Faculty Scholarship
Emory Law faculty participate in and create a wide range of scholarship including books, articles, essays, and presentations. Here is a collection of writings, presentations, and media mentions.
Legal Studies Research Papers
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Matthew B. Lawrence
Matthew B. Lawrence is associate professor of law. Lawrence researches and publishes on health care finance, administrative law, and addictions. He has written widely on these subjects with articles published or forthcoming in Columbia Law Review; Florida Law Review; Duke Law Journal; Harvard Law and Policy Review; the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics; New York University Law Review; and William & Mary Law Review, among other journals.
Spring 2021 Insights
Here we present two issues with long and sometimes difficult histories—the process of selecting federal judges for lifetime appointments, and what constitutes a human right.
Read the introduction
Faculty in the News
Emory Law Faculty Scholarship Newsletters
Work from March-April 2021
Accolades
Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law Kristin Johnson testified before the US House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions in the April 15, 2021, hearing "Banking Innovation or Regulatory Evasion? Exploring Trends in Financial Institution Charters."
Books & Journals
Articles
Rafael Domingo
Business and Spirituality: A Discussion Paper on Intertwining Metaparadigms, 23.1 Journal of Applied Business and Economics 170
Martha Albertson Fineman
Universality, Vulnerability, and Collective Responsibility, 16.1 The Ethics Forum (2021)
Introduction, 55.1 The Law Teacher special issue: Vulnerability and the Organisation of Academic Labour (2021) (with Graham Ferris)
George S. Georgiev
The Human Capital Management Movement in US Corporate Law, 95 Tulane Law Review 639 (2021)
Jennifer Hickey
Nature is Smarter Than We Are: Midwifery and the Responsive State, 40.2 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law (2021)
Kristin Johnson
Decentralized Finance: Regulating Cryptocurrency Exchange, 62 William & Mary Law Review 1911 (2021)
Matthew B. Lawrence
Subordination and Separation of Powers, 131 Yale Law Journal (forthcoming)
Health Reform Reconstruction, UC Davis Law Review (forthcoming 2021) (with Lindsay Wiley, Erin Fuse Brown & Liz McCuskey)
Kay L. Levine
Victims' Rights in the Diversion Landscape, 74.3 Southern Methodist University Law Review (forthcoming 2021)
Jonathan R. Nash
Nontraditional Criminal Prosecutions in Federal Court, 53 Arizona State Law Journal 143 (2021)
Promoting Regulatory Prediction has been accepted for publication by the Indiana Law Journal (forthcoming 2021) (with Jonathan S. Masur)
Rafael I. Pardo
On Bankruptcy’s Promethean Gap: Building Enslaving Capacity into the Antebellum Administrative State, 48.4 Fordham Urban Law Journal 801 (2021) (invited Cooper-Walsh Colloquium contribution)
Frank J. Vandall
A Compensation System for Gun Deaths and Injuries, Law Journal for Social Justice (forthcoming 2021)
The United States Ban on Tourism to Cuba, 22 San Diego International Law Journal (forthcoming)
Books
Dorothy A. Brown
The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans–and How We Can Fix It (Crown 2021)
John Witte Jr.
The Blessings of Liberty: Human Rights and Religious Freedom in the Western Legal Tradition, has been accepted for publication by Cambridge University Press.
Faith, Freedom, and Family: New Essays in Law and Religion (Norman Doe & Gary S. Hauk eds.) has been accepted for publication by Mohr Siebeck.
Book Chapters
Matthew B. Lawrence
COVID-19 Reveals the Fiscal Determinants of Health, in COVID-19 and the Law: Disruption, Impact and Legacy (Abbe Gluck, Katherine Kraschel, & Carmel Shachar eds., forthcoming 2022)
John Witte Jr.
Natural Law in Europe and America (1600-), in The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (Constance M. Furey, Joel LeMon, Brian Matz, Thomas Römer, Jens Schröter, Barry Dov Walfish & Eric Ziolkowski eds., 2010-)
Presentations
Silas Allard
“Encounter and the Ethical Preconditions of Immigration Policy,” at the Southeastern Immigration Studies Association Annual Meeting, sponsored by The Citadel and the College of Charleston, on April 9, 2021
Margo A. Bagley
“Towards a Global Consensus on Open Science—Online Expert Meeting on Open Science and Intellectual Property Rights,” hosted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, on April 23, 2021 (expert panelist)
"'Just’ Sharing,” University of Virginia Page-Barbour Lecture, April 2021
“Thou Shalt Not Steal: The Morality of Compulsory Licensing of Pharmaceutical Patents,” at “Patents on Life: Law & Social Ethics,” hosted by the Murphy Institute at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, in April 2021
“International Patent Law in Global Issues in Antimicrobial Resistance,” at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health, in April 2021
Dean’s Town Hall, Emory University School of Law Homecoming, on April 16, 2021 (moderator)
"Seed Patents," Seed School Teacher Training, hosted by the Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance, in April 2021
“Reflection on the Co-chairs Panel: Discussion on Potential Criteria for Assessing DSI Policy Options,” hosted by the GIZ-ABS Capacity Development Initiative, in March 2021 (expert panelist)
"Food Security and Biotechnology," and "Traditional Knowledge and Genetic Resources,” for IP specialists from various countries for the World Intellectual Property Organization Academy, which trains trainers on the advanced module on intellectual property, in March 2021
Martha Albertson Fineman
“Property and Resilience Workshop,” sponsored by Emory Law’s Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative, on April 23, 2021 (organizer, presenter)
“Vulnerability Theory, the Employment Relationship, and the State,” sponsored by Emory Law’s Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative, on March 12-13, 2021 (organizer, presenter)
Richard D. Freer
"The Roberts Court and the Adjudication Process," at “Civil Procedure Transformation after Fifteen Years of the Roberts Court,” sponsored by Stetson University, on April 9, 2021 (panelist)
"Current Trends in Civil Litigation," at “Quo Vadis Civil Justice: Filling the Gaps in Civil Justice in the US and Europe,” sponsored by Emory Law and the University of Oxford’s Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Swiss Re Programme for Civil Justice Systems, on March 26, 2021 (moderator)
"The Politics and Effects of Diversity Jurisdiction," at the “Conference on Federal Diversity Jurisdiction,” sponsored by Emory Law’s Center on Federalism and Intersystemic Governance, on March 19, 2021
"From Regulating Defendants to Regulating Conduct: The New Focus in Specific Personal Jurisdiction," at “Ten Years of the Supreme Court’s Personal Jurisdiction Revival,” sponsored by the University of Alabama, on March 5, 2021
George S. Georgiev
“The Public Company Regulatory Paradox and the Remaking of Federal Corporate Law,” Emory Law Faculty Colloquium, on April 14, 2021
Mindy Goldstein
“Zoning for Compost,” hosted by the Georgia Recycling Coalition, in April 2021
“Climate Change – It’s Real. So What Can US Environmental Law Do About It?” at the Senior University of Greater Atlanta, in March 2021
Kay L. Levine
“Victims' Rights in the Diversion Landscape,” at “Prosecution Reform,” hosted by Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law's Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center, on April 22, 2021
Jonathan R. Nash
"Communicating Risk across the Political Divide" at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, in April 2021 (with Cherie Metcalf)
"Evaluating District Judges' Incentives to Appoint Magistrate Judges on the Basis of Merit Instead of Ideology" at the Emory Center for Law and Social Science Conference on Magistrate Judges, in April 2021 (organizer, presenter)
"Aligning Diversity Jurisdiction with Its Bias Rationale" at the "Conference on Federal Diversity Jurisdiction,” sponsored by Emory Law’s Center on Federalism and Intersystemic Governance, in March 2021 (with Daniel Klerman) (organizer, presenter)
"Promoting Regulatory Prediction" at the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, in January 2021
Rafael I. Pardo
“Bank Creditors, Slave Mortgages, and the Making of Modern Bankruptcy Law,” at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, on April 15–18, 2021
Polly J. Price
“The Lessons of COVID-19: How Do We Combat the Next Epidemic?” sponsored by Bridge Emory, on April 21, 2021 (panelist)
Ani B. Satz
“Faux Preemption,” for the Animal Studies Society (cosponsored by Emory University's Comparative Literature; English; Philosophy; and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies departments), on April 9, 2021
“Careers in Academia,” sponsored by Emory Law’s Health Law Society, on March 11, 2021 (panelist)
Timothy P. Terrell
During March and April, Terrell conducted legal writing programs for the Massachusetts appellate judiciary (judges and clerks); the Illinois Appellate Lawyers Association; the New Mexico appellate courts (judges and clerks, including a half-day of discussion of edited judicial opinions).
John Witte Jr.
“The Inner Life, the Struggle for Black Freedom, and Critical Race Theory,” McDonald Distinguished Fellows Conference, hosted by Emory Law’s Center for the Study of Law and Religion, on April 23, 2021
“The Possibility of a New Emory Encyclopedia of Law and Christianity,” on April 20, 2021 (convener, presenter)
“Defending the Fundamental Rights of Parents: A Response to Recent Attacks,” McDonald Distinguished Fellows Conference, hosted by Emory Law’s Center for the Study of Law and Religion, on March 26, 2021 (convener, presenter)
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
“The Ecology of Childhood in the COVID-19 Era,” the Walter Weyrauch Distinguished Lecture in Family Law, sponsored by the University of Florida Levin College of Law, on March 10, 2021
Cited
Jonathan R. Nash
The Curious Legal Landscape of the Extraterritoriality of US Environmental Laws, 50 Virginia Journal of International Law 997 (2010), was cited by the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in City of New York v. Chevron Corp. (April 1, 2021)
State Standing for Nationwide Injunctions against the Federal Government, 94 Notre Dame Law Review 1985 (2019) was cited by the US District Court, Southern District of Texas, in Texas v. United States. (January 26, 2021)
Amicus Briefs
Ani B. Satz
Terkel v. Centers for Disease Control, US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Chambless Enterprises v. Walensky, US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
(Satz is a member of The George Consortium, which participated in the briefs.)
Opinion & Essay
Laurie R. Blank
“The Legitimate Aims of Self-Defense,” Articles of War (March 4, 2021)
Dorothy A. Brown
“College Isn’t the Solution for the Racial Wealth Gap. It’s Part of the Problem,” Washington Post (April 9, 2021)
“How the US Tax Code Privileges White Families,” The Atlantic (March 23, 2021)
“Your Home’s Value Is Based on Racism,” New York Times (March 20, 2021)
Rafael Domingo
"After 8 Years of Papacy, in Iraq We Met Francis," CNN Espanol, (March 12, 2021)
Quoted in the Media
Dorothy A. Brown
“The Whiteness of Wealth with Dorothy Brown,” Forever 35, (April 28, 2021)
“The Federal Government Is Losing Billions in Unpaid Taxes, in Part Due to Racial Disparities in the Tax Code,” Washington Post (April 23, 2021)
“The Tax Code Helps White People Get Richer,” Vox (April 20, 2021)
“Axing ‘SALT’ Limit Would Widen Income Gap, Witness Tells Panel,” Roll Call (April 20, 2021)
“The Whiteness of Wealth with Dorothy A. Brown,” “Why This is Happening,” with Chris Hayes (April 20, 2021)
“Tax Expert Dorothy Brown Talks About The Whiteness of Wealth,” The 19th (April 15, 2021)
“The Whiteness of Taxation: Wealth, Race and DC Statehood (with Dorothy Brown, Maura Quint and Demi Stratmon),” “On the Issues with Michele Goowin,” Ms. (April 12, 2021)
“Racism in the Tax Code and the Whiteness of Wealth with Dorothy Brown,” Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry (April 12, 2021)
“Tax Expert Dorothy Brown: ‘The System Is Designed for White Wealth,’” “Amanpour and Company” (April 8, 2021)
“Dorothy Brown: ‘The System for Wealth Building Is Designed to Build White Wealth,’” New York Magazine, "Intelligencer" (April 7, 2021)
“Pat Yourself on the Back (with Dorothy A. Brown & Shaka King),” Crooked, "Pod Save the People," (April 6, 2021)
“Race and Taxes, and Jane Mayer on How to Kill a Bill,” New Yorker (April 2, 2021)
“Exposing the Inequalities of America's Taxation System,” Bloomberg (March 29, 2021)
“Dorothy A. Brown: Racist Tax Codes Exist Because ‘A Rich, White Couple Wanted to Pay Less In Taxes,’” MSNBC (March 27, 2021)
“How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans and How to Fix It,” MSNBC, “Morning Joe” (March 26, 2021)
“How Our Tax Code Is Rigged Against Black Americans,” Mother Jones (March 23, 2021)
“The Whiteness of Wealth,” C-SPAN (March 23, 2021)
“Joe Biden’s Tax Plan, Explained,” Vox (March 18, 2021)
“Is the Tax Code Racist?,” Bloomberg Equality Summit (March 18, 2021)
“Taxes May Not Be Colorblind, and Critics Say More Data Could Prove It,” Politico (March 16, 2021)
“A Tax Code Optimized for White Wealth Leaves Black Americans Behind,” Bloomberg Businessweek (March 10, 2021)
“The Deep Racial Bias in US Tax Code,” Bloomberg (March 10, 2021)
“Is a Tax on ‘Ultra-Millionaires’ the Answer to Massive Inequality?” The Nation (March 4, 2021)
Kristin Johnson
“Biden Regulators May Clamp Down on High-Cost Digital Lenders,” S & P Global Market Intelligence (April 21, 2021)
“Fintechs Need Strong Consumer Protections, Diversity, Inclusion Asserts Key Congressman,” Forbes (April 16, 2021)
“Did Social Media ‘Manipulate’ Gamestop?” Roll Call (March 2, 2021)
Jonathan R. Nash
“Get Ready for Pushback Against Biden's Diverse Picks for Judgeships,” Reuters (April 1, 2021)
Polly J. Price
“Business Suits over Virus Rules Likely To Fail, but Not Slow,” Law360 (March 4, 2021)
Ani B. Satz
“Yes, Your Boss Can Require You Get A COVID Shot (and So Can the Government),” Fox 5 Atlanta, (March 5, 2021)
Joanna M. Shepherd
“Progressive Judges Wish List Heavy on ACLU, Light on Big Law,” Bloomberg Law (March 2, 2021)
Alexander Volokh
“Georgia Attorney General Leads Coalition to Block DC Statehood,” Fox5 Atlanta (April 16, 2021)
“Electric Car Makers Battle Georgia Auto Dealers to Sell Directly to Buyers,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution (March 2, 2021)
Work from January-February 2021
Accolades
Mary L. Dudziak was elected to membership in the Council on Foreign Relations. Read the news release.
Books & Articles
ARTICLES
Margo A. Bagley
“Advancing Commercialization of Digital Products from Federal Laboratories,” National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, Committee Consensus Study Report (2021)
Laurie R. Blank
The Use of Force to Prevent Recurrence of Conflict: Where Are the Limits of Self-Defense?, 86 Brooklyn Law Review 1 (2020)
Rafael Domingo
Business and Spirituality: A Discussion Paper on Intertwining Metaparadigms, 23.1 Journal of Applied Business and Economics (forthcoming 2021)
John Paul II and the Law, 55 General Review of Canon Law and Ecclesiastical Law of the State (2021)
Richard D. Freer
The Political Reality of Diversity Jurisdiction, 94 Southern California Law Review (forthcoming 2021)
"Defense Preclusion": Exploring a Narrow Gap in Preclusion Law, 40 The Review of Litigation (forthcoming 2021)
Jonathan R. Nash
Courts Creating Courts: Problems of Judicial Institutional Self-Design, 73 Alabama Law Review (forthcoming 2021)
John Witte Jr.
Kuyper and Reformed Public Theology: Family, Freedom, And Fortune 6.2 International Journal of Reformed Theology and Life (2020) (with Eric Wang)
BOOKS
Michael J. Broyde
Setting the Table: An Introduction to the Jurisprudence of Rabbi Yechiel Mikhel Epstein’s Arukh HaShulhan (Academic Studies Press 2021) (with Shlomo C. Pill)
Rafael Domingo
Law and Christianity in Latin America: The Work of Great Jurists (Routledge 2021) (with M.C. Mirow)
Richard D. Freer
Conflict of Laws: Private International Law (16th ed., Foundation Press, forthcoming 2021) (with Peter Hay & Patrick J. Borchers)
BOOK CHAPTERS
Johan D. van der Vyver
Freedom of Religion: Constitutional Patterns of Protection, in Routledge Handbook of Freedom of Religion or Belief (Silvio Ferrari, Mark Hill QC, Arif A. Jamal & Rosella Bottoni eds., 2021)
John Witte Jr.
Family as the Foundation of Economic Theory in Max Weber, in Protestantism and Modernity: Abraham Kuyper, Max Weber, and Ernst Troeltsch (Zhibin Xie ed., 2021) (translation of The Little Commonwealth: The Family as Matrix of Markets and Morality in Early Protestantism (2018) (with Justin Latterell)
Teaching Sexual Morality in Church and State: Historically and Today, in The Impact of the Law on Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies (John Witte Jr. et al eds, 2021) (revision of Church, State, and Sex Crimes: What Place for Traditional Sexual Morality in Modern Liberal Societies?) Witte also wrote the book’s introduction.
The Educational Values of Law and Religion Study, in The Impact of Academic Research on Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies (William Schweiker et al, eds., 2021)
Foreword, to Law and Christianity in Latin America: The Work of Great Jurists (M.C. Mirow & Rafael Domingo eds., 2021
Presentations
All via Zoom or web conference
Margo A. Bagley
International Intellectual Property Scholars Workshop, hosted by Chicago-Kent Law School in February 2021 (commentator)
“CRISPR in Latin America and the Caribbean,” at the launch of the Regional Gene Editing Project for the Agricultural Sector of LAC, hosted by the North Carolina State University Genetic Engineering and Society Center on January 27, 2021
“Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources: New and Emerging Technologies,” at the World Intellectual Property Organization IGC Seminar on January 22, 2021 (moderator and presenter)
“’Three Myths about ‘Defensive Protection’ for Traditional Knowledge” at the WIPO Seminar on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, hosted by the WIPO Traditional Knowledge Division Secretariat on January 20-22, 2021
Laurie R. Blank
"Ending War," at the 26th Annual National Security Law Conference hosted by Duke University School of Law's Center for Law, Ethics and National Security on February 27, 2021
Mary L. Dudziak
"The Numbers: Encountering Casualties in the Era of COVID-19" at the Constitutional Law Schmooze hosted by the University of Maryland School of Law on January 27, 2021
“The Future of Progressive Policy,” an American Constitution Society event co-sponsored by the Emory Law and Georgia State University College of Law ACS chapters on February 3, 2021 (panelist)
Martha Albertson Fineman
“Vulnerability Theory” at a workshop for papers to comprise a special edition of the International Journal of Discrimination and the Law on "COVID-19 Lessons For and From Vulnerability Theory,” on February 19, 2021 (keynote)
“Vulnerability Theory” at a Public Procurement and Vulnerability Theory workshop organized by a Vulnerability and Human Condition Initiative visiting scholar, on February 12, 2021. (keynote) The workshop will be the basis of a forthcoming book.
Commentator and discussant for papers delivered at a workshop on vulnerable workers, sponsored by Texas A&M University School of Law on January 11, 2021
Timothy R. Holbrook
“Antitrust–Patent Interface and Conflict in View of FTC v. Qualcomm,” at the Naples Roundtable 6th Annual Conference hosted by the Leahy Institute of Advanced Patent Studies on February 16, 2021
Vanderbilt Patent Scholars Roundtable, January 15, 2021 (participant)
Kay L. Levine
“Making Deflection the New Diversion,” at "Prosecutorial Elections: The New Frontline in Criminal Justice Reform,” hosted by the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law on February 19, 2021 (a paper co-authored with Elizabeth Griffiths & Joshua Hinkle to be published in the Journal this year)
“Technology and the Fourth Amendment: Surveillance and Security in the Digital Age,” at “Privacy in the Technology Age: Big Tech, Government, and Civil Liberties,” the 2021 Thrower Symposium hosted by the Emory Law Journal on February 4, 2021 (moderator)
Ani B. Satz
“Principles and Pandemics: Disability Discrimination through the Lens of COVID-19,” at the Health Law Works in Progress Writing Retreat, hosted by Seton Hall Law School on February 12, 2021
The Health Law, Policy & Ethics Project co-sponsored “McGirt v. Oklahoma: Understanding the Implications of the Recent Supreme Court Decision Across Native America,” with the Native American and Indigenous Students Initiative and the Michael C. Carlos Museum, on Oct. 12, 2020.
Joanna M. Shepherd
“Jobs, Judges, and Justice” a virtual launch event hosted by Demand Justice on February 25, 2021
Timothy P. Terrell
Terrell made the following presentations in January and February 2021: "Managing the Legal Writing of Others" for the Securities and Exchange Commission; "Advanced Legal Writing" for Latham & Watkins LLP; and "Writing to Persuade" for the Minnesota Public Defenders Office.
John Witte Jr.
“The Constitution” (interview and exchanges with Vincent Wimbush), at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures on February 19, 2021
“The Uses of the Law,” for the Center for the Study of Law and Religion and Emory Law faculty, staff, and post-doctoral fellows, on February 23, 2021
Opinion, Essay & Comment
Laurie R. Blank
“Experts Weigh in on Law of Armed Conflict Priorities,” Articles of War (February 18, 2021)
“Lawyers, Guns and Twitter: Wargaming the Role of Law in War,” War on the Rocks (February 2, 2021) (with Thomas J. Gordon IV, Adam Oler, & Jill Goldenziel)
Mary L. Dudziak
"Mass Death and Everyday Life" in After Life: Death and Loss in 2020 America (Keri Leigh Merritt, Rhae Lynn Barnes & Yohuru Williams eds., forthcoming)
Matthew B. Lawrence
Midnight Waivers: Can They Be Revoked Through the Congressional Review Act?, Yale Journal on Regulation Notice & Comment, January 6, 2021)
Polly J. Price
Pandemic Law: A Better Response to COVID-19, American Constitution Society, What's the Big Idea (January 2021)
Alexander Volokh
“Biden's Private Prisons Executive Order: A Solution in Search of a Problem?,” Reason/The Volokh Conspiracy (January 27, 2021)
John Witte Jr.
“Slaughtering Religious Freedom at the Court of Justice of the European Union,” Canopy Forum (February 16, 2021) (with Andrea Pin)
Offices & Appointments
Laurie R. Blank is a new member of the editorial board of the Texas National Security Review.
Quoted in the Media
Mary L. Dudziak
“Lawyers Call Trump’s Defense ‘Legally Frivolous,’” New York Times (February 5, 2021)
George S. Georgiev
“Boards Sharpen Tools to Circumvent ‘Ugly’ Clawback Process,” Agenda (Financial Times) (February 22, 2021)
“Schwab Forms New Regulatory Group as SEC Turns Over,” Law360 (January 21, 2021)
Timothy R. Holbrook
“Equality Act Passes in US House,” 11 Alive, (February 25, 2021)
Kay L. Levine
“Trump’s Next Foe May Be a Georgia District Attorney,” Bloomberg (February 12, 2021)
Michael J. Perry
“Lawyers Call Trump’s Defense ‘Legally Frivolous,’” New York Times (February 5, 2021)
Polly J. Price
"Will the Biden COVID Plan Work?" The Octavian Report podcast (January 26, 2021)
“Lawmakers Move to Strip Governors’ Emergency Powers,” Stateline (January 22, 2021)
“Experts Praise Biden's COVID-19 Plan, but Warn that Undoing Trump-Era Mistakes Will Take Time,” NBC News (January 21, 2021)
George B. Shepherd
“Emory Should Stop Honoring a Racist, Anti-Semitic Eugenicist,” Emory Wheel (February 18, 2021)
Joanna M. Shepherd
“Corporate Lawyers Who Become Judges Less Likely to Side with Workers, Study Says,” NPR (February 24, 2021)
Fred Smith Jr.
“Trump Calls Posthumous Defense ‘Witness’ in Impeachment Trial: Julian Bond,” 11Alive (February 9, 2021)
Alexander Volokh
“Lawyers Call Trump’s Defense ‘Legally Frivolous,’” New York Times (February 5, 2021)
Randee J. Waldman
“DeKalb School System Agrees to Provide Special Ed Programs in Jail,”Atlanta Journal-Constitution (January 29, 2021)
Work from September-December 2020
Books & Journals
ARTICLESLaurie R. Blank
Irreconcilable Differences: The Thresholds for Armed Attack and International Armed Conflict, 96 Notre Dame Law Review 249 (2020)
William J. Carney
Curricular Change in Legal Education, 53.2 Indiana Law Review 245 (2020)
Rafael Domingo
Law and Morality: One Hundred Years of Solitude, 52.3 Scripta Theologica 763 (2020)
The Roman Law of Succession. An Overview, 6 Ius Romanum 36 (2020)
Martha Albertson Fineman
Vulnerability and Academic Labour, The Law Teacher, International Journal of Legal Education special issue (2020) (co-editor and contributor)
Peter Hay
Forum Selection Clauses—Procedural Tools or Contractual Obligations? Conceptualization and Remedies in American and German Law, 6 IPRax 505 (2020) & 35 Emory International Law Review (2020).
Timothy R. Holbrook
Is There a New Extraterritoriality in Intellectual Property? has been accepted for publication by the Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts.
Matthew B. Lawrence
Parity Is Not Enough! Mental Health, Managed Care, and Medicaid, 48 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 480 (2020)
Congress’s Domain: Appropriations, Time, and Chevron, Duke Law Journal (forthcoming 2021)
Fiscal Waivers and State “Innovation” in Health Care, William & Mary Law Review (forthcoming 2021)
The Antisocial “Safety Net,” 136 Public Health Reports (forthcoming 2020)
Jonathan R. Nash
The Rules and Standards of Personal Jurisdiction, 72 Alabama Law Review 465 (2020)
Filibuster Change and Judicial Appointments, 17 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 646 (2020) (with Joanna Shepherd)
Nontraditional Criminal Prosecutions in Federal Court has been accepted for publication in 53 Arizona State Law Journal.
Joanna M. Shepherd
Filibuster Change and Judicial Appointments, 17 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 646 (2020) (with Jonathan Nash)
Frank J. Vandall
Suing the NRA for Damages, 69 Emory Law Journal 1077 (2020)
John Witte Jr.
A Tribute to Frank S. Alexander, 35 Journal of Law and Religion 193 (2020)
Review: Polygamy: An Early American History (by Sarah M. S. Pearsall) 35 Journal of Law and Religion 353 (2020)
Why Suffer the Children? Overcoming Christian Opposition to Children’s Rights, Canopy Forum (2020)
Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies, Canopy Forum (2020) (with Michael Welker)
Review: Christianity and Private Law (Robert F. Cochran Jr. & Michael P. Moreland. eds.) Canopy Forum (2020)
Review: Law and the Christian Tradition in Scandinavia: The Writings of Great Nordic Jurists (Kjell Å Moedéer & Helle Vogt eds.) Canopy Forum (2020)
Review: Church Laws and Ecumenism: A New Path for Christian Unity (by Norman Doe) Canopy Forum (2020)
BOOKS
Peter Hay
Hay, Borchers, Freer, Conflict of Laws—Private International Law, Cases, and Materials (16th ed., Foundation Press, forthcoming)
Timothy P. Terrell
Thinking Like a Writer: A Lawyer's Guide to Effective Writing and Editing (4th ed., Practising Law Institute Press, forthcoming)
BOOK CHAPTERS
Margo A. Bagley
Inspired by the Word: Exploring Intellectual Property through the Lens of Religious Thought, in Handbook on Intellectual Property Research (Irene Calboli & Maria Lilla Montagnani eds., forthcoming)
Rafael Domingo
Global Law and Human Community, in The Transformations of Law in Globalization (Jorge Fabra Zamora ed., 2020)
David F. Partlett
Tort Law and Its Three Christian Pillars, in Christianity and Private Law (Robert F. Cochran Jr. & Michael P. Moreland eds., 2020)
John Witte Jr.
The Right of Freedom of Religion: An Historical Perspective from the West, in Routledge Handbook on Freedom of Religion and Belief (Silvio Ferrari et al. eds., 2020)
Presentations
All via Zoom or web conference
Silas W. Allard
“Religion, Borders, and Immigration Seminar,” at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting held November 29-December 10, 2020 (respondent)
Margo A. Bagley
“How Domestic Measures Address Benefit-sharing Arising from Commercial and Non-commercial Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources,” for the UN Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat/ABS Capacity Development Initiative webinar on "Process and Recent Outcomes Related to Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources under the CBD," on December 9, 2020
“EGHI Seed Grant: Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance Pilot Program,” at the Emory Global Health Institute faculty fellows meeting with Emory President Greg Fenves, in December 2020
“What is DSI and What is it Not? (Options and Views)” for the UN Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat/ABS Capacity Development Initiative webinar, “Understanding DSI: A Technical Overview of Its Production, Distribution and Use,” on December 1, 2020
“‘Thou Shalt Not Steal’: The Morality of Compulsory Licenses as Access to Medicines Tools,” at a Harvard Law School Christian Legal Perspectives Workshop, in November 2020
“’What’s Yours is Mine and What’s Mine is Mine’: Digital Sequence Information, Patents, and Benefit-sharing Obligations,” at a Harvard Law School International Economic Law Workshop, in November 2020
“Ask Me No Questions”: The Struggle for Disclosure of Cultural and Genetic Resource Utilization in Design Law,” for a Harvard Law School Patent Law course, in November 2020
“Expanding Access to the Intellectual Property Ecosystem,” at the BTLJ-BCLT Symposium “Technology Law as a Vehicle for Anti-Racism,” hosted by Berkeley Law, on November 13, 2020 (moderator)
“Day One,” at a US Patent and Trademark Office workshop on policy proposals for the Biden Administration, in October 2020 (participant)
“Regulating Digital Innovation and Creativity in Africa: IP, The Nagoya Protocol, DSI, and AI,” at the African Union webinar “Unlocking the Potential of Intellectual Property in Africa,” in October 2020
“Utility Patents on Plants,” for the Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance, in October 2020
“Ask Me No Questions”: The Struggle for Disclosure of Cultural and Genetic Resource Utilization in Design Law,” part of a Notre Dame University Law School IP Lecture Series, on September 14, 2020.
