As the number of jury and bench trials shrink, negotiation and mediation skills are even more relevant. Emory's overall attitude toward ADR is that the skills learned are just as relevant in more traditional adversarial settings as in the conciliatory rooms of mediation, says Professor Paul Zwier.
In the Cold War, images of blacks' treatment in the U.S.--including armed soldiers blocking nine African American students from entering a schoolhouse in Little Rock, Ark.--made headlines across the world. "The issue caused people from other countries to wonder whether the U.S. had a commitment to human rights," Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law Mary Dudziak tells Time. One Soviet newspaper wrote of American police "who abuse human dignity and stoop to the level of animals." The recent decisions to not prosecute police in the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner have led to similar criticism from North Korea, Iran and the U.N. high commissioner for human rights.
Torture is illegal during wartime, peacetime, counterterrorism operations and any other circumstances.
Results were based primarily on a survey of more than 300 legal industry professionals, and rankings also factor in data on acceptance rates and post-graduate employment rates. "Emory University Law School has a strong relationship with the Carter Center, where students can work in clinics promoting world peace. One of the four legal journals at Emory Law is the student-run Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal--the only journal of its kind in the country," the report reads.
A push by U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission member Kara Stein to demand more from companies seeking waivers after enforcement actions likely adds to the uncertainty of negotiating a settlement with the agency. On Nov. 25, the SEC granted Bank of America Corp. and its Merrill Lynch broker-dealer business a temporary, conditional waiver from an automatic ban that keeps "bad actors" from participating in private securities transactions.
Plaintiffs suing General Motors claiming the carmaker covered up evidence of a faulty ignition switch they blame for their daughter's death want GM's lawyers at King & Spalding to hand over confidential internal notes and memos about the case. King & Spalding will fight back, says Emory Law professor Richard Freer. "The attorney-client privilege is sacrosanct," he said. If a judge--as a representative of the government--were to grant the motion to compel King & Spalding to produce its communication with its client or among its lawyers, the action could have far-reaching effects not only on the legal world but on privacy in general, Freer said.
In a parallel to the black eye civil rights abuses gave the U.S. abroad in the '60s, America's race problems are again front-page news, from London to Baghdad, Beijing to Tehran. Russia, China and ISIS are all crowing about American "hypocrisy" in social media. "Obama needs to present [racial discrimination] as one of the nation's most pressing and urgent problems," said Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law Mary Dudziak. "We can't pursue a human rights agenda abroad if we're not protecting them at home."
For many Americans, Ferguson is the latest reminder that our criminal justice system doesn't treat blacks and whites the same, and that young black men in particular are often killed with impunity, CNN's Ray Sanchez writes. It started when police officials left Michael Brown's body in the street for four hours. "The nicest thing you can say is that it's the most insensitive thing we've seen in a long time," said Emory Law Professor Dorothy Brown. "The other extreme is, this was done deliberately. It's sending a signal. We don't want anybody challenging the status quo. Here is a body as a reminder."
When I saw the title of Robert Ahdieh's recent article, Reanalyzing Cost-Benefit Analysis: Toward a Framework of Function(s) and Form(s), I thought, "Oh no, not another article about CBA." Knowing Professor Ahdieh's work, I took a flyer and read it anyway, and boy was I happy with my decision. This is a great article which should be of interest to anyone involved in administrative law, securities regulation and policy analysis more generally.
President Obama's executive action on immigration will likely benefit state government by helping the economy and easing a costly burden on child services programs, including state care of U.S. citizen children whose parents might otherwise be deported, says Emory Law Professor Polly Price.
The Educational Credit Management Corp. is buying 56 of Corinthian Colleges' campuses for $24 million. The nonprofit's primary business is as a guarantor of student loans. "This is like the government giving the fox unfettered access to the hen house, which in this case is the students," says Emory Law Professor Rafael Pardo. "The perceived conflict of interest really casts a pall on this whole transaction."
