The Barton Juvenile Defender Clinic and partners prevailed in a 2019 court case that sought to provide special education services to disabled youths in the DeKalb County Jail, one of the largest in the country.
Morehouse School of Medicine has established a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) Fellowship, in which Emory's Barton Center will play an important part. Barton Center’s Melissa Carter and Randee Waldman hold adjunct faculty appointments that serve to formalize and institutionalize the programmatic partnership between the Barton Center and the Morehouse CAP Fellowship.
Professor Nicole Morris, director of the TI:GER (Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results) program, will serve as principal advisor for the inaugural HBCU IP Futures Collaborative, a program that will connect leading faculty at HBCUs to foster best practices for teaching IP to non-law students.
Emory’s Center for Transactional Law and Practice has named George W. Kuney and Carol Morgan the 2021 winners of the Tina L. Stark Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Transactional Law and Skills.
Congratulations to the teams competing in the Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition and The Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.
The negotiated settlement comes almost a year and a half after the school system was sued by a 17-year-old who was diagnosed mental illness, the teen’s mother, and a 19-year-old with learning disabilities. Both teenagers were being denied the special education they were entitled to under federal law, the lawsuit stated.
The school to prison pipeline, that was recently halted during the COVID-19 pandemic, is especially pronounced for Black and Latinx students and students with disabilities and in schools serving impoverished communities, explained Sarah Vinson, M.D., and Randee Waldman, J.D., in a commentary published in The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health.
The Emory University School of Law Volunteer Clinic for Veterans (VCV) launched a program to provide advance directives, wills, and other estate planning assistance to medical residents completing their training at Emory University School of Medicine.
The Emory Law Volunteer Clinic for Veterans (VCV) welcomed a new staff attorney.
One of the law school’s signature events, the Emory Public Interest Committee’s (EPIC) Inspiration Awards,