Laurie R. Blank
“LOAC and Counterspace Operations: Targeting and Civilians,” at “Disruptive Technologies and International Law” hosted by the Naval War College, on December 9, 2020
“Can Technology Bring About the End of War?,” End of War Project fall 2020 dialogue, on December 2, 2020 (host)
"The Future of Perpetual Wars: Do Warring Parties Have an Obligation to End the Conflict?" at the Hancock Symposium hosted by Westminster College, on September 16, 2020
"Legal Considerations in Using Autonomous Weapons Systems," for the Naval War College, on September 12, 2020
Mary Anne Bobinski
“Envisioning Post-COVID Legal Education,” “Live with Kellye & Ken” webcast, hosted by iLaw Ventures and the Law School Admissions Council, on September 29, 2020 (panelist)
“Institutional Advancement During the Pandemic,” Association of American Law Schools Deans' Dialogue, on September 25, 2020 (panelist)
Morgan Cloud
“Criminal Defending Conference,” hosted by the University of Illinois College of Law, Urbana-Champaign, in December 2020
Rafael Domingo
“The New Global Law,” at the VII International Congress on Public Law, Political Science, and Criminology, hosted by the University of Valle de Puebla, Mexico, on November 5, 2020 (keynote)
“Pandemic, Leadership, and Global Law,” sponsored by the Alumni Association of the University of Navarra, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on October 22, 2020
Mary L. Dudziak
"The War Powers Pivot: How Congress Lost its Power in Korea," at a Project on War and Security in Law, Culture, and Society workshop, on December 17, 2020
“Statelessness: A Modern History," (by Mira L. Siegelberg), a book event sponsored by the Wilson Center’s History and Public Policy Program, on December 7, 2020 (commentator)
"After the 'Republic of Suffering': The Culture of War Death in the Era of Forever War," at a University of East Anglia Department of American Studies faculty workshop, on December 2, 2020
“Beyond Humanity: How to Control America’s Use of Force,” (by Samuel Moyn), at a meeting of the fellows of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, on November 23, 2020 (commentator)
"After the 'Republic of Suffering': The Culture of War Death in the Era of Forever War," at a Lancaster University Centre for War and Diplomacy faculty workshop, on November 19, 2020
"Committing Truth: Whistleblowing in and About the US Government,” (by Heidi Kitrosser), presented by the Project on War and Security in Law, Culture, and Society, on November 12, 2020 (host and moderator)
“The Protests Go Global,” hosted by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, on September 11, 2020
"The West as a Warscape," at “New Directions in the History of the Pacific West,” hosted by the Western History Association, on October 16, 2020 (panelist)
Martha Albertson Fineman
“Expanding the Legacies and Public Memory of the 2000 Women's International Tribunal: Beyond Colonialism and Toward the Future," hosted by the Seoul National University Asia Center, on December 4-5, 2020
“Vulnerability Theory,” at “Theories of Distribution,” convened by Harvard Law School, Northeastern University, and the Law and Political Economy Project, on September 11-12, 2020 (commentator)
“A Workshop on Vulnerability and Corporate Subjectivity,” hosted by the Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative, on October 2-3, 2020 (convenor)
“Untold Stories: Race, Place, and Vulnerability in the Women’s Suffrage Movement,” an Emory University Homecoming event hosted by the Women’s Center, Oxford College, and Emory Law, on October 22, 2020
Richard D. Freer
“The Ford Cases: Another Landmark Supreme Court Ruling on Personal Jurisdiction Is Coming,” at the Federal Bar Association Annual Meeting, on September 10, 2020 (with Linda Mullenix & William Janssen)
George S. Georgiev
“The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Global Anti-Bribery Laws, and Trade Sanctions,” for Professor Jeff Byrne’s Goizueta Business School Global Accounting course, on November 12, 2020
"Executive Compensation, Corporate Accountability, and Social Justice" at the Corporate Accountability and Social Justice Seminar organized by Professor Liza Vertinsky, on October 15, 2020
“The Human Capital Management Movement in US Corporate Law,” at “A Workshop on Vulnerability and Corporate Subjectivity,” hosted by the Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative, on October 2-3, 2020. Georgiev co-convened the workshop and also served as a moderator for the discussion “Neutral Rules, Male Capture.”
Matthew B. Lawrence
“Fiscal Waivers and State ‘Innovation’ in Health Care,” at the Association of American Law Schools Virtual Poverty Law Workshop, on October 16, 2020
Jonathan R. Nash
"Aligning Diversity Jurisdiction with Its Bias Rationale" at the Sixth Annual Civil Procedure Workshop, hosted by Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, on October 23, 2020 (with Daniel Klerman)
Rafael I. Pardo
"On Bankruptcy’s Promethean Gap: Building Enslaving Capacity into the Antebellum Administrative State," at the Board of Judges Meeting and Winter Education Program, US Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California, on December 11, 2020
"On Bankruptcy’s Promethean Gap: Building Enslaving Capacity into the Antebellum Administrative State," at a Michigan State University College of Law faculty workshop, on December 2, 2020
"On Bankruptcy’s Promethean Gap: Building Enslaving Capacity into the Antebellum Administrative State," at the Fordham Urban Law Journal Cooper-Walsh Colloquium, “The Impact of Financial Crisis on Urban Environments: Past, Present, and Future,” on October 16, 2020
"On Bankruptcy’s Promethean Gap: Building Enslaving Capacity into the Antebellum Administrative State," at the Roundtable on Slavery and Business History, sponsored by the Business History Collective, on October 14, 2020
Polly J. Price
Price served as outside expert adviser for "Gubernatorial Emergency Authorities During COVID-19," a National Governor's Association Zoom call with all state legal counsel, on December 14, 2020.
Ani B. Satz
“Principles and Pandemics: Disability Discrimination Through the Lens of COVID-19,” at the Beazley Symposium on Health Care Law and Policy, hosted by Loyola University Chicago School of Law, on October 30, 2020.
“Disability Roundtable,” hosted by the Emory Law Civil Rights Society, on September 3, 2020.
Joanna M. Shepherd
“Academics’ and Economists’ Views on Collaboration and Competition,” at “Promoting Innovation in the Life Science Sector and Supporting Pro-Competitive Collaboration: the Role of Intellectual Property,” sponsored by the US Department of Justice and the US Patent Office, on September 24, 2020
Timothy P. Terrell
In September 2020, Terrell conducted full-day legal writing programs for the following groups: New York University Law School (course: Leadership, Diversity, and Inclusion); US 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals clerks; Massachusetts Attorney General's Office; US 11th Circuit Court of Appeals clerks; US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania clerks
John Witte Jr.
McDonald Distinguished Fellows Conference: “The Birth of the Secular Purpose Test,” on December 15, 2020 (convenor)
Opinion & Essay
Laurie R. Blank
“Ending Wars: The Law of War's Latest Source of Stress, in Articles of War,” West Point Lieber Institute (November 12, 2020)
Rafael Domingo
“Fratelli tutti: The Great Gift of Francisco,” CNN Español Opinion (October 12, 2020); Canopy Forum (November 9, 2020)
Timothy R. Holbrook
Same-Sex Marriage at Risk as Supreme Court Gets More Conservative,” CNN Opinion (October 6, 2020)
"Don't Reward Intellectual Property Theft," InsiderAdvantage (October 26, 2020)
Jonathan R. Nash
“Trump's Remaking of the Judicial System,” The Hill (November 23, 2020)
Polly J. Price
“The Unlucky Timing of an Election Year Pandemic,” Beacon Broadside (October 30, 2020)
Offices & Appointments
Laurie R. Blank
— American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security, Advisory Committee
— International Counter-Terrorism Review Advisory Board
— Military Law and Law of War Review Editorial Board
Rafael Domingo
Saint Ignatius of Loyola University School of Law (Lima, Peru) Advisory Council member
Amicus Briefs
Morgan Cloud
Carlisle v. Commonwealth of Kentucky, submitted on behalf of a group of professors of criminal law and criminal procedure. The issue is the extent that the Fourth Amendment limits police officers’ discretionary authority to conduct criminal background investigations of a motor vehicle passenger when the officers lack any fact-based suspicion that the passenger is guilty of any crime.
Quoted in the Media
Dorothy A. Brown
“How The Cares Act Gave Millions to Energy Companies with No Strings Attached,” Washington Post (October 6, 2020)
“What President Trump’s Taxes Reveal,” “On Point,” WBUR (October 1, 2020)
“The Trump Tax Scandal Is an Indictment of The President—and the System,” Vox (September 28, 2020)
Melissa Carter
“Georgia Ends Child Abuse Registry, Saying Database Undermined Intent,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution (September 1, 2020)
Timothy R. Holbrook
“Nikola’s Trevor Milton Left a Trail of Bitterness on His Way to Founding the Electric-Truck Startup,” Yahoo Finance (December 15, 2020)
“A Utah Company Claims It Invented Contact Tracing Tech,” Wired (September 16, 2020)
Matthew B. Lawrence
“Medicare for All Explained Podcast: Episode 42,” Physicians for a National Health Program (September 15, 2020)
Kay L. Levine
“No-Knock Warrants in Georgia Under Microscope Since Breonna Taylor Shooting,” The Center Square (September 15, 2020)
Nicole Morris
“Nicole Morris on Emory’s Innovative TI:GER Program,” LawNEXT (October 26, 2020)
Polly J. Price
“The Real Reason Americans Aren’t Quarantining,” The Atlantic (December 8, 2020)
“Navigating the Pandemic: Past, Present and Future," Kat Pitts 21C podcast (November 24, 2020)
“Connecticut Puts Some Teeth in Mask Mandate, Will Start Issuing $100 Fines,” NBC (September 15, 2020)
Fred Smith Jr.
“New Poll Shows Tight Presidential and Senate Races in Georgia,” Political Rewind (September 22, 2020)
Alexander Volokh
“Both the GOP and the Democrats Want to Break Up Big Tech. Could It Really Happen?,” Salon (October 20, 2020)
“State Supreme Court Passes on Marin Pension Case,” Marin Independent Journal (September 27, 2020)
John Witte Jr.
“Freedom and Order: Christianity, Human Rights, and Culture: A Chinese Conversation with John Witte. Jr.,” Institute of Sino-Christian Studies, Hong Kong (2020)
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
"How the Differing Sense of Community in Florida and Italy Affects Children,” Youth Today (December 9, 2020)
Work from June-August 2020
Accolades
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im was named a “Great Immigrant” by the Carnegie Foundation of New York in its annual list of naturalized citizens who have enriched and strengthened both the nation and democracy through their contributions and actions. The foundation has released the list on the Fourth of July each year since 2006, and it is also published as a full-page advertisement in the New York Times.
Thomas C. Arthur’s article, The Problems with Pornography Regulation: Lessons from History, 68 Emory Law Journal 867 (2019), will be reprinted in the 2020 First Amendment Law Handbook, an annual collection of notable First Amendment scholarship published by Thomson Reuters, edited by Dean Rodney Smolla (Delaware Law School, Widener University).
Audra L. Savage was awarded the 2020 Innovation, Business and Law Center Prize by the University of Iowa College of Law’s Innovation, Business and Law Center for “Beyond Aunt Jemima: Holding Public Companies Accountable for Dismantling Systemic Racism,” which will be delivered via Zoom on October 1, 2020.
Offices & Appointments
Martha Grace Duncan
The provost’s office has approved a faculty of psychoanalysis. Duncan was appointed a member of the interdisciplinary body as professor of psychoanalysis.
Ani B. Satz
Satz is the new chair of the Emory University Faculty Council, Faculty Counselors Committee (2020-2021). She serves as Immediate past-chair of the council (2020-2021) and is also immediate past-president of the Emory University Senate (2020-2021).
Books & Journals
ARTICLES
Margo A. Bagley
“Study to Identify Specific Cases of Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge Associated with Genetic Resources that Occur in Transboundary Situations or for Which it is not Possible to Grant or Obtain Prior Informed Consent,” Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat (CBD) (August 2020) (with Frederick Perron-Welch)
Rafael Domingo
The Roman Law of Succession, an Overview, 6 Ius Romanum (forthcoming 2020)
Mary L. Dudziak
The Numbers: Encountering Casualties in the Era of COVID-19, Diplomatic History (forthcoming 2021)
Matthew B. Lawrence
Reflections on the Effects of Federalism on Opioid Policy, 124 Dickinson Law Review 695 (2020)
Social Solidarity in Health Care, American-Style, 48 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (2020) (with Erin Fuse Brown, Elizabeth Y. McCuskey & Lindsay Wiley)
Jonathan R. Nash
Filibuster Change and Judicial Appointments was accepted for publication in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (forthcoming 2021) (with Joanna M. Shepherd)
Joanna M. Shepherd
Filibuster Change and Judicial Appointments was accepted for publication in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (forthcoming 2021) (with Jonathan R. Nash)
Fred Smith Jr.
Remediating Resistance, 71 Alabama Law Review 641 (2020)
John Witte Jr.
Faith in Strasbourg and Luxembourg: The Fresh Rise of Religious Freedom Litigation in the Pan-European Courts, 70 Emory Law Journal (forthcoming 2020) (with Andrea Pin)
The Refusal of Polygamy in the Western World: the Reasons 1 Comparative and European Public Law 57 (2020) (with Andrea Pin)
Historical Foundations and Enduring Fundamentals of American Religious Freedom, 33 Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 156 (2020)
BOOKS
Laurie R. Blank
International Conflict and Security Law, part of the “Principles of International Law” series is under contract with Edward Elgar Publishers. (forthcoming 2022)
Mary L. Dudziak
Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism, has been accepted for publication by the University of Massachusetts Press (forthcoming 2021) (with co-editor Mark Bradley)
Richard D. Freer
The Law of Corporations (8th ed., West Academic Nutshell Series, 2020)
John Witte Jr.
Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment (4th ed., Oxford University Press 2016) (with Joel A. Nichols) Translations: French, forthcoming; Ecuadorian, 2020; Peruvian, 2020; Spanish, 2018 (translation by Nicolás Zambrana-Tévar & Rafael Domingo)
Christianity and Global Law (Routledge, 2020) (with co-editor Rafael Domingo)
Great Christian Jurists in German History (Mohr Siebeck 2020) (with co-editor Mathias Schmoeckel)
Christianity and Criminal Law (Routledge, 2020) (with co-editors Mark Hill, Norman Doe, & R.H. Helmholz)
The Impact of Religion: on Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2020) (with co-editors Michael Welker & Stephen Pickard)
The Impact of the Market: on Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2020) (with co-editors Jürgen von Hagen, Michael Welker & Stephen Pickard)
BOOK CHAPTERS
Rafael Domingo
Global Law and the Global Human Community, in The Transformations of Law in Globalization (Jorge Fabra Zamora ed., 2020)
Martha Albertson Fineman
Reasoning from the Body, in Jurisprudence of the Body (Michael Thomson, Chris Dietz & Mitchell Travis eds., 2020)
Ani B. Satz
Health Care as Eugenics in Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics (I. Glenn Cohen, Carmel Shachar, Anita Silvers & Michael Ashley Stein eds., 2020)
John Witte Jr.
Foreword, Great Christian Jurists in Nordic History (Kjell Å Moedéer & Helle Vogt eds., 2020)
Foreword, Christianity and Private Law (Robert F. Cochran, Jr. & Michael Moreland, eds., 2020)
Presentations
All via Zoom or web conference
Rafael Domingo
“Why Spirituality Matters for Law: An Explanation,” at the Akademicki Poznań Fundacja in Poznań, Poland, on June 16, 2020
Mary L. Dudziak
“Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy,” based on Dudziak’s upcoming book, for Professor James Goldgeier's graduate course on US-Russia Relations at American University School of International Service, on August 26, 2020
“Unrest at Home and US Foreign Policy,” sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, on July 13, 2020 (panelist)
“The Legacy of the Korean War on US Democracy, Economy, and Society,” sponsored by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, on June 25,2020
Martha Grace Duncan
“Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment,” at the Law and Literature Symposium hosted by Elena Urso, professor of law, at the University of Florence Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza, on June 3, 2020
Martha Albertson Fineman
"Vulnerability Theory" sponsored by the International Society of Family Law, on August 28, 2020 (keynote)
George S. Georgiev
“The Human Capital Management Movement in US Corporate Law,” based on his forthcoming article, at the National Business Law Scholars Conference, sponsored by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Law, on June 18-19, 2020. He made the same presentation at the Emory-UGA Summer Workshop Series on July 27, 2020.
Commentator, “Interpretative Entrepreneurs,” a paper by Professor MJ Durkee (UGA School of Law) at the Emory-UGA Summer Workshop Series, on July 8, 2020
Guest speaker for a summer class taught by Professor Urska Velikonja at Georgetown University Law Center on June 29, 2020
The Corporate and Securities Litigation Workshop, held weekly during Summer 2020, co-sponsored by the University of Richmond School of Law, the University of Illinois College of Law, UCLA School of Law, and Boston University School of Law (participant)
Mindy Goldstein
“The Role of Universities in Building a Resilient Food System,” sponsored by the College of Charleston Center for Sustainable Development, in July 2020
Kay L. Levine
“Facilitating Office Changes to Support Prosecutorial Innovations,” at the Prosecutors Research Network Summit: Defining and Refining the 2020 Framework for Prosecution and Public Health, on July 13-14, 2020 (keynote)
Polly J. Price
“Governing a Pandemic,” Arkansas Governor’s School Impact speaker, on July 8, 2020
“The Current Battle for the Constitution,” virtual town hall, sponsored by the National Constitution Center, on June 30, 2020
Ani B. Satz
“Roundtable: Current Topics in Bioethics and Public Health, Health Law Workshop,” at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, on August 4, 2020 (participant)
“Roundtable: Best Practices in Disability Law, Discussion Group: Pedagogical Trends and Techniques in Employment Law, Employment Discrimination, and Labor Law, Employment Discrimination Law Workshop,” Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, on August 4, 2020 (participant)
“COVID and Disability,” Emory-UGA Summer Workshop Series, June-July 2020
Audra L. Savage
"The Religion of Race: The Supreme Court as Priests of Racial Politics," McDonald Distinguished Fellows Summer Workshop Series, sponsored by Center for the Study of Law and Religion, on July 20, 2020
"Purpose, Promise and Potential: Holding Corporations Accountable for Newly Discovered Commitment to Racial Justice," at the National Business Law Scholars Conference, sponsored by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, on June 18-19, 2020
Robert A. Schapiro
“Emory Election: Analysis of Recent Supreme Court Decisions,” hosted by the Emory Alumni Association on August 26, 2020
Fred Smith Jr.
“Demands for Religious Accommodation from Non-Discrimination Laws: A Comparative Approach Among the United States and Other Western Democracies,” at the LGBT Bar Association Annual Conference, on August 12, 2020 (panelist)
“True Meaning to the Word Justice,” an interview with US District Court Judge Myron H. Thompson, hosted by the Faith and Politics Institute, on June 18, 2020
“The Future of Qualified Immunity," NAACP Legal Defense Fund Roundtable, on June 15, 2020
Timothy P. Terrell
Terrell presented legal writing programs to the following audiences over the summer: the Judge Advocate General's Judicial Training Office, Charlottesville, Virginia; Duane Morris LLP, nationwide; Latham & Watkins, LLP, nationwide; New York Attorney General's Office, Brooklyn, New York; Minnesota Bar Association, Minneapolis; Texas Court of Appeals, Fort Worth, Texas.
Liza Vertinsky
"Prioritizing Health Impact in Public-Private Health Litigation," at the Association of American Law Schools Health Law Section Virtual Health Law Workshop, on June 12, 2020 (with Reuben Guttman)
John Witte Jr.
“Religious Freedom and the Parable ‘Compel Them to Come In,’” (sermon) Emory Law Christian Legal Society, on August 26, 2020
Witte also convened the following McDonald Distinguished Fellows Conferences:
- “Christianity and the Liberal(ish) Income Tax,” on August 18, 2020
- “The Religion of Race: The Supreme Court as Priests of Racial Politics,” on July 20, 2020
- “Church Taxes and the Original Understanding of the Establishment Clause,” on June 23, 2020
Opinion & Essay
Dorothy A. Brown
“What Obama Knew about John Lewis,” CNN Opinion (July 30, 2020)
“Georgia Gov. Kemp Shows that He Doesn't Care about Black People,” CNN Opinion (July 17, 2020)
“George W. Bush Finally Steps onto The Right Side of History,” CNN Opinion (June 3, 2020)
Rafael Domingo
“Schuman’s European Vision,” Canopy Forum (August 27, 2020)
“Great Christian Jurists in French History,” Canopy Forum (August 6, 2020) (with Olivier Descamps)
“Great Christian Jurists in Spanish History,” Canopy Forum, (July 30, 2020) (with Javier Martínez-Torrón)
“Global Political Leadership Is Urgently Needed,” Nuestro Tiempo (July 2020)
Mary L. Dudziak
"George Floyd Moves the World: The Legacy of Racial Protest in America and the Imperative of Reform," Foreign Affairs (June 11, 2020)
"The Damage Trump Has Done This Week Extends Far Beyond America’s Borders," New York Times (June 4, 2020)
Polly J. Price
"Face-Covering Requirements and the Constitution," American Constitution Society, Expert Forum (June 3, 2020) (with Patrick C. Diaz)
Robert A. Schapiro
“In Banning LGBTQ Discrimination, Did Supreme Court License Sex Discrimination?,” The Hill (July 13, 2020)
John Witte Jr.
“Great Christian Jurists in Germany History, An Introduction and Overview by the Editors” Canopy Forum (July 16, 2020) (with Mathias Schmoeckel)
“The Right to Self-Defense as the Grundnorm for Human Rights: A Response to David Little,” Canopy Forum (July 6, 2020)
“Christianity and Global Law: An Introduction and Overview by the Editors,” Canopy Forum (June 25, 2020) (with Rafael Domingo)
“Review of Law and the Christian Tradition in Italy: The Legacy of the Great Jurists, by Orazio Condorelli & Rafael Domingo, Canopy Forum (June 14, 2020)
Liza Vertinsky
“Opinion: We Worry the FDA Is under Extreme Pressure to Rush Approvals tor COVID-19 Treatments,” Dow Jones “MarketWatch” (August 27, 2020)
Quoted in the Media
Dorothy A. Brown
“Banks Target Black and Latino Communities for Sub-Prime Mortgages, Says Emory Prof.,” Bloomberg News (August 25, 2020)
“Why Some Say the Phrase 'Black on Black Crime' Distracts from Police Brutality, Unfairly Perpetuates Racism,” 11 Alive, “The Reveal” (August 20, 2020)
“Elizabeth Warren’s Evolution on Race Brought Her Here,” New York Times (August 2, 2020)
“Activists Say Black Lives Matter Street Murals Are 'Performative Support': ‘They Don’t Stop the Next Murder of A Mr. Floyd,’” Yahoo! Life (July 17, 2020)
“Higher Property Taxes: Homeownership Costs More for Black Families,” WAMU 88.5 (July 13, 2020)
“GOP Eyes Narrowing Second Round of $1,200 Stimulus Payments,” Washington Post (July 9, 2020)
“How the Black Community Can Prioritize Mental Health in The Wake of George Floyd's Killing, Protests and Ongoing Racist Violence,” Yahoo! Life (July 8, 2020)
“The Disparate Impact of Law on Black America,” Gallup Podcast (June 25, 2020)
“The Case For Stakeholder Capitalism—Even In a Financial Crisis,” Marker (June 22, 2020)
“Corporate America Has Failed Black America,” New York Times (June 6, 2020)
Richard D. Freer
Freer voiced Justice Potter in a June episode of "Make No Law: The First Amendment Podcast” on the Legal Talk Network where the justice sets the ambiguous "I know it when I see it" standard.
Mindy Goldstein
“Holtec’s Interim Nuclear Waste Application Challenged in Court,” Albuquerque Journal (June 5, 2020)
“Lawsuit: NRC 'Flagrantly' Broke Law with NM Site Review,” EnergyWire (June 5, 2020)
Timothy R. Holbrook
“Cam Newton Photo Goes Viral. The Story that Went with It Was a Lie,” Fox 5 Atlanta (August 4, 2020)
“Elated, Brilliant or Dangerous: Georgia’s Legal Community Reacts to SCOTUS LGBTQ Opinion,” Daily Report (June 15, 2020)
Matthew B. Lawrence
“Will The $400 in Extra Unemployment Benefits Actually Reach People?” “Marketplace,” NPR (August 10, 2020)
Nicole Morris
“Cam Newton Photo Goes Viral. The Story that Went with It Was a Lie,” Fox 5 Atlanta (August 4, 2020)
Polly J. Price
“Arkansas Governor’s School 2020: Converting Adversity to Opportunity,” The Courier (August 22, 2020)
“Order to reject New DACA Applications Worries Central Florida Immigrants,” Orlando Sentinel (July 30, 2020)
“Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Sued to Block Atlanta’s Face Mask Ordinance. Here’s What to Know,” TIME, (July 18, 2020)
“Kemp Casts Lawsuit over Atlanta Virus Restriction in Ideological Terms,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution (July 17, 2020)
“The Dan Abrams Show,” “POTUS Channel,” Sirius XM (July 16, 2020)
“Some States to Out-of-Towners: If You Come Visit, Plan to Quarantine for 2 Weeks,” NPR (July 2, 2020)
“Coronavirus: How Face Masks Became a Political Symbol in the US,” The Week (July 2, 2020)
“Demanding a 14-Day Coronavirus Quarantine Is One Thing, Enforcing It Is Another, Experts Say,” NBC News (June 25, 2020)
“Emory Immigration Expert Says DACA Ruling Leaves Questions,” WABE 90.1 (June 19, 2020)
Robert A. Schapiro
“Here Are the Answers to Your Questions about What’s Happening in Portland,” Deseret News (July 23, 2020)
“Why Sending in the Troops May Not Solve the Problem,” Deseret News (June 5, 2020)
George B. Shepherd
“Stone Mountain and Other Monuments to the Confederacy Should Be Wiped Clean,” CNN Opinion (June 10, 2020)
Fred Smith Jr.
“Law Professor Tackles When Deadly Force Is Justified,” CBS-46 (August 28, 2020)
“Supreme Myths Podcast,” (August 6, 2020)
"Georgia Teens Shared Photos of Maskless Students in Crowded Hallways. Now They’re Suspended,” Washington Post (August 6, 2020)
“Gorsuch Doesn’t Give a ‘Fig’ What You Think, Just Like Mentor,” Bloomberg Law (July 27, 2020)
“Fiery Battle On Mask Mandates Enters The Court Room,” “Political Rewind,” Georgia Public Broadcasting, (July 17, 2020)
“US Supreme Court Hands Down Rulings on Crucial Cases,” “Political Rewind,” Georgia Public Broadcasting, (June 22, 2020)
“Made Up Immunities,” Strict Scrutiny podcast (June 8, 2020)
Work from February-March 2020
Accolades
Deborah Dinner has been named a 2020 Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellow, one of 25 recently tenured academics in this year’s class. Dinner’s project is titled “A Nation at Risk: Private Insurance and the Law in Modern America.” It will examine the legal history of private insurance across the 20th century. She will be in residence at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress during academic year 2022-2023.
Dinner is also one of six 2020-2021 Program in Law and Public Affairs Fellows at Princeton University. Fellows spend the academic year working on their own research projects, participating in law-related programs, and engaging with faculty and students.
Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law Martha Albertson Fineman has received a Visiting Research Fellowship from Trinity College in Dublin for the 2020-2021 academic year. The one-month fellowship is in association with Professor Ivana Bacik in the School of Law and Drs. Roja Fazaeli and Balazs Apor in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultural Studies. Fellows participate in the academic life of the college through a variety of ways, from teaching a master class to informal conversations in the college’s Long Room Hub.
Books & Journals
BOOKS
Richard D. Freer
Civil Procedure: Cases, Materials, and Questions (8th ed.,Carolina Academic Press 2020) (with Wendy Collins Perdue & Robin J. Effron)
Rafael I. Pardo
The Color of Bankruptcy: Financial Failure and Freedom in the Age of American Slavery is under contract with Columbia University Press. It is part of a series, “Columbia Studies in The History Of US Capitalism.”
BOOK CHAPTERS
Mary L. Dudziak
How the Pacific World Became West, in World War II and the West it Wrought, (Mark Brilliant & David Kennedy eds., 2020)
Martha Albertson Fineman
Reasoning from the Body, in A Jurisprudence of the Body (Chris Dietz, Michael Thomson & Mitchell Travis eds., forthcoming 2020)
ARTICLES
Rafael Domingo
Toward the Spiritualization of Politics, 63 Journal of Church and State (forthcoming 2021)
Martha Albertson Fineman
Beyond Equality and Discrimination, 73 Southern Methodist University Law Review Forum 51
George S. Georgiev
The Human Capital Management Movement in US Corporate Law, 95 Tulane Law Review (forthcoming 2020)
Kay L. Levine
Should Consistency Be Part of the Reform Prosecutor’s Playbook? Hastings Journal of Crime and Punishment (forthcoming 2020)
Models of Prosecutor-Led Diversion in the US and Beyond, Annual Review of Criminology (forthcoming 2020) (with Ronald Wright)
Jonathan R. Nash
The Rules and Standards of Personal Jurisdiction, Alabama Law Review (forthcoming 2020)
The Certificate of Division and the Early Supreme Court, Southern California Law Review (forthcoming 2021) (with Michael Collins)
Rafael I. Pardo
Financial Freedom Suits: Bankruptcy, Race, and Citizenship in Antebellum America, 62 Arizona Law Review 125 (2020)
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
Reimagining Equality Through the Lens of Human Rights: Lessons from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 47 Fordham Urban Law Journal 353 (2020)
Presentations
Margo A. Bagley
“Intellectual Property Issues Related to Digital Products from Federal Labs” at the 4th meeting of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Advancing Commercialization from Federal Labs,” held in Washington, DC, on March 2-3, 2020 (moderator)
"How Domestic Measures Address Benefit-Sharing Arising from Commercial and Non-Commercial Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources and Address the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources for Research and Development,” at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity's Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Digital Sequence information meeting, held online March 17-20, 2020. The presentation concerned the results of a study for which Bagley was lead author.
Laurie R. Blank
"Emerging Issues in the Law of Armed Conflict and the Law of Armed Conflict Lessons Learned in the Syria Conflict,” a workshop sponsored by Emory Law's Center for International and Comparative Law, the Lieber Institute for Law and Land Warfare, and the Harvard National Security Journal, held at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on March 2-3, 2020
Mary L. Dudziak
Dudziak was commentator on Professor Clifton Crais’s paper, “Introduction to A Global History of the Present,” at the inaugural Emory College of Arts and Sciences Department of History faculty workshop held on February 21, 2020.
Kay L. Levine
"Should Consistency Be Part of the Progressive Prosecutor's Playbook?" at “Progressive Prosecution and the Carceral State,” held at UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, California, on February 7, 2020
"Regulating Geography Through Drug Enforcement" at Florida State University College of Law, in Tallahassee, Florida, on February 26, 2020
Jonathan R. Nash
“2020 Future of IP,” National Science Foundation conference held in Orlando, Florida, on February 28, 2020 (participant)
Cited
Martha Grace Duncan
The Iowa Supreme Court cited Duncan's article, So Young and So Untender: Remorseless Children and the Expectations of the Law, 102 Columbia Law Review 1469 (2002), in State v. Majors, No. 18-0563 at 71 (Appel, J., dissenting) (March 6, 2020)
Amicus Briefs
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
Juliana v. United States, in support of plaintiffs-appellees' Motion for Rehearing en Banc before the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (filed March 12, 2020) (with Wyatt G. Sassman & Sarah A. Matsumoto)
Opinion & Essay
Michael J. Broyde
“The Case for Ginsburg to Recuse Herself,” Wall Street Journal Opinion (March 4, 2020)
Dorothy A. Brown
“Russia Learned This Lesson from the 2008 Election. Have Our Presidential Candidates?” CNN Opinion (February 15, 2020)
Rafael Domingo
“Ten Spiritual Tips For Dealing with the Coronavirus Crisis,” CNN Opinion (March 25, 2020) (with Gonzalo Rodriguez-Fraile)
“Javier Hervada, Father of Modern Canon Law” La Vanguardia (March 17, 2020)
“Why Does the Catholic Church Insist on Celibacy?” CNN Opinion (February 13, 2020); also published in The Canopy Forum (March 3, 2020)
Polly J. Price
"How a Fragmented Country Fights a Pandemic," The Atlantic (March 19, 2020)
"A Cornoravirus Quarantine in America Could be a Giant Legal Mess," The Atlantic (February 16, 2020)
Audra L. Savage
"Defining the True Meaning of Racism: The Law and Religion of Colonial America, Part I, II, III," three essays in the series, “Race, Religion and Law,” for which Savage served as curator. The Canopy Forum (March 23-30, 2020)
Quoted in the Media
Polly J. Price
“Donald Trump Considered Quarantining New York. Can He Do That?” Quartz (March 28, 2020)
“Familiar Echoes: 1918 Atlanta and the Spanish Flu,” WABE 90.1 (March 26, 2020)
“Trump Says He Has ‘Total Authority’ Over When States Reopen. But Experts Say That’s (Mostly) Untrue,” TIME (March 25, 2020)
"The Constitution and the Coronavirus,” "We the People" podcast, National Constitution Center (March 19, 2020)
“Lockdown vs. Libertarian Tug of War for Local Officials,” Politico (March 15, 2020)
“US Considers How to Enforce Coronavirus Quarantines,” Wall Street Journal (March 13, 2020)
“RVs and an Econolodge Become Makeshift Quarantine Zones,” CityLab (March 12, 2020)
“Coronavirus: Where Did Our Quarantine Facilities Go?” Mercury News (February 24, 2020)
“A Rare Legal Battle: Can a State Force a City to House Coronavirus Patients?” New York Times (February 24, 2020)
“US Judge Delays Decision on Moving Coronavirus-Exposed Americans to Costa Mesa, Calif.,” Washington Post (February 24, 2020)
“The Atlantic Politics Daily: MAGA vs. the Coronavirus,” The Atlantic (February 18, 2020)
“Coronavirus Latest News: Britons Stuck on Quarantined Ship Could Be Flown Home,” The Telegraph (February 18, 2020)
“Banning Travelers from China Won't Stop Virus, Experts Warn,” Voice of America (February 3, 2020)
“To Fight Coronavirus Spread, the US May Expand ‘Social Distancing’ Measures. But It Comes at a Cost,” STAT (February 3, 2020)
Work from November 2019-January 2020
Accolades
Mary L. Dudziak is an inaugural non-resident fellow of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a think tank launched December 4, 2019. The institute aims to lay a foundation for a new foreign policy centered on diplomatic engagement and military restraint.