Professor Polly Price's extensive interview on WABE examined the legal doctrine behind President Obama's executive order on immigration. The use of executive action isn't anything new, but the scope, or number of people it affects breaks new ground, Price said. However, until Congress passes legislation, the president's action is defensible, and states will likely be unsuccessful in challenging it.
On Second Thought Radio, Professor Polly Price discusses the possible impact of President Obama's intention to use an executive order to set new immigration policy. The proposal would affect members of "mixed" families--those that have a U.S. citizen child or spouse, and other immediate family members who are undocumented, Price said. The order would protect up to five million unauthorized immigrants from the threat of deportation and provide work permits.
Say you were convicted of shoplifting a couple of times when you were 13. Fifty years later, you would hope that wouldn't still be on your record. But in some states, like Georgia, it probably is. And anyone can access it. In Georgia, you can't get your criminal record expunged. You can only make a request to have it sealed. "Georgia could do better in protecting our kids," says Randee Waldman, director of the Barton juvenile Defender Clinic.
President Obama's announcement of a "historic agreement" between the U.S. and China to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on its face touches upon international law and domestic regulation. In point of fact, the agreement is not itself historic on either of these fronts. Still, what it might lead to down the line--a multilateral climate change treaty--makes the bilateral agreement a first step along a potentially historic path.
Every federal district court, save one in Louisiana, had found a constitutional right to same-sex marriage (as have four federal courts of appeal). This string of victories, however, came to a halt on Nov. 7, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, became the first federal appellate court to uphold same-sex marriage bans.
"Soldiers perform labor that the nation desires, but that most Americans never contemplate doing themselves," writes Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law Mary Dudziak. "Americans support war without engaging its costs, or even paying close attention to the work soldiers do. To mark Veterans Day, we can get beyond shallow accolades and actually read about it. My choice this November is the extraordinary memoir of Bruce Wright, 'World War I as I Saw It: The Memoir of an African American Soldier.'"
The judge in the Atlanta Public Schools cheating trial apologized today after stopping a television news report from being broadcast. Judge Jerry Baxter signed an emergency motion Friday on behalf of the prosecution. He lifted that order this morning. Lifting the order was appropriate says Emory Law Professor Julie Seaman, who teaches first amendment law. "If the press has lawfully obtained truthful information, it's very difficult constitutionally for a court to prevent its publication in advance."
In recent months, ISIS has shown a canny grasp of social media to parade its grim schedule of executing prisoners. American Peter Kassig is a devout Muslim and captive. Because ISIS has broken its regular media schedule, his mother hopes he is living. Professor Abdullahi An-Na'im commented on how ISIS interprets Shariah. "There are many things ISIS is doing, such as mass killing of prisoners of war, extreme violence, rape, destruction, which by consensus, according to mainstream of Muslims, is, both historically and contemporarily, contrary to Shariah. But ISIS has a different interpretation."
On Tuesday, voters across the country appeared to offer a rebuke to the administration of President Barack Obama by voting into office many Republicans, who now will control the Senate and the House of Representatives. Does voters' midterm reaction to Obama indicate some flagging in support for him among people of color? Could the GOP be making inroads with black voters?
A report by Emory Law Professors Joanna Shepherd and Michael Kang, "Skewed Justice," was released on Oct. 21. It found that as the number of TV ads about state supreme court races goes up--ads that often target justices as "soft on crime"--justices are less likely to vote in favor of criminal defendants.
Immigration issues have been in the forefront of U.S. politics for several years, and in 2011, Georgia passed one of the strictest immigration laws in the country. Emory Law Professor Polly Price discussed how immigration may influence both state and national elections, on Georgia Public Broadcasting's "On Second Thought" radio show. She notes Georgia has the country's sixth-highest Hispanic population, and that immigrants now represent 13 percent of the U.S. population.
Pete Rose could have saved his place in major league baseball had he been counseled to admit he gambled on his team, said John Dowd 65L, the lawyer who led the 1989 investigation into the game's all-time hit leader. The Emory event marked the 25th anniversary of Rose's banishment.
