A chapter entitled "The Problems with Blaming", by Professor Ted Blumoff, will be included in Law, Mind and Brain, a book published by Ashgate Publishing (2009) and edited by Michael Freeman and Oliver Goodenough.  In addition, Professor Blumoff's article "On the Nature of the Action-Omission Network," will be published in the Georgia State Law Review in 2008. 

 Professor Sue Painter Thornes article, "One Step Forward, Two Giant Steps Back: How the Existing Indian Family Exception (Re)Imposes Anglo American Legal Values on American Indian Tribes to the Detriment of Cultural Autonomy" will be published in Volume 33 of the American Indian Law Review (2009).  Her article, "7 Virtues of Appellate Brief Writing," will be published in Volume 38 of the Southwestern University Law Review (2008).

Earlier this year, Professor Painter-Thorne published "Craft Careful Analogies—And Become A Better Legal Writer, in The Complete Lawyer (September/October 2008), and published "A Matter of Style" in the same publication.

In July, she presented "Advanced Writing Instruction in Small Group Sessions" with Professor Jennifer Sheppard at the Legal writing Institutes Biennial Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana. She also moderated "The Law Professor as Administrator" at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting in West Palm Beach, Florida in July.

Recent presentations by Professor Linda Berger include "What Would Solomon Do?

Appealing to Trial Court Judges," as part of the Persuasion Conference at Rutgers-Camden School of Law (September 2008) and a panel presentation on "Defining the Purpose and Parameters of Legal Writing Scholarship" during the Biennial National Conference of the Legal Writing Institute in Indianapolis, IN (July 2008).

Professor Berger is also Editor of the recently published Volumes 4 and 5 of the Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors (J. ALWD) and her article entitled "How Embedded Knowledge Structures Affect Judicial Decision Making: An Analysis of Metaphor, Narrative, and Imagination in Child Custody Disputes" will be published at 18 S. Cal. Interdisc. L.J. __ (forthcoming 2009).

In August and September, 2008, Professor David Hricik presented a series of CLEs to attorneys in Rhode Island addressing "How to Manage Risk in a Challenging Economy."   In addition, an article that he co-authored with 3L Chase Scott, entitled "Metadata: The Ghosts Haunting E-Documents", was published at 82 Fl.B.J. 33 (Oct. 2008). 

On August 11^th, Professor Jim Fleissner participated in a panel discussion as part of the series on “Issues of Concern to the Legal Profession” before the American Bar Association House of Delegates at the ABA’s Annual Meeting in New York City.  The discussion was entitled “The Use of Subpoenas to Compel Reporters to Reveal Their Sources” and addressed First Amendment issues and recent legislative proposals for a federal “shield law.”  The other members of the panel were First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams and University of Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone.

Professor Sarah Gerwig-Moore presented "Saving Their Own Souls: Stories of Religious Practice on California's Condemned Row" as a New Scholar at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEAALS) conference in Palm Beach, Florida in July 2008.

In addition, she was recently named as one of Macon Magazine's "Five Under 40", and is featured in the August/September issue of the magazine.

On June 12 and 13, 2008, Professor David Ritchie participated in the International Symposium of Contemporary Legal Theories and Institutional Design. The program brought together some of the most respected experts in constitutional studies and philosophers from leading schools of Brazil, such as FGV-Rio, Sao Paulo State University (USP), and the University of Brasília (UnB).  Professor Ritchie participated in a round-table at the symposium on the "Moral Obligation of Judges to Apply the Law." The symposium took an interdisciplinary approach at exploring moral and legal decision-making processes and contemporary arguments about Formalism and Particularism in ethics and law. The symposium also celebrated the historical and symbolic importance of the Law Campus of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, which formerly housed the Imperial Senate. The symposium was organized to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Brazilian Constitution. The program was also sponsored by the Coordenaçao de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES, a department of the Brazilian Ministry of Education which sponsors and supports higher education), the Embassy of Spain, and book publisher Lumen Juris. Information about the symposium is available here. 

In addition, his most recent book, Shifting Foundations and Historical Contingencies, was published in July, 2008, by VDM Verlag.

Professor Stephen Johnson's article, Ossification's Demise? An Empirical Analysis of EPA Rulemaking from 2001-2005, was recently published in Environmental Law, the law journal of Lewis and Clark Law School.    His article, Is Religion the Environment's Last Best Hope? Targeting Change in Individual Behavior Through Personal Norm Activation, is available on SSRN. 

On July 15, 2008, Professor Karen Sneddon presented Beyond Chalk and Talk: Active Learning Activities for the Classroom at the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute at Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis, Indiana.  Earlier in the summer, on May 31, 2008, she participated on a panel addressing Teaching Multiple Skills in Drafting and Simulation Courses, at a conference sponsored by the Emory Center for Transactional Law and Practice in Atlanta.  The conference was the Inaugural conference on Teaching Drafting and Transactional Skills: The Basics and Beyond.  On May, 22, she spoke on Developments in Georgia Law at a meeting of the Macon Estate Planning Council. 

She has had several articles published this spring, including (1) On Writing: Using the Elements of Fiction to Tell the Client’s Story, 4 No. 3 The Complete Lawyer (May/June 2008); (2) Common Comma Conundrums Part I, 13 Ga. B.J. No. 5, 64 (Feb. 2008) (co-authored with David Hricik); (3) Common Comma Conundrums Part II, 13 No. 6 Ga. B.J. 82 (April 2008) (co-authored with David Hricik); and (4)Avoiding Doe Snot While on the Trail of Statues, 13 No. 7 Ga. B.J. 80 (June 2008) (co-authored with David Hricik). 