George S. Georgiev‘s article, Securities Disclosure As Soundbite: The Case of CEO Pay Ratios, 60 Boston College Law Review 1123 (2019), was selected for inclusion in the 2020 volume of the Securities Law Review, an annual anthology of eight to ten law review articles deemed "especially worthy of a wider audience."
Georgiev’s article, Too Big to Disclose: Firm Size and Materiality Blindspots in Securities Regulation, 64 UCLA Law Review 602 (2017), is being translated for publication in China's Securities Law Review. The article was also cited by commenters in the notice-and-comment rulemaking on the modernization of the SEC disclosure regime (International Corporate Governance Network).
In January, Timothy R. Holbrook signed a contract with Cambridge University Press to publish his book, Patents, Property, and Possession: A Unifying Approach to Patent Law (forthcoming 2021).
A 1997 article by Polly J. Price, "Natural Law and Birthright Citizenship in Calvin’s Case (1608)" 9 Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 73, was cited and quoted in a federal district court decision holding that persons born in American Samoa, a US territory, are citizens at birth by virtue of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution. The case is Fitisemanu v. United States, decided December 12, 2019.
In January, Teemu Ruskola was invited to be a visiting research professor at National University of Singapore.
Books & Journals
BOOKS
William J. Carney
Corporate Finance: Principles and Practice (4th ed., Foundation Press 2020) (with Robert P. Bartlett III | George S. Geis)
Rafael Domingo
Christianity and Global Law (Routledge, forthcoming 2020) (with John Witte Jr.)
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
The Ecology of Childhood: How Our Changing World Threatens Children's Rights (New York University Press 2020)
BOOK CHAPTERS
Margo A. Bagley
‘Thou Shalt Not Steal’: The Morality of Limits on Pharmaceutical Patents, in Patents on Life: Religious, Moral, and Social Justice Aspects of Biotechnology and Intellectual Property (Thomas C. Berg, Roman Cholij & Simon Ravenscroft eds., 2019)
Rafael Domingo
Alberico Gentili and the Secularization of the Law of Nations, in Christianity and Global Law (Rafael Domingo & John Witte Jr. eds., 2020) (with Giovanni Minnucci)
Robert Schuman and the Process of European Integration, in Christianity and Global Law (Rafael Domingo & John Witte Jr. eds., 2020)
John Witte Jr.
Natural Law and Natural Rights in the Early Protestant Tradition, in The Oxford Handbook on Natural Law and Human Rights (Tom Angier & Iain Benson eds., 2020)
Introduction to the volume “On Charity and Justice,” in Abraham Kuyper Collected Works in Public Theology (Jordan J. Ballor & Melvin Flikkema eds., forthcoming 2020)
Foreword, to Making Scandinavian Law Christian: Law and Christianity in the Writing of Scandinavian Jurists (Kjell Å Modéer & Helle Vogt eds., 2020)
Foreword, to Juridical Ecumenism (Norman Doe ed., 2020)
Foreword, to Law and the Christian Tradition in Italy: The Legacy of the Great Jurists (Orazio Condorelli & Rafael Domingo eds., 2020)
The Uses of Law for the Formation of Character: A Classic Protestant Doctrine for Late-Modern Liberal Societies?, in The Impact of Religion on Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies (Michael Welker, John Witte & Stephen Pickard eds., forthcoming 2020)
Oikos and Oikonomika: The Early Modern Family as a Matrix of Modern Economics, in The Impact of the Market on Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies (Jürgen von Hagen, Michael Welker, John Witte Jr. & Stephen Pickard eds., forthcoming 2020)
Introduction and, The Good Lutheran Jurist Johann Oldendorp (ca. 1486–1567), in Great Christian Jurists in German History (Mathias Schmoeckel & John Witte Jr. eds., 2020)
The Reformation of Constitutionalism, in Christianity and Constitutionalism (Nicholas Aroney & Ian Leigh eds., forthcoming 2020)
Johannes Althusius and the Universal Rule of Law and Rights, in Christianity and Global Law (Rafael Domingo & John Witte Jr. eds., 2020)
Christianity and Sex Crimes, in Christianity and Criminal Law: An Introduction (Mark Hill, Norman Doe, Richard Helmholz & John Witte Jr. eds., forthcoming 2020)
Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church: contributed articles on bigamy, children, digamy, diriment impediments, divorce, kindred and affinity table, marriage, mixed marriage and nullity (4th ed., forthcoming 2020)
ARTICLES
Margo A. Bagley
How Domestic Measures Address Benefit-sharing Arising from Commercial and Non-commercial Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources and Address the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources for Research and Development, per the Fourteenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, CBD Secretariat (2020) (with Elizabeth Karger, Frederick Perron-Welch & Siva Thambisetty
Deborah Dinner
A Troubled Relationship: Sex Equality and the Limits of Law, 31(4) Journal of Women’s History 134 (2019) (review of A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s-1990s by Nancy Woloch (2015) and Equality on Trial: Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace, by Katherine Turk (2016))
Timothy R. Holbrook
The Importance of Communication to Possession in IP, 100 Boston University Law Review Online 18 (2020), an invited essay/response to Right on Time: First Possession in Property and Intellectual Property (Dotan Oliar & James Y. Stern) 99 Boston University Law Review Online 395 (2019)
John Witte Jr.
Between Martin Luther and Martin Luther King: James Pennington and the Struggle for ‘Sacred Human Rights’ Against Slavery, Yale Journal of Law and Humanities (2020) (with Justin Latterell)
The Metaphorical Bridge Between Law and Religion, Pepperdine Law Review (2020)
Meet the New Boss of Religious Freedom: The New Cases in the Court of Justice of the European Union, Texas International Law Journal (2020) (with Andrea Pin)
Presentations
Margo A. Bagley
“Protection of Copyright in the Digital Environment: Copyright Exceptions and Limitations,” African Group workshop on the Protection of Copyright in the Digital Environment, at the Permanent Mission of the African Union, in Geneva, Switzerland, in December 2019
“Connecting the Dots: Genetic Resources, ABS, and Access to Medicines,” at the Global Forum on Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines, held at the Max Planck Institute on Innovation and Competition Law in Munich, Germany, in December 2019
“Overview of Technology Transfer at DOD and NIH,” Public Workshop on Advancing Commercialization at the Federal Labs, held at the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, in Washington, DC, in December 2019 (moderator)
“Biopiracy and the Global Use of Biological Data,” at the Fourth Arizona Biosecurity Workshop held at Arizona State University in Tempe, in November 2019
“Patents, DSI, and the Treaty: Trends in the US and Beyond,” at the Eighth Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, held in Rome, Italy, in November 2019
“The Morality of Compulsory Licensing of Pharmaceutical Patents,” at Emory Law’s Center for the Study of Law and Religion, in October 2019
Laurie R. Blank
“Human Shields and Terrorist Tactics in the Modern Media Age," at "Lawfare: Using and Misusing the Law of Armed Conflict,” held at the Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School in Charlottesville, Virginia, on January 21, 2019
“What’s Unique about Underground Warfare, If at All? Subterranean Challenges in War and Peace” at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel, on December 16, 2019
“Chaos in Cosmos: New Technologies—New Battlespaces: Current International Law in Contemporary Domains and Contexts,” at the NATO Supreme Allied Command Transformation Headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, on December 4, 2019
“The Law and Policy of Armed Conflict,” at the National War College in Washington, DC, on November 22, 2019
Deborah Dinner
“A Roundtable Conversation with Angela Fernandez on Researching, Writing, and Teaching the History of Pierson v. Post” at the American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting, held in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 23, 2019 (discussant)
“Valuing Homemaking Labor,” Cornell Faculty Legal Research Workshop, Ithaca, New York, on November 8, 2019
“Shared Histories: The Feminist and Gay Liberation Movements for Freedom in Public,” at the University of Richmond Law Review Symposium “Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots: Reflecting on the Rise and Evolution of LGBTQ Activism and Rights in the Law” held on October 11, 2019 in Richmond, Virginia (with Elizabeth Sepper)
Rafael Domingo
“The Spiritualization of Politics,” at the University of Navarra’s Institute of Culture and Society, in Pamplona, Spain, on December 19, 2019
Mary L. Dudziak
Dudziak participated in the Sixth Annual Salmon P. Chase Faculty Colloquium, held at Georgetown Law School in Washington, DC, on December 6, 2019. Invited scholars discussed works-in-progress, with a focus on McCulloch v. Maryland. Dudziak also attended the Sixth Annual Salmon Chase Distinguished Lecture held December 5, 2019, at the US Supreme Court.
"The Work of Death," Emory University Provost's Faculty Impact Forum, on November 12, 2019 (organizer and panelist) (with Daniel LaChance, Fred Smith Jr., and Calvin Warren, moderated by Kylie Smith)
George S. Georgiev
"Human Capital Management and Corporate Governance," at the Securities Regulation Works-In-Progress program, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting held in Washington, DC, on January 5, 2020
"Human Capital Management and Corporate Governance," at the Southeastern Junior/Senior Faculty Workshop, held at Tulane Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana, on November 1-2, 2019,
Timothy R. Holbrook
"The New Extraterritoriality in Patent Law" at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law IP Colloquium held in Bloomington on November 14, 2019
“Patents, Property, and Possession: Reconceptualizing Patent Law,” at the Brigham Young University Law School IP Colloquium held in Provo, Utah, on November 1, 2019
Kay L. Levine
Criminal justice roundtable, presentations on works in progress in criminal law and procedure, at Vanderbilt Law School in Nashville, Tennessee, on November 8-9, 2019 (commentator)
Jonathan R. Nash
"Filibuster Change and Judicial Appointments," at the Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, held at Claremont College, California, on November 16, 2019
Teemu Ruskola
“A Brief History of Inequality in China," at the National University of Singapore, on January 31, 2020
"Inequality, China, and Corporate Law," at the Colloquium on Human Rights and Inequality held at the University of Texas Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice in Austin, on November 25, 2019 (with respondent James Galbraith)
Fred Smith Jr.
"The Work of Death," Emory University Provost's Faculty Impact Forum, on November 12, 2019 (with Mary L. Dudziak, Daniel LaChance, and Calvin Warren, moderated by Kylie Smith)
Timothy P. Terrell
Terrell presented full-day legal writing programs to the following audiences from November 2019 to January 2020: US Patent and Trademark Office; US Commodities Futures Trading Commission; US Environmental Protection Agency, Atlanta Office; US Third Circuit Court of Appeals; US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; Indiana Attorney General's Office; Georgia appellate court clerks; Sheehan Phinney; and, Atlanta Legal Aid.
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
"Children's Rights at 30: Challenges for the Next Generation," at the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting held in Washington, DC, on January 4, 2020 (panelist)
Appointments & Public Service
Margo A. Bagley served as technical expert to the African Union and African Group at the 59th General Assemblies of the World Intellectual Property Organization held in Geneva, Switzerland in October 2019.
Mary L. Dudziak serves on the US State Department Historical Advisory Committee, which advises the department’s Office of the Historian concerning Foreign Relations of the United States and declassification issues. The group meets quarterly at the State Department.
Teemu Ruskola has been invited to join the editorial board for a new series, on Comparative Studies in Culture, Politics and Religion, by Springer Publishing.
Quoted in the Media
Laurie R. Blank
“Tensions Between US and Iran,” WABE 90.1 (January 8, 2020)
Polly J. Price
“195 Americans Are Quarantined Because of Coronavirus. What Does that Mean?” ABC News (January 31, 2020)
Accolades
Laurie R. Blank, director of the International Humanitarian Law Clinic, was named a senior fellow of US Military Academy’s Lieber Institute for Law and Land Warfare, in West Point, New York.
Spanish businessman and philanthropist Gonzalo Rodriguez-Fraile has pledged a substantial gift that will support the work of Emory’s Spruill Family Professor of Law and Religion Rafael Domingo. Read more.
Martha Albertson Fineman was selected as distinguished lecturer of the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M University. She delivered a series of public lectures on emerging issues in family law and feminist theory, hosted a workshop on the Feminism and Legal Theory Project, and mentored new faculty. Read more.
Joanna M. Shepherd has been appointed Thomas Simmons Professor of Law, effective September 1, 2019. Read more.
Books & Journals
Professor publishes first text teaching legal writing specifically to JM, LLM students
Professor Jennifer Romig, with Mark Edwin Burge, recently published Legal Literacy and Communication Skills: Working with Law and Lawyers. From Carolina Academic Press, Legal Literacy and Communication Skills: Working with Law and Lawyers is a first-of-its-kind text, designed expressly for students in Juris Master, Master of Jurisprudence, and Master of Legal Studies programs. This concise paperback empowers students whose professional background is outside of law with a foundational understanding of the US legal system and insight into what lawyers do. Legal Literacy and Communication Skills covers key concepts, including:
- Understanding the roles of legislatures, agencies, and courts;
- Recognizing and using basic legal vocabulary in context;
- Reading a variety of legal documents efficiently and effectively;
- Writing law-related reports and correspondence;
- Reading and understanding the function of primary sources of law, including statutes, regulations, and cases;
- Understanding the basic elements of a contract and participating in contracting processes; and
- Recognizing and avoiding the unauthorized practice of law.
Romig joined the faculty of Emory Law School in 2001. She teaches first-year legal research and writing; professional responsibility; and analysis, research, and communication for non-lawyers. She also serves as faculty advisor to the Moot Court Society. In 2013, Romig founded the blog Listen Like a Lawyer, www.listenlikealawyer.com, which focuses on listening skills for lawyers, law students, and all legal professionals. Romig received her JD in 1998 from the University of Virginia. She practiced law at Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy LLP in Atlanta, where she litigated patent, trademark, and trade secret cases and other commercial matters. She continues to consult with lawyers, legal professionals, and summer associates on legal writing.
William J. Carney
Mergers and Acquisitions: Cases and Materials and teacher’s manual (5th ed., Foundation Press 2019)
BOOK CHAPTERS
Rafael Domingo
Paul Fournier, in Great Christian Jurists in French History (Olivier Descamps and Rafael Domingo, eds. 2019) (with Brigitte Basdevant-Gaudemet)
Robert Schuman, in Great Christian Jurists in French History (Olivier Descamps and Rafael Domingo, eds. 2019)
ARTICLES
Laurie R. Blank
The Use of Force to Prevent Recurrence of Conflict: Where are the Limits of Self-Defense?, 85 Brooklyn Law Review (forthcoming 2020)
William J. Carney
Curricular Change in Legal Education, Indiana Law Review (forthcoming 2020)
Deborah Dinner
Sex in Public, 129 Yale Law Journal 78 (2019) (with Elizabeth Sepper)
Presentations
Laurie R. Blank
"’When Does the Right of Self-Defense End?’ When Conflicts End and How: ISIS as a Case Study,” at the End of War Project, 19th World Summit on Counterterrorism, held in Herzliya, Israel, on September 11, 2019
Melissa D. Carter
“Justice for Juveniles,” at “Criminal Justice Reform in Georgia: A Reflection of Progress and Opportunities for Change,” held at the University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, on October 24, 2019 (panelist)
Mary L. Dudziak
“Originalism and History: An Interdisciplinary Discussion,” held at Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law, in Chicago, Illinois, on October 4, 2019 (participant)
Richard D. Freer
“The Exodus from Litigation: Enforcement of Arbitration Provisions,” at the Cobb County Bar Association Business Law and Litigation Section CLE, held in Marietta, Georgia, on October 4, 2019
George S. Georgiev
"Human Capital Management and Corporate Governance," at the Southeastern Junior/Senior Faculty Workshop, held at Tulane Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana, on November 1-2, 2019,
"Corporate Law for the Data Economy,” at the Canadian Law and Economics Annual Conference, held at the University of Toronto, on September 20-21, 2019
Mindy Goldstein
“Georgia’s Energy Portfolio,” at the Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership held in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 10-13, 2019 (panelist)
Timothy R. Holbrook
Patents, Property, and Possession (book project) at a faculty colloquium held at Vanderbilt Law School in Nashville, Tennessee, on September 23, 2019
Jonathan R. Nash
"Reciprocity and the Capacity of States to Sue and to Be Sued" at the Fifth Annual Civil Procedure Workshop, held at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, on October 25-26, 2019
"Filibuster Change and Judicial Appointments," at the Midwestern Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, held at Villanova University’s Charles Widger School of Law in Pennsylvania, on October 18-19, 2019 (co-author Joanna Shepherd). Nash presented the same work at the Canadian Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, held at the University of Toronto, on September 20-21, 2019.
Fred Smith Jr.
“Curing the Ailment of Bail,” at “Criminal Justice Reform in Georgia: A Reflection of Progress and Opportunities for Change,” at the University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, on October 24, 2019 (panelist)
“The Civil Rights Rollback (and What You Can Do About It),” American Constitutional Lawyer 2019 National Lawyer Convening, held in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 19, 2019
John Witte Jr.
"The Ten Commandments, Freedom and the Early Modern Roots of Western Jurisprudence," at Boston University, Massachusetts, on October 27-28, 2019 (keynote) (with commentary by Linda C. McClain, Paul M. Siskind Research Scholar, Boston University School of Law)
Witte convened the first of five roundtable discussions with the 2019 McDonald Distinguished Fellows on October 17-19, 2019. The group, thirteen Christian scholars of law, theology, history and ethics, will meet for 20 days of roundtables with Witte and other senior CSLR scholars, then remain in virtual contact over five years. The roundtables will explore book projects and works in progress. The aim is to create a community of young, Christian legal scholars through deep conversation. They will then communicate new ideas both in print and via new virtual formats.
Opinion & Essay
Rafael Domingo
“Respect,” CNN Español (October 11, 2019)
"Spiritual influences on the Law," in the Canopy Forum (October 8, 2019)
Quoted in the Media
Laurie R. Blank
"Experts Question Trump's Focus on Syrian Oil Fields," Voice of America (October 30, 2019)
“Comments on Seizing Syria Oil Reinforces Anti-American Sentiment, Experts Warn,” Voice of America (October 29, 2019)
"Trump Suggestion of Taking Syrian Oil Draws Rebukes," Reuters (October 27, 2019)
“Law and National Security? Legitimacy, Security, and ‘Tom Clancy’ Stuff,” “Horns of a Dilemma” podcast, Texas National Security Review (October 23, 2019)
“Space Warfare: A New Front Line?" TRT World (September 23, 2019)
Dorothy A. Brown
“How Would Andrew Yang Give Americans $1,000 Per Month? With This Tax,” PBS NewsHour (September 9, 2019)
Melissa D. Carter
“Why Is There No Specific Age in Georgia Law to Determine If a Child Is Old Enough to Be Home Alone?” 11 Alive (October 23, 2019)
Deborah Dinner
“She Was a Teacher. She Got Pregnant. Her Cases Ended Up at the Supreme Court,” Education Week (October 28, 2019)
“Supreme Court, Set to Rule on LGBTQ Rights at Work, Addressed Gender Discrimination 30 Years Ago,” Washington Post (October 8, 2019)
Rafael Domingo
“Will Pope Francis Approve the Ordination of Married Priests in The Amazon?” CNN Español (October 28, 2019)
George S. Georgiev
“How the JOBS Act Helped Create WeWork’s Problems,” The Deal (October 29, 2019) (subscription required)
“Neumann’s Parachute on Steroids,” The Deal (October 23, 2019) (subscription required)
Robert A. Schapiro
“Supreme Court Decision on Louisiana Abortion Law Could Direct Argument on Georgia's ‘Heartbeat’” 11 Alive (October 4, 2019)
Alexander Volokh
“Man Fights to Get Atlanta Mayor to Unblock Him on Twitter,” CBS 46 (October 25, 2019)
Faculty Scholarship
Margo A. Bagley, Dorothy A. Brown, Rafael Domingo, George S. Georgiev, Mindy Goldstein (top, L-R) Timothy R. Holbrook, Jonathan R. Nash, Ani B. Satz, John Witte Jr. (bottom, L-R)
Accolades
In May, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law Margo A. Bagley was awarded a $25,000 grant from the UN Convention on Biological Diversity as leader of a 13-member team studying domestic measures relating to digital sequence information and benefit sharing.
In August, Dorothy A. Brown was named Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law. Read more.
Spruill Family Research Professor Rafael Domingo was appointed a member of the Ius Humani Law Journal editorial board.
Associate Professor George S. Georgiev’s recent law review article on CEO pay ratios was discussed in oral and written testimony at a May 15, 2019, hearing of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and Capital Markets.
Clinical Professor of Law Mindy Goldstein was named a senior faculty fellow for the Emory Center for Ethics.
In June, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law Timothy R. Holbrook and Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law and Professor of Global Health Polly J. Price were elected fellows of the American Bar Foundation. Fellows are recommended by their peers and elected by the Board of the American Bar Foundation, and membership is limited to one percent of lawyers licensed to practice in each jurisdiction.
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has cited Robert Howell Hall Professor of Law Jonathan R. Nash’s 2019 article on "National Personal Jurisdiction," which was published in the Emory Law Journal. Read the opinion.
Nash's article "The Production Function of the Regulatory State: How Much Do Agency Budgets Matter?" [102 Minnesota Law Review 695 (2017)] has been selected as one of the best articles in environmental law published last year by Land Use and Environment Law Review. His co-authors are J.B. Ruhl and James E. Salzman.
Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law and Professor of Global Health Polly J. Price is winner of the Supreme Court Historical Society’s 2018 Hughes Gossett Award for Best Journal Article in the Journal of Supreme Court History. Her article “A ‘Chinese Wall’ at the Nation’s Borders: Justice Stephen Field and The Chinese Exclusion Case’” was published in the journal’s March 2018 issue. Read more.
Professor of Law Ani B. Satz is 2019-20 president of the Emory University Senate and chair of Faculty Council.
Professor of Law Joanna M. Shepherd testified at "Profits over Consumers: Exposing How Pharmaceutical Companies Game the System," a US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee hearing held in Washington, DC, on September 19, 2019.
Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law and McDonald Distinguished Professor John Witte Jr. has joined the editorial board of Zeitschrift für Rechtsgeschichte. Witte is director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion.
Books & Journals
BOOKS
John Witte Jr.
Church, State, and Family: Reconciling Traditional Teachings and Liberties (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2019)
BOOK CHAPTERS
Margo A. Bagley
Designing Disclosure: The Disclosure of Cultural and Genetic Resource Utilisation in Design Protection Regimes, in The Object and Purpose of Intellectual Property (Susy Frankel ed., 2019)
Martha Grace Duncan
Falling Forward, in Home: An Anthology of Minnesota Fiction, Memoir, and Poetry (William E. Burleson ed., 2019)
Teemu Ruskola
The Dao of Mao: Sinocentric Socialism and the Politics of International Legal Theory, in Cold War International Law (Matthew Craven, Sundhya Pahuja & Gerry Simpson eds., 2019)
John Witte Jr.
John Calvin, in Great Christian Jurists in French History (Olivier Descampes & Rafael Domingo eds., 2019)
ARTICLES
Michael J. Broyde
Faith-Based Arbitration Evaluated: The Policy Arguments For and Against Religious Arbitration in America, 33 (3) Journal of Law and Religion 340 (2018)
Rafael Domingo
Why Spirituality Matters for Law? An Explanation, 8 Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 326 (2019)
Roman Law and Global Constitutionalism, 24 New Legal Studies 321 (2019)
Jonathan R. Nash
State Standing for Nationwide Injunctions Against the Federal Government, 94 Notre Dame Law Review 1985 (2019) (essay)
Polly J. Price
Immigration Policy and Public Health, 16 Indiana Health Law Review 235 (2019)
Jennifer Murphy Romig
Legal Blogging and the Rhetorical Genre of Public Legal Writing (2015) was selected for inclusion in Legal Communication and Technology, the Legal Writing Institute’s Monograph Series (Vol. 8)
Teemu Ruskola
People, Inc.? Law, Economic Enterprise, and the Development of Inequality in China, 67 American Journal of Comparative Law 383 (2019)
John Witte Jr.
Meet the New Boss of Religious Freedom: The New Cases of the Court of Justice of the European Union, 55 Texas Journal of International Law (forthcoming, 2019)
Is Religious Liberty Under Threat? Trans-Atlantic Perspectives, 20 Ecclesiastical Law Journal 339 (2018)
Editorial, 33 (3) Journal of Law and Religion 327 (2018)
Opinion & Essay
Dorothy A. Brown
“The Work Started in Ferguson Is Far from Over,” CNN Opinion (August 9, 2019)
“Of All the Places Trump Could Go to Prove He's No Racist,” CNN Opinion (July 30, 2019)
“For Some Black Voters, Joe Biden Is Deeply Problematic. But Trump Is Even Worse,” CNN Opinion (June 21, 2019)
“The Real Reason Trump Won't Put Harriet Tubman on $20 Bill,” CNN Opinion (June 14, 2019)
Michael J. Broyde
“Why We Should Teach Legal-Reasoning Skills to Students,” Education Week (June 17, 2019) (with Ira Bedzow)
Rafael Domingo
“Is There a Right to Live in any Corner of the World?” CNN Español (August 2, 2019)
Mary L. Dudziak
“Shedding Light on Secret Laws Governing Presidential Power,” The Hill (August 27, 2019)
Richard D. Freer
“SCOTUS Analysis: Schein and New Prime,” Emory Law News Center (July 17, 2019)
“SCOTUS Analysis: Lamps Plus Inc. v. Varela,” Emory Law News Center (July 17, 2019)
Timothy R. Holbrook
“SCOTUS Analysis: Transgender Military Service,” Emory Law News Center (July 17, 2019)
Kay L. Levine
“SCOTUS Analysis: Flowers v. Mississippi,” Emory Law News Center (July 17, 2019)
Jonathan R. Nash
“Here's How Senators Can Overcome Their Hyperpartisanship with Judicial Nominees,” The Hill (August 12, 2019)
“SCOTUS Analysis: Knick v. Township of Scott,” Emory Law News Center (July 17, 2019)
“SCOTUS Analysis: Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt,” Emory Law News Center (July 17, 2019)
Michael J. Perry
“SCOTUS Analysis: American Legion v. American Humanist Association,” Emory Law News Center (July 17, 2019)
Polly J. Price
“SCOTUS Analysis: A preview of DACA,” Emory Law News Center (July 19, 2019)
Robert A. Schapiro
“SCOTUS Analysis: Rucho v. Common Cause,” Emory Law News Center (July 17, 2019)
Fred Smith Jr.
“SCOTUS Analysis: Madison v. Alabama,” Emory Law News Center (July 18, 2019)
Quoted in the Media
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im
“Professor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im Delivers Distinguished Lecture at NUS Law,” National University of Singapore News Center (May 23, 2019)
Laurie R. Blank
“Trump Authorizes a Space Command. Next, He Wants a Space Force,” New York Times (August 29, 2019)
Mary Anne Bobinski
“Emory Law Names School’s First LGBTQ Female Dean,” Georgia Voice (July 3, 2019)
Dorothy A. Brown
“How Would Andrew Yang Give Americans $1,000 Per Month? With This Tax,” PBS NewsHour (September 9, 2019)
“How the Dream of Homeownership Failed African Americans,” “Nice Try!” Curbed.com (June 13, 2019)
“Can the Racial Wealth Gap Be Closed Without Speaking of Race?” The Upshot, New York Times (May 10, 2019)
“The Fairness Issue Candidates Need to Address,” in, “Commentators: Who Won the 2nd Democratic Debate?” CNN Opinion (June 28, 2019)
Michael J. Broyde
“Choice of Law and Forum,” Fulbright Israel Magazine (Summer 2019)
Deborah Dinner
“What To Know About New Abortion Law: Law Professor Weighs In,” 11 Alive (May 9, 2019)
Mary L. Dudziak
“Knight Institute Challenges Justice Department’s Claimed Authority to Categorically Withhold Key Legal Opinions,” Knight First Amendment Institute (August 21, 2019)
“Trump Ignored Congress on War Powers. Constitutional Scholars Want Democrats to Take Him to Court,” Vox (May 27, 2019)
George S. Georgiev
“As Farfetch's Stock Drops, Law Firms Ask: Did the Company Mislead Investors From the Outset?, The Fashion Law (August 15, 2019)
“Op-Ed: Rage over Bob Iger’s Payday Masks How Little We Know About Income Gaps in America,” Los Angeles Times (May 3, 2019)
Mindy Goldstein
“Cities Are Making Big Climate Promises. Keeping Them Can Be Tough,” WGBH 89.7 (May 29, 2019)
“Atlanta, Southern Company Make Climate Promises. The Challenge Is Making Them Happen,” WABE 90.1 (May 13, 2019)
Timothy R. Holbrook
“Helsinn v. Teva and the America Invents Act,” IP Theory podcast, sponsored by Indiana University Maurer School of Law (August 21, 2019)
Nicole Morris
“Training the Lawyers of the Future at Emory Law,” Lawyerist Legal Talk Network podcast (July 11, 2019)
Jonathan R. Nash
“May the House of Representatives Appeal Dismissal of Criminal Charges, When the Justice Department Doesn't Appeal?” “The Volokh Conspiracy,” Reason (June 7, 2019)
Ani B. Satz
“Animal Welfare Laws and Concerns Over Enforcement Lead to Warnings for Pet Buyers,” ABC News (August 26, 2019
Robert A. Schapiro
"Stevens: A Model of Humanity, Humility and Rationality” Daily Report (July 17, 2019)
Sarah Shalf
“Federal Judge Says Prisoners Must Be Allowed 3-Inch Beards for Religious Reasons,” Daily Report (August 13, 2019)
Joanna M. Shepherd
“Judges 2: 'Worse Than Willie Horton’” “Upfront,” NPR (August 1, 2019)
Fred Smith Jr.