Emory University law professor Polly Price says if the court decides in favor of the Maine health officials, other states may "feel free to post armed guards outside of asymptomatic people's houses, or confine them in an institution."
In its coverage of recent DeKalb County corruption cases, public radio station WABE-FM consulted legal experts on the ramifications of witness credibility issues. "It's always easy to Monday morning quarterback," said Emory University School of Law professor Kay Levine. "When it falls apart it's very easy to look back and say, 'you should have thought this through more.'"
Jeremy Berry 97C 03L knew as an Emory freshman that he was interested in politics and government, and his resume shows it. As an undergrad, the political science major served as Student Government Association president, interned for the Clinton/Gore White House, and worked for a U.S. senator. But it was after graduation, during a stint at Emory's Office of Government and Community Affairs, that Berry experienced a pivotal moment--chauffeuring Congressman John Lewis around Emory¿s campus during a day-long visit.
From the Washington Post: A new study by Emory Law Professors Joanna Shepherd and Michael Kang finds that the more ads aired during state supreme court campaigns, the more likely justices are to rule against criminal defendants--potentially from fear of appearing "soft on crime."
The New York Times featured Professors Joanna Shepherd and Michael Kang's just-released study, "Skewed Justice." The study had two major findings: (1) The more TV ads aired during state supreme court judicial elections in a state, the less likely justices are to vote in favor of criminal defendants, and (2), justices in states whose bans on corporate and union spending on elections were struck down by Citizens United were less likely to vote in favor of criminal defendants than they were before the decision.
Professor Polly Price was quoted in Time magazine in an article about the legalities of quarantine for those who may have been exposed to Ebola. "If healthcare workers resist signing the voluntary quarantine or defy its recommendations after agreeing to it, Emory University law professor Polly Price says that it's likely an official quarantine would be ordered. 'They could go and get a court order to formalize it, possibly even after the fact,' Price says. 'But they would likely seek a formal quarantine.'"
Emory Law Professor Timothy Holbrook received the Outstanding Service to the Stonewall Community Award. Holbrook has written many opinion pieces in national newspapers about same-sex marriage and wrote a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of former NFL stars Chris Kluwe of the Minnesota Vikings and Brendan Ayanbadejo of the Baltimore Ravens urging the Supreme Court to sack California's Proposition 8.
The revelation that a second Texas health-care worker diagnosed with the Ebola virus flew from Dallas to Cleveland and back has raised a looming question: Why wasn't she quarantined before boarding a plane? The answer lies in a layered health-care system that relies on close coordination between state, local and federal authorities to be effective in stopping disease. Professor Polly Price says the federal government's quarantine power derives from a late 19th-century compromise between state and federal lawmakers.
A top lawyer at Emory University said Tuesday that even with a decade of planning, the school's health care system had to deal with unexpected issues--including legal matters--as its campus hospital began treating Americans who contracted the Ebola virus in West Africa. A panel discussion at Emory Law included Professor Polly Price, an expert in public health, and a lawyer who serves on the school's police force.
A new U.S. magistrate judge has been named for the western district of Kentucky. A statement from Chief Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr. says 51-year-old Colin H. Lindsay will assume the position on Jan. 1 after the retirement of Judge James D. Moyer.
West Virginia is among a small group of states stepping up to take charge in the revitalization of its communities through reclaiming blighted, abandoned and dilapidated properties, a national expert said Wednesday. Emory Law Professor Frank Alexander, co-founder of the Center for Community Progress, spoke with community and business leaders from across West Virginia during the West Virginia BAD Buildings Summit on Wednesday at the Visual Arts Center in downtown Huntington. BAD stands for blighted, abandoned and dilapidated.
"Diversity is important not because of the optics. Lots of places just want to look diverse. It is what people bring with them, not their skin color or sexual orientation," DeKalb County District Attorney Robert James Jr. said during the eighth annual Black Law Students Association speaker series, held at Emory Law. "It is their frame of reference and background. You are better as an institution if you are diverse. Diversity does not equal tokenism. It makes us greater."
