Faculty Honors: Recent Accolades

In April, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law Margo A. Bagley was appointed to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee for Advancing Commercialization from the Federal Laboratories, from 2019 to 2021. The ad hoc group functions under the Academies’ Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, 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.”

In August, Dorothy A. Brown was named Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law. Brown joins the short list of 22 professors at Emory who have earned the designation, which includes six other members of the Emory Law faculty. 

 

 

 The American Society for Legal History has honored Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law Mary L. Dudziak with the establishment of The Mary L. Dudziak Digital Legal History Prize, to be awarded for the first time this year. Created to honor “a digital history pioneer,” the annual prize will go to an outstanding digital legal history project, either “traditionally published peer reviewed scholarship or born-digital projects of equivalent depth and scope.”

Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law and McDonald Distinguished Professor of Religion John Witte Jr. has been invited as a Gifford Lecturer for 2020. 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.

 L. Q. C. Lamar Professor of Law Barbara Bennett Woodhouse was elected to membership in the American Law Institute.