“Qualified Immunity of the Police,” Talks On Law (September 2019)
“Georgia Legal Experts: Impact Unclear in Granting ‘Personhood’ to Fetus,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution (June 3, 2019)
Randee J. Waldman
“Barton Juvenile Defender Clinic et al. File Suit on Behalf of Jailed Students,” Emory Law News Center (July 18, 2019)
Presentations
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im
“The Challenge of Self-Determination in a Neo-Colonial World: Islam and the State on Muslim Terms,” at the Centre for Asian Legal Studies, National University of Singapore, on May 23, 2019
Margo A. Bagley
“Platform Capitalism and Techno-Domination: Myth or Reality?” at the “Development in the Data Economy” workshop held at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 13, 2019
“The Nagoya Protocol and Digital Sequence Information (DSI) on Genetic Resources: Emerging Issues,” for the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Committee project, “Biological Collections: Their Past, Present, and Future Contributions and Options for Sustaining Them,” held in Washington, DC, on July 9-12, 2019 (webinar)
Bagley served as Friend of the Chair and technical expert to the African Union at the 40th Session of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore, held in Geneva, Switzerland, in June 2019
“IP and Pharmaceuticals and the Protection of Biotech Inventions,” at the Max Planck Institute Intellectual Property Law Program held in Munich, Germany, in July 2019
“’What’s Yours is Mine and What’s Mine is Mine?’: Digital Sequence Information and Benefit-sharing Obligations under the Nagoya Protocol,” at the 23rd International Consortium on Applied Bioeconomy Research Conference held in Ravello, Italy, on June 6, 2019
“Alice/Section 101 Developments Five Years Later,” at the State Bar of Georgia IP Section seminar held in Atlanta in June 2019 (panelist)
Deborah Dinner
“Women's Initiative: Your Role In Pay Equity—What It Means And What You Can Do To Impact Change In Your Organization,” held at Georgia State University (sponsored by the Association of Corporate Counsel) on September 26, 2019 (panelist)
“Pierson v. Post, the Hunt for the Fox: Law and Professionalization in American Legal Culture” with authors Angela Fernandez & David Sandomierski (reader); Stories from Trailblazing Women in the Law, by Jill Norgren (reader); “Vulnerability and Neoliberalism” roundtable (participant), all presented at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting held in Washington, DC, on May 30-June 2, 2019
Rafael Domingo
“Global Law and Immigration Law,” at the National Assembly of Ecuador, held in Quito on August 12, 2019. He gave a lecture on the same topic at San Francisco University School of Law in Quito on August 22, 2019.
Martha Grace Duncan
"The Changing Meaning of Punishment" at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting held in Washington, DC, on May 30, 2019
Martha Albertson Fineman
“Vulnerability and Bioethics: The Vulnerable Subject Is an Intergenerational Subject,” at the 2019 Postgraduate Bioethics Conference, held at Swansea University, United Kingdom, on September 9, 2019 (keynote)
Nicole Morris
Morris was an invited speaker at “Make Law Better: A Conference on Innovation in Law,” held at Illinois Tech Chicago-Kent College of Law on August 15, 2019.
"Adapt to the Revised Guidance on Subject Matter Eligibility," at the 16th Annual Summit on Protecting Innovations in the Financial Services Industry, held in New York City on July 24, 2019
Jonathan R. Nash
"Public Perception of Climate Change Information Provided by the Government Versus the Market,” at the Southeastern Environmental Law Scholars Conference, held in Smithville, Tennessee, in July 2019. The conference was co-sponsored by Vanderbilt Law School, University of Florida Levin College of Law, and the University of South Carolina School of Law. Nash spoke on the same topic at the Emory-UGA annual workshop held at Emory Law in June 2019.
"Filibuster Change and Judicial Appointments," at the 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics, held at the Stockholm School of Economics on June 29, 2019 (with Joanna M. Shepherd)
“The Problem of Regulatory Prediction,” at the 29th Annual Meeting of the American Law and Economics Association held at New York University School of Law on May 18, 2019 (with Jonathan S. Masur)
“Sustainability Law and Social Science,” at the Sixth Annual Sustainability Conference of Legal Educators held at Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law on May 10, 2019 (with Bruce Huber, Shi-Ling Hsu, & Stephanie Stern)
Jennifer Murphy Romig
“Welcome to Legal Writing,” at the AT & T Legal Scholars Conference held in Atlanta on July 25, 2019
Teemu Ruskola
Law and Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop, held at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in Philadelphia, on June 3, 2019 (senior commentator)
Decolonial Comparative Law workshop, held at Duke University School of Law, in Durham, North Carolina, on April 29, 2019
Ani B. Satz
“Faux Federalism,” at the Emory-UGA summer workshop held at Emory Law, on July 19, 2019
Robert A. Schapiro
"The United States Supreme Court in Transition: Abortion, LGBT Rights, and Free Speech in the Age of Trump,” at the Center for American Legal Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland, on May 6, 2019
Joanna M. Shepherd
"Filibuster Change and Judicial Appointments," at the 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics, held at the Stockholm School of Economics on June 29, 2019 (with Jonathan R. Nash)
Fred Smith Jr.
University of Tennessee College of Law Faculty Colloquium Series, October 2, 2019
Liza Vertinsky
“Privacy in the Age of Consumer Genetics,” at the 2019 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference, “Consuming Genetics: Ethical and Legal Considerations of New Technologies" held at Harvard Law School, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 17, 2019 (panelist)
John Witte Jr.
Heidelberg Virtue Project, held at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, April 29-May 1, 2019 (co-convener and roundtable participant)
Kluge Center Annual Scholars Council meeting, held at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, on May 30-31, 2019 (participant and presenter)
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
“The Ecology of Childhood: How a Changing World Threatens Children's Rights," at the 10th International Conference Children’s Rights and Religious Beliefs: “Autonomy, Education, Tradition,” held in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 2, 2019 (keynote)
Work from February-April 2019
Accolades
In late April, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine announced that Margo A. Bagley has been appointed to serve as a member of the committee for Advancing Commercialization from the Federal Laboratories, from 2019 to 2021. The ad hoc group functions under the auspices of the Academies’ Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP). Its purpose is to “identify and prioritize opportunities to add economic value to US industry through enhanced utilization of intellectual property around digital products created at federal laboratories.” Read more.
Bagley also served as technical expert to the African Union and friend of the chair at the 39th Session of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore, held in Geneva, Switzerland, on March 18-22, 2019.
On February 28, 2019, Fred Smith Jr. received Emory’s Crystal Apple Teaching Award, a university-wide honor given based on student voting. It recognizes faculty who go above and beyond both in the classroom and within the university community.
Books & Journals
BOOKS
Kay L. Levine
Criminal Procedures: Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials (Wolters Kluwer 2019) (with Marc L. Miller, Jenia I. Turner & Ronald F. Wright)
Criminal Procedures: Prosecution and Adjudication: Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials (Wolters Kluwer 2019 (with Marc L. Miller, Jenia I. Turner & Ronald F. Wright)
Criminal Procedures: The Police: Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials (Wolters Kluwer 2019) (with Marc L. Miller, Jenia I. Turner & Ronald F. Wright)
BOOK CHAPTERS
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im
Oh, [Muslim] Believers: Be Just, That Is Always Closer to True Piety, in Conversations on Justice from National, International, and Global Perspectives: Dialogues with Leading Thinkers (Jean-Marc Coicaud & Lynette E. Sieger eds., 2019)
The Postcolonial Fallacy of ‘Islamic’ Family Law, in The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Family Law (Shazia Choudhry & Jonathan Herring eds., 2019)
Mary L. Dudziak
How the Pacific World Became West, in World War II and the West it Wrought (Mark Brilliant & David M. Kennedy eds., forthcoming 2020)
David F. Partlett
A Study of a Different Hedgehog, in Remedies for Breach of Privacy (Jason Varuhas & Nicole Moreham eds., 2019)
Ani B. Satz
Health Care as Eugenics in Disability, Health, Law, and Ethics (Anita Silvers & Michael Stein eds., forthcoming 2019)
ARTICLES
Margo A. Bagley
The Fallacy of Defensive Protection for Traditional Knowledge, 58 Washburn Law Journal 323 (2019)
Laurie R. Blank
International Law and Security in Outer Space: Now and Tomorrow, 113 American Journal of International Law Unbound 125 (2019) (with Matthew T. King)
Michael J. Broyde
Faith-Based Arbitration Evaluated: The Policy Arguments For and Against Religious Arbitration in America, 33 Journal of Law and Religion 340 (2018)
William J. Carney
Will Aruba Finish Off Appraisal Arbitrage and End Windfalls for Deal Dissenters? We Hope So, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation (2019) (with Keith Sharfman)
Mary L. Dudziak
The Outcome of Influence: Hitler’s American Model and Transnational Legal History (review of Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law by James Q. Whitman) 117 Michigan Law Review 1179 (2019)
Deborah Dinner
Sex in Public, 129 Yale Law Journal (forthcoming 2019) (with Elizabeth Sepper)
Rafael Domingo
Roman Law and Global Constitutionalism, 21 San Diego International Law Journal (forthcoming 2019)
Review of The Roman Papacy as the Antichrist, (Giovanni Minnucci & Alberici Gentilis eds., 2018) 35 Journal of Law and Religion 1 (2019)
Martha Albertson Fineman
Vulnerability and Social Justice, 53 Valparaiso University Law Review (forthcoming 2019)
Richard D. Freer
Personal Jurisdiction: The Walls Blocking an Appeal to Rationality, 72 Vanderbilt Law Review 99
Katherine M. Koops
Teaching Communication Skills in Transactional Simulations, 20 Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law 429 (2019) (with Eric J. Gouvin, James E. Moliterno, Carol E. Morgan & Carol D. Newman)
Kay L. Levine
Sharkfests and Databases: Crowdsourcing Plea Bargains, 6 Texas A & M University Law Review 601 (forthcoming 2019) (with Ronald F. Wright, Nancy King & Marc L. Miller)
Career Motivations of State Prosecutors, 86 George Washington Law Review 1667 (2018) (with Ronald F. Wright)
Jonathan R. Nash
National Personal Jurisdiction, 68 Emory Law Journal 509
Rafael I. Pardo
Financial Freedom Suits: Bankruptcy, Race, and Citizenship in Antebellum America, 62 Arizona Law Review (forthcoming 2020)
Sue Payne
Persistent Ambiguity in Contracts: Extrinsic Evidence to the Rescue?, 9 The Transactional Lawyer 9 (2019)
Ani B. Satz
The Federalism Challenges of Protecting Workers’ Medical Privacy, 94 Indiana Law Journal (forthcoming 2019)
Exploring New Technologies in Biomedical Research, Drug Discovery Today (2019) (with Kambez H. Benam, Siobhan Gilchrist, Andre Kleensang, Catherine Willett & Qiang Zhang)
Animal Welfare Act: Interaction with Other Laws, 25 Animal Law Review 185 (2019) (with Delcianna Winders)
Opinion & Essay
Rafael Domingo
“The Catholic Church Is Not Only the Church of Abuse,” CNN Español Opinion (March 21, 2019)
“Nothing Is Going to Happen, but It's Going to Happen a Lot,” CNN Español (February 20, 2019)
Mary L. Dudziak
“The Toxic Legacy of the Korean War,” Washington Post (March 1, 2019)
Quoted in the Media
Laurie R. Blank
“The Lawfare Podcast: The Future of Warfare,” Lawfare (February 9, 2019)
Dorothy A. Brown
“The History Behind the Highs and Lows of the Marginal Tax Rate,” NPR “Weekend Edition” (February 2, 2019)
Deborah Dinner
“Could Georgia Be the 38th State to Ratify the ERA?,” Rewire News (February 26, 2019)
Rafael Domingo
“CNN Special: Sins under the Cassock,” CNN Español (March 31, 2019)
“What Is the Scope of the Crisis of the Catholic Church for the Denunciations of Abuses?,” CNN Español (March 28, 2019)
"The Feminine Revolution in the Catholic Church Must Arrive," CNN Español (February 11, 2019)
Mary L. Dudziak
“Russia’s Secret Weapon,” San Francisco Bay View (February 2, 2019)
George S. Georgiev
“Elon Musk Agrees New Curbs on His Tweeting,” Financial Times (April 26, 2019)
“Analysis: One Year In, Pay Ratio Is ‘Disclosure by Soundbite,’” Financial Times Agenda (February 15, 2019)
“Study Critiques SEC Pay Ratio Rule, Calls It Disclosure by Soundbite,” The Trusted Professional (February 12, 2019)
“CEO Pay Ratio Rule Is ‘Disclosure by Soundbite,’” CFO (February 11, 2019)
“You Have to Know Whose Data You’re Using,” Bloomberg Opinion (February 8, 2019)
Timothy R. Holbrook
“Supreme Court Asks SG for Views on Another Section 101 Case,” National Law Journal (March 18, 2019)
Kay L. Levine
“Democrat Jumps in 2020 Race for Cobb DA as ‘Progressive Prosecutor,’” Atlanta Journal-Constitution (April 19, 2019)
“GE Gets Patent on Medical Data ‘Bedside Machine’ Canceled,” Bloomberg Law (February 26, 2019)
Robert A. Schapiro
“Could Georgia Abortion Law Challenge Roe V. Wade?,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution (April 26, 2018)
U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Georgia Case on Gay, Lesbian Workplace Bias, Atlanta Journal-Constitution (April 22, 2018)
“Trump’s National Emergency Declaration: An Emory Scholar Looks at the Coming Constitutional Fight,” WABE 90.1 (February 15, 2019)
Alexander Volokh
“Trump’s New Executive Order Has to Do with Free Speech Rights on Campus—So Why Are Some 1st Amendment Advocates Worried?,” KPCC 89.3 (March 21, 2019)
“California Supreme Court Curbs a Pension Benefit but Preserves ‘California Rule,’” Los Angeles Times (March 4, 2019)
Presentations
Silas Allard
“Continued Relevance and Challenges of the 1951 Refugee Convention on the Global and Local Levels,” Emory International Law Review Symposium, held at Emory Law on February 28, 2019 (panelist)
“Immigration Law for Non-Lawyers,” at the Migration and Border Crossings Conference, held at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia, on February 7–9, 2019 (workshop)
Margo A. Bagley
“Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in the Global South,” at the Harvard Law and International Development Society Conference, held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 3-5, 2019.
“’What’s Yours is Mine and What’s Mine is Mine?’: Digital Sequence Information and Benefit-sharing Obligations under the Nagoya Protocol,” at the International Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, held at Florida State University School of Law, in Tallahassee, in March 2019. Bagley delivered the same presentation at the Social, Legal, and Regulatory Challenges of Synthetic Biology Workshop, held at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, in February 2019.
Dorothy A. Brown
“Racism Kills, What Role Do You Play?” the 15th Annual Hamilton E. Holmes Memorial Lecture, held at Emory University School of Medicine on March 13, 2019
22nd Annual Critical Tax Conference, held at Pepperdine University School of Law on April 6, 2019 (keynote speaker)
Deborah Dinner
“Sex in Public,” at the Regulation of Family, Sex, and Gender Workshop held at the University of Chicago Law School on April 24, 2019 (with Elizabeth Sepper)
In February 2019, Dinner was invited to give testimony on the Equal Rights Amendment before the Georgia Republican Caucus.
Mary L. Dudziak
Dudziak was one of two outside experts invited to discuss Professor Rebecca Herman's draft book manuscript, The Americas at War, at the University of California, Berkeley, Department of History, on April 12, 2019.
"The War Powers Pivot: How Congress Lost its Power in Korea,” Philip Pro Lecture in Legal History, held at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law on February 12, 2019
George S. Georgiev
“Securities Disclosure as Soundbite: The Case of CEO Pay Ratios,” advanced corporate law seminar, held at UCLA School of Law in Los Angeles, California, on March 4, 2019. Georgiev gave the same presentation as a faculty workshop at the University of Washington School of Law on February 28, 2019.
Timothy R. Holbrook
"What Counts as Extraterritorial in Patent Law?" at the 2019 JOSTL & ILJ Symposium “Intellectual Property in a Globalized Economy: United States Extraterritoriality in International Business,” held at Boston University School of Law on February 15, 2019. His paper is forthcoming in the Boston University School of Law Journal of Science and Technology Law.
Nicole Morris
“Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Knowledge Management,” the annual TI:GER (Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results) Innovation Conference, held at Emory Law on March 28, 2019
Jonathan R. Nash
"Designing Prediction Markets for Climate Adaptation" at the annual meeting of the Society for Environmental Law and Economics, held at the Universidad Diego Portales Faculty of Law in Santiago, Chile, in March 2019 (with Shi-Ling Hsu)
"The Effects of Filibuster Change on Judicial Appointments and Voting" at the 77th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, held in Chicago, Illinois, on April 6, 2019 (with Joanna Shepherd). Nash and Shepherd gave the same presentation at the Text Analysis and Law Conference, held at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in Chicago, Illinois, on April 4, 2019.
Rafael I. Pardo
“Federally Funded Slaving," at the annual meeting of the Business History Conference, held in Cartagena, Colombia, on March 16, 2019
David F. Partlett
“New York Times v. Sullivan: The History of a Civil Rights Icon in the Constitutionalization of Defamation Law,” at the University of Melbourne Law School Centre for Media and Communications Law on February 28, 2019
“Non-Disclosure Agreements, Liquidated Damages and Arbitration in Context: Contracts Drawn for Good or Evil,” at the Remedies Discussion Forum, held at Aix-en-Provence, in June 2018 (with Paul J. Zwier)
Polly J. Price
“Paso del Norte Binational Disease Information Sharing Protocol,” a joint United States-Mexico public-health exercise for departments in the El Paso, Texas, region. Price was a member of the Border Epidemiology Surveillance Team and the exercise was the culmination of its year-long effort. It was held at the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Tribal Judicial Community Center on February 22, 2019. (presenter)
Ani B. Satz
“Health Law for Radiologists,” presented at the Emory University School of Medicine Department of Radiology in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 15, 2019
“False Preemption and Animal Protection,” at the Constitutional Law Scholars Forum hosted by the American Constitutional Society for Law and Policy, held at Barry College of Law in Orlando, Florida, on March 1, 2019 (remote panelist)
“Healthism: Health Status Discrimination and the Law,” held at the University of Georgia School of Law, in Athens, on February 27, 2019 (panelist)
Julie Seaman
“Academic Freedom and Free Speech on Campus,” held at Emory University on March 22-23, 2019 (invited speaker)
Fred Smith Jr.
“Academic Freedom and Free Speech on Campus,” held at Emory University on March 22-23, 2019 (invited speaker)
Frank J. Vandall
“Gun Policy and Political Pressure: Interest Groups and Social Movements,” at the 2019 Randolph W. Thrower Symposium, held at Emory Law on February 7, 2019 (panelist)
Liza Vertinsky
“Genetic Paparazzi and the Inadequacy of Genetic Privacy,” Cornell Legal Research Workshop, held on April 18, 2019
“Impact of Domestic Corporate Strategies on Global Health Inequities,” at the Global Health Inequities and Infectious Disease Workshop, held at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law on April 12, 2019
Alexander Volokh
“Academic Freedom and Free Speech on Campus,” held at Emory University on March 22-23, 2019 (invited speaker)
Randee J. Waldman
“Inside Making a Murderer: A Conversation with Laura Nirider and Steven Drizin,” held at the Buckhead Theater in Atlanta, Georgia, on February 10, 2019 (moderator)
John Witte Jr.
“Christianity, Legal Thought and Law in Modern Russia,” sponsored by the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, held at Emory University on April 4-7, 2019 (co-convenor and participant)
Witte was the “Call to Service” speaker for Emory Law’s Visiting Day, held on March 30, 2019.
A summary of writing, presentations, and media mentions from December 2018-January 2019
Accolades
A Perfect Start, a memoir by Martha Grace Duncan (published in North Dakota Quarterly, and listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays of 2004), received first prize in the Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition, for creative nonfiction. The contest is sponsored by the National League of American Pen Women. In addition to the cash prize, Duncan is invited to read from her work and receive the certificate and prize later this year at the San Francisco Civic Center.
The American Society for Legal History recently honored Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law Mary L. Dudziak with the establishment of The Mary L. Dudziak Digital Legal History Prize, which will be awarded for the first time later this year.
“The Dudziak Prize, named in honor of Mary L. Dudziak, a leading scholar of 20th century US legal history and international relations as well as a digital history pioneer, is awarded annually to an outstanding digital legal history project. These projects may take the form of either traditionally published peer reviewed scholarship or born-digital projects of equivalent depth and scope,” according to the ASLH site. Read more
Emory Law Professor Emeritus of Law Nat Gozansky received a 2018 CLEO Edge Founders Award on the occasion of the Council on Legal Education Opportunity’s 50th anniversary. Award winners included 150 individuals, law schools, and legal organizations, chosen from more than 600 nominations of persons, schools, and groups that have made a significant impact on diversifying the legal profession. Read more
A new bill sponsored by US Senator Cory Booker, drafted by Ani B. Satz, would end unethical and unnecessary testing on nonhuman primates. The New Jersey senator’s office contacted Satz to draft what would become the “Primate Protection and Research Modernization Act of 2018” after reading her opinion article on Volkswagen’s primate experiments. Read more
Books & Journals
BOOKS
Rafael Domingo
Great Christian Jurists in French History (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2019) (with Olivier Descamps)
Richard D. Freer
Complex Litigation (3rd ed., Carolina Academic Press 2019) (with E. Thomas Sullivan & Bradley G. Clary)
Epstein, Freer, Roberts, and Shepherd's Business Structures (5th ed., West Academic 2019) (with David G. Epstein, Michael J. Roberts & George B. Shepherd)
George B. Shepherd
Epstein, Freer, Roberts, and Shepherd's Business Structures (5th ed., West Academic 2019) (with David G. Epstein, Richard D. Freer & Michael J. Roberts)
John Witte Jr.
Church, State, and Family: Reconciling Traditional Teachings and Modern Liberties (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2019)
BOOK CHAPTERS
Silas Allard
Religious Kinesis: A Challenge to the Plenary Power Doctrine’s Anthropology of Stasis, in The Meaning of My Neighbor’s Faith: Interreligious Reflections on Migration (Laura Alexander & Alexander Wong eds., 2019)
John Witte Jr.
Afterword, in Leading Works in Law and Religion (Russell Sandberg ed., forthcoming 2019)
Harold J. Berman, in Great Christian Jurists in American History (Daniel L. Dreisbach & Mark A. Hall eds., forthcoming 2019)
Jurists as Good Christians: The Case of Johann Oldendorp, in Great Christian Jurists in German History (Mathias Schmoeckel ed., forthcoming 2019)
The Last American Establishment: Massachusetts, 1780-1833, in Religious Dissent and Disestablishment: Church-State Relations in the New American States, 1776-1833 (Carl H. Esbeck & Jonathan Den Hartog eds., forthcoming 2019) (with Justin Latterell)
The Political and Legal Legacy of the Sixteenth-Century Protestant Reformations, in T&T Clark Companion to Political Theology (Ruben Rosario-Rodriguez ed., forthcoming 2019)
The Reformation of Constitutionalism, in Christianity and Constitutionalism: An Introduction (Nicholas Aroney & Ian Leigh eds., forthcoming 2019)
ARTICLES
Margo A. Bagley
Toward an Effective Indigenous Knowledge Protection Regime: Case Study of South Africa (policy paper No. 217, Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2018)
George S. Georgiev
Securities Disclosure as Soundbite: The Case of CEO Pay Ratios, 60 Boston College Law Review (forthcoming 2019)
Jonathan R. Nash
Aligning Incentives and Cost Allocation in Discovery 71 Vanderbilt Law Review 2015 (2018 symposium issue, ‘The Future of Discovery’) (with Joanna M. Shepherd)
Joanna M. Shepherd
Aligning Incentives and Cost Allocation in Discovery 71 Vanderbilt Law Review 2015 (2018 symposium issue, ‘The Future of Discovery’) (with Jonathan R. Nash)
Frank J. Vandall
Tincher Unmasked, 3 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Public Affairs 1 (2018)
John Witte Jr.
Between Martin Luther and Martin Luther King: James Pennington and the Struggle for ‘Sacred Human Rights’ Against Slavery, 31 Yale Journal of Law and Humanities (forthcoming 2019) (with Justin Latterell)
Church, State, and Sex Crimes: What Place for Traditional Sexual Morality in Modern Liberal Societies? Emory Law Journal (forthcoming 2019)
Faith in Strasbourg? Religious Freedom in the European Court of Human Rights, IDC Law Journal (forthcoming 2019)
Foreword, 33 Journal of Law and Religion (forthcoming 2019)
Opinion & Essay
Laurie R. Blank
“Sieges, Evacuations and Urban Warfare: Thoughts from the Transatlantic Workshop on International Law and Armed Conflict,” European Journal of International Law Joint Blog Series (January 17, 2019)
Rafael Domingo
“El Órdago Del Primer Rector" Journal: ABC (December 18, 2018)
Quoted in the Media
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im
“Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im: On Human Rights, the Secular State and Sharia Today,” UNESCO Courier (January 31, 2019)
Mary L. Dudziak
“What Will History Books Say About 2018?” Politico (December 28, 2018)
“The Enduring Russian Propaganda Interests in Targeting African-Americans,” The New Yorker (December 21, 2018)
Timothy R. Holbrook
“Super Bowl to Souper Bowl: Atlanta Companies Tiptoe Around Legal Issue,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution (January 29, 2019)
"US Perspectives: US IP Law--Big Developments on the Horizon,” IP Watch (January 23, 2019)
“Zimmer, Stryker Set to Fight Over Huge Damages Award,” Bloomberg Law, IP Law, (December 3, 2018)
John Witte Jr.
"The Western Case for Monogamy Over Polygamy" New Books Network (January 15, 2019)
Presentations
Margo A. Bagley
“Approaches to Resolving Benefit Sharing in Shared Traditional Knowledge: Experiences from South Africa,” at the 38th Session of the Intergovernmental Committee, held in Geneva, Switzerland, in December 2018.
Deborah Dinner
“Sex in Public: Gender and Public Accommodations Law,” faculty workshop held at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, on January 28, 2019 (with Elizabeth Sepper)
Mary L. Dudziak
“Federal Agency Records: Who Decides What Is Kept?” at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, held in Chicago, Illinois, on January 5, 2019 (panelist)
Martha Albertson Fineman
“Vulnerability and Bioethics,” keynote speech, at the “2019 Second Bioethics Conference on Minority Health and Health Disparities Research” held in Opelika, Alabama, (hosted by Tuskegee University, Morehouse School of Medicine and the University of Alabama at Birmingham) on January 23, 2019
Richard D. Freer
Freer delivered a series of four lectures on the American civil justice system at Moscow State University, Russia, during the week of September 10, 2018.
“Seven Decades of International Shoe: Justice Black Was Right, but for the Wrong Reason,” at “Blocking the Courthouse Door: Federal Civil Procedure Obstacles to Entry,” at University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, in Sacramento, California, on November 2, 2018
Timothy R. Holbrook
“Extraterritorial Liability: Spotlight After WesternGeco,” Intellectual Property Owners Association IP Chat Channel Webinar, on January 17, 2019 (panelist)
Jonathan R. Nash
"Can and Should Courts Create Courts? Problems of Judicial Institutional Self-Design" faculty workshop held at George Mason University Antonin Scalia School of Law, on January 29, 2019
Teemu Ruskola
“The Jurisprudence of Freedom: We the Peoples' Supreme Court,” The O.P. Jindal Distinguished Lecture by Menaka Guruswamy, held at Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, on December 4, 2018 (commentator)
Timothy P. Terrell
Full-day judicial opinion writing program for the Virginia appellate courts in Richmond, Virginia; 1.5-day legal writing program for the in-house legal department at Hewlett Packard Enterprises in Reston, Virginia; and, a 1.5 day judicial opinion writing program for the Fourth and Fifth Circuit Louisiana Courts of Appeal, in New Orleans, Louisiana; (all presented from December 2018-January 2019)
A summary of writing, presentations, and media mentions from September-November 2018
Accolades
Dorothy A. Brown has been selected to receive the Vulcan Teaching Excellence Award, given through the Georgia Independent College Association. The award recognizes outstanding faculty members who demonstrate strong academic skills in the classroom and provide leadership and support in the other areas of campus life. Read more
“What Not To Do When Your Roommate Is Murdered In Italy: Amanda Knox, her ‘Strange’ Behavior, and the Italian Legal System,” by Martha Grace Duncan, was chosen for inclusion in The Best American Essays 2018 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), in the category of “Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2017.” The essay was first published in Harvard Journal of Law and Gender (2017).
In November, three articles by Timothy R. Holbrook were cited in a petition for writ of certiorari in the case of Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions, Inc., N/K/A Sensors USA Inc. v. Renesas Electronics America, Inc., F/K/A Intersil Corporation. They were: Boundaries, Extraterritoriality, and Patent Infringement Damages, 92 Notre Dame Law Review 1745 (2017); Territoriality and Tangibility After Transocean, 61 Emory Law Journal 1087 (2012); and Liability for the “Threat of A Sale”: Assessing Patent Infringement for Offering to Sell an Invention and Implications for the on Sale Patentability Bar and Other Forms of Infringement, 43 Santa Clara Law Review 751 (2003) Read more
Teemu Ruskola presented “Legal Orientalism: A Geopolitical Autobiography,” at the conference, “Legal Orientalism and Its Impact in China,” an international two-day conference focused on the impact of the 2016 Chinese translation of Ruskola’s book, Legal Orientalism. It was held at Peking University on Nov. 23-24, 2018
John Witte Jr. has been invited as a Gifford Lecturer for 2020, a celebratory year that marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Scottish jurist Adam Lord Gifford, founder of the esteemed lecture series begun in 1888. Gifford Lecturers present at the Universities of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Glasgow, and St. Andrews. Previous Gifford Lecturers represent an array of disciplines and include some of the greatest minds of the past century—including Hannah Arendt, Noam Chomsky, William James, Reinhold Niebuhr, Charles Taylor, Karl Barth, Iris Murdoch and Carl Sagan. Read more
In October, Barbara Bennett Woodhouse was elected to membership in the American Law Institute. Membership is limited to 3,000. To be considered by the membership committee, candidates must be confidentially nominated by an ALI member and seconded by two other members. Read more
Books & Journals
BOOKS
Frank J. Vandall
Torts: Cases and Problems (4th ed., Carolina Academic Press 2018) (with Ellen Wertheimer & Mark Rahdert)
Tibor Varaday
International Commercial Arbitration: A Transnational Perspective (7th ed., West Academic Publishing 2018) (with John J. Barceló III, Stefan Kröll & the late Arthur T. von Mehren)
John Witte Jr.