On Monday, the Supreme Court did something no one expected: It refused to hear any of the cases striking down same-sex marriage bans. Most observers thought the court would either grant review or delay any action to see whether any lower appellate courts would find such bans constitutional. But it didn't wait and, by declining to hear the cases, allowed same-sex marriages to begin in Utah, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Indiana and Virginia. In fact, wedding bells have already started to ring in Virginia.
The aggressive response that health officials have mounted to the Ebola virus in Dallas is likely to prevent a wide-scale outbreak. But multiple snafus reveal some unexpected issues the U.S. would have to prepare for in the event of a larger-scale infectious disease threat, the Wall Street Journal reports. Quarantine is an important element of preventing its spread. "We don't have a lot of experience with quarantining well people," says Emory Law Professor Polly Price.
"For American purposes, war as a political tool has more and more demonstrated its inability to deliver," writes West Point Professor Gregory Daddis. "In truth, decisiveness in war has historically been elusive, especially in the decades following the end of World War II. If war provides meaning, why, as Emory Law Professor Mary Dudziak asks, does military engagement no longer require 'the support of the American people but instead their inattention?'"
Laws that authorities may use to prevent an Ebola outbreak in the United States are designed to work best for a disease with a much shorter incubation period, says Emory Law Professor Polly Price. In the U.S., an attorney is provided to someone who wishes to challenge their quarantine or isolation. But, Price said, "Whenever the judges have a public health person in their courtroom telling them there's a threat, they're not going to second guess." Price's public lecture, "Ebola in the U.S." will be held at Emory Law, Oct. 14 More info
Emory Law Vice Dean Robert Ahdieh was interviewed by CNN on how China will react to the ongoing pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, and how the current situation differs from the 1989 student protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
A few simple, common-sense amendments to the current Consumer Fraud Act would punish deceptive business practices while curbing nuisance litigation against honest businesses. A new white paper from Emory University Law School professor Joanna Shepherd, "The Expansion of New Jersey's Consumer Fraud Act: Causes and Consequences," details just how we got to the point where we are suing over sandwiches. It begins by explaining that the Garden State's law was initially modeled after the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914.
The Supreme Court is set to decide whether to take the same-sex marriage cases on September 29, a mere 15 months since they overturned the Defense of Marriage Act as unconstitutional. That decision created a deluge of cases which have found that same-sex marriage bans are unconstitutional. The issues in marriage equality differ significantly from those in the abortion debate. With marriage, the answer is binary -- either same-sex couples can marry or they can't.
It's open season on software patents. That's the message federal courts have sent in recent weeks after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that tackled the question of whether--and when--computer programs can qualify for intellectual-property protection. The trend represents a worst-case scenario for patent-licensing firms, which their detractors call "patent trolls."
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments next month over dentists' ability to keep the business of teeth whitening to themselves. Is it reasonable for a government licensing agency to limit commercial teeth whitening to dentists as a matter of public health, or is it pure self-preservation on the part of dentists who sit on the licensing boards? "If antitrust law is justified anywhere, surely this is one of the most compelling cases," Emory Law Associate Professor Alexander Volokh tells the Daily Report. (Log-in required)
"For generations, based upon International Shoe (1945), no one doubted that general jurisdiction is appropriate when a corporation engages in 'continuous and systematic' activities in a given state," Richard Howell Hall Professor of Law Richard D. Freer writes in a Sept. 15 op-ed article for the San Francisco Daily Journal. "Things are different now. In Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations, S.A. v. Brown (2011) and Daimler AG v. Bauman (2014), the U.S. Supreme Court recast general jurisdiction. Now general jurisdiction is proper only where the defendant is 'at home.'" (Subscription required)
Edan Landau discusses international law in a new urban war zone with Professor Laurie Blank and her frequent co-author Geoffrey Corn, professor of law and presidential research scholar at South Texas College of Law.
