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Waller completes tenure as NALP president
No full textDuring April, Assistant Dean for Career Development Tony Waller completed his tenure as the president of NALP (the National Association for Law Placement), an international association of over 3,000 legal career professionals who advise law students, lawyers, law offices and law schools.
Of note, he is the first person from the state of Georgia to serve in this leadership capacity in over 20 years.
Waller joined the School of Law in 2015 as the school\u27s director of public sector career advising and bar exam success programming, and he has been responsible for advising students and graduates on public interest and governmental employment as well as ensuring employers in those practices have access to School of Law students. Additionally, he is responsible for the school\u27s bar success programming.
Professionally, Waller has been a longtime member of NALP, having served as president, vice chair of the Nominating Committee and the Conference Planning Committee, chair of the JD Advisors Section as well as a member of the Technology Resource Group and the By-Law Review Committee.
Waller earned his bachelor\u27s degree cum laude in agricultural economics and his law degree from UGA.
Pictured above: Tony Waller with 2024-25 NALP President Rebecca Calman, the director of legal recruiting and training at Sullivan Cromwell in New York. Photo by Richard Mitchell at Richard Mitchell Photograph
Cherry receives Equal Justice Works Regional Public Interest Award
No full textCongratulations to 2024 graduate Megan K. Cherry for her selection for the Equal Justice Works Regional Public Interest Award for the Gulf Region. Recipients were chosen for their exemplary commitment to public interest law and pro bono work with each student being recognized for providing outstanding service through clinics, volunteer work, internships, extracurricular projects, and other initiatives
E. Burch featured on Raw Story
No full textCallaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch was featured in Raw Story regarding the U.S. Supreme Court\u27s Harrington v. Purdue Pharma decision. The article titled Legal analysts shocked to see MAGA Supreme Court justices agree with Biden on opioids was written by Sarah K. Burris and published 6/27/24
Orford featured in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
No full textAssistant Professor Adam D. Orford was featured in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution regarding the U.S. Supreme Court\u27s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision. The article titled Supreme Court upends federal regulation. What it means for Georgia was written by Michael E. Kanell and Drew Kann and was published 7/3/24
Orford featured in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
No full textAssistant Professor Adam D. Orford was featured in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution regarding the operations of the Greenfuels Energy company. The article titled String of environmental violations raises concerns about firm linked to Okefenokee mine project was written by Dylan Jackson and Drew Khan and was published 7/15/24
Crawford and Criminal Justice
Full text linkThis essay reflects on whether Crawford v. Washington, now in its third decade of life, matters to criminal justice. For all the talk of Crawford as “revolutionary,” that is, has it made any real difference to the world of crime and punishment? I’ve confronted the question before. In a 2021 essay, I argued that Crawford probably has modest real-world effects. Crawford articulated a right that criminal defendants can exercise only at trial. In an adjudicatory system bereft of trials, trial rights don’t count for much. They impact plea outcomes only when they confer bargaining power sufficient to offset prosecutors’ prodigious leverage. The post-Crawford confrontation right might do that occasionally, I contended, but it’s unlikely that it does so generally. In this essay, I revise and extend those remarks. I extend them by elaborating on my view of Crawford’s practical consequences. I revise them by recognizing that Supreme Court decisions can matter in other ways. Crawford matters to criminal justice because the Court radically departed from the jurisprudential framework that’s dominated its criminal adjudication work for generations, which centers the imperative of swiftly processing cases through America’s courts. To be sure, system maintenance isn’t the official logic of constitutional criminal procedure. For the public and parts of the legal profession, the Court touts an adjudicative process that’s careful and deliberate. But for criminal justice professionals, it endorses doctrinal workarounds of constitutional rights that it worries are too inconvenient. Even if the workarounds aren’t exactly the procedures touted in law-day celebrations, they are, in the Court’s eyes, close enough. But not in Crawford. In Crawford, the Court embraced inconvenient proceduralism in criminal adjudication. Crawford’s legacy in the criminal procedure realm (as distinct from its contributions to constitutional theory or evidence) lies in its proof of concept for a jurisprudence that treats the rights of the accused as meaningful constraints rather than as nuisances to elude. Crawford may not affect the resolution of many criminal cases, but it provides conceptual grounding for changes that would. This essay proceeds in three parts. Part I further explains why Crawford probably does not directly or indirectly impact outcomes in all that many criminal cases. Part II contrasts Crawford with the Court’s usual approach to criminal adjudication cases, which I label the “jurisprudence of close enough.” Finally, Part III considers the value and appeal of Crawford’s stand for inconvenience in criminal adjudicat
Kadri featured in The Baffler magazine
No full textAssistant Professor Thomas E. Kadri was featured in The Baffler magazine regarding internet access regulation. The article titled Crimes of the Future was written by T.M. Brown and published 8/16/24
Ringhand featured on Georgia Public Broadcasting
No full textHosch Professor & Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor Lori A. Ringhand was featured on Georgia Public Broadcasting regarding recent rule changes passed by the Georgia State Elections Board. The segment titled What kind of rules can the Georgia Election Board make? was hosted by Peter Biello and published 8/26/24
Redmon featured in USA Today
No full textClinical Assistant Professor & Prosecutorial Justice Program Director Melissa D. Redmon was featured in USA Today regarding prosecutorial strategy. The article titled “Judge upholds guilty plea of Trump co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro in Georgia election case” was written by Josh Meyer and published 12/13/24
Beck on Moody v. NetChoice & NetChoice v. Paxton decisions
No full textMarshall Chair of Constitutional Law Randy Beck has offered insight on the U.S. Supreme Court decisions regarding Moody v. NetChoice & NetChoice v. Paxton:
“The Court remanded both cases for further proceedings, concluding that the lower courts had not conducted a sufficiently thorough analysis of the reach of the Texas and Florida laws to determine whether they were facially invalid under the First Amendment.
A majority of the Court concluded that Texas\u27 law violates the First Amendment to the extent it interferes with a social media company\u27s content moderation decisions concerning what content will appear in places like Facebook\u27s news feed or YouTube\u27s home page.
Where a social media company curates content produced by other people, its content moderation decisions are expressive activities protected by the First Amendment, even if it is relatively permissive in the standards it applies. Such content moderation decisions are analogous to editorial decisions made by journalists or decisions about what messages to include or exclude in a privately-organized parade. The First Amendment does not allow the government to regulate such private expressive decisions to achieve what the government sees as a better or more inclusive mix of views.”
Beck is available for further commentary at [email protected]