Church, State, and Family: Reconciling Traditional Teachings and Modern Liberties (Cambridge University Press 2019)
The Protestant Reformation of the Church and the World (Westminster John Knox Press, 2018) (with Amy Wheeler)
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
The Ecology of Childhood: Small Worlds in Peril (Families, Law and Society Series, New York University Press, forthcoming 2019)
BOOK CHAPTERS
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
“The Child's Right to a Family," in The Oxford Handbook of Children's Rights Law (Jonathan Todres & Shani King eds., forthcoming 2019)
ARTICLES
Silas W. Allard
Editorial 33 Journal of Law and Religion 1 (2018)
William J. Carney
The Death of Appraisal Arbitrage: Ending Windfalls for Dissenting Shareholders, 43 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law 61 (2018) (with Keith Sharfman)
Deborah Dinner
Book Review of Free the Beaches: The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America’s Most Exclusive Shoreline by Andrew W. Kahrl, 36 Law and History Review (forthcoming 2018) (2018)
George S. Georgiev
Securities Disclosure as Soundbite: The Case of CEO Pay Ratios, 60 Boston College Law Review (forthcoming, 2019) (with Steven A. Bank)
Timothy R. Holbrook
Patent Prior Art and Possession, 60 William & Mary Law Review 123 (2018)
Rafael I. Pardo
Federally Funded Slaving, 93 Tulane Law Review (forthcoming 2019)
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
The Child's Right to a Fair Start, Journal of Socio-Legal Studies on the Family (2018) (Japanese translation)
Advocating for Every Child’s Right to a Fair Start: The Key Roles of Comparative and International Law, Florida Law Review (forthcoming 2018)
Opinion & Essay
Dorothy A. Brown
“Why the Awful Trump Ad? Racism Is One Helluva Drug,” CNN (November 1, 2018)
Timothy R. Holbrook
“Trump's Potential Rules Won't Erase LGBTQ Americans,” CNN Opinion (October 22, 2018)
Sue Payne
Payne has been invited to contribute an article on recent case law involving contract drafting issues for the 50th issue of the Gonzaga Commercial Law Center publication, The Transactional Lawyer.
Quoted in the Media
Margo A. Bagley
“Panelists to CBD: Funds Needed to Save Biodiversity, Genetic Resources Not in Nagoya Protocol Should Be Included,” Intellectual Property Watch (November 27, 2018)
“Countries Debate Plan to Equate Digitized DNA Data to Biological Material,” Chemical and Engineering News (November 14, 2018)
Deborah Dinner
“Is the Pregnancy Discrimination Act Doing Enough?” WNYC, “The Takeaway” (October 23, 2018)
Rafael Domingo
“What Does San Oscar Romero Bring to the World?” CNN (October 15, 2018)
George S. Georgiev
“Google Is Big and Google+ Was Small,” Bloomberg Opinion (October 9, 2018)
Mindy Goldstein
“Solar Zoning Guide Offers Georgia Towns, Counties a Model to Follow,” Energy News Network (September 25, 2018)
Timothy R. Holbrook
“IP at the Supreme Court: A Quiet—but Possibly Busy—Year,” The Recorder (September 26, 2018)
Kay L. Levine
“Georgia 'Kingpin' Mayor, Daughter Escape Prosecution Involving Missing City Funds,” 11Alive.com, “The Reveal” (November 19, 2018)
“Closer Look: Election 2018 — Amendment 4, Marsy’s Law,” WABE 90.1 (October 30, 2018)
Polly J. Price
“Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Stunt Panders to Zealots Like Alleged Pittsburgh Shooter Robert Bowers,” Daily Beast (October 30, 2018)
Joanna M. Shepherd
“A Supreme Court Impeachment Fight That’s Already Under Way,” The Atlantic (October 31, 2018)
Fred Smith Jr.
“Torpy at Large: Welfare For Sharks. Aquarium the Latest on Tax Train,’ Atlanta Journal-Constitution (September 5, 2018)
Alexander Volokh
“VERIFY: Do Other Countries Have Birthright Citizenship? Can Trump Take It Away?” 11Alive.com (October 30, 2018)
“Former O’Connor Clerk, Emory Law Professor, Considers Justice’s Role in the Middle,” Daily Report (October 23, 2018)
Randee J. Waldman
“Randee’s Story,” The Juvenile Project: A Collection Of Films And Stories About Personal Involvement With The Juvenile Justice System (August 31, 2017)
Presentations
Margo A. Bagley
“Disclosure of Origin and the Draft WIPO Design Law Treaty,” at the African Group Workshop on WIPO Issues, Permanent Delegation of the African Union, held in Geneva, Switzerland, in November 2018
"Legal Approaches and Policy Tools to Resolving Benefit Sharing in Shared Traditional Knowledge: Provider Country Experiences from South Africa," at "Making Benefit Sharing Work for Shared ATK of Indigenous Peoples," held during the 14th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity/Third Meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, in November 2018. Bagley also presented "DSI and the Global Mechanism for Benefit Sharing Debates" during a side event on "Do We Need a Global Benefit Sharing Mechanism, and How Could It Work?" She also served as a legal advisor to the African Union at the conference.
Presentation to Ministry of Health personnel in Mozambique and Malawi regarding drug quality assurance initiatives, in October 2018
Served as expert technical advisor to the Government of Mozambique at the World Intellectual Property Organization's 58th General Assemblies, in October 2018
“The Nagoya Protocol, ABS, and ‘DSI’: Legal Issues,” at the 11th Pan African Workshop on ABS, African Union Commission, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in October 2018.
“Extension of the Nagoya Protocol to DSI – State of Play and Consequences,” at the symposium “The Use and Circulation of Genetic Resources under Measures Implementing the Nagoya Protocol,” held at the London School of Economics in September 2018
“The Fallacy of Defensive Protection for Traditional Knowledge,” at the Fifth Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest, held at American University, in Washington, DC, in September 2018
Laurie R. Blank
“Looking Ahead: What the Battlefield Will Look Like to Future Veterans,” held at at Arnold & Porter in Washington DC, on November 7, 2018 (panelist)
Nancy Daspit
“Helping International LLM Students Successfully Transition to US Common Law Studies: Teaching Implications to Enhance Success,” at the Global Legal Skills Conference 2018, held at Melbourne Law School, Australia, on December 10-12, 2018 (panelist)
Timothy R. Holbrook
“3D Printing, Digital Patent Infringement, and Its Implications,” The Institute for Intellectual Property and Information Law 25th Annual Fall Lecture, sponsored by the Houston Intellectual Property Law Association and held at the University of Houston Law Center on November 13, 2018
"Claiming Your Expertise" at Emory’s Center for Faculty Development and Excellence on September 19, 2018. (panelist) Video
Nicole Morris
“Understanding Innovation and IP in Business Decisions,” at the Federal Trade Commission Conference, “Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century,” held on October 23, 2018, in Washington, DC
Jonathan R. Nash
"Can and Should Courts Create Courts? Problems of Judicial Institutional Self-Design" at the Fourth Annual Civil Procedure Workshop held at Stanford Law School in Palo Alto, California, in November 2018
"The Collegiality of Dissent" at the Canadian Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting held at the University of Toronto, Canada, in September 2018. He presented the same lecture at the Midwestern Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, held at the University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in September 2018.
"The Problem of Predictive Regulation" at the Canadian Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting held at the University of Toronto, Canada, in September 2018. He presented the same lecture at the Midwestern Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, held at the University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in September 2018 (co-author, Jonathan Masur).
"Public Perception of Climate Change Information Provided by the Government Versus the Market" presented by Cherie Metcalf at the Canadian Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting held at the University of Toronto, Canada, in September 2018 (co-author). The same lecture was presented at the Midwestern Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, held at the University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in September 2018.
"The Regulatory Burden on Constitutional Rights" presented by Robert A. Schapiro at the Midwestern Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, held at the University of Alabama School of Law, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in September 2018 (co-author, with Kay Levine)
Nash served as Emory’s “senior scholar commentator” at the annual Southeast Junior-Senior Conference held at the University of Georgia Law School in October 2018.
Polly J. Price
"The Intersection of Immigration Law and Health Policy," at the Indiana Health Law Review Symposium “The Intersection of Immigration Law and Health Policy,” held at McKinney School of Law on October 26, 2018
Teemu Ruskola
“Insiders/Outsiders in Comparative Law” at Washington & Lee University School of Law in Lexington, Virginia, on October 8, 2018 (workshop)
“Comparative Constitutional Law,” at the Center for the Constitution in Montpelier, Virginia, on October 6, 2018 (roundtable)
Robert A. Schapiro
“Supreme Court Preview: What’s on the Plate and (Potentially) Down the Road?” at the Appellate Judges Education Institute held in Atlanta on November 10, 2018 (panelist)
“Supreme Court Update,” for the American Constitution Society, Emory Law Student Chapter, held in Atlanta on November 7, 2018
Timothy P. Terrell
This fall, Terrell gave full-day presentations on legal writing for the following organizations: the Colorado appellate courts; The Fulton Conference (for judges in the Armed Forces); the South Carolina Attorney General's Office; the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals; the US Eastern District of Pennsylvania; the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals; Texas Sixth District Court of Appeals; the Virginia appellate courts; the Toledo (Ohio) Bar Association; and, Hewlett Packard in-house legal staff.
Randee J. Waldman
“Criminalizing Language: Defending Youth Threats Cases” at the 22nd Annual Juvenile Defender Leadership Summit held at the National Juvenile Defender Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, on October 27, 2018 (moderator). Waldman also co-presented the workshop: “Cell Phones in Schools: Pushing the Boundaries of Searches.”
"Challenging Juvenile Statements" at the Alabama Criminal Defense Lawyers Association’s Third Annual Juvenile Justice Conference held in Orange Beach, Alabama, on October 6, 2018
Waldman led a full-day training session for new juvenile defenders, sponsored by the Georgia Public Defender Council, on October 4, 2018.
John Witte Jr.
Witte preached in the high pulpit of The Temple, the church of Inner and Middle Temple, two of England’s four ancient societies of lawyers, the Inns of Court, on October 14, 2018
Roundtable/symposium for a new book, Christianity and Criminal Law, a forthcoming volume from Cambridge University Press, held at the Inns of Court, London, Inner Temple, on October 12-15, 2018 (co-convener)
Scientific Advisory Board Meeting of the Max Planck-Institute, held in Frankfurt, Germany, on October 10, 2018 (participant)
“The Impact of the Economic Market on Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies,” at an Internationales Wissenschaftsforum colloquium held in Heidelberg, Germany, October 4-9, 2018 (co-convener)
“The Impact of Religion on Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies,” at an Internationales Wissenschaftsforum colloquium held in Heidelberg, Germany, on October 4-9, 2018 (co-convener)
Amicus Briefs
William J. Carney
Amicus Curiae in Support of Affirmation in Verition Partners v. Aruba Networks, Inc. (Delaware Supreme Court No. 368, 2018)
A summary of writing, presentations, and media mentions from June-August 2018
Accolades
Margo A. Bagley, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law, is the recipient of an Emory Global Health Institute 2018 Seed Grant Program. Awardees receive up to $50,000 to conduct preliminary research on a global health challenge, with the goal of securing additional funding from external sources to expand the research conducted during this initial pilot phase. Her project title is “Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance Pilot Program-Mozambique,” and her co-investigator is Deborah McFarland, professor of global health at the Rollins School of Public Health. Read more.
Bagley also served as expert advisor to the Government of Mozambique, and friend of the chair during the 36th Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, and Folklore, held in Geneva, Switzerland, in June 2018.
Laurie Blank, clinical professor of law and director of the International Humanitarian Law Clinic, has been tapped to lead Emory Law’s Center for International and Comparative Law. She replaces Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, who has directed the center since its founding in 2008. Read more.
Rafael Domingo, Spruill Family Research Professor and Francisco de Vitoria Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, will serve as visiting professor at Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya.
Martha Albertson Fineman was again named the most-cited US faculty member in the category of family law, in the annual survey compiled by Professor Gregory Sisk and colleagues. The survey was released in late September, and their data shows Fineman was cited 515 times between 2013 and 2017. Read more.
Jonathan R. Nash, Robert Howell Hall Chair in Law, has assumed the role of director of the Emory University Center for Law and Social Science. The center (originally the Center for the Study of Law, Politics & Economics) hosts interdisciplinary conferences and speakers, and fosters interdisciplinary initiatives between the School of Law and Emory College social science departments. Read more.
Polly J. Price has signed a book deal with Beacon Press to publish her upcoming book, Plagues in the Nation: How Epidemics Shaped America. The premise? “The history of epidemics in the US shows that disease control is a matter of effective law and governance, not just good science. By looking at the governmental response to epidemics in our past, we can learn how to place the US on a better footing for the future,” she says.
Emory University School of Law and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have partnered to launch Community Legal Clinic, an organization handling immigration issues at no cost. Rita Sheffey, assistant dean for public service and director of the Center for Public Service, says organizers hope to add family law soon and, eventually, other legal specialties. She’s leading the effort for the school. The monthly clinic currently offers free, brief, personalized advice about immigration, in a safe setting. Read more.
Books & Journals
BOOKS
Peter Hay
Hay, Borchers, Symeonides, Whytock: Conflict of Laws, Hornbook Series (6th ed., West Academic Publishing 2018)
Advanced Introduction to Private International Law and Procedure (Edward Elgar Publishing 2018)
BOOK CHAPTERS
Laurie R. Blank
Muddying the Waters: Precision-Guided Terminology in the DoD Law of War Manual, in The United States Department of Defense Law of War Manual: Commentary & Critique (forthcoming 2018)
Rafael Domingo
A Global Law for a Global Community, in Globalization of Law. The Role of Human Dignity (Maciej Dybowski & Rafael Garcia Perez eds., 2018)
Johan D. van der Vyver
Religious Foundations of the Notion of Bellum Iustum, in Religion, Law and Security In Africa (M. Christian Green, T. Jeremy Gunn, & Francois Mark Hill eds., 2018)
The Protection and Promotion of a People’s Right to Mineral Resources in Africa: International and Municipal Perspectives, in Law and Development in Africa (Ada Ordos & Faizel Ismael eds., 2018)
ARTICLES
Rafael Domingo
Book review: Transforming Religious Liberties by S.I. Strong (2017), in 60 Journal of Church and State 526 (2018)
Mindy Goldstein
Climate Research Priorities for Policy-Makers, Practitioners, and Scientists in Georgia, USA, 62 Environmental Management 190 (2018) (see co-authors)
Ani B. Satz
Exploring New Technologies in Biomedical Research, in Drug Discovery Today (forthcoming 2018-2019)
Johan D. van der Vyver
Deferrals of Investigations and Prosecutions in the International Criminal Court, in 15 Comparative and International Law Journal of South Africa 1 (2018)
Opinion & Essay
Deborah Dinner
“Analysis: Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees,” Emory Law News Center (July 16, 2018)
Richard D. Freer
“Analysis | Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis,” Emory Law News Center (July 16, 2018)
Mark Goldfeder
“How the Supreme Court (respectfully) kicked the cake down the road,” CNN (June 6, 2018)
Mindy Goldstein
“Getting smart on solar is a plus for communities,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution (July 30, 2018)
Timothy R. Holbrook
“WesternGeco’s implications for patent law and beyond,” Patently-O (June 24, 2018)
“Analysis | Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission,” Emory Law News Center (June 20, 2018)
Jonathan R. Nash
“Chief Justice Roberts will be the new 'swing' vote,” The Hill (June 30, 2018)
Robert A. Schapiro
“Analysis: The First Amendment and the post-Kennedy court,” Emory Law News Center (July 19, 2018)
Sarah Shalf
“Analysis: Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute,” Emory Law News Center (July 18, 2018)
Quoted in the Media
Dorothy A. Brown
“Republicans target Abrams’ debt In latest attack ad,” WABE 90.1 (August 10, 2018)
Deborah Dinner
“In #MeToo era, state employees wonder ‘what about me’,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution (August 23, 2018)
“Everyone cares about pregnancy discrimination,” The Atlantic (August 3, 2018)
Rafael Domingo
“The time has come for the great measure or the Church will lose a lot of credibility, expert says,” CNN (August 24, 2018)
“The sexual abuse of priests in the Catholic Church ‘is a metastasis’” CNNEspanol (August 17, 2018)
Mark Goldfeder
“With cake-shop ruling, high court urges respect for both sides,” Christian Science Monitor (June 4, 2018)
Mindy Goldstein
“Accelerating the smart development of solar in Georgia,” Emory Law News Center (August 1, 2018)
Timothy R. Holbrook
“US Perspective: On questionable legal basis, US court expands range of patentable inventions,” Intellectual Property Watch (June 21, 2018)
Jonathan R. Nash
“How Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement affects the Supreme Court,” 11 Alive News (June 27, 2018)
Robert A. Schapiro
“Kavanaugh would join one of the most divided Supreme Courts ever, says Emory Law scholar,” Emory News Center (July 10, 2018)
Rita Sheffey
“Emory Law launches immigration clinic with Kuck firm and Mormon Church,” Daily Report (August 14, 2018)
Fred Smith Jr.
“Torpy at large: Welfare for sharks. Aquarium the latest on tax train,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution (September 5, 2018)
Presentations
“Emory faculty participate in rule of law conference in Warsaw, Poland,” (June 22, 2018) (James B. Hughes Jr., Robert A. Schapiro)
Margo A. Bagley
Bagley taught Protection of Biotechnological Inventions and Pharmaceuticals and IP at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich, Germany, during June and July 2018.
Emory Advancing Healthcare Innovations in Africa (AHIA) workshop, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in July 2018 (participant)
Laurie R. Blank
“The Ethical Application of Military Force: Law, Legitimacy and Strategy,” (The Sonny and Martha Moore Lecture on Ethics), at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on June 27, 2018
“Sieges and Urban Warfare: Starvation and Evacuations,” at the Transatlantic Workshop on International Law and Armed Conflict held at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, on July 27, 2018
“The Extent of Self-Defense Against Terrorist Groups,” presented for the US Navy Office of the Judge Advocate General, in Washington, DC, on August 14, 2018
Michael J. Broyde
“Religious Arbitration,” part of “The Administrative State and Alternatives to Courts,” at the Emory-UGA Summer Workshop held at the University of Georgia, on August 2, 2018
Kathleen N. Cleaver
Keynote address, “1968 and Its Legacies” symposium held at King’s College, London, on June 16. Cleaver also participated in the roundtable, “Politics of the Street and Institutions” on June 14, 2018 (with Mark Rudd, Phil Cohen & Anne Querrien, chaired by Patrick Ffrench)
Mary L. Dudziak
“Defining the Rooseveltian Century,” (panel) at the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations’ Annual Meeting, held in Washington, DC, on June 22, 2018
Martha Grace Duncan
Guest lecture on legal research in a foreign country, given to Wake Forest Law School students taking a civil law course, in Venice, Italy, on July 23, 2018 (via Skype)
“"Il Vero Danno: Why and How We Should Make Amends to the Wrongfully Convicted,” for an advanced comparative law class, at the University of Florence Department of Jurisprudence, in Florence, Italy, on May 23, 2018
A lecture and Q & A on the Amanda Knox case, at the Max Planck Institute For Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany, on May 22, 2018
Kay L. Levine
“Sharkfest Plea Negotiations,” at the Emory-UGA Summer Workshop, held at the University of Georgia, on August 2, 2018. Levine gave the same presentation at the Law and Society Annual Meeting held in Toronto, Canada, in June 2018
Jonathan R. Nash
"Can and Should Courts Create Courts? Problems of Judicial Institutional Self-Design" at the Emory-UGA Summer Workshop held at the University of Georgia, on August 2, 2018
"The Problem of Predictive Regulation," at the Society for Environmental Law and Economics’ Annual Meeting, held at Notre Dame Law School in Chicago, in June 2018
"The Collegiality of Dissent," at the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics’ Annual Meeting, held at HEC Montreal Business School-University of Montreal, Canada, in June 2018
Rafael I. Pardo
"Federally Funded Slaving" at the University of Florida Levin College of Law's Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Lecture and Workshop Series, on August 27, 2018
Ani B. Satz
Labor And Employment Law Workshop: “Emerging Issues in Workers' Compensation Law and Policy,” at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in August 2018 (speaker, moderator, organizer)
Satz’s other presentations at the annual meeting were:
- Workshop on Labor and Employment Law Discussion Group: “Recent Developments in Disability and Health Law” (discussant)
- Works-in-Progress Workshop, Constitutional Law, “Animal Protection and the Myth of AWA Preemption” (speaker)
- Health Law Workshop Discussion Group: “Health Law and Bioethics” (discussant)
- Labor and Employment Law Workshop Discussion Group: “New and Established Voices in Labor and Employment Law” (discussant)
“Health Care as Eugenics,” at the Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference, “Beyond Disadvantage: Disability, Law, and Bioethics,” held at Harvard Law School, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on June 1, 2018 (selected participant)
“The Role of Professionalism in Creating Resilient Societies: Critical Reflections on Vulnerability Theory, Medicine, Law, Business and the Humanities,” at the Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative Conference, “Vulnerability and the Social Reproduction of Resilient Societies,” held at Emory Law on May 30, 2018
Johan D. van der Vyver
“Regulation of Group-Related Rivalries in Plural Communities” for the Johannesburg, South Africa, MENSA chapter on August 16, 2018
“The Right to Self-Determination of Peoples,” for the Pretoria, South Africa, MENSA chapter on June 6, 2018
“Comparative Approaches: Africa and Europe,” at “Law, Religion and Human Flourishing,” the Sixth Annual African Law and Religion Conference of the African Consortium for Law and Religion Studies, held at Baze University in Abuja, Nigeria, on May 20-22, 2018 (moderator). Van der Vyver also presented the paper, “Human Flourishing through the Right to Self-Determination of Religious Communities.”
Liza Vertinsky
"Rethinking the Role of the Prescriber," at the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics’ 41st Annual Health Law Professors Conference, held at Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio, on June 7, 2018
John Witte Jr.
Scholars Council meeting, held at the Library of Congress, in Washington, DC, on June 7-8, 2018 (participant)
“From Gospel to Law: Luther’s Reformation of Law, Politics, and Society,” at the Law and the Augustinian Tradition Inaugural Lecture Series, held at Villanova Law School, Pennsylvania, on August 28, 2018 (inaugural lecturer)
“Sex, Marriage, and Family in John Calvin’s Geneva,” at the International Congress on Calvin Research, held at Westminster Theological Seminary in Glenside, Pennsylvania, on August 29, 2018
Paul J. Zwier
“Nondisclosure Agreements and Confidential Arbitration or Holmes and Common Law of Torts,” part of “The Administrative State and Alternatives to Courts,” at the Emory-UGA Summer Workshop held at the University of Georgia, on August 2, 2018
A summary of writing, presentations, and media mentions from April-May 2018.
Accolades
Laurie Blank has been named a faculty fellow at the Robson Program for Business, Public Policy and Government at Goizueta Business School. She was also invited to serve on the editorial board of Military Law and Law of War Review.
Deborah Dinner's article, Beyond “Best Practices": Employment-Discrimination Law in the Neoliberal Era, Indiana Law Journal (2017), received an honorable mention for the Dorothy Ross Prize, awarded annually by the Society for US Intellectual History. The prize recognizes the best academic article in US intellectual history published in the previous calendar year by an emerging scholar.
Polly Price served as an affiliated faculty member of New Mexico State University's Department of Public Health Sciences during the spring 2018 semester. She worked with the following groups in connection with her study of tuberculosis and other contagious diseases along the US/Mexico border:
- The US-Mexico Border Health Commission
- Operation Cascarones (an epidemiology sharing and communication simulation)
- The Border Epidemiology and Surveillance Team, coordinated by the CDC's El Paso Quarantine Station
Teemu Ruskola’s book, Legal Orientalism: China, the United States, and Modern Law (Harvard University Press 2013) was the subject of three 2017 Chinese law review symposium issues.
- 法律书评 [Law Book Review] (no. 12, 2017).
- 人民大学法律评论 [Renmin University Law Review] (no. 5, 2017)
- 厦门大学法律评论 [Xiamen University Law Review] (no. 29, 2017)
Books & Journals
BOOKS
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
Toward an Islamic Reformation: Civil Liberties, Human Rights and International Law (Syracuse University Press 1990) (Turkish translation)
Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Sharia (Harvard University Press 2008) (Turkish translation)
Rafael Domingo
Great Christian Jurists in Spanish History (Rafael Domingo & Javier Martinez Torron eds., 2018)
BOOK CHAPTERS
John Witte Jr.
Introduction, in The Reformation of the Church and the World (John Witte Jr. & Amy Wheeler eds., forthcoming 2018)
Faith in Law: The Legal and Political Legacy of the Protestant Reformations, in The Reformation of the Church and the World (John Witte Jr. & Amy Wheeler eds., forthcoming 2018)
ARTICLES
Silas Allard
Global and Local Challenges to Refugee Protection, 46 International Journal of Legal Information 45 (2018)
Rafael Domingo
Penal Law in the Roman Catholic Church, 20 Ecclesiastical Law Journal 158 (2018)
Teemu Ruskola
People, Inc.? Law, Economic Enterprise, and the Development of Inequality in China, American Journal of Comparative Law (forthcoming 2018)
Notes on The Neutered Mother, or Toward a Queer Socialist Matriarchy, 67 Emory Law Journal (forthcoming 2018)
Joanna Shepherd
Regulatory Gaps in Drug Compounding: Implications for Patient Safety, Innovation, and Fraud, DePaul Law Review (forthcoming 2018). The article was submitted to the Food and Drug Administration in May as a comment on FDA's draft guidance for industry titled, “Evaluation of Bulk Drug Substances Nominated for Use in Compounding Under Section 503B of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.”'
BOOK REVIEWS
Silas Allard
Review of Seeing the Myth in Human Rights, by Jenna Reinbold, 32 Journal of Law and Religion 1 (2018)
Teemu Ruskola
Review of Queering International Law: Possibilities, Alliances, Complicities, Risks, (Diane Otto ed.) 112 American Journal of International Law (forthcoming July 2018)
Liza Vertinsky
Review of The Branding of the American Mind: How Universities Capture, Manage, and Monetize Intellectual Property and Why it Matters, by Jacob Rooksby, 8 IP Law Book Review 1 (2018)
Opinion & Essay
Laurie Blank
“Syria Strikes: Legitimacy and Lawfulness,” Lawfare (April 16, 2018)
Mark Goldfeder
“Opinion: Tragedies Happen, but Driverless Cars Can Still Save Lives,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution (April 27, 2018)
Mindy Goldstein
“Opinion: Feds Should Make Ga. Power Put More Skin in Game on Vogtle,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution (April 26, 2018)
Quoted in the Media
Frank Alexander
“The Fighting Has Begun Over Who Owns Land Drowned by Climate Change,” Bloomberg Businessweek (April 25, 2018)
Kathleen Cleaver
“1968: A Fractured America,” ABC Australia (May 13, 2018)
“1968 -- America And Turmoil," C-SPAN (April 1, 2018)
Jaime Dodge
“As the Opioid Epidemic Rages, the Fight Against Addiction Moves to an Ohio Courtroom,” Washington Post (April 7, 2018)
Mary L. Dudziak
“Their Unskilled Immigrant Ancestors Came Here and Built America,” CNN (May 7, 2018)
Mark Goldfeder
“With Cakeshop Ruling, High Court Urges Respect for Both Sides,” Christian Science Monitor (June 4, 2018)
Mindy Goldstein
“Vogtle Critics Want More Information In Legal Challenge to Nuclear Expansion,” WABE 90.1 (May 16, 2018)
Michael Kang
“The Democrats’ Latest Plan to Confront Political Corruption,” PBS NewsHour (May 22, 2018)
“Don Blankenship Continues Quest to Help Joe Manchin Keep His Job,” New York Magazine (May 21, 2018)
“Experts: Door Could Be Open for Blankenship to Pursue Independent Senate Run,” Charleston Gazette-Mail (May 19, 2018)
“Did Rudy Giuliani Just Get Trump In Legal Trouble? I Asked 11 Legal Experts,” Vox (May 3, 2018)
Polly Price
“ACLU Sues Secretary Of State Over Candidate Disqualification,” WABE 90.1 (May 21, 2018)
Fred Smith Jr.
“What the NFL’s New Rules for Anthem Protests Really Mean for the First Amendment, According to Experts,” Washington Post (May 24, 2018)
“This Teen’s Racist Prom Invite Was a Bad Idea. But a Free-Speech Expert Says It’s His Right,” Washington Post (April 24, 2018)
“Experts: Hate Speech Is Still Free Speech,” Newnan Herald (April 19, 2018)
Alexander Volokh
“Emory's Approach to Open Expression Gains Attention,” Emory News Center (May 8, 2018)
Presentations
Silas Allard
“Nationalism, Refugee Protection, and Migration Policy,” at the Church Center of the United Nations in New York City, on May 2, 2018 (panelist)
Laurie Blank
"Legal Issues in the D-Day Normandy Campaign," at the Marine Corps War College, in Quantico, Virginia, on April 25, 2018
"Beyond Genocide: What’s in a Name?," at the Genocide and Mass Atrocities Studies Seminar, US Army Command and General Staff College and U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, held in Washington, DC, on April 5, 2018
Jonathan Nash
"Discovery Cost Allocation, Incentives, and Signaling," at the American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, held at Boston University School of Law on May 12, 2018
"Public Perception of Climate Change Information Provided by the Government Versus the Market," at the Annual Sustainability Conference of Legal Educators, held at Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, in Phoenix, on May 11, 2018
"The Collegiality of Dissent," at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting held in Chicago on April 5-8, 2018
Teemu Ruskola
“Comment on Anti-Anti-Orientalism,” at the Comparative Law Works-in-Progress Workshop, held at Princeton University, New Jersey, on February 24, 2018
Joanna Shepherd
“Regulatory Gaps in Drug Compounding: Implications for Patient Safety, Innovation, and Fraud,” at DePaul College of Law’s annual Clifford Symposium on Tort Law and Policy, held in Chicago on April 19-20, 2018
The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Drug Pricing and Accessibility Symposium, held in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 19, 2018 (invited panelist)
Frank Vandall
“After Parkland: The Future of Gun Laws,” presented by the American Constitution Society at Emory Law on April 11, 2018 (panelist)
Vandall served along with US Rep. John Lewis on a panel presented by “March for Our Lives,” held at Georgia State University on April 7, 2018.
Vandall spoke at the Emory Walkout held on the lawn of Emory University School of Medicine on March 14, 2018.
Liza Vertinsky
“Rethinking the Role of the Prescriber: Application to Prescription Opioids,” at the Vulnerability and the Social Reproduction of Resilient Societies Workshop held at Emory Law on May 31, 2018
John Witte Jr.
Juridical Ecumenism Roundtable, held at Corpus Christi College in Oxford, England, on May 25-27, 2018 (participant)
“Is Religious Freedom Under Threat? Trans-Atlantic Perspectives,” held at Christ Church McDonald Centre, in Oxford, England, on May 23-25, 2018 (convener, lecturer)
Roundtable on exploring a new “Spirit of the Law” project, held at Emory University on April 18, 2018 (convener)
Christian Law Faculty Conference, held at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC, on April 5-6, 2018 (participant)
April 2018 (reflects work from February-March)
Accolades
Margo Bagley served as friend of the chair for the 35th Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, and Folklore, held in Geneva, Switzerland, in March 2018.
Rafael Domingo has been named a member of the Global and Transnational Law Society’s Scientific Counsel. Read more.
On March 27, Martha Albertson Fineman was honored at the 24th anniversary of Albany Law School’s Kate Stoneman Day, as keynote honoree. Read more.
Timothy Holbrook has been named Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law. Read more.
Ani Satz was elected president of Faculty Council and University Senate for 2019-2020. She will serve as president-elect in 2018-2019 and immediate past-president in 2020-2021.