Daphne Richemond-Barak heads the International Law Desk of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT). She led a panel titled, "New Battlefields/Old Laws: The Next Steps in Counterterrorism: Adapting to an Evolving Threat and an Expanding Battlefield," with guests Laurie Blank, Professor William C. Banks, Professor Jennifer Daskal, and Professor Nathan Sales.
Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law Mary Dudziak discusses how wartime laws and policy often live beyond the present conflict, to have lasting effects upon civil liberties. Starting with World War I, she examines how overseas wars can deeply affect individual rights at home, in a Q & A with Carnegie Council Associate Editor for Ethics & International Affairs Zach Dorfman.
Professor Urska Velikonja's work is cited by The Economist, in an article that questions how the proceeds of large fines levied against corporations are administered. "The disarray stemmed from the lack of a coherent plan to compensate defrauded investors," the article reads. "In a forthcoming article in the Stanford Law Review Urska Velikonja, a professor at Emory University, argues that this reflects the failure to identify specific misconduct when setting up the deal."
The White House announced Thursday that it is nominating a new Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, known colloquially as the "IP czar." He is Washington lawyer Daniel H. Marti. The position coordinates U.S. law-enforcement strategy around copyright, patents and trademarks. The coordinator's duties, somewhat controversial from the start, include harmonizing the enforcement activities of several federal agencies under the White House's Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement.
As the turmoil in Ferguson, Missouri, unfolds, questions about the United States' commitment to human rights are once more headlining news coverage around the world. The uncomfortable international spotlight on such domestic problems should not be surprising. American racial inequality regularly dominated foreign news coverage during the 1950s and 1960s. Strong presidential leadership was needed to address earlier civil rights crises. It helped repair the damage to the American image, and undercut the argument that the United States was hypocritical in promoting human rights. Then, as now, protecting rights serves U.S. international relations.
What leeway do police have when using deadly force to end dangerous high-speed chases? Left with little to reconcile the seemingly conflicting analyses in Scott v. Harris and Plumhoff v. Rickard, law enforcement officials may find themselves at the mercy of lower courts that may be influenced more by what they see in after-the-fact on video recordings than by what they read in clear Supreme Court precedents.
The City of Atlanta presents its urban agricultural ordinance via ATL26, its cable channel.
Emory Law alum Whitney Rappole joined the Turner Environmental Law Clinic in representing the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) and investigating federal loan guarantees offered by the Department of Energy.
Where wrongful conduct actually results in increased revenue that rewards corporate officers and employees, is it plausible that an internal compliance mechanism can freely and fully investigate and right wrongful behavior? Do corporations really have an incentive to fully address wrongful conduct that generates significant revenue? These are important questions particularly at a time when civil and criminal penalties are merely part of the cost of doing business.
Anyone in the black community who says voting is a waste of time because "they don't care about us" should take a good, hard look at Ferguson, Missouri. Almost 68% of its citizens are black and just under 30% are white. Five of six city council members are white, the mayor is white, the chief of police is white, and its police force has 50 whites and three blacks.
Randy Davis 79L was one of three captains who piloted a private plane from Liberia to return American aid worker Nancy Writebol to the U.S. to receive treatment for Ebola. Davis said that he was not nervous about his proximity to the contagious patient, and that he viewed it as an honor. "I think everybody everywhere would agree that you'd like to try to help people who are so selfless," Davis said to ABC News.
Last week, two federal courts of appeals issued opinions on ObamaCare. Common wisdom sees the opinion of the DC Circuit--which was issued first--as a potential death knell for ObamaCare. The Fourth Circuit opinion issued a few hours later was received as having reached a conclusion favorable to ObamaCare, thus dividing the courts of appeals. The Fourth Circuit's conclusion that the statute is ambiguous means that the Obama administration's regulations stand. But it also means that another administration--perhaps one with a Republican president--could issue new regulations that restricted the tax credit to states with state-created exchanges.
The tendency to make judgments about the rights and wrongs of the current Israel-Hamas conflict on the basis of which side has had more civilians killed is hard to resist. There's a lot of talk about "disproportionate" killing or attacks. So I welcome a new measured, careful discussion by Emory Law School professor Laurie Blank, describing what proportionality means in the law of targeting (which is a major part of the law of armed conflict).
The conflict in Gaza is replete with asymmetries: the number of civilian casualties on either side, the amount of destruction, the types of weapons used and technological capabilities. But for both legal and practical reasons, conflating asymmetry and proportionality is both inaccurate and harmful to the law of war's core purposes.
In April, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision in a big campaign finance case, McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission. The justices voted 5-4 to overturn certain limits on how much money Americans can give to candidates and committees. There was concern that the decision would open the floodgates, allowing more Americans to give more money. But so far, it seems the decision has only affected a small group.
When it comes to judicial decision-making, says Emory Law Professor Joanna Shepherd, money matters. The Daily Report covered Shepherd's recent talk at the local chapter of the American Constitution Society. Her research indicates that a justice who receives more than half of his or her contributions from business groups sides with business interests about two-thirds of the time in deciding cases. (registration/subscription required)
Professor Polly Price argues that we need rethink the way we leave detection and treatment of tuberculosis to thousands of small local health authorities across the country. The problem cannot be handled by local government authorities when it is brought in by foreign travelers and spread across the country.
LGBT legal rights should not be contingent on biology or immutability. And, contrary to Texas Gov. Rick Perry's insinuation, sexual orientation is not like a disease.
Holly LaBerge, head of Georgia's ethics commission, said in a memo that the governor's chief counsel and chief of staff threatened her and her agency, if she did not resolve a 2012 ethics complaint involving the governor's 2010 campaign.
On ABC's "This Week" on Sunday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who happens to be black, suggested that opposition to him and President Barack Obama in part is due to racial animus. For that, he has been vilified.
In an age when both real and perceived violations of international law have a substantial effect on the legitimacy of state action, getting it wrong is way more than just bad journalism.
Presently, U.S. healthcare is politically and legally fragmented, underfunded and disproportionately strained in many poor communities, making tuberculosis hard to treat.
Land banks are public entities created to revive vacant or tax-foreclosed properties. The small city of Newburgh on the Hudson River has been trying to revitalize itself using a land bank.
Since 1993, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act requires that federal laws accommodate individuals' religious beliefs. Hobby Lobby is first to pass the test.
Faith-based prisons continue to be promoted as promising avenues for reform, chiefly on the grounds that they improve prison discipline and reduce recidivism. Unfortunately most of the empirical studies of effectiveness have serious methodological problems and can¿t be taken at face value.
in Hobby Lobby, the justices consider whether a for-profit corporation can refuse to provide certain contraceptive services in health plans offered to employees
The U.S. Supreme Court will likely issue a ruling next year requiring all states to allow same-sex couples to marry, an Emory constitutional law expert predicts.
A Journal of Diversity Management study published this month shows that for the academic year 2012-13, 71 percent of presidents were white and male.
The scare tactic raised by the food industry that labeling would increase prices has been debunked in an study by Joanna Shepherd Bailey, a professor at Emory University School of Law.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office cancelled six federal trademarks registered to the Washington Redskins.
In its proposed new regulations, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that many of the benefits of its mandate will arise not from the direct benefits of lower levels of carbon emissions, but from so-called health "co-benefits."
For the first time, a computer program passed the Turing Test for artificial intelligence.
Earlier this week, the Atlanta City Council passed the urban agriculture zoning ordinance.
Professor Buzbee discusses the EPA's new policy on greenhouse gas emissions.
Cooperative federalism regimes offer two substantial benefits: They improve federal-state relations by empowering states to act under federal law, and they allow society to reap the benefit of state innovation instead of having one federal law preempt the field.
Professor Laurie Blank discusses transparency in drone strikes, and what the law of war demands.
Emory Law professor An-Na'im publishes book, What Is an American Muslim?
A team of students from Georgia Tech and Emory University hope to parlay their class project into a startup that could put its innovative medical device in hospitals and medical clinics across the country.
Recently, Lambda Legal challenged Georgia's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in federal court, arguing that the ban violates the U.S. Constitution.
Urska Velikonja conducts an academic study that tracks the money investors have received from the Securities and Exchange Commission's efforts to punish frauds and other financial crimes.
An-Na'im argues that American Muslims should engage in the civil and political life of the country as citizens informed by their faith, rather than as a community separated by religion.
Dorothy Brown weighs in on how desegregation has progressed in America since the Civil Rights Movement
Volokh files amicus cert in DOT v. Ass'n of American Railroads
The Obama administration proposed a long-awaited rule on Tuesday to clarify that the Clean Water Act protects wetlands near rivers and waterways fed by seasonal thaws and rains.
Several world-renowned scholars on law and religion will speak on aspects of "Christianity and Human Rights" at Emory Law.
The celebrity chef whose food empire tumbled over her use of a racial epithet, has found $75 million in backing from a private-equity company
Anyone with an iPhone loves how easy it is to use one. At present, these tools are protected by patents. But things could change dramatically.
With "Stokely: A Life," the historian Peniel E. Joseph says he set out to "recover" Stokely Carmichael.
Dean Schapiro speaks on recent federal district judges rejection of constitutional bans on gay marriage.
The White House called on Congress to pass legislation to combat patent trolls, known less pejoratively as "patent assertion entities."
In 1962, Emory won the legal right to integrate through a landmark Georgia Supreme Court decision. The School of Law is proud of the legacy the case carries.
This is the fourth post in a series on the ¿California rule¿ and constitutional protection of public-sector employee pensions.
Most of Georgia's child welfare system would be dismantled and turned over to private companies under a new bill introduced this week by Senate lawmakers.
There are more than 750,000 veterans in Georgia and more than 200,000 of this total live in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area.
It's been almost eight months since the Supreme Court effectively stuck down Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.
President Obama put cutting Social Security benefits on the table as a means to reach a deal with Republicans on Capitol Hill. A better idea would be to repeal the wage cap, which would lessen the regressive nature of the current system.
Advocates urging the Legislature to allow new cities in DeKalb County point to the success of those recently created in bringing government closer to the people and lowering taxes.
Forty four states have Sore Loser Laws - laws that prevent losers in primaries from running in general elections
The sex trafficking of minors placed Georgia in the national spotlight after a FBI lists of cities with a high incidence of the crime included Atlanta. WABE's Rose Scott profiles Georgia's current attorney general Sam Olens.
44 states have "sore loser" laws of one form or another. These laws effectively block a candidate who fails to win a party primary from appearing on the general election ballot
The Feminism and Legal Theory Project, founded by Professor Martha Fineman, celebrates its 30th year.
Duffy Realty of Atlanta, one of a growing number of real estate agencies tries new pricing strategies, an upfront listing fee of $500 and one third of 1 percent when a house sells. Duffy said the agency's 2013 revenue was $5.3 million.
A sleepy court is about to get its turn in the limelight. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appels in Denver, one of the nation's 13th federal appeals courts, doesn't have firebrand judges and isn't routinely reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
A plan to put private organizations in charge of Georgia¿s approximately 7,000 foster children is moving too fast for some child advocates who want more study before overhauling the system.
The changing job market has inspired some Emory Law alumni to leverage their law school education, their personal interests and their entrepreneurial spirit into nontraditional careers.
With six appointees to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, President Barack Obama has reshaped what some patent lawyers consider the most important court in the world.
A medical malpractice battle erupts in Georgia again.
Few areas in the law have garnered more attention in recent years than that relating to patents. What will 2014 bring? Lots more news, in all likelihood.
Loan Monitor Is Accused of Ruthless Tactics on Student Debt