George Shepherd

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.

Most of the large monuments that revere Confederate leaders began to appear in the early 20th century, long after the Civil War ended in 1865, Professor George Shepherd writes for CNN Opinion. "The goal was not to preserve 'Southern heritage,' as the monuments' defenders now claim," he writes. "Instead, the goal was to install white-supremacist icons that would intimidate African Americans and enforce whites' supremacy."

During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump relentlessly attacked Gonzalo Curiel, the judge in a lawsuit charging that Trump University defrauded thousands of consumers. However, Curiel allowed Trump's motion to postpone the trial until Nov. 28, after the election. Had he not, says Emory Law Professor George Shepherd, "news reports would have focused not on Trump speaking before thousands of adoring supporters at his rallies, but instead on Trump sweating under humiliating cross-examination."

"It is widely known that Donald Trump is being sued, including in class-actions--by thousands of people who charge that he defrauded them of millions of dollars," Emory Law Professors Morgan Cloud and George Shepherd write in a co-authored opinion article for the Wall Street Journal. "But there seems to be public confusion about how these lawsuits might affect the presidential campaign. Despite what Mr. Trump says, it appears likely that he will be called to the witness stand before the November election."