Books & Journals
BOOKS
Laurie Blank
Incitement to Terrorism (Brill Nijhoff 2018) (with Anne F. Bayefsky)
Rafael Domingo
Roman Law: An Introduction (Routledge 2018)
Richard Freer
Principles of Business Organizations (West 2018) (with Douglas Moll)
Michael Perry
A Global Political Morality: Human Rights, Democracy, and Constitutionalism (Guangxi Normal University Press 2018) (Chinese translation)
BOOK CHAPTERS
Ani Satz
Health Care as Eugenics (edited volume, Harvard Law Petrie-Flom Center) (forthcoming 2018)
ARTICLES
Margo Bagley
The Morality of Limits on Pharmaceutical Patents, 117 Minnesota Law Review (forthcoming 2018)
"Ask Me No Questions": The Struggle for Disclosure of Cultural and Genetic Resource Utilization in Design Applications, 20 Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law (forthcoming 2018)
Rafael Domingo
Penal Law in the Roman Catholic Church, 20 Ecclesiastical Law Journal 158 (2018)
Mary L. Dudziak
Death and the War Power, 30 Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 25 (2018)
Timothy Holbrook
Prior Art and Possession, 60 William & Mary Law Review (forthcoming 2018)
Jonathan Nash
National Personal Jurisdiction, Emory Law Journal (forthcoming 2018)
Polly Price
A "Chinese Wall" at the Nation's Borders: Justice Stephen Field and the Chinese Exclusion Case, 43 Journal of Supreme Court History 7 (2018)
Do State Lines Make Public Health Emergencies Worse? Federal versus State Control of Quarantine, 67 Emory Law Journal 491 (2018)
Ani Satz
The Federalism Challenges of Protecting Workers’ Medical Privacy, 94 Indiana Law Journal (forthcoming 2018)
Animals as Living Accommodations, 24 Animal Law Review (forthcoming 2018)
Liza Vertinsky
Why Healthcare Companies Should (Be)come Benefit Corporations, Boston College Law Review (forthcoming 2018) (with Y. Heled and C. Brewer)
Opinion & Essay
Laurie Blank
"Shovels: Lawful Weapons or War Crimes," Lawfare (January 16, 2018)
Michael Broyde
“Six Steps For Dealing With Abuse Scandals,” The New York Jewish Week (February 26, 2018)
William Carney
"Appraisal in Delaware: Possible Improvement from the Bottom Up?" (March 11, 2018) (with Keith Sharfman) was listed among SSRN's Top 10 downloads in the "Legal Systems & Agency Conflicts" category.
Ani Satz
“The Volkswagen Monkey Experiments Are Cruel and We Are All to Blame,” The Hill (February 4, 2018)
Quoted in the Media
Melissa Carter
“When Adoption Agencies Can Turn Away Gay Prospective Parents, What Happens to The Kids?” Religion News (March 23, 2018)
“Georgia Might Let Adoption Agencies Use Religion to Refuse Gay Couples,” Atlanta Journal Constitution (February 19, 2018)
“A Georgia Mother’s Struggle to Unmask a Beloved Coach as a Predator,” Atlanta Journal Constitution (February 9, 2018)
“Why It’s More Difficult to Adopt Children in Georgia,” Atlanta Journal Constitution (February 5, 2018)
George Georgiev
“Big Companies Can Keep Big Secrets,” Bloomberg View (February 28, 2018)
Michael Kang
“Did Brian Kemp Fight Obama Twice 'To Stop Illegal Immigrants From Voting'?” Politifact Georgia (March 21, 2018)
Kay Levine
“The Impact of Social Media Is a Major Concern for the Legal Community,” WXIA (March 26, 2018)
Robert Schapiro
“Georgia Lawmaker Threatens to Kill Delta State Tax Breaks Over NRA Stance,” U.S. News & World Report (February 26, 2018)
Presentations
Margo Bagley
“Illegal Designs? Enhancing Cultural and Genetic Resource Protection Through Design Law,” at the Fourth Annual Intellectual Property Lecture, held at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, in Hempstead, New York, on March 12, 2018
Laurie Blank
"IHL in Action—Generating Respect for International Humanitarian Law," at an International Committee of the Red Cross meeting held in Washington, DC, on March 19, 2018 (roundtable)
"Legal Implications Surrounding the Use of Human Shields," a Foundation for the Defense of Democracies briefing held in Washington, DC, on March 16, 2018 (roundtable with Geoffrey S. Corn & Orde Kittrie)
“Complexity and the 21st Century Battlespace,” at “Complexity and Security: The Role of the Law?” sponsored by Duke Law’s Center on Law, Ethics and National Security, held in Durham, North Carolina, on February 24, 2018
Mary L. Dudziak
"Public Diplomacy and Civil Rights History,” at the Bureau of Public Affairs Diversity Leadership Council, U.S. Department of State, held in Washington, DC, on March 6, 2018
"Diplomacy and Civil Rights History," at the Emory International Law Review symposium. on March 1, 2018
“Extraterritoriality in Intellectual Property and Antitrust Enforcement,” at the Leahy Institute of Advanced Patent Studies, The Naples Roundtable, held in Naples, Florida, on Feb. 19, 2018 (panelist)
Timothy Terrell
Terrell presented legal writing programs for the Atlanta office of the Securities and Exchange Commission; the State of Louisiana Attorney General's Office, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and the First District Florida Court of Appeals (for judges and judicial clerks), in Tallahassee
"Managing the Legal Writing of Others," and "Writing to Persuade," for ALI-CLE (Philadelphia; filmed for nationwide video/web broadcast
Liza Vertinsky
“Changing the Company to Change the Result: Application to the Opioid Epidemic,” at the Stanford BioLaw Conference, held in Stanford, California, on March 23, 2018
“Sharing Genetic Sequence Data for Global Health,” at The Jaharis Symposium on Health Law and Intellectual Property, held at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, Illinois, on February 22, 2018
Amicus Briefs
Timothy Holbrook
WesternGeco LLC v. Ion Geophysical Corp., on behalf of IP Law professors, working with the Emory Law School Supreme Court Advocacy Project
January 2018 (reflects work from November-December 2017)
Accolades
Margo Bagley was selected as an expert participant in the Convention on Biological Diversity's Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources. In June 12, 2017, the United Nations’ Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity issued a global call for nominations, and announced the selected experts in October 2017.
Dorothy Brown is a corecipient of the 2018 Clyde Ferguson Award, conferred by the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Minority Groups. Brown and corecipient Professor Guy Charles helped create the Jerome Culp Colloquium, which guides aspiring law professors throughout the initial stages of their careers. Read more.
The AALS Section on Election Law selected “Gerrymandering and the Constitutional Norm Against Government Partisanship, by Michael Kang, Thomas Simmons Professor of Law, as the Best Election Law Paper of 2017. The article was published in the Michigan Law Review (Vol. 116, page 351). Read the article here.
Health Care as Eugenics, by Ani Satz, is one of 20 abstracts selected from 200 for inclusion in the Petrie-Flom Center 2018 Annual Conference: Beyond Disadvantage: Disability, Law, and Bioethics. The article will also be part of a forthcoming book published by Harvard University.
Satz was appointed by the provost to Emory University's Class and Labor Steering Committee. She was also appointed to the Emory Global Health Institute and the Emory University Senate Governance Committee. She was elected to both the Emory University Senate and Faculty Council.
Books & Journals
BOOKS
Richard Freer
Civil Procedure, Aspen Treatise Series (4th ed., Wolters Kluwer 2017)
Kay Levine
Criminal Procedures: Cases, Statutes and Executive Materials (Aspen, forthcoming 2018) (with Marc Miller, Ronald Wright & Jenia Turner, eds.)
The Oxford Handbook of Prosecutors and Prosecution (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2018) (with Ronald Wright & Russell Gold, eds.)
John Witte Jr.
The Western Case for Monogamy Over Polygamy (Cambridge University Press 2015) (Italian translation 2018)
The Reformation of the Church and the World (anthology) (Westminster John Knox Press, forthcoming 2018) (with Amy Wheeler)
Paul Zwier
Peacemaking, Religious Belief and the Rule of Law (Abingdon: Routledge 2018)
BOOK CHAPTERS
Margo Bagley
Towering Wave or Tempest in a Teapot? Synthetic Biology, Access and Benefit Sharing, and Economic Development, in Intellectual Property on the Internet and the Connection with Human and Economic Development (Susy Frankel & Daniel Gervais eds., 2017)
The De-Materialization of Genetic Resources: Synthetic Biology, Intellectual Property, and the ABS Bypass, in Routledge Handbook of Biodiversity and the Law (Charles McManis & Burton Ong eds., 2017)
Rafael Domingo
Thomas Sanchez, in Christianity and Family Law: An Introduction (John Witte Jr. & Gary S. Hauk eds., 2017)
Deborah Dinner
The Story of Geduldig v. Aiello, in Reproductive Rights and Justice Stories (Melissa Murray, Kate Shaw, & Reva Siegel eds., forthcoming 2018)
John Witte Jr.
Introduction, Martin Luther, Emil Brunner, in Christianity and Family Law: An Introduction (John Witte Jr. & Gary S. Hauk, eds., 2017)
The Universal Rule of Natural and Written Constitutions in the Thought of Johannes Althusius, in Morality and Responsibility of Rulers: Chinese and European Early Modern Origins of a Rule of Law for World Order (Janne Nijman & Tony Carty eds., 2018)
The Little Commonwealth: The Family as Matrix of Markets and Morality in Early Protestantism, in Markets and Morality: Spirit and Capital in an Age of Inequality (Ted A. Smith & Robert P. Jones eds., 2018) (with Justin Latterell)
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
Roper v. Simmons 543 US 551 (2005) in Rewriting Children's Rights Judgments: From Academic Vision to New Practice (Helen Stalford, Kathryn Hollingsworth & Stephen Gilmore eds., 2017)
ARTICLES
Margo Bagley
Illegal Designs? Enhancing Cultural and Genetic Resource Protection through Design Law, Centre for International Governance Innovation (2017)
Potential Implications of New Synthetic Biology and Genomic Research Trajectories, International Treaty for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (2017) (with Eric W. Welch, Todd Kuiken & Selim Louafi)
Mary Dudziak
Death and the War Power, Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities (forthcoming 2018)
On the Civil-ness of Civil War: A Comment on David Armitage's Civil War Time, in 33 American University International Law Review 313 (forthcoming 2018). The essay will also be published in the proceedings of the American Society for International Law’s Annual Meeting.
Timothy Holbrook
Printing the Future: Implications of 3D Printing, 4 Texas A&M Journal of Property Law 15 (2017)
Kay Levine
Career Motivations of State Court Prosecutors, George Washington University Law Review (forthcoming) (with Ronald Wright)
Jonathan Nash
Sovereign Preemption State Standing, 112 Northwestern University Law Review 201 (2017)
Judicial Laterals, 70 Vanderbilt Law Review 1911 (2017)
Rafael Pardo
Bankrupt Slaves, 71 Vanderbilt Law Review (forthcoming 2018)
Teemu Ruskola
Legal Orientalism in China, 3 äº¤å¤§æ³•å¦ [Shanghai Jiao Tong University Law Review] 5 (2017). Ruskola wrote an introduction for the special issue, a series of essays on the Chinese translation of his book, Legal Orientalism (Harvard University Press 2013)
Ani Satz
Protecting Injured Workers’ Medical Privacy: HIPAA’s Privacy Rule, Workers’ Compensation, and “Symbiotic Federalism,†Emory Law Journal (forthcoming 2018)
Animals as Living Accommodations, 24 Animal Law Review (2017)
John Witte Jr.
The Nature of Family in 17th-Century Liberal Protestant Thought: Hugo Grotius and John Selden, 2017 Illinois Law Review 1947 (2017)
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
Children's Rights and the Politics of Food: Big Food versus Little People, in Family Court Review (forthcoming 2018)
Opinion & Essay
Timothy Holbrook
It's Not about You, Kevin Spacey, CNN Opinion (November 1, 2017)
Jonathan Nash
Alabama Senate Loss Will Rein in Trump's Judicial Selections, The Hill (December 14, 2017)
Statutory Limit on Federal Court Review of State Convictions Stifles Ideological Differences, The Hill (December 11, 2017)
Alexander Volokh
Emory University Gets Green-light Free-Speech Rating from FIRE, Washington Post/Volokh Conspiracy (December 5, 2017)
Quoted in the Media
Margo Bagley
Beautiful Things Make Money, Centre for International Governance Innovation (December 5, 2017)
Dorothy Brown
Trump: Cuts Will Benefit Jobs, Middle Class, CNN (December 17, 2017)
How Will Black And Latino People Fare Under Trump's Tax Plan? It Doesn't Look Good, Newsweek (November 16, 2017)
Morgan Cloud
The 6 Women Suing Harvey Weinstein Are Using a Gangster Law Originally Designed to Take Down the Mafia—and Experts Warn It Won't Be Easy, Business Insider (December 7, 2017)
Rafael Domingo
Interview on the Right to Keep and Bear Arms in the United States, Cadena Ser (November 7, 2017)
Mary Dudziak
Trump's Recklessness Is Magnifying the Military's Political Power and Independence, Vox (November 20, 2017)
Mark Goldfeder
The Rise of Smart Machines Puts Spotlight on 'Robot Rights', NBC Mach (December 4, 2017)
Michael Kang
No Additional Votes for Norwood in Atlanta Mayoral Runoff Recount, Atlanta Journal-Constitution (December 14, 2017)
Alexander Volokh
Academics Differ Over Outlook for Strip Club Tax Lawsuit, Daily Report (December 6, 2017)
Barbara Woodhouse
Law Profs Serve Up a Slice of Cake Shop SCOTUS Case for the Kids, Daily Report (November 8, 2017)
Presentations
Silas Allard
Empowering Religious Communities as Justice for All Stakeholders, at Eliminating Barriers to Justice IV: Comparison of Language Access in Federal Forums with Georgia Practice and A Comprehensive Law and Policy Update Regarding Access to Justice in Georgia's Civil Justice System, held at Georgia State University in Atlanta on November 15, 2017
Global and Local Challenges to Refugee Protection, presented at the International Association of Law Librarians Annual Conference, held at Emory University on October 24, 2017
Margo Bagley
Alternative Models of R&D-Industry-Academia Collaborations, at the 1st World Conference on Access to Medical Products and International Laws for Trade and Health, in the Context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, held in New Delhi, India, on November 22, 2017 (panelist)
Case Law in Review, at the Georgetown Law-Berkeley Law Ninth Annual Conference on the Role of the Courts in Patent Law and Policy, held at Georgetown University National Law Center in Washington, DC, on November 3, 2017
Scoping Report on Potential Implications of New Synthetic Biology and Genomic Research Trajectories on the ITPGRFA: Legal Dimensions, at the Governing Body of the UN FAO ITPGRFA meeting, held in Kigali, Rwanda, in October 2017 (via video)
Global Perspectives in Patent Law and Access to Medicines, at the Universities Allied for Essential Medicines North American Conference, held at Emory University School of Medicine on October 29, 2017
Making Room at the (Access to Medicines) Table: Is There a Place for Traditional and Holistic Medicine? at a University of Minnesota School of Law symposium, held in Minneapolis on October 27, 2017
Illegal Designs? The Draft Design Law Treaty and Disclosure of Origin Requirements, at the 36th Annual International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Intellectual Property Congress held in Wellington, New Zealand, on October 25, 2017
Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc. and Life Technologies Corp. v. Promega Corp., at the Supreme Court IP Review: Patent Panel I, held at Chicago-Kent College of Law in Illinois, on September 28, 2017 (panelist)
Bagley served as an expert technical advisor to the Government of Mozambique during the 57th General Assemblies of the World Intellectual Property Organization, held in Geneva, Switzerland, in October 2017
Laurie Blank
Law of War Lessons from the Past Decade/Challenges of the Next Decade: The Emory IHL Clinic at 10! held at Emory Law on November 10, 2017 (host)
"Assessing LOAC Compliance and Discourse as New Technologies Emerge: A New Effects Problem? at The Impact of Emerging Technologies on the Law of Armed Conflict, conference held at the Lieber Institute for Law and Land Warfare, United States Military Academy, on October 25, 2017
Deborah Dinner
The Story of Geduldig v. Aiello, at the Reproductive Rights and Justice Conference held at Yale Law School on December 1, 2017
Roundtable: Unionization Strategies in Challenging Times, at the American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting held on October 27, 2017 (panelist). Dinner was also a commentator on the panel, Seeing Difference, with Michael Boucai, Marie-Amelie George and Allison Tait.
Working Families: Gender, Labor, and the Limits of Law in Neoliberal America, at the Rutgers Center for Gender, Sexuality, Law and Policy, in Newark, New Jersey, on October 24, 2017
Displaced Homemakers: Feminist Activism and Women's Domestic Labor from the Civil Rights to the Reagan Era, at a University of Georgia School of Law faculty workshop held on October 18, 2017
Rafael Domingo
"Penal Law in the Roman Catholic Church," at Emory University on October 23, 2017 (roundtable)
"Powerful Lessons from Roman Law for Global Constitutionalism," at the Global and Comparative Global Law Colloquium held at New York University School of Law on September 27, 2017
Mindy Goldstein
Water Resource Management, at Emory University Center for Ethics CREATE Conference, held November 6-7, 2017 (panelist)
Resilient Cities Atlanta's Path to Resiliency, at How Cities Will Change the World, a Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) program held on October 5, 2017
Timothy Holbrook
Patent Prior Art and Possession, at a Temple University Beasley School of Law faculty colloquium held in Philadelphia on November 30, 2017. He presented the same work at a Tulane University Law School faculty colloquium held in New Orleans on November 9, 2017
Extraterritoriality and Digital Patent Infringement, at the Hofstra Law School Intellectual Property Colloquium held in Hempstead, New York, on October 30, 2017
Patent Exhaustion at the Supreme Court: Impression v. Lexmark, at the Yale Information Society Project, held at Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, on October 17, 2017 (panelist)
Michael Kang
Gerrymandering and the Constitutional Norm Against Government Partisanship at a Vanderbilt Law School faculty workshop on December 8, 2017. He presented the same article at Georgetown Law School's faculty workshop on November 7, 2017. The article was also featured in a December 21, 2017, Jotwell article, Partisan Intent, by Michael Coenen.
Jonathan Nash
Rules, Standards, and General Jurisdiction, at the Annual Civil Procedure Workshop held in Tucson, Arizona, in October 2017
Discovery Cost Allocation, Incentives, and Signaling, at the Vanderbilt Law Review Symposium held in Nashville, Tennessee, on October 13, 2017 (with Joanna Shepherd)
Discovery Cost Allocation, Incentives, and Signaling, at the Midwestern Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in October 2017
Certification of Division under Marshall and Taney: An Examination, at the Canadian Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting held in Toronto, Canada, in September 2017
Polly Price
Governing Disease, based on a chapter from her forthcoming book, at a William and Mary Law School faculty colloquium on October 31, 2017
Ani Satz
APIH Health Law and Policy for Public Health Professionals Workshop, at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, held on November 27, 2017
Satz's Project on Health Law, Policy and Ethics (in conjunction with the Human Toxicology Project Consortium) hosted "Exploring New Technologies in Biomedical Research" at Emory Law on October 23, 2017
Rita Sheffey
A speech on her career in public service, by invitation, for the 174th Turknett Women in Leadership Seminar, held on November 17, 2017
John Witte Jr.
Symposium on religious liberty and sexual liberty in collision in the US and the growing assault on religious freedom in the academy and courts, held at the University of Bonn on December 5, 2017
Symposium on the work of Michael Welker, held at the University of Heidelberg on December 2, 2017
Amicus Briefs
Barbara Woodhouse
Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, submitted on behalf of Constitutional Scholars of the Rights and Interests of Children (with Catherine E. Smith, Lauren Fontana, Angela Onwuachi-Willig & Tanya Washington)
Cited
Timothy Holbrook
Holbrook's casebook, Patent Litigation and Strategy (West Academic) (with Kimberly Moore & John Murphy), was cited on Dec. 1, 2017, in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas opinion for Intellectual Ventures II v. FedEx Corporation et al.
November 2017 (reflects work from May-October 2017)
Books & Journals
BOOKS
Martha Albertson Fineman
Privatization, Vulnerability, and Social Responsibility: A Comparative Perspective (Routledge 2017) (with Ulrika Andersson & Titti Mattson eds.)
Vulnerability and the Legal Organization of Work (Routledge 2017) (with Jonathan W. Fineman ed.)
Mark Goldfeder
Legalizing Plural Marriage: The Next Frontier in Family Law (Brandeis University Press 2017)
Charles Shanor
American Constitutional Law: Structure and Reconstruction (6th ed., West 2016) was selected as one of five West casebooks to be translated into Chinese by China Legal Publishing Company.
John Witte Jr.
The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion, and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism (Cambridge University Press 2008) has been translated into Polish.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Silas Allard
A Desired Composition: Regulating Vulnerability through Immigration Law, in Vulnerability and the Legal Organization of Work (Martha Albertson Fineman & Jonathan W. Fineman eds., 2018)
Margo Bagley
Of Disclosure “Straws” and Patent System “Camels”: Patents, Innovation, and the Disclosure of Origin Requirement, in Protecting Traditional Knowledge: The WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (Daniel Robinson, Ahmed Abdel-Latif & Pedro Roffe eds., 2017)
Martha Albertson Fineman
Injury in the Unresponsive State: Writing the Vulnerable Subject into Neo-Liberal Legal Culture, in Injury and Injustice: The Cultural of Harm and Redress (Anne Bloom, David Engel & Michael McCann eds., forthcoming 2018)
Homeschooling: Choosing Parental Rights over Children’s Interests, in The Wiley Handbook of School Choice (Robert A. Fox & Nina K. Buchanan eds., 2017)
Care and Gender, in Reassembling Motherhood: Procreation and Care in a Globalized World. (Yasmine Ergas, Jane Jenson & Sonya Michel eds., forthcoming 2017)
Vulnerability, the Responsive State, and the Role of Religion, in Exploring Vulnerability (Heike Springhart & Günter Thomas eds., 2017) (with Silas Allard)
Johan van der Vyver
Hate Speech in the United States and South Africa: A Legal and Comparative Analysis, in Religious Pluralism: Heritage and Social Development in Africa (M. Christian Green, Rosalind I.J. Hackett, Len Hansen & Francois Venter eds., 2017)
ARTICLES
Deborah Dinner
Beyond “Best Practices”: Employment Discrimination Law in the Neoliberal Era, 92 Indiana Law Journal 1059 (2017)
Rafael Domingo
Theology and Jurisprudence: A Good Partnership?, 32 Journal of Law and Religion 79 (2017)
Martha Grace Duncan
What Not to Do When Your Roommate is Murdered in Italy: Amanda Knox, Her “Strange” Behavior, and the Italian Legal System, Harvard Journal of Law and Gender (2017)
Timothy Holbrook
Polyamory, Offense, and Obergefell, 49 Connecticut Law Review Online 1 (2017)
Julie Schwartz
Introduction to Legal Research: Connecting New Ideas To What Our Students Already Know, 30 The Second Draft 37 (2017)
Charles Shanor
“Individual Rights and Collective Governance,” Jotwell (August 9, 2017)
Opinion & Essay
Rafael Domingo
“The Ego of Nations,” El Espanol (August 10, 2017)
“The Planet and Selfish Ethic of Trump,” El Espanol (June 6, 2017)
Review of The Western Case for Monogamy over Polygamy, 75 Persona y Derecho 311 (2017)
George Georgiev
“Securities Laws Are Speed Bumps That Prevent Uber-Sized Wrecks,” The Hill (June 29, 2017)
Timothy Holbrook
“Sessions Gets Law Dead Wrong on Transgender Protections,” CNN Opinion (October 6, 2017)
“Will Chief Justice Roberts Save Same-Sex Marriage?,” CNN Opinion (June 29, 2017)
Jonathan Nash
“The Case Against Four Person Majorities on The Supreme Court,” The Hill (July 24, 2017)
“Justice Kagan Channels Scalia in Textualist Supreme Court Opinion,” The Hill (July 6, 2017)
“How Did the Lower Courts and Supreme Court Differ So Much on Trump Travel Ban?,” The Hill (June 20, 2017)
“Trump Reshapes the Lower Federal Courts with Little Progressive Scrutiny,” The Hill (June 23, 2017)
“Was Politics the Trump Card in Court’s Travel Ban Decision?,” The Hill (June 2, 2017)
“How Trump Plans to Remake the Lower Courts,” The Hill (May 24, 2018)
Frank Vandall
“Law Prof Offers 15 Steps to Reduce Gun Deaths, Without Confiscation,” Daily Report (October 13, 2017)
Quoted in the Media
Robert Ahdieh
“Mueller Appointed Special Counsel in Russia Probe: What Does It Mean?,” WGXA, (May 18, 2017)
Dorothy Brown
“Why So Much Of the U.S. Tax Code Is Social Policy,” Marketplace (October 2, 2017)
“How The Tax Code Affects Minorities,” NPR (October 1, 2017)
“Home Buying While Black,” Washington Post (September 7, 2017)
“America Needs More Than Jobs to Fix Racial Inequality,” Marketplace (August 17, 2017)
“For Middle-Class Blacks, Success Can Be a Double-Edged Sword,” Chicago Reporter (May 29, 2017)
Mary Dudziak
“The History of Russian Involvement in America's Race Wars,” The Atlantic (October 21, 2017)
“American Experience with War and Death,” C-SPAN (June 24, 2017)
“Can Law Restrain War? Lessons from History” C-SPAN (June 22, 2017)
“Trump and the Fifth Amendment: It’s Complicated,” Washington Post, The Associated Press (May 23, 2017)
Mark Goldfeder
“Arguable: Ready Or Not, Here Comes Polygamy,” Boston Globe (July 31, 2017)
“Ga. High Court Rejects Challenge to Scholarship Program,” WABE (June 27, 2017)
“Without the Law, Faith is Weak,” ilsussidiario.net (June 11, 2017)
“'Offensive and Wrong:' Grieving Mom Blasts Palestinian Payments to Terrorists,” Fox News (May 25, 2017)
“Watchdog: Does Trump Executive Order Free ‘Bullied’ Pulpits?,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution (May 11, 2017)
“Why More Americans Are Weighing Personal Conscience and Religious Liberty,” Christian Science Monitor (May 8, 2017)
Timothy Holbrook
"U.S. Perspectives: Troubled Federal Circuit Hobbles U.S. Patent System," IP Watch (July 31, 2017)
"Strong, Swift Local Reaction to President Trump’s Transgender Military Ban," 11 Alive (July 26, 2017
“Landowner’s Bill of Rights Tested at Georgia Supreme Court,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution (July 7, 2017)
“'A World Apart': Why SCOTUS Keeps Slamming the Federal Circuit,” National Law Journal (June 30, 2017)
Michael Kang
“How U.S. Supreme Court Case over Gerrymandering Could Affect Georgia,” WABE (October 3, 2017)
“What Legal Experts Say About Donald Trump Jr. Meeting with Russian Lawyer,” Politifact (July 11, 2017)
“High Court Ruling on N.C. Voting Districts May Affect Georgia,” WABE (May 23, 2017)
Michael Perry
“Challenging the 'Travel Ban' in the Supreme Court,” TakeCare (September 19, 2017)
Polly Price
“Remuneration Rare in Quarantine Suits, Ebola Nurse Settlement Shows,” New Jersey Law Journal (August 2, 2017)
“Georgians React to Uncertain Future of DACA Program,” WABE (July 17, 2017)
“Georgia ‘Dreamer’ Fights Back After Deportation Protection Revoked,” WABE 90.1 (May 12, 2017)
Presentations
Silas Allard
“What’s the Law on Religious Expression in the Public Square? The First Amendment’s Establishment Clause,” at the International Center for Law and Religion Studies’ Religious Freedom Annual Review, held at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, on July 6-7, 2017
“The International Law of Migration,” presented for foreign law students at Emory University, on July 12, 2017
“Workshop on Illiberal Democracy,” held at Georgia State University in Atlanta on May 18, 2017 (panel chair and discussant)
Margo Bagley
“IP and ABS Issues For Researchers and Entrepreneurs in the Seychelles,” at NEPAD/SANbio/NISTI Workshop, held in Mahe, Seychelles, in August 2017
“IP Issues in Africa,” for the Emory-African Network for Drug and Diagnostic Innovations workshop, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in July 2017
Bagley was lead facilitator and friend of the Chair at the World Intellectual Property Organization 34th Session of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, and Folklore, held in June 2017.
“Filing and Examination of a U.S. Patent Application,” at the World Intellectual Property Organization IP Negotiators Workshop, held in Geneva, Switzerland, in June 2017
“Dematerializing Genetic Material: Intellectual Property, Synthetic Biology, and the ABS Bypass,” at the conference: “An Open Digital Global South: Risks and Rewards” held at UC Davis Law School, California, in May 2017.
“Illegal by Design? The Draft Design Law Treaty and Disclosure of Origin Requirements,” at the International IP Law Scholars Workshop, held at New York University School of Law, New York City, in April 2017
Bagley served as a lecturer at the Max Planck Institute’s Munich Intellectual Property Law Center where she taught the courses Protection of Biotechnological Inventions, Pharmaceuticals and IP.
Deborah Dinner
“Equal by What Measure: Masculinity, Antidiscrimination Law, and Labor Protection, 1964-1991,” at The Berkshire Conference on the History of Women held at Hofstra University in June 2017
Mary Dudziak
Dudziak presided over the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, held in Arlington, Virginia, on June 22-24, 2017. She delivered the presidential address, "’You Didn't See Him Lying ... beside The Gravel Road in France’: Death, Distance, and American War Politics,” on June 24, 2017. She also moderated the plenary panel: “Can Law Restrain War? Lessons from History” on June 22, 2017.
Martha Grace Duncan
“What Not to Do When Your Roommate is Murdered in Italy: Amanda Knox, Her ‘Strange’ Behavior, and the Italian Legal System,” at Harvard Law School on October 16, 2017
"Morbid Laughter, Proper Tears: The Demand for 'Correct' Emotions in Criminal Law," at the Law and Society Annual Meeting held in Mexico City on June 22, 2017
Martha Albertson Fineman
“Vulnerability, Social Justice and the Need for a Responsive State,” Seegers Lecture on Jurisprudence, held at Valparaiso University School of Law on August 31, 2017
“Vulnerability and Resilience,” keynote address for the workshop, “Vulnerability is Good: The Implications for Law of Positive Accounts of Vulnerability,” held at Exeter College, University of Oxford, on July 5, 2017
“Reproduction and Resilient Societies” at Lund University, Sweden, on June 14, 2017
“Violence and Vulnerability,” the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies and the Gender Violence Coalition of Oslo, Norway, on June 8, 2017
“Arguing for Inequality,” and “Tackling Disadvantage and Inequality through Law: Current Debates,” both presented to the University of Oslo Faculty of Law, on June 6, 2017
Mark Goldfeder
“Glorification of Terror, Implications on the Victims and Their Families,” (panelist) at the United Nations, on behalf of the Permanent Mission of Israel, on May 24, 2017
“The Importance of Religious Freedom Education for Global Citizenship,” and “National Security and Religious Freedom in the Middle East,” both presented at the European Academy of Religion Ex Nihilo Conference held in Bologna, Italy, on July 20-21, 2017
“International Law and Security,” at the Peace Palace in The Hague, on behalf of The International Conference for Truth, Justice and Peace and The Hague Initiative for International Cooperation, on June 29, 2017
Jonathan Nash
“Judicial Laterals,” at the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics’ Annual Meeting, held in New York City in June 2017; Nash also presented this lecture at the American Law and Economics Association’s Annual Meeting held in New Haven, Connecticut, in May 2017
“Private Control over Regulatory Dockets Through Lawsuits to Compel Agency Action: An Examination,” at the Society for Environmental Law and Economics’ Annual Meeting, held in Oxford, United Kingdom, in May 2017
“The Production Function of the Regulatory State,” at the Annual Sustainability Conference of Legal Educators held in Phoenix, Arizona, in May 2017
Polly Price
"U.S. Immigration Law and Public Health: An Update,” at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta on May 12, 2017
Robert Schapiro
“United States Supreme Court Review/Preview,” for the Emory Law School Supreme Court Advocacy Project Board of Advisors, in Atlanta, on September 14, 2017. Schapiro gave the same presentation for the American Constitution Society, Georgia Lawyers Chapter, in Atlanta, on September 7, 2017.
