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Emory
Center For Interdisciplinary Study of Religion Launches Two-Year Project
On Sex, Marriage and Family
9-21-01
Atlanta, Ga. Emory University’s Center for the Interdisciplinary
Study of Religion (CISR) is embarking on a two-year project on "Sex,
Marriage and Family Life" that is bringing together scholars from
across the university to examine issues ranging from interfaith marriage
to American divorce laws, from same-sex unions to the roots of monogamy.
Edelman
To Speak At Kick-Of of New Interfaith Initiative For Atlanta Area Children
08-24-01
Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s
Defense Fund (CDF), will speak at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 11 at a kick-off
breakfast for the Metropolitan Atlanta Interfaith Children’s Movement
(MAICM), a new grassroots effort to create a collaboration among Atlanta
area faith communities and civic organizations to help children and
families through prayer, education, service and advocacy.
Emory
Establishes Islam and Human Rights Program
07-09-01
Emory University's Law & Religion Program has received a $707,000 grant
from the Ford Foundation to establish a new Islam and Human Rights Fellowship
Program. The three-year project will bring together scholars and activists
from around the world to develop human rights scholarship and strategies
for advocacy from an Islamic perspective. Directing the effort is Emory
human rights scholar/activist Abdullahi An-Na'im.
Strobe
Talbott to Speak at Emory April 5
03-30-01
Atlanta, Ga. Former diplomat and journalist Strobe Talbott will
talk about how the world has changed since the end of the Cold War in
a public lecture at Emory University at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 5. Talbott
was deputy secretary of state and a key architect of U.S. foreign policy
in the Clinton administration.
Emory
Law and Religion Program Receives $600,000 For Study of Christianity
and Law
03-22-01
Emory University's Law and Religion Program has received a $600,000,
six-year grant to complete a two-phase study on Christian jurisprudence.
The project, supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts, is part of a broader
effort to stimulate and support new Christian scholarship in various
academic fields. Pew has awarded a total of $3 million to the University
of Notre Dame to coordinate this effort.
Foreign
Policy In The Bush Administration To Be Focus Of Emory's Thrower Symposium
02-13-01
A freewheeling discussion of foreign policy challenges and opportunities
facing the Bush administration will bring together politicians, legal
scholars and practitioners Friday, March 2 for this year’s Thrower
Symposium at Emory University School of Law. Among the participants
will be former U.S. Sen. Howard Baker; U.S. Ambassador to Canada Gordon
Giffin; former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark Edward E. Elson; former solicitor
of the U.S. Department of Labor George Salem; and veteran foreign policy
expert Dan Fisk of the Heritage Foundation.
Emory
Awarded $94,000 To Expand Barton Child Law & Policy Clinic
02-09-01
Emory University School of Law has received a one-year, $94,000 grant
from the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation to establish a senior policy
fellow position within its Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic. Dr. Patrice
Harris, a specialist in adolescent and forensic psychiatry, has been
hired for the position.
Emory
Invites South African Jurist To Address Truth And Reconcilation
02-09-01
Charles Villa Vicencio, executive director of the Institute for Justice
and Reconciliation, Cape Town, South Africa, presents "Church,
State and Restorative Justice: Did the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Succeed in South Africa?" for the 2001 Currie Lecture in Law and
Religion.
Emory
Awarded $3.2 Million To Establish Center For Interdisciplinary Study
Of Religion
09-05-00
Emory University has received a five-year, $3.2 million grant from
The Pew Charitable Trusts to help establish a new Center for the Interdisciplinary
Study of Religion.
12-18-00
Atlanta, Ga. The Emory Public Interest Committee (EPIC) at Emory
University School of Law will host its fifth annual EPIC Inspiration
Awards ceremony and reception on Tuesday, Jan. 23 at the law school.
The fund raising event will begin with the awards ceremony at 6:30 p.m.,
followed by a reception.
12-01-00
Atlanta, Ga. Former State Senator Mary Margaret Oliver has accepted
a visiting professor position with Emory University School of Law's
Barton Child Law & Policy Clinic beginning Dec. 1, 2000.