In addition she served as an Assistant Editor in Volume 14 of Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute and is serving as a member on the 2008 Poster Committee for the AALS Section on Legal Writing, Legal Research, and Legal Reasoning.

Professor Hriciks article An Update on Current Client Conflicts of Interest was published at 19 IP Litigation 1 (Spring 2008).  An article that he co-authored with Tamsen Valoir, entitled Patents Compared to Trademarks: The Duty of Candor / The Avoidance of Fraud, was published at 97 Trademark Rep. 1317 (Dec. 2007).  An article that he co-authored with second year student, Chase Scott, entitled Metadata: Ethical Obligations of the Witting and Unwitting Recipient was published at 13 Ga. B.J. 34 (Apr. 2008).   Another article that he co-authored with Chase Scott, entitled Metadata: Lawyers Need to Know What it is and What To Do About it was published at 41 Law & Tech. J. 1 (2008).   Professor Hricik also contributed a chapter entitled Combining Prosecution with Other Forms of Representation to a book entitled Drafting Patents for Litigation and Licensing (BNA 2008).

Early this spring, Professor Hricik appeared on a panel discussing "High Stakes Liability Exposure: IP Based Claims" in Boston at the Spring 2008 National Legal Malpractice Conference, hosted by the ABA Standing Committee on Lawyers Professional Responsibility.   In addition, on May 15, he gave a presentation to the Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association on liability and conflicts in patent practice.  On June 6, he gave the luncheon presentation on Ethical Issues in Intellectual Property Practice at the 6th Annual Rocky Mountain Intellectual Property & Technology Institute in Denver, Colorado.   On July 21, he gave a presentation on Conflicts of Interest in Patent Litigation at the George Mason University School of Law 7th Annual Symposium on Hot Topics in Patent Law.

In addition, Professor Hricik recently drafted and filed an amicus brief representing the views of a group of eight patent law professors supporting the petition of Aventis Pharma, S.A. and Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc. for rehearing en banc in an important decision concerning inequitable conduct, Aventis Pharma S.A. v. Amphastar Pharm, Inc., ___ F. 3d __, 2008 WL 2039065 (Fed. Cir. May 14, 2008). 

On April 4, Professor Jim Fleissner made a presentation to the faculty of the Charleston School of Law.  The presentation was entitled "An Enigma Deciphered: Justice Powell's Concurring Opinion in Branzburg v. Hayes."  On April 22, Professor Fleissner delivered an address at the 2008 Law School Senior Dinner, entitled "Turning Back the Clock to 1908," in which he compared the law school experience of today to a century ago. 

On March 18, 2008, Professor Fleissner presented a lecture on "The First Amendment, Reporters, and Confidential Sources in the CIA Leak Case" at Florida Coastal Law School in Jacksonville, Florida.  Earlier in the month, on March 7, he made a presentation at Mercers C.L.E. program regarding the criminal law and procedure cases currently before the United States Supreme Court.

Professor Oren Griffin's article, Avoiding Retaliation in the Higher Education Workplace in the Aftermath of Burlington N. & Santa Fe Ry. Co. v. White, was recently published at 227 ED. L. RPTR.  NO. 2 525 (Feb. 21, 2008). 

Professor Karen Sneddon's article, entitled Should Cain's Children Inherit Abel's Property?: Wading into the Extended Slayer Rule Quagmire, was recently published at 76 UMKC L. REV. 101 (2007). 

On December 5, 2007, Professor Hricik gave a presentation on "Ethics in High Technology" to the Atlanta Bar Association CLE Law Office Technology meeting.  On December 7, he gave a presentation on "Conflict of Interest in Patent Practice" to the Toledo Intellectual Property Law Association.   On February 15, 2008, he gave a presentation on "Conflicts of Interest in Patent Practice" at the Utah IP Summit, sponsored by the Utah State Bar.  On February 22, he gave a presentation on "Ethical Issues for Business Lawyers" at the annual Business Law Conference of the Virginia Bar Association.   In addition to those presentations, Professor Hricik was appointed to the Association of American Law Schools Special Committee on Access to the AALS Database. 

His recent publications include Metadata: Ghosts Haunting e-Documents, 18 Ga. B.J. 16 (Feb. 2008) (co-author with 2L Chase Scott); Writing Matters: Common Comma Conundrums, 16 Ga. B.J. 64 (Feb. 2008) (co-author with Prof. Karen Sneddon); and Avoiding Conflicts from Client Emails, 11 J. Internet L. 1 (Sept. 2007) (co-author with 2L Chase Scott). 

Professor David Ritchie recently gave a series of lectures on "Common Law Legal Reasoning and Communication in the U.S." at the Escola da Magistratura Regional Federal da 2a Regiao [EMARF] (the Federal Judges' School) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The lectures, which were supported by a grant from EMARF, were designed to acquaint federal judges in Brazil with the way lawyers and judges in the U.S. think and communicate about complex legal problems.

On December 2-4, 2007, Professor Oren Griffin gave three presentations at the Law and Policy Conference of NASPA and Stetson University College of Law.  The topics of his presentations were (1) Legal and Policy Issues Related to Students who are Veterans; (2) Legal and Policy Issues Related to Students as Employees; and (3) Campus Safety and Security.  NASPA is the association of Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.

On October 17, Professor Griffin gave a presentation on "Embracing Diversity and Avoiding Unlawful Discrimination" at the Annual Diversity Conference of the Alabama College System. 

In August, Professor Griffin moderated a panel on contract compliance at higher education institutions at the Institute of Higher Education's Annual Conference on Higher Education and the Law in Jekyll Island, Georgia.

On November 1, 2007, Professor Harold Lewis spoke in Atlanta at a conference presented