Johan van der Vyver
"Legal Pluralism and Effective Governance for Development in Africa" (chair) and “The Protection and Promotion of a People's Mineral Resources in Africa: International and Municipal Perspectives,” both presented at The 2017 Law and Development Conference: "Law and Development: From the African Perspective" sponsored by the Law and Development Institute and the Centre for Comparative Law in Africa, held in Cape Town, South Africa, on September 7-8, 2017
"Seminar on International Human Rights Protection and Monitoring Mechanism" at the Institute for Human Rights at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, held on July 8-15, 2017 (participant)
"The Threat of African Countries to Withdraw from the International Criminal Court,” a faculty colloquium for the law faculty of the University of Pretoria in South Africa on May 31, 2017. Van der Vyver also presented the lecture at the Pretoria law firm, Haasbroek & Boezaart, on June 5, 2017.
"The Concept of a Holy War: Past and Present Perspectives," at the Fifth Annual African Law and Religion Conference of the African Consortium for Law and Religion Studies, held in Rabat, Morocco, on May 14-16, 2017
John Witte Jr.
"The Constitution as a Great Book,” (Emory Williams Lecture) at Emory University, on Sept. 13, 2017
Accolades
Margo Bagley was invited to membership in the Centre for International Governance Innovation’s International Law Research Program’s Traditional Knowledge Expert Group, and was featured in the video “What if a Patent is Based on Traditional Knowledge?”
Mary Dudziak was elected an Honorary Fellow of the American Society for Legal History. It is the highest honor the Society can confer, and “recognizes distinguished historians whose scholarship has shaped the broad discipline of legal history and influenced the work of others.” Dudziak’s election was announced during the society’s annual meeting held in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Oct. 26-29, 2017.
Mark Goldfeder was selected for inclusion in the Atlanta Jewish Times annual “40 under 40” list. Hillels of Georgia named him the 2017 recipient of the Opher Aviran Award for Standing with Israel. Goldfeder was also chosen to serve on the steering committee for the European Academy of Religion; the Board of Trustees for the Center for Israel Education; and the Board of Advisers for the Religious Freedom Center at the Newseum Institute.
Timothy Holbrook
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s Evolving Impact on Claim Construction, 24 Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal 301 (2016), was selected as one of the top intellectual property articles in 2016 and will be reprinted in the Intellectual Property Law Review.
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
Woodhouse participated in a law/engagement forum at Swansea University in Wales that followed the award of an honorary degree to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who delivered the lecture "Children’s Rights are Human Rights." Woodhouse Is one of three U.S. scholars participating in the global children's rights initiative announced by Secretary Clinton during her address, part of a ceremony to rename the university’s school of law as the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law. Woodhouse has worked with faculty and youth at the Wales Observatory on Rights of Children and Young People since 2014. The ceremonies were held October 14-16, 2017.
Amicus Briefs
Mark Goldfeder
• Abeles v. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, U.S. Supreme Court
• Arlene’s Flowers v. State of Washington, U.S. Supreme Court
• Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, U.S. Supreme
May 2017 (reflects work from April 2017)
Accolades
The Emory University Board of Trustees has approved chaired positions for the following faculty members. The named professorships acknowledge exceptional scholarship and substantial contributions to their respective fields.
- Richard Freer has been named Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law.
- Michael Kang has been named Thomas Simmons Professor of Law.
- Jonathan Nash has been named Robert Howell Hall Professor of Law.
- Polly Price has been named Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law.
- Teemu Ruskola has been named Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law.
Earlier in the academic year, the board approved Margo Bagley as Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law. READ MORE
Polly Price has also been named one of 35 recipients of the 2017 Andrew Carnegie fellowship. Each fellow receives up to $200,000 toward the funding of significant research and writing in the social sciences and humanities—the most generous stipend of its kind. READ MORE
Books & Journals
BOOKS
Richard Freer
Hay, Borchers & Freer, Conflict of Laws: Private International Law (15th ed. West Academic 2017)
Peter Hay
Hay, Borchers & Freer, Conflict of Laws: Private International Law (15th ed. West Academic 2017)
Michael Perry
A Global Political Morality: Human Rights, Democracy and Constitutionalism (Cambridge University Press 2017)
BOOK CHAPTERS
Polly Price
Jus Soli and Statelessness: A Comparative Perspective from the Americas, in Citizenship in Question: Evidentiary Birthright and Statelessness (Benjamin Lawrance and Jacqueline Stevens eds., 2017)
ARTICLES
William Carney
The Background of Modern American Business Law, The Journal Jurisprudence (forthcoming 2017)
Timothy Holbrook
Is the Supreme Court Concerned with Patent Law, the Federal Circuit, or Both: A Response to Federal Circuit Judge Timothy B. Dyk, 16 Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property 313 (2017)
Michael Kang
Gerrymandering and the Constitutional Norm Against Government Partisanship, Michigan Law Review (forthcoming 2017)
The Law and Politics of Judging Election Cases, Vanderbilt Law Review (forthcoming 2017) (with Joanna Shepherd)
Polly Price
Epidemics, Outsiders, and Local Protection: Federalism Theater in the Era of the Shotgun Quarantine, 19 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 369 (2017)
Atieno Samandari
Human Rights and the Climate Change Regime, Texas Environmental Law Review (forthcoming 2017)
Opinion & Essay
Michael Ginsberg
“Consensus Returns on Corporate Insurance Transfers in M & A,” Law 360 (February 22, 2017)
Timothy Holbrook
The Federal Circuit's Acquiescence (?), 66 American University Law Review 1061 (2017)
Randee Waldman
“Moving Forward from Gault,” The Champion (The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers 2017) (with Casey McGowan & Whitney Untiedt)
Quoted in the Media
Robert Ahdieh
“Will Law Schools' LL.M Programs Suffer from Trump's 'America First' Stance?” National Law Journal (April 18, 2017)
Michael Broyde
“Were Trump's Syrian Missile Strikes Morally Justified? 5 Religious Experts Respond,” CNN Politics (April 13, 2017)
Michael Kang
“GOP Candidate Connelly Was on the RNC’s Payroll at Start of His Campaign,” Washington Times (April 27, 2017)
Alexander Volokh
“Ready or Not, Gorsuch to Take Supreme Court Bench a Week After Oath,” Bloomberg Politics (April 17, 2017)
Presentations
Mary Dudziak
“Immigration and Presidential Power,” at Emory Law Centennial Weekend on April 28 (panelist)
"Three Lives, a Lifeboat, and America's March Toward War," at Regis University in Denver, Colorado, on April 21, 2017. Dudziak gave the same lecture at Metropolitan State University, on April 20, 2017. The two lectures were sponsored by Colorado Humanities and the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities and arranged through the Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer program. They were kick-off events for Colorado Humanities' yearlong observance of the 100th anniversary of World War I.
"Civil War Time: From Grotius to the Global War on Terror," at the 19th Annual Grotius Lecture by David Armitage, at the American Society for International Law Annual Meeting, held in Washington, DC, on April 12, 2017 (distinguished discussant)
“Legacies of World War I,” at the Organization of American Historians annual meeting, held in New Orleans on April 7, 2017 (panelist)
Richard Freer
Ninth Annual Junior Faculty Federal Courts Workshop academic paper presentations held at Emory Law on April 1, 2017 (commentator)
Timothy Holbrook
"Trump and LGBTQ Issues,” at “Trump Talk Dialogue Series: First 100 Days,” sponsored by Emory University’s Office of Equity and Inclusion, on April 10, 2017
Michael Kang
“The Impact of Dark Money on Judicial Elections and Judicial Behavior,” at the 23rd Annual Clifford Symposium (DePaul Law Review) held in Chicago on April 21, 2017
“The Law and Politics of Judging Election Cases,” at the Vanderbilt Law Review 2017 symposium held in Nashville, Tennessee, on March 31, 2017
“2020 Redistricting: Mapping a New Political Decade,” at the William & Mary Law Review symposium, held in Williamsburg, Virginia, on February 17-18, 2017
Jonathan Nash
"Certification by Division Under Marshall and Taney: An Analysis," at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association held in Chicago on April 6, 2017 (with Michael G. Collins)
"Courts and the Media," at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association in Chicago, on April 6, 2017 (chair)
Ninth Annual Junior Faculty Federal Courts Workshop academic paper presentations held at Emory Law on April 1, 2017 (commentator)
Polly Price
"Immigration and Presidential Power," at Emory Law Centennial Weekend on April 28, 2017 (panel chair)
"Trump and Immigration Law-Travel Bans," at “Trump Talk Dialogue Series: First 100 Days,” sponsored by Emory University’s Office of Equity and Inclusion, on April 17, 2017
"Migration and Emerging Infectious Diseases," at “Between Complacency and Panic: Legal, Ethical and Policy Responses to Emerging Infectious Diseases,” the annual Health Law Conference of the Center for Health Policy and Law, held at Northeastern University School of Law on April 14, 2017 (panelist)
Atieno Samandari
“Vulnerability and Norms of the Climate Change Regime,” at “The Environment and Vulnerability: The Anthropocene in the Time of Trump,” held at Emory Law on April 14-15, 2017
Frank Vandall
“President Trump, Emerging Scholars and International Business,” keynote at the Sixth International Conference on Business and Economic Development (co-hosted by the Academy of Business and Retail Management and the Journal of Business and Retail Management Research) held in New York City on April 10, 2017
Randee Waldman
“Ethical Considerations in Social Media Investigations,” at the Office of State Public Defender and Mississippi Public Defender Association Spring Public Defender Conference, held in Biloxi, Mississippi, on April 28, 2017
“Role of Juvenile Defense Counsel: Ethics in Practice,” at the Mid-Atlantic Juvenile Defender Center Regional Rural Juvenile Training Immersion Program held in Abingdon, Virginia, in April 2017. Waldman also presented “Fourth Amendment Advocacy,” at the conference.
John Witte Jr.
Call to Service, Visiting Day for admitted students, at Emory Law on April 8, 2017
Great Nordic Jurists Roundtable Conference at Emory University on April 5, 2017 (co-convener)
“Freedom of a Christian: Martin Luther’s Reformation of Liberty, Equality, and Dignity,” McDonald Distinguished Scholar Lecture, at Candler School of Theology on April 4, 2017
“The 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation: An International Conference,” at Emory University on April 3-4, 2017 (convener)
Amicus Briefs
Mark Goldfeder
United Poultry Concerns v. Chabad of Irvine et al on April 24, 2017
Sokolow et al v. Palestine Liberation Organization et al on April 6, 2017
April 2017 (reflects work from March 2017)
Accolades
The US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled in favor of the plaintiff in Lester J. Smith v. Brian Owens, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, a case argued by Mark Goldfeder. The case concerned a Muslim inmate who wished to grow an untrimmed beard. Goldfeder and Sarah Shalf were appointed by Judge Frank Hull to represent Smith. Several students worked on briefs and helped Goldfeder prepare for the argument, aided by local practitioners and Emory Law professors.
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s Evolving Impact on Claim Construction, 24 Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal 301 (2016), by Timothy Holbrook, was selected as one of the top intellectual property articles published that year. It will be reprinted in the Intellectual Property Law Review.
On March 28, 2017, Stu Marvel was honored by Phi Beta Kappa as a faculty mentor "who has encouraged and helped students to excel, and who exemplifies intellectual rigor and enthusiasm for scholarly pursuits.”
The Chinese translation of Teemu Ruskola’s book Legal Orientalism was selected as one of the Top Ten Books in Law for 2016 in the People’s Republic of China by 法制日报 (Legal Daily), China’s leading legal newspaper. Ruskola was also appointed to the editorial boards of the Asian Journal for Law and Society and Global Jurist.
Books & Journals
BOOKS CHAPTERS
Stu Marvel
- Listening to LGBTQ People on Assisted Human Reproduction: Access to Reproductive Material, Services and Facilities, in Regulating Creation: The Law, Ethics, and Policy of Assisted Reproduction (Trudo Lemmens, Andrew Flavelle Martin, Cheryl Milne, & Ian B. Lee eds., 2017)
- Polymorphous Reproductivity and the Critique of Futurity: Toward a Queer Legal Analytic for Fertility Law, in New Intimacies, Old Desires: Law, Culture and Queer Politics in Neoliberal Times, (Oishik Sircar & Dipika Jain eds., 2017)
ARTICLES
Timothy Holbrook
Method Patent Exceptionalism, 102 Iowa Law Review 1007 (2017)
Jonathan Nash
- Sovereign Preemption State Standing, Northwestern University Law Review (accepted)
- The Production Function of the Regulatory State: How Much Do Agency Budgets Matter? Minnesota Law Review (accepted) (with J.B. Ruhl & James Salzman)
Opinion & Essay
Laurie Blank
“Self-Defense Against Terrorists: How Long and How Far?” Jurist (March 14, 2017)
Mary Dudziak
"Teaching Equality at Emory," Emory Lawyer, Spring 2017
Jonathan Nash
“Forget Gorsuch: Trump's Lower Court Nomination May Be More Important,” The Hill (March 29, 2017)
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
“Corporal Punishment: A Wrong Not a Right,” American Psychological Association, Psychology Benefits Society blog (March 22, 2017)
Quoted in the Media
Melissa Carter
- “Georgia Governor Slams ‘Religious Liberty’ Change to Adoption Bill,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution (March 20, 2017)
- “Georgia Adoption Bill Raises Fears of Discrimination,” WABE 90.1 (March 17, 2017)
Michael Kang
“Ga. Republican Redistricting Plan Called 'Blatant' Power Grab,” WABE 90.1 (March 8, 2017)
Urska Velikonja
“Wall Street Cops Reined In as SEC Braces for Trump Budget Cuts,” Bloomberg (March 6, 2017)
Presentations
Silas Allard
“Refugees in the Law,” a panel for “Seeking Refuge: Faith-Based Approaches to Forced Migration,” at Princeton University, New Jersey, on March 3-5, 2017 (moderator)
Margo Bagley
- “Intellectual Property Regimes and Genetic Resources: The Push for Transparency, Policy Space, and Fairness,” at the Patents, Social Justice, and Public Responsibility Symposium, held at the University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy, in Ann Arbor, on March 27, 2017
- “Legal and Policy Issues in Access and Benefit Sharing,” at the Sixth Meeting of the Ad-Hoc Open-Ended Working Group To Enhance the Functioning of the Multilateral System, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, in Rome, Italy, on March 13-17, 2017
- "Intellectual Property and Access and Benefit-Sharing,” "Disclosure of Origin: Reality and Perspectives," and "Digital DNA: IP and Synthetic Biology," at the World Intellectual Property Organization, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia, National Workshop on Intellectual Property, Traditional Knowledge, Traditional Cultural Expressions and Genetic Resources, in Bogota, Columbia, in March 2017
- Bagley was lead facilitator and Friend of the Chair for the Thirty-Third Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore Meetings, held in Geneva, Switzerland, February 27 to March 3, 2017.
- “Disruptive Technologies: Synthetic Biology, Fairness, and Patents,” at Vanderbilt University School of Law, in Nashville, Tennessee, on February 2, 2017 (panelist)
Laurie Blank
- "The Extent of Self-Defense Against Terrorists: How Far and How Long?" at the IntLawGrrls 10th Birthday Conference, at the University of Georgia School of Law, on March 3, 2017
- "The Bystander During War Crimes," at the Utah Law symposium, “The Bystander Dilemma: The Holocaust, War Crimes and Sexual Assaults,” held at S.J. Quinney College of Law, on March 31, 2017
Michael Broyde
“A Religious Critique of the Idea of a Single ‘Law’ in All Situations from the Jewish View: A Defense of a Federalized Model of Diverse Religions Law,” at the Nootbaar Institute’s annual conference, "Religious Critiques of the Law,” at Pepperdine University School of Law, in Malibu, California, on March 9, 2017
Mary Dudziak
“Strategies to Promote Women’s Participation in Shaping International Law and Policy amid the Global Emergence of Antiglobalism,” (plenary panel) at the IntLawGrrls 10th Birthday Conference, at the University of Georgia School of Law’s Dean Rusk International Law Center, on March 3, 2017. Dudziak also moderated the panel, “Postwar/Cold War Policies and Legacies.”
Richard Freer
- "Three Major Trends in American Company Law," at the European Law Schools Association, in Warsaw, Poland, on March 16, 2017
- "Ten Months After Spokeo, Where Do We Stand on Standing?" a CLE for the State Bar of Georgia, in Atlanta, on March 29, 2017
Mark Goldfeder
“Of Golems, Mermaids, and Corporations; A Religious Critique of Legal Personhood,” at the Nootbaar Institute’s annual conference, "Religious Critiques of the Law,” at Pepperdine University School of Law, in Malibu, California, on March 9, 2017
Stu Marvel
“Challenges Ahead: A Review of the Legal Landscape for Reproductive Health in the Southeast,” organized by Planned Parenthood Southeast Young Professionals, in Atlanta on March 22, 2017 (panelist)
Jonathan Nash
"Judicial Laterals," at a symposium on state courts, at Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tennessee, on March 31, 2017
Michael Perry
- Perry was one of three principal speakers at the “Free Speech and Democracy Conference" held at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, in Tifton, Georgia, on March 24-25, 2017. He addressed the controversy concerning same-sex marriage, antidiscrimination laws, and religious exemptions to such laws.
- “Constitutional Issues Raised by President Trump and His Administration in The Early Days of the Trump Presidency,” at the American Jewish Committee Atlanta luncheon, on March 7, 2017
Polly Price
Roundtable discussion of the role of universities in ending tuberculosis, at World Aids Day, sponsored by US-AID, on March 14, 2017, in Washington, DC (panelist)
Teemu Ruskola
- “On Legal Orientalism,” for the Centre for Chinese Law faculty, at the University of Hong Kong, on January 19, 2017
- “After Legal Orientalism,” for the law faculty of Chinese University of Hong Kong, on January 18, 2017
- “A Conversation on Legal Orientalism,” at KoGuan Law School, Jia Tong University, in Shanghai, China, on January 13, 2017. An edited version of the panel conversation will be published in the next issue of Jiao Tong Law Review. (panelist)
Timothy Terrell
During spring semester, Terrell conducted legal writing programs with the following organizations: the State Attorney General Offices of Oklahoma and California; Texas appellate courts in Houston and Fort Worth; the 10th Circuit US Court of Appeals; and both the Tax and Antitrust Divisions of the Justice Department. He also presented an appellate advocacy program for National Association of Attorneys General.
Frank Vandall
”The Police Use of Force,” a presentation for the Federalist Society, held at Emory Law on January 25, 2017
John Witte Jr.
- "From Gospel to Law: Martin Luther’s Deconstruction and Reconstruction of German Law,” at the Nootbaar Institute’s annual conference, "Religious Critiques of the Law,” at Pepperdine University School of Law, in Malibu, California, on March 9, 2017
- Witte also participated in a Christianity and Private Law roundtable conference for potential authors and the planning group for the upcoming Christianity and Private Law volume.
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
"Influencing the Influencers to Unlock Early Childhood Potential," at the Early Childhood National Summit, “Starting Ahead, Staying Ahead,” in Orlando, Florida, on February 8-10, 2017 (plenary panel)
Paul Zwier II
“Love, Law, and the American Jury: A Christian Perspective,” at the Nootbaar Institute’s annual conference, "Religious Critiques of the Law,” at Pepperdine University School of Law, in Malibu, California, on March 10, 2017
March 2017 (reflects work from November 2016-February 2017)
Accolades
Mary Dudziak was elected president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. She takes up that position following her previous service as vice president. Election results were announced on November 6, 2016. READ MORE
The American Bar Foundation named Martha Fineman a Life Fellow on January 10, 2017, in recognition of exemplary dedication to highest principles of the legal profession, commitment to the welfare of society, and support for the ideals, objectives, and work of the American Bar Foundation.
Jonathan Nash was elected to membership in the American Law Institute. He was among 43 scholars and practitioners selected from a national field. READ MORE
Teemu Ruskola’s book, Legal Orientalism: China, the United States, and Modern Law (Harvard University Press 2013) has been chosen by the AALS Section on East Asian Law and Society for its first-ever Distinguished Book Award. The award was presented in January at the AALS Annual Meeting. READ MORE
Ani Satz was elected to membership in the American Law Institute. She was among 43 scholars and practitioners selected from a national field. READ MORE Satz also serves as 2017 immediate past-chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Animal Law.
Randee J. Waldman was recognized with the Champion of Justice Award during an October 29, 2016, reception held at Atlanta’s Center for Civil and Human Rights. READ MORE
John Witte was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Heidelberg Faculty of Theology on February 8, 2017. READ MORE
Books & Journals
BOOKS
Martha Fineman
Privatization, Vulnerability, and Social Responsibility: A Comparative Perspective (Series on Gender in Law, Culture, and Society) (Routledge 2017) (with Ulrika Andersson & Titti Mattson, eds.)
William T. Mayton
The Sustainers, Citizens of the United States (Twelve Tables Press 2017)
Teemu Ruskola
Legal Orientalism: China, the United States, and Modern Law (Harvard University Press, 2013) was released in Chinese as 法律东方主义: 中国, 美国与现代法律 (China University of Politics and Law Press 2016) (Translator: Wei Leijie)
Charles Shanor
Shanor's American Constitutional Law: Structure and Reconstruction, Cases, Notes, and Problems (6th ed., West Academic 2017)
Timothy Terrell
The Dimensions of Legal Reasoning: Developing Analytical Acuity from Law School to Law Practice (Carolina Academic Press 2016)
ARTICLES
Rafael Domingo
Protección de la Supraracionalidad, in 74 Persona y Derecho 203 (2016)
Martha Fineman
Homeschooling: Choosing Parental Rights over Children’s Interests, 46 University of Baltimore Law Review 57 (2016) (with George Shepherd)
Tim Holbrook
Patent Disclosures and Time, 69 Vanderbilt Law Review 1459 (2016)
Kay Levine
Images and Allusions in Prosecutors' Morality Tales, 5 Virginia Journal of Criminal Law (2017) (with Ronald F. Wright)
Jonathan Nash
- Unearthing Summary Judgment's Concealed Standard of Review, 50 UC Davis Law Review 87 (2016)
- Doubly Uncooperative Federalism and the Challenge of U.S. Treaty Compliance, 55 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 3 (2016)
George Shepherd
Homeschooling: Choosing Parental Rights over Children’s Interests, 46 University of Baltimore Law Review 57 (2016) (with Martha Fineman)
Opinion & Essay
Laurie Blank
“Return Of 'Black Site' Prisons Would Be A Return To Darkness,” The Hill (January 30, 2016)
Dorothy Brown
“Obama's Final Report Card: Did He Live Up to His Promise?” CNN Opinion (January 19, 2017)
Mark Goldfeder
“What Trump Can Do for Aleppo,” CNN Opinion (December 18, 2016) (with Ján Figeľ )
Timothy Holbrook
“Trump Shows His True Hand on LGBTQ Rights,” CNN Opinion (February 14, 2017)
Jonathan Nash
- “Trump Is Not the First President to Criticize Judiciary,” The Hill (February 9, 2017)
- “Gorsuch on Supreme Court Might Impact Federal Agencies Most of All,” The Hill (February 2, 2016)
- “What Kind of Judges Will Trump Appoint?” The Hill (November 13, 2016)
Ani Satz
“USDA Inspection Reports Are Vital to Safeguard Animals,” CNN Opinion (February 20, 2017)
George Shepherd
“The Judge Who Saved Trump's Campaign,” CNN Opinion (November 17, 2016)
Joanna Shepherd
- “Trump’s Wrong-Headed Approach to Drug Prices,” Morning Consult (January 24, 2017)
- “Trump and What’s Next for the Pharmaceutical Industry,” Morning Consult (December 8, 2016)
Fred Smith Jr.
“Our Republic Depends on Playing by the Rules,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution (February 4, 2017)
Alexander Volokh
“Neil Gorsuch, Fortunately,” Washington Post, The Volokh Conspiracy, (January 31, 2017)
Quoted in the Media
Margo Bagley
“Rise of Digital DNA Raises Biopiracy Fears,” Science (November 17, 2016)
Melissa Carter
“'Orange Is the New Black' Writer Headlines Baker & Hostetler Initiative,” Daily Report (November 6, 2016)
Rafael Domingo
- “Why Does the Pope Extend Permission to Forgive Abortion?” CNN (November 23, 2016)
- “Interview with Carlos Montero on Catholic Canon Law,” CNN Español (November 5, 2016)
Mark Goldfeder
- “Zoning Laws and Houses of Faith,” New Hampshire Public Radio (January 10, 2017)
- “The Mosque Next Door: City Law vs. Houses of Faith,” New York Times (December 18, 2017)
Mindy Goldstein
“Toxic Waste Stranded as Nuclear Plants Close,” Bloomberg News (November 5, 2016)
Timothy Holbrook
- “Arkansas Law Banning Local Antidiscrimination Ordinances Is Tested,” Wall Street Journal (February 9, 2017)
- “Name Change | After Legal Fight, Transgender Men Win Case to Change Their Names,” WXIA-11 Alive (January 20, 2017)
- “Smartphones and the Law,” BYU Radio, “The Matt Townsend Show,” (November 7, 2016)
Michael Kang
“Did New Voter Laws Tip the Election?” Bloomberg Law (November 9, 2016)
Jonathan Nash
“Will Scott Pruitt Come to Love EPA Leniency He Once Opposed?” Bloomberg BNA (February 10, 2017)
Michael Perry
“Georgia Lawmaker Drops No-Mask Proposal After Muslim Backlash,” Associated Press (November 17, 2016)
Polly Price
- “Why Trump Is Having Trouble Rewriting His Travel Ban for 7 Muslim Nations,” Miami Herald (February 23, 2017)
- “ICE Stepping up Enforcement, Arrests, Deportations,” WXIA-11 Alive (February 13, 2017)
- “Travel Ban Case May Go to U.S. Supreme Court,” CNN (February 5, 2017)
- “Confusion Remains Over Immigration Ban as Trump Gives Mixed Signals,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution (January 29, 2017)
Joanna Shepherd
“Political Groups Fight for Control of State Supreme Courts,” Associated Press, New York Times (November 1, 2016)
Alexander Volokh
- “Trump Can’t Cut Off Berkeley’s Funds by Himself. His Threat Still Raised Alarm,” Chronicle of Higher Education (February 3, 2017)
- “Supreme Court Nominee a Champion of Federal Restraint,” Associated Press (February 2, 2017)
John Witte Jr.
“Conference and Festschrift Celebrate Charles Donahue,” Harvard Law Today (November 29, 2016)
Presentations
Silas Allard
- “Frozen in Time: Our Reified Nation,” at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry Faculty Response Forum, held at Emory University on January 27, 2017 (with Liz Bounds)
- “Access to Counsel in Immigration Proceedings,” at "Moving Georgia Forward through Innovative Pro Bono," hosted by the Institute for Continuing Legal Education and the State Bar of Georgia, in Atlanta, on January 20, 2017
Margo Bagley
- “Disruptive Technologies: Synthetic Biology, Fairness, and Patents,” at Vanderbilt University School of Law in Nashville, Tennessee, on February 2, 2017
- Taught “U.S. Patent Law, Part II,” to Cuban government attorneys in the Center for Inter-American Legal Education program, in Havana, Cuba, on January 23-27, 2017
- “The Future of Pharmaceuticals and Public Health” held at Emory Law on January 9, 2017, in conjunction with a lecture by Sir Andrew Witty, CEO of GlaxoSmithKline (moderator)
- The World Intellectual Property Organization Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, and Folklore, 32nd Session, in Geneva, Switzerland, on November 28-December 2, 2016 (lead facilitator and friend of the chair)
Laurie Blank
- “The Siege of Aleppo and War Crimes,” International & National Security Law Practice Group Teleforum, sponsored by the Federalist Society, on December 1, 2016
- “The Laws of War: Do They Matter?” at Michigan State University College of Law, in East Lansing, on November 14, 2016
- “New Technologies and the Interplay between Certainty and Reasonableness in the Law of Armed Conflict,” at the “Complex Battlespaces: The Law of Armed Conflict and the Dynamics of Modern Warfare,” conference hosted by The West Point Lieber Institute for Law and Land Warfare and Stockton Center for the Study of International Law, at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, on October 25, 2016
- “Just War Theory in Our Own Time,” at the National War College in Washington, D.C., on October 17, 2016
Rafael Domingo
“Christian Perspectives on Dignity and Equality,” at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, on November 8, 2016
Mary Dudziak
- “Death and the War Power,” at the International History Group faculty workshop held at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, on October 28, 2016
- Dudziak gave the same lecture at a New York Law School faculty workshop, on October 25, 2016, and also at the Law and Society Series, held at the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison, on September 14, 2016.
Mark Engsberg
"Open Access and Free Legal Sources: an International Perspective," (keynote address) at the International Federation of Library Associations workshop, held in Kampala, Uganda, on December 6, 2016.
Mindy Goldstein
“Cities and Climate Change,” at the “Law, Justice and Development Week 2016: Law, Climate Change and Development” conference held at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., on December 5, 2016 (panelist)
Timothy Holbrook
- "Boundaries, Territoriality, and Patent Damages," at the Notre Dame Law Review symposium, "Negotiating IP’s Boundaries in an Evolving World," on November 12, 2016
- "How 3-D Printing Challenges Our Patent System," at the Texas A&M University School of Law symposium, "Printing the Future: The Implications of 3-D Printing," held in Fort Worth on November 10, 2016
Polly Price
“National Boundaries and Public Health in the Americas: Lessons from the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission,” at Vanderbilt Law School, in Nashville, Tennessee, on January 30, 2016
Ani Satz
- “Disability and Public Health Emergencies, Defining the Gap, Minding the Gap: Law and Practice in Public Health Emergencies,” at the Thrower Symposium, held at Emory Law on February 2, 2017 (panelist)
- “Bridging the Gap, Minding the Gap: Law and Practice in Public Health Emergencies,” at the Thrower Symposium, held at Emory Law on February 2, 2017 (moderator)
- “Health Law Works in Progress,” at the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, (Section on Law, Medicine and Health Care) in San Francisco, California, on January 5, 2017 (discussant)
- “Animals as Living Accommodations,” at the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, (Section on Animal Law) in San Francisco, California, on January 6, 2017 (moderator)
- “Animal Protection and the Myth of AWA Preemption,” at "The Animal Welfare Act at Fifty Conference" held at Harvard Law School, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 2, 2016 (panelist)
- “Animal Protection and the Myth of AWA Preemption,” at "The Animal Welfare Act at Fifty Conference" held at Harvard Law School, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 1, 2016 (workshop participant)
Randee Waldman
"Ethics of Social Media Investigations" at the Child Protection and Advocacy Section Seminar, for the Institute of Continuing Legal Education, in Atlanta, on January 26, 2017
John Witte Jr.
- “From Gospel to Law: Luther’s Reformation of Law, Politics, and Society and What it Means for Us Today,” on December 2, 2016 at Cardiff University in Wales. Witte also participated in a roundtable on "Law and Religion-Leading Works.”
- The Cunningham Lectures | “Christianity and Human Rights” at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- “Here I Stand: A Christian Defense of Human Rights Today,” on December 1, 2016
- “Between Martin Luther and Martin Luther King: James Pennington and the Black Abolitionist Struggle for Freedom in America,” on November 30, 2016
- “Freedom of a Christian: Martin Luther’s Reformation of Rights and Liberties,” on November 29, 2016
Books & Journals
Fall 2016 Emory Law Insights features the work of Professors Bagley, Dinner, Georgiev, and Smith.