11-29-00
Atlanta, Ga. Journalists who are still scrambling to make sense
of the latest post-presidential election developments may want to call
on Emory legal and political experts, who are bringing their experience
to bear on everything from Supreme Court history to states' rights.
11-08-00
 Atlanta,
Ga. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will deliver the 2000
Rosalynn Carter Distinguished Lecture in Public Policy at 8 p.m. Monday,
Nov. 13 in Glenn Memorial Auditorium. Her lecture is titled "Going
Where Few Women Have Gone Before." The lecture is free and open
to the public. (The event originally was scheduled for January, but
O'Connor was prevented from getting to Atlanta due to inclement weather
in Washington.)
11-01-00
Atlanta, Ga. Emory will host a new web site, www.HolocaustDenialOnTrial.org,
built around the highly publicized British libel trial between Emory's
Deborah Lipstadt and writer David Irving over her book, "Denying the
Holocaust."
10-30-00
Atlanta, Ga. In a recent poll commissioned by Common Cause and
the Emory University political science department, 86 percent of Georgians
surveyed want some form of campaign finance reform. "So far the
only candidate committed to attending is Green Party candidate Jeff
Gates. What does that say about the candidates?" says Robert Pastor,
professor of political science at Emory.
10-17-00
Atlanta, Ga. Richard Rampton, the British barrister who successfully
defended Emory University's Deborah Lipstadt during her libel trial
in England on her book, "Denying the Holocaust," will be the
keynote speaker for a two-day public conference titled, "Reconciling
the Irreconcilable: Holocaust Denial, Historical Truth and Jewish Identity,"
Nov. 1-2 at Emory University School of Law.
10-12-00
Atlanta, Ga. The Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic at Emory
University School of Law has produced a new web site to serve as a statewide
resource on child abuse and neglect issues in Georgia, www.childwelfare.net.
10-03-00
Atlanta, Ga. Four individuals who have contributed both to their
communities and to the law have received the Distinguished Alumni Award
from Emory University School of Law. They are: the late former Georgia
State Sen. Thomas F. Allgood of Augusta, Ga., class of 1951; and Atlantans
Cecil C. Malone Jr., chairman of Malone Company General Contractors,
class of 1950; Kevin A. Ross, partner with Hunton & Williams, class
of 1980; and W. Terence (Terry) Walsh, partner with Alston & Bird,
class of 1970..
6-16-00
Atlanta, Ga. Can a patent be issued that would cover an entire
method of doing business? Margo Bagley, an assistant professor at Emory
University School of Law, has been selected to answer that question
by the law firm of Lyon & Lyon and the software company Oracle,
which solicited publishable papers on "E-Commerce and E-Quivalence:
Defining the Proper Scope of Internet Patents."
5-16-00
Atlanta, Ga. Angela Elleman of Louisville, Ky., who graduated
this week with a dual degree from Emory University School of Law and
the Candler School of Theology, is one of 80 students nationwide to
receive a National Association for Public Interest Law (NAPIL) Fellowship
for Equal Justice.
5-10-00
Atlanta, Ga. The Emory Public Interest Committee (EPIC), a student
organization at Emory University School of Law, has raised a record
$40,000 from its annual Inspiration Awards ceremony, which will fund
summer grants in public interest law for 12 Emory students.
3-31-00
Atlanta, Ga. Emory University has launched the Barton Child
Law and Policy Clinic, dedicated to improving Georgia's child protection
system by focusing on helping the state serve neglected and abused children.
The clinic will provide multi-disciplinary, child-focused research,
training, and support for practitioners and policy-makers charged with
protecting Georgia's children.
2-11-00
Atlanta, Ga. This debate on the pros and cons of establishing
an international criminal court, the third in a series of debates being
held across the country, is a policy initiative by the Council on Foreign
Relations. In this country, the debate turns on the question of whether
the United States should ratify the Statute of the International Criminal
Court (ICC), which was adopted by the United Nations Diplomatic Conference
of Plenipotentiaries, held in Rome June 15-July 17, 1998.
