the 50th National Convention in Brooklyn, NY, where they will defend their title of National Large Chapter of the Year - having won the past two years. The chapter is pictured above.

Lavender Bartlett 18L, Stephen Lang 19L, Demarius Newsome 18L, Hannah Supernor 19L took first place in the Palmetto State Classic Mock Trial Tournament. Demarius Newsome also won Best Advocate in the Final Round, which was presided over by Justice Buck James of the South Carolina Supreme Court.

Fiona O’Carroll 14C 18L was 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. O’Carroll won with her comment entitled “Inherently Governmental: A Legal Argument for Ending Private Federal Prisons and Detention Centers.”

The Emory Latin American Law Students Association (LALSA), pictured below, cohosted the 21st Annual National Latina/o Law Student Association Conference (NLLSA).