BOOKS
William Carney
Mergers and Acquisitions: Cases and Materials (4th ed., Foundation Press 2016)
Rafael Domingo
God and the Secular Legal System (Cambridge University Press 2016)
Michael Perry
Human Rights in the Constitutional Law of the United States (Chinese translation, Commercial Press 2016)
Richard Freer
The Law of Corporations in a Nutshell (7th ed., West Academic Publishing 2016)
BOOK CHAPTERS
Barbara Woodhouse
“The Child's Right to a Parent: Charting a Path from Mere Interest to Constitutional Right,” in Family Law in Britain and America in the New Century (John Eekelaar ed., Brill | Nijhoff 2016)
Opinion & Essay
Laurie Blank
“Cicero, International Law, and the Oil in Iraq,” Jurist (September 23, 2016)
Dorothy Brown
“Georgetown University's Apology for Slave Trade Doesn't Go Far Enough,” CNN Opinion (September 5, 2016)
Rafael Domingo
- “Five Reasons to Applaud Santos’ Nobel Peace Prize,” El Espanol (October 7, 2016)
- “Mother Teresa and the Art of Contemplating,” El Espanol (September 10, 2016)
Timothy Holbrook
“Do You Buy a Smartphone for Its Curves? Do You Buy a Car for Its Cup Holders?” The Conversation (October 13, 2016)
Jonathan Nash
“New Court Ruling May Lead to Citizens Challenging Executive Overreach,” The Hill (October 8, 2016)
Quoted in the Media
Laurie Blank
“Trump’s ‘Take the Oil’ Plan Would Violate Geneva Conventions, Experts Say,” Wall Street Journal (September 8, 2016)
Dorothy Brown
- “Kempner: Trump’s ‘Genius,’ Or Tax Law 101?” Atlanta Journal-Constitution (October 4, 2016)
- “Which Should Americans Be Angrier About: Trump or the Tax Code?” The Atlantic (October 2, 2016)
George Georgiev
- “Will Wells Fargo Scandal Lead to Changes in Pay Plans?” Bloomberg BNA (October 6, 2016)
- “Executive Pay Clawbacks Are Gratifying, but Not Particularly Effective,” New York Times (September 30, 2016)
Mindy Goldstein
“Georgia Prepares for Water Wars Case With Drought Backdrop,” WABE 90.1 (September 19, 2016)
Timothy Holbrook
- “Supreme Court Term Promises to Be IP Blockbuster,” law.com (September 26, 2016)
- “EpiPen Controversy Continues,” Medpage Today (September 3, 2016)
Jonathan Nash
“Six-Justice SCOTUS Could Decide Cases on Post-9/11 Detentions,” Politico (October 11, 2016)
Jennifer Romig
“Listen Like a Lawyer,” cited in Arizona Attorney, “The Legal Word” (November 2016)
Urska Velikonja
“US Seeks Scalps in Och-Ziff Bribery Investigation,” Financial Times (September 12, 2016)
Alexander Volokh
- “California Promised Public Employees Generous Retirements. Will the Courts Give Government a Way Out?” Los Angeles Times (October 20, 2016)
- “What ‘Safe Spaces’ Really Look Like on College Campuses,” Chronicle of Higher Education (September 8, 2016)
Presentations
Deborah Dinner
- “Maternity, Class, and Conservatism: Recasting Divides in Feminist Legal Theory during the 1980s,” at the Society for US Intellectual History Annual Conference held at Stanford University on October 14, 2016.
- Dinner also served as a panelist for “The Many Faces of Gender in American Thought: Considering Our Methods,” held later the same day.
Timothy Holbrook
- "How 3-D Printing Challenges our Patent System," at the University of Iowa College of Law on November 3, 2016
- "Unfinished Business: Queer Justice after Marriage Equality," (panelist) at the Georgia Institute of Technology on October 4, 2016
Jonathan Nash
- "The Production Function of Environmental Protection" at the annual meeting of the Canadian Law and Economics Association held at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in September 2016. Nash gave the same lecture at a University of Alabama Law School faculty colloquium in October 2016.
- "Certification by Division Under Marshall and Taney: An Analysis," at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Law and Economics Association held at Emory Law in September 2016
- "Environmental Law in the Administrative State" (participant) at the Center for the Study of the Administrative State at George Mason University Law School in September 2016
- Nash was Emory's senior representative at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Junior-Senior Scholarship Workshop held at the University of North Carolina. He served as commentator on two papers.
Polly Price
- "Stigma: Perspectives and Solutions," (roundtable) at the Global Mental Health Project held at the Rollins School of Public Health on October 26, 2016
- "Search for Justice in Racially Charged Cases," (moderator) at the Decatur Book Festival on September 3, 2016. The session featured My Father And Atticus Finch: A Lawyer’s Fight for Justice in 1930s Alabama by Joseph Madison Beck and The Lynching by Laurence Leamer.
Teemu Ruskola
- “Racing International Law,” (roundtable) at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, at the University of Chicago on November 2, 2016
- “Roundtable: Sino-Western Encounters in Transnational Legal History: Reframing the Intercultural Politics of Law,” at the American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada, on October 28, 2016
John Witte Jr.
- “Separation of Church and State in America: Facts, Fictions, and Future Challenges,” at Jacksonville State University on October 20, 2016
- “Roundtable Conference on ‘Texts and Contexts in Legal History’ in Honor of Professor Charles Donahue,” at Harvard Law School on October 7, 2016. Witte presented a 26-chapter Festschrift on Donahue’s work to the honoree.
- “Between Martin Luther and Martin Luther King Jr.: James Pennington as Defender of Sacred Human Rights,” (The first of the Pennington Lecture Series honoring the memory and legacy of James Pennington) at Yale Divinity School on October 6, 2016
Accolades
Based on data from the 2016 Sisk study, Martha Albertson Fineman is the number one most cited family law faculty member in the country with 580 citations between 2010 and 2014. Emory University ranked number 27 among 70 law faculties in overall scholarly impact, with the following professors among the most-cited tenured scholars: Robert Ahdieh, Joanna Shepherd, Mary Dudziak, Martha Albertson Fineman, Timothy Holbrook, Michael Kang, Jonathan Nash, Michael Perry, Robert Schapiro, John Witte Jr., and Barbara Bennett Woodhouse. MORE
Mindy Goldstein received the Ogden Doremus Award for Environmental Excellence at GreenLaw’s annual Environmental Heroes Celebration held on October 6, 2016, at Nelson Mullins in Atlantic Station. "There are many great environmental attorneys who started their careers under Mindy's tutelage, including many attorneys who have come to work for us. Not only is she a great lawyer, but a great educator," said GreenLaw Executive Director David M. Paule.
Jonathan Nash was elected co-vice president of the Canadian Law and Economics Association at the association’s September 2016 meeting. He will serve a two-year term.
The McDonald Agape Foundation has committed $1 million to extend the professorship of CSLR Director John Witte Jr. (The McDonald Distinguished Professor of Law and Religion) through 2028. The gift will ensure the continuation of Witte's internationally renowned scholarship in law and Christianity. MORE
John Witte Jr. has received the Harry Krause Lifetime Achievement Award in Family Law from the University of Illinois College of Law. Witte joins inaugural recipients, William Eskridge of Yale Law School and Harry D. Krause of the University of Illinois College of Law. In addition to recognizing scholarly contributions to society’s understanding of family law, the award honors those who have impacted the contours of the law.
October 2016 (publications and presentations from May-August 2016)
Fineman Receives Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award
The Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Women in Legal Education has selected Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law Martha Albertson Fineman as the next recipient of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award, which will be presented on January 5, 2017, at the AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
Accolades
Laurie Blank was contributing editor for the law of armed conflict this year for Jurist. She also serves on the editorial board of the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism at The Hague, and is a virtual fellow at the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Global Criminal Justice.
Polly Price was invited to the U.S. Supreme Court to deliver the lecture, “The Supreme Court and the Chinese Exclusion Cases." The 2016 Leon Silverman Lecture, delivered May 11, arose from Price’s research on citizenship and immigration law, and given in the court’s main courtroom. The cases challenged the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, which suspended the practice of admitting Chinese laborers to the U.S.
Also, Price’s article, “Infecting the Body Politic: Observations on Health Security and the Undesirable Immigrant,” has been selected by Immigration and Nationality Law Journal as one its best of 2015, and will be reprinted in a collection composed of the “most impressive works that reflect the most pertinent immigration issues of the year.”
John Witte Jr. received the James W.C. Pennington Award in June from the Heidelberg Center for American Studies and the Department of Theology at the University of Heidelberg. Witte’s public lecture, “Religion and Human Rights: What James Pennington Still Teaches Us,” was given as part of the James W. C. Pennington Distinguished Fellowship.
Books & Journals
BOOKS
Teemu Ruskola
Legal Orientalism: China, the United States, and Modern Law (Chinese translation, China University of Political Science and Law Press, 2016)
Tibor Varady
Weltgeschichte und Alltag im Banat (World History and Everyday Life in Banat) (Boehlau Verlag 2016) “The book is based on cases from the archive of my father and grandfather, who acted as lawyers since 1893,” Varady says.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Mark Goldfeder
Robotic Marriage and the Law, in Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: Perspectives on Marital Possibilities (Ronald C. Den Otter ed., 2016) (with Y. Razin)
Peter Hay
Hay wrote the introduction for Law of the United States – An Overview (4th ed., C.H. Beck Co. and Helbing-Lichtenhahn 2016, Switzerland). U.K. and Chinese editions of the book will be published by Routledge and Beijing University Press (2016-2017)
Teemu Ruskola
China in the Age of the World Picture, in Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law (Florian Hoffman & Anne Orford eds., 2016)
Barbara Woodhouse
Is there Justice for Juveniles in the United States, India and Italy?: Towards a Framework for Transnational Comparisons, in The Future of Juvenile Justice: Procedure and Practice from a Comparative Perspective (Tamar R. Birckhead & Solange eds., 2016) (with Sayali Himanshu Bapat)
ARTICLES
Laurie Blank
The Limits of Inviolability: The Parameters for Protection of United Nations Facilities During Armed Conflict, 92 International Law Studies (2016)
Teemu Ruskola
Legal Orientalism, 101 Michigan Law Review 179 (2002) has been translated into Spanish and reprinted as Orientalismo Legal, 1 UNA Revista de Derecho 1 (2016)
Frank Vandall
A Comparative Study of the Political and Social Structure of Mexico (Bucerias), Cuba and the U.S. (Atlanta): A First Impression, 13 Loyola University Chicago International Law Review 105 (2015)
Barbara Woodhouse
(Review) Childhood with Bourdieu (Leena Alanen, Elizabeth Brooker and Berry Mayall, eds.) 2 Journal of Playwork Practice
Opinion & Essay
Mary Dudziak
- “Donald Trump and America’s Moral Authority,” New York Times (July 22, 2106)
- “How War Lost Its Politics,” Dissent (Summer 2016)
Mark Goldfeder
“California’s Race to Regulate Slams Brakes on Innovation,” Washington Examiner (April 12, 2016) (with Robbie Diamond)
Timothy Holbrook
“The Real Reason the Epipen and Other Off-Patents Are So Expensive,” The Conversation (August 25, 2016)
Jonathan Nash
- “Judges Must Be Politically Impartial, Period,” The Hil (August 14, 2016)
- “Aiming for Simplicity, Supreme Court Makes Things More Complicated,” The Hill (July 13, 2016)
- “How The FBI Director Followed in Chief Justice Marshall's Footsteps,” The Hill (July 6, 2016)
- “What We Can Learn from the Supreme Court's Tie Vote on Immigration Plan,” The Hill (June 27, 2016)
- “When A Supreme Court Tie Produces More Guidance, Not Less,” The Hill (May 4, 2016)
Quoted in the Media
Robert Ahdieh
- “The Juris Masters Program: Natural Evolution or Stop-Gap for Struggling Law Schools?,” Bloomberg Law (August 17, 2016)
- “Brexit: It’s What We Don’t Know That Could Hurt Us,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution (June 24, 2016)
- “Brexit Impact on Atlanta,” WGCL-TV Atlanta (June 24, 2016)
Laurie Blank
“IHL Clinic Shines Brighter for Finding Two Mates,” Emory Lawyer (May 20, 2016)
Dorothy Brown
- “For the Wealthiest Colleges, How Many Low-Income Students Are Enough?,” Chronicle of Higher Education (August 11, 2016)
- “A Radical Idea to Compensate Black Homeowners Harmed by Racial Bias,” Washington Post (June 21, 2016)
Martha Albertson Fineman
“The Human Condition: A Conversation with Martha Albertson Fineman,” Eurozine (May 24, 2016)
Mark Goldfeder
- “Supermeat, Supermeat, It’s Super-Freaky!” Tablet (July 20, 2016)
- Goldfeder’s work with Emory Law’s Autonomous Vehicle Legal Project was cited in the Energy Security Leadership Council report, “A National Strategy for Energy Security: The Innovation Revolution.” (May 19, 2016)
Mindy Goldstein
- “New Tests Find Significant Decrease in Bee-Killing Pesticides in ‘Bee-Friendly’ Plants,” Emory Law News Center (August 16, 2016)
- “New Report Analyzes How State Law Could Affect Clean Power Plan Compliance in Southeastern States,” Emory Law News Center (June 7, 2016)
Tim Holbrook
- “Extreme Weather, Lazy Eye, EpiPen Prices, Culture of Running,” “Top of Mind,” BYU Radio (August 31, 2016)
- “The Promise And Pitfalls Of 3D Printing,” Pharmapatentsblog (July 27, 2016)
- “Supreme Court Takes Up Patent Case With Worldwide Implications,” Law.com (June 27, 2016)
- “North Carolina Lawmakers Stand Firm on Bathroom Law,” Wall Street Journal (May 5, 2016)
Michael Kang
- “Dark Money Helped Fund Tim Lee’s Re-Election Bid in Cobb,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution (August 26, 2016)
- “A Closer Look,” WABE 90.1 (August 15, 2016)
- “Gwinnett County Faces Voting Rights Lawsuit,” WABE 90.1 (August 8, 2016)
- “A Confederacy of Whiners,” U.S. News and World Report (June 10, 2016)
Rafael Pardo
“One Word in Bankruptcy Law That Could Lead to More Forgiven Student Loans,” Wall Street Journal (May 11, 2016)
Polly Price
“First News 9 AM,” WWL.com AM-870 (August 17, 2016)
Charles Shanor
- “Federal Court Strikes Down Part of Georgia Union Law,” WABE 90.1 (July 13, 2016)
- “Gay Choir Director Says He Was Forced Out Of Marietta Church Job,” WABE 90.1 (May 13, 2016)
Fred Smith Jr.
- “Supreme Court Ruling Revives Importance of Campus Diversity,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution (June 23, 2016)
- “Once Blocked, Georgia's 20-Week Abortion Ban Can Now Be Enforced,” WABE 90.1 (May 25, 2016)
Alexander Volokh
- “The DOJ’s Misguided Withdrawal from Private Prisons,” National Review (August 25, 2016)
- “U.S. to End Federal Use of Private Prisons,” BBC World Service (August 18, 2016)
Randee Waldman
“Police Routinely Read Juveniles Their Miranda Rights, But Do Kids Really Understand Them?,” ABA Journal (June 1, 2016)
John Witte Jr.
“Law, Religion, and Liberty: A Conversation with John Witte Jr.” Library of Congress blog (July 11, 2016)
Presentations
Robert Ahdieh
“Judicial Review,” at the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Georgia, on July 30-31, 2016
“Bridging the Divide in Administrative Law/Financial Regulation Scholarship” at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, held at Amelia Island, Florida, on August 8, 2016
Margo Bagley
“IP in Africa,” at the ANDI-Emory Drug Discovery Workshop, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from July 27-29, 2016
Bagley also presented on U.S. Patent Law to Cuban government attorneys for the Center for Inter-American Legal Education, held in Havana, Cuba, in July 2016.
She also taught Pharmaceuticals and IP and Protection of Biotechnological Inventions, held at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, Max Planck Institute, in June 2016.
Bagley was facilitator for the 30th Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, and Folklore, held In Geneva, Switzerland, on May 27-June 3, 2016.
Laurie Blank
“Global Health Security: When You Are the Target,” at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, on August 19, 2016
“Law of War Issues in Ukraine, Ukraine Case Study: Is this Hybrid Conflict and is the Law of Armed Conflict Adequate to the Task?” at the Third Major General John L. Fugh Symposium on Law and Military Operations, held at the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 9-10, 2016
“The Investigation into the Kunduz Hospital Airstrike and International Humanitarian Law,” at the Department of International Law, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Israel, on June 30, 2016
“Armed Conflict and Counter-Terrorism Operations,” at the Ninth Annual International Humanitarian Law Seminar for Policymakers, held at the University of Virginia School of Law on June 1-2, 2016. At the same conference, Blank also presented “Basics of International Humanitarian Law.”
Deborah Dinner
“Fetal Protection, Reproductive Health and the Triumph of Autonomy” at the Workshop on Vulnerability and Social Justice, held at Leeds University, United Kingdom, June 2016
“The Rise of the Pregnancy Disability Model: Missed Turns on the Road from Maternalism to Individual Rights,” at the Family Law Scholars and Teachers Conference, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, in June 2016
Dinner made the following presentations at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, June 2-5, 2016:
• “Beyond ‘Best Practices’: Employment Discrimination Law in the Neoliberal Era,” (panelist)
• “Intimate Lies: How Does and How Should the Law Treat Deception Within Our Closest Relationships,” Jill Hasday, (commenter)
• Hurst Book Award Session, Felice Batlan, Women And Justice for The Poor: A History Of Legal Aid, 1863–1945 (Cambridge University Press 2015) (commenter)
Mark Engsberg
“Open Access: Issues and Contexts in the United States,” (panelist) at “Common Law Perspectives in a Global Context," The International Association of Law Libraries 35th Annual Course on Law and Legal Information, held at Keble College, in Oxford, United Kingdom, from July 31 to August 3, 2016
Mark Goldfeder
“What Does the Separation of Church and State Really Mean? The First Amendment’s Establishment Clause,” and “Modern-Day Establishment Clause Jurisprudence,” at the “Religious Freedom in an Era of Social Change,” Religious Freedom Conference held at J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah, on July 7-8.
“Legal Scholars against BDS,” (panelist) at the Ambassadors Against BDS International Summit, held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, New York, on May 31, 2016
Katherine Koops
"Strategies for Designing and Integrating Transactional Simulation Capstone Courses into the Curriculum." (discussant) at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, held in Amelia Island, Florida, on August 4, 2016
On June 10-11, 2016, the Center for Transactional Law and Practice hosted “Method in the Madness: The Art and Science of Teaching Transactional Law and Skills,” the fifth biennial conference on teaching transactional law and skills. Koops and Sue Payne opened the plenary session. On day two of the conference, Koops and Professor Jeff Alperin co-presented “Skilled Dealings and Transactional Pragmatism.”
Jonathan Nash
“The Production Function of Environmental Protection,” Emory-UGA Workshop, Emory Law School, July 2016
“Unearthing Summary Judgment’s Concealed Standard of Review,” at the Civil Procedure Annual Workshop, held at the University of Washington School of Law, in Seattle, Washington, July 2016
“The Production Function of Environmental Protection,” at the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics Annual Meeting, Sciences Politiques, held in Paris, France, in June 2016. Nash also presented “The Case for Tipping and Unrestricted Tip-Pooling: Promoting Intrafirm Cooperation.”
“The Production Function of Environmental Protection,” at the Society for Environmental Law and Economics Annual Meeting, held at the University of Texas Law School, in Austin, Texas, in May 2016. Nash also presented “Public Perception of Climate Change Information Provided by the Government Versus the Market,” with Cherie Metcalf.
“The Production Function of Environmental Protection,” at the American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, held at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in May 2016. Nash also presented “Public Perception of Climate Change Information Provided by the Government Versus the Market,” with Cherie Metcalf.
“The Law and Economics of Sustainability,” (panelist) at the Annual Sustainability Conference of Legal Educators, held at Arizona State University Law School, in Tempe, Arizona, in May 2016
“Research Roundtable on Environmental Law and the Administrative State,” (discussant) held at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, in Arlington, Virginia, in May 2016
“An Empirical Investigation of the Effect of Collegiality on Judicial Decision-Making,” at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, held in Chicago, Illinois, in April 2016
Sue Payne
"Strategies for Designing and Integrating Transactional Simulation Capstone Courses into the Curriculum." (discussant) at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, held in Amelia Island, Florida, on August 4, 2016
On June 10-11, 2016, the Center for Transactional Law and Practice hosted “Method in the Madness: The Art and Science of Teaching Transactional Law and Skills,” the fifth biennial conference on teaching transactional law and skills. Payne and Katherine Koops opened the plenary session. On day two of the conference, Payne presented “Ethics and Professionalism in Contract Drafting Assignments.”
Polly Price
“International Research Collaborative: The Future of Comparative Legal History,” (panelist) at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, on June 2, 2016
Tim Terrell
“Lex Mundi Advanced Legal Writing Program,” at Claro & Cia. in Santiago, Chile, on May 26-27, 2016
“Lex Mundi Advanced Legal Writing Program,” at Marval, O’Farrell & Mairal in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on July 4-5, 2016
Johan van der Vyver
“Religion and Hate Speech,” at the Fourth Annual African Law and Religion Conference of the African Consortium of Law and Religion Studies, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on May 22-24, 2016
"Religious Pluralism in Education: Challenges and Perceptions,” at the Center for Education Law and Policy (South Africa), co-sponsored by the University of Kentucky, held in Stellenbosch, South Africa, on July 27-29, 2016
John Witte Jr.
“Is Polygamy Next? Exploring the Frontiers of Family Law in Europe and America” at the University Club in Bonn, Germany, on June 8, 2016
In June, Witte co-taught class at Heidelberg University, Germany, on "Religious Liberty in the United States of America" with Professor Jan Stievermann.
Barbara Woodhouse
“LGBT Families’ Rights Across Borders,” at the University of Florence, Italy, on May 18, 2016
“Roper v. Simmons as a Child Rights Judgment,” at Cardiff University, Wales, on April 15, 2016
Residency
From May to August 2016, Johan van der Vyver was in residence at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, as an extraordinary professor in the Department of Private Law
Accolades
Rafael Domingo received an honorary diploma from the Congress of the Republic of Peru, granted by the president of the Peruvian Congress, on April 21, 2016. Domingo also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Saint Ignatius of Loyola in Lima, Peru, on April 20, 2016.
Richard Freer was voted Most Outstanding Professor by the Class of 2016.
Kay Levine received the Emory Williams Teaching Award.
Charles Shanor received the Ben F. Johnson Faculty Excellence Award.
Books & Journals
BOOKS
Laurie Blank
International Law and Armed Conflict: Fundamental Principles and Contemporary Challenges in the Law of War (Aspen/Wolters Kluwer 2016) (with Gregory Noone)
John Witte Jr.
Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment (4th ed., Oxford University Press, 2016) (with Joel A. Nichols)
BOOK CHAPTERS
Polly Price
"Jus Soli and Statelessness: A Comparative Perspective in the Americas," in Citizenship In Question: Evidentiary Birthright and Statelessness (Benjamin N. Lawrance & Jacqueline Stevens eds., 2016)
Teemu Ruskola
“Postscript: Labor Rights in China’s Changing Political Economy,” in Fundamental Labour Rights in China: Legal Implementation and Cultural Logic (Chen Yifeng & Ulla Liukkunen eds., 2016)
John Witte Jr.
- “Freedom, Persecution, and the Status of Christian Minorities,” in The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Christianity (Lamin Sanneh & Michael J. McClymond, eds., 2016) (with M. Christian Green)
- “The Interdisciplinary Growth of Law and Religion,” in The Confluence of Law and Religion: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Work of Norman Doe(Frank Cranmer, Mark Hill, Celia Kenny & Russell Sandberg eds., 2016)
ARTICLES
Michael Kang
Judging Judicial Elections, 114 Michigan Law Review 929 (2016) (with Joanna Shepherd)
The Brave New World of Party Campaign Finance Law, 101 Cornell Law Review 531 (2016)
Fred Smith Jr.
Local Sovereign Immunity, 116 Columbia Law Review (2016)
John Witte Jr.
“The Case Against Polygamy,” 3 First Things 43 (2016)
“The Long History of Human Rights,” review of Christian Human Rights by Samuel Moyn, 22 Books and Culture 22 (2016)
Opinion & Essay
Rafael Domingo
“Towards a Global University,” El Español (June 4, 2016)
Jonathan Nash
“When a Supreme Court Tie Produces More Guidance, Not Less,” The Hill (May 4, 2016)
Alexander Volokh
“D.C. Circuit Rules against Amtrak — Again!” Washington Post, The Volokh Conspiracy (April 29, 2016)
John Witte Jr.
“From Gospel to the Law: The Lutheran Reformation and Its Influence On Legal History,” Reformation.au.dk (March 29, 2016)
Quoted in the Media
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im
“Nigeria, Sudan Conflicts Can Happen in Malaysia with Shariah Issues, Law Professor Says,” Yahoo! News (June 1, 2016)
Dorothy Brown
“Not All Money Troubles Are Created Equal,” The Atlantic (April 21, 2016)
Martha Albertson Fineman
“The Human Condition: A Conversation with Martha Albertson Fineman,” Eurozine (May 24, 2016)
Mark Goldfeder
“The Two Separate Worlds of Gay Rights,” Christian Science Monitor (April 7, 2016)
Timothy Holbrook
- “North Carolina Lawmakers Stand Firm on Bathroom Law,” Wall Street Journal (May 5, 2015)
- “Justice Department Looking at LGBT Inmate Treatment in State's Prisons,” WXIA-TV, 11 Alive (April 15, 2016)
- “PayPal Cancels Plan for Facility in North Carolina, Citing Transgender Law,” Wall Street Journal (April 5, 2016)
- “N.C. Law Blocking LGBT Protections Cost Charlotte $3.6-million PayPal Deal,” Christian Science Monitor (April 5, 2016)
Michael Kang
“A Confederacy of Whiners,” U.S. News & World Report (June 10, 2016)
Kay Levine
“Governor Signs Bill about Officers' Use of Force, Grand Jury,” The Associated Press (April 26, 2016)
Matthew McCoyd
“Jury Selection Continues In Trial Over Ga. Boy Dying In Hot Car,” WABE 90.1 (April 26, 2016)
Rafael Pardo
“One Word in Bankruptcy Law that Could Lead to More Forgiven Student Loans,” Wall Street Journal (May 11, 2016)
Charles Shanor
“Gay Choir Director Says He Was Forced out of Marietta Church Job,” WABE 90.1 (May 13, 2016)
Joanna Shepherd
“Lawyers Benefit Most from No-Injury Class Actions, Study Says,” Corporate Counsel (April 29, 2016)
Fred Smith Jr.
“Once Blocked, Georgia's 20-Week Abortion Ban Can Now Be Enforced,” WABE 90.1 (May 25, 2016)
Presentations
Robert Ahdieh
“The New Federalism: State Sovereignty in a Time of Overlapping Federal and State Power,” (panelist) at the 2016 Southern Region Meeting of the National Association of Attorneys General, held at Emory Law on April 18, 2016
Silas Allard
"Moving Words: Naming and Norming People in Motion," at the Laney Graduate School’s Graduate Division of Religion on April 20, 2016
Katherine Brokaw
Brokaw presented on Emory Law’s “Houses” program at an Academic Support conference held at Brooklyn Law School on April 15, 2016.
Deborah Dinner
“Missed Turns on the Road from Maternalism to Individual Rights: The Lost Promise of Reproductive Justice,” at a Vulnerability and the Human Condition Workshop on Reproductive and Sexual Justice held at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 30, 2016
Jaime Dodge
"The Relationship Between Federal and State Courts and Counsel" at the Mass Torts Judicial Forum held in New York City on April 15, 2016
Rafael Domingo
- “Global Law and the Judicial Power,” at the Palace of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Peru in Lima, on April 22, 2016
- “Globalization and Global Law,” at the Palace of the Peruvian Bar Association in Lima, on April 21, 2016
- “Freedom of Religion and Secularism,” at the Pontifical School of Theology in Lima, Peru, on April 20, 2016
Mary Dudziak
- Dudziak participated in the Council on Foreign Relations 2016 College and University Educators Workshop held in New York City on April 14-15, 2016.
- “The History of the Courts and Their Judges,” (panel) at the Conference on the History of the Federal Judiciary, held at the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, DC, on April 7, 2016
- Dudziak also delivered the concluding lecture “Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall in Africa,” for both the Chief District Judges Conference and the Conference on the History of the Federal Judiciary at the Federal Judicial Center on April 8, 2016.
Jonathan Nash
“States’ Standing to Sue the United States,” (panelist) at the 2016 Southern Region Meeting of the National Association of Attorneys General, held at Emory Law on April 18, 2016
Michael Perry
“Lawyers and Human Rights,” at the “Lawyers and Evil” seminar held at Roger Williams University School of Law in Bristol, Rhode Island, on April 18, 2016
Jennifer Romig
"Think Like a Blogger: Coaching Lawyers on Writing for Social Media" at the Legal Marketing Association's 2016 Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas, on April 12, 2016. Her presentation was also cited on the Legal Marketing Association, Northwest Chaper site.
Teemu Ruskola
- "On the Lawfulness of Inter-Polity Relations in Inner and East Asia," Presidential Roundtable, at the Association of Asian Studies annual meeting in Seattle, Washington, on April 1, 2016
- “China in the Age of the World Picture” at the Imperialism and Orientalism in Global Legal History Conference held at Queen Mary University in London, on May 20, 2016
Atieno Mboya Samandari
“Climate Change and Vulnerability” at The Environment and Vulnerability Workshop, held at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, on April 8-9, 2016
Robert Schapiro
“The New Federalism: State Sovereignty in a Time of Overlapping Federal and State Power,” (moderator) at the 2016 Southern Region Meeting of the National Association of Attorneys General, held at Emory Law on April 18, 2016
Fred Smith Jr.
- “Undemocratic Restraint,” at the Culp Colloquium held at Duke Law School in Durham, North Carolina, on May 19, 2016. Smith presented the same work at a UCLA faculty colloquium on April 18, 2016.
- "When States Can Sue and Be Sued" (panelist) at the 2016 Southern Region Meeting of the National Association of Attorneys General, held at Emory Law on April 18, 2016
Timothy Terrell
- Lex Mundi advanced legal writing program at Claro & Cia in Santiago, Chile, on May 26-27, 2016
- Lex Mundi advanced legal writing program at Valiunas Ellex in Vilnius, Lithuania, on April 28-29, 2016
- Lex Mundi advanced legal writing program at Guyer & Regules in Montevideo, Uruguay, on April 11-12, 2016
- National Attorney Generals Training and Research Institute (NAGTRI) advanced legal writing program for the Vermont Attorney General’s Office in Montpelier on April 4, 2016
- NAGTRI advanced legal writing program for the Missouri Attorney General’s Office in Jefferson City on March 24, 2016
- Lex Mundi advanced legal writing program, at Brigard & Urrutia in Bogota, Columbia, on March 3-4, 2016
John Witte Jr.
“Religious Freedom at Home and Abroad: Finding a Better Way,” Notre Dame Law School’s Program on Church, State and Society, co-sponsored by the Keough School of Global Affairs, the Tocqueville Program, and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, on April 14, 2016