Emory
Provost/Theologian Rebecca Chopp To Give Law School's Annual Currie
Lecture
2-25-00
Atlanta, Ga. Emory Provost Rebecca Chopp is a widely published
scholar in Christian theology, women's studies and the role of religion
in American public life. Her topic, "The Poetics of Testimony,"
refers to "those discourses-poetry, novels, theory, theology-that
speak of the unspeakable and tell of the suffering and hope of particular
communities who have not been authorized to speak."
2-3-00
Atlanta, Ga. Coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the Human
Genome Project, the 10th annual Randolph W. Thrower Symposium at Emory
Law School will bring together legal scholars, ethicists and geneticists
to discuss the ethical, legal and social implications of the availability
of genetic information.
12-6-99
 Atlanta, Ga. Kenneth
Thorpe issues prelimary estimates of the federal costs and numbers
of newly insured persons under Vice-President Gore's and Senator Bradley's
health insurance proposals.
11-8-99
Atlanta, Ga. Supreme
Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will deliver the 1999-2000 Rosalynn
Carter Distinguished Lecture in Public Policy at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan.
25, 2000 in Glenn Memorial Auditorium. The annual event is part of the
Rosalynn Carter Programs in Public Policy at Emory's Institute for Women's
Studies. The lecture is free and open to the public. Details on O'Connor's
address will be provided as they become available.
10-21-99
Atlanta, Ga. Emory University's Abdullahi An-Na'im, Candler
Professor of Law and an internationally known scholar/human rights activist,
has been named the recipient of the 1999 Dr. J.P. Van Pragg Award from
the Dutch Humanist Ethical Society in The Netherlands for his work in
promoting human rights.
10-21-99
Atlanta, Ga. Three individuals who have contributed extensively
both to their communities and to the law have received the Distinguished
Alumni Award from Emory University School of Law. They are: J. Guy Beatty
, Jr., class of 1957; Fulton County Superior Court Senior Judge Elmo
Holt, class of 1948; and Jean Zimmerman, class of 1975.
9-29-99
Atlanta, Ga. The latest issue of Time Magazine (Sept. 13, 1999)
has Emory faculty weighing in on two developing stories, one on scientists'
isolation of a gene in mice that is connected to intelligence, the other
on the proposed Religious Liberty Protection Act now making its way
through the U.S. Senate. On the discovery of the so-called "IQ
gene," Ethicist Liz Bounds of Candler School of Theology pointed
out that engineering human genes for certain "desirable" traits
runs the risk of "shaping a much more homogeneous community around
certain dominant values." Bounds told Time she finds that idea
"frightening." As for the proposed religious liberty bill,
Marci Hamilton, visiting professor at Emory Law School, explained why
both conservative Christian and left-leaning groups are cooperating
to oppose the legislation, which "opens the door for all kinds
of religious entities and individuals to make creative claims."
Hamilton ought to know; she successfully challenged the constitutionality
of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act before the U.S. Supreme Court
in 1997.
6-8-99
Atlanta, Ga. Emory Law School will use income from a $2.5 million
settlement received earlier this year in a case involving DuPont Co.
to establish a faculty chair in ethics and professionalism, student
fellowships for professional service, and a series of colloquia on the
profession of law, all named in honor of former U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn,
an alumnus of the school.
Emory
Law School's Epic Program Raises $31,000 For Public Interest Law Summer
Grants
5-7-99
Atlanta, Ga. The Emory Public Interest Committee (EPIC), a student
organization at Emory University School of Law, has raised more than
$31,000 during the current academic year, which will be used to fund
summer grants in public interest law for seven Emory students this summer.
5-7-99
Atlanta, Ga. Graduating Emory University law student Cameron
Welborn has been featured in People magazine and interviewed on radio
and TV, but it's not her media savvy that has earned her the university's
highest student honor at its 1999 commencement ceremonies May 10. Welborn
is being recognized with the university's Marion Luther Brittain Award
for her tireless efforts to revise Georgia's rape statutes.Emory Law
Student Wins Highest Student Honor For Efforts To Revise Georgia's Rape
Laws
5-7-99
Atlanta, Ga. The Bankruptcy Developments Journal (BDJ) at Emory
University School of Law recently presented its first-ever BDJ Lifetime
Achievement Award to William L. Norton Jr. of Gainesville, Ga., former
federal bankruptcy judge in the Northern District of Georgia from 1971-1985.
A second award initiated this year, the BDJ's Keith J. Shapiro Business
Bankruptcy Writing Award, was presented to Cameron Gilreath, a rising
third-year student at the school.
3-30-99
Atlanta,Ga. John Witte, director of Emory University's Law and
Religion Program, has received a four-year $546,350 grant from the Lilly
Endowment to prepare four new books, related articles and public lectures
on law, religion and the Reformed tradition.
2-12-99
Atlanta,Ga. Students of Emory University School of Law brought
home honors from several moot court competitions this spring, placing
fourth among U.S. law schools in the Jessup International Moot Court
Competition, first runner-up in the Frederick Douglass Moot Court Competition,
and sweeping the annual Intrastate Moot Court Competition.
2-12-99
Atlanta, Ga. Tax reform has become an enduring political issue,
whether focused on taxpayers' frustration over the complexity of the
tax code or the allegedly aggressive tactics of the IRS. Emory Law School's
1999 Thrower Symposium will feature nationally known experts who will
explore the financial and political implications of tax reform, including
proposals such as the flat tax, value added tax or VAT, the national
sales tax and incremental change of the current income tax. The event
will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on February 18 in the Emory Law School
Tull Auditorium.
12-21-98
Atlanta, Ga. The Emory Public Interest Committee (EPIC) at Emory
University School of Law is hosting its third annual EPIC Inspiration
Awards Ceremony and Reception on Tuesday, Jan. 26 at the law school.
The fund-raising event will begin with the awards ceremony at 6:30 p.m.,
followed by a reception.
12-16-98
Atlanta, Ga. "Updating Georgia's Rape Statutes: A Time
for Progress" is the topic of a public forum to be held at Emory
University School of Law at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 14. Georgia Attorney
General Thurbert Baker will be among the government officials, law enforcement
personnel and educators who will speak from their perspectives about
the need to change the state's sexual offense laws.
11-18-98
Atlanta, Ga. Emory University human rights scholar/activist
Abdullahi An-Na'im has received a two-year, $371,000 grant from the
Ford Foundation to fund a global survey of Islamic family law that will
explore how Muslims reconcile their faith with the needs of their communities
today.
10-01-98
Atlanta, Ga. Emory University School of Law has received a gift
of $510,000 from the Miami law firm of Colson, Hicks, Eidson, Colson,
Matthews & Mendoza and Richard P. Kessler Jr. of Atlanta and his
daughter Grace Kessler to establish a scholarship endowment in memory
of Kathleen Kessler, a 1972 law school alumna who was killed in the
1996 ValuJet Airlines crash.
4-15-99
Atlanta, Ga. Amos N. Jones, the son of Lamont and Kay Jones
of Lexington, Ky., has been selected as a 1999 Truman Scholar by the
Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation. A junior pursuing a dual major
in political science and economics/mathematics, Jones is one of 79 scholars
selected from 657 candidates from 332 U.S. colleges and universities.
The scholars were selected on the basis of leadership potential, intellectual
ability and likelihood of "making a difference."
Experts
to Discuss Tax Reform Proposals at Emory Law School's Thrower Symposium
2-12-99
Atlanta, Ga. Tax reform has become an enduring political issue,
whether focused on taxpayers' frustration over the complexity of the
tax code or the allegedly aggressive tactics of the IRS. Emory Law School's
1999 Thrower Symposium will feature nationally known experts who will
explore the financial and political implications of tax reform, including
proposals such as the flat tax, value added tax or VAT, the national
sales tax and incremental change of the current income tax. The event
will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on February 18 in the Emory Law School
Tull Auditorium.
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