Emory Law Professor Joanna Shepherd's recently released study "Jobs, Judges, and Justice" found judges who were previously prosecutors or corporate lawyers "are significantly more likely than other types of lawyers to rule against workers as judges." She spoke with NPR about the impact of diversity on the bench.
While Emory has worked hard to eliminate racism and anti-semitism, its Yerkes National Primate Research Center is named for Robert Yerkes, Professor George Shepherd writes in an op-ed for the Emory Wheel. He says the University should stop honoring a man who was a racist proponent of eugenics, instrumental in the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924, which excluded millions of Jews from the U.S. in the years before World War II.
Fulton DA and Emory Law alumna Fani Willis 96L has announced she will investigate solicitation of election fraud, false statements, conspiracy and racketeering charges that stem from former President Donald Trump's post-election phone call to Georgia’s Secretary of State, asking him to find 11,780 votes—one more than he needed to beat Joe Biden. A conspiracy charge is a felony, Emory Law Professor Kay Levine told Bloomberg. Also, Trump's call seems to be evidence of solicitation.
Former president Donald Trump's attorneys have cited a Georgia case from the '60s to support their position that Trump's speech to a crowd, some of whom later attacked the U.S. Capitol, was protected by the First Amendment. In 1965, newly elected Georgia Rep. Julian Bond voiced an opinion opposing the Vietnam War. His House colleagues then refused to allow him to take his seat, but Bond later prevailed in a ruling by the U.S Supreme Court. Professor Fred Smith Jr. told 11 Alive that while creative, it does not necessarily support Trump's case for acquittal.
Three Emory Law faculty--Mary L. Dudziak, Michael J. Perry and Alexander Volokh--joined more than 150 law professors who signed a letter published by the New York Times, which says the First Amendment is no shield for former President Donald Trump at his impeachment trial.
Wargames have long been a part of military training, but now law of war educators are also using the tool, Laurie Blank, director of the International Humanitarian Law Clinic, writes. This year, the Marine Corps Command and Staff College curriculum added a wargame (developed in partnership with the IHL Clinic) that combines legal and operational decision-making. "Not only did the wargame teach students about compliance with the law of armed conflict, it also prepared them to face adversaries who will exploit that compliance for their own tactical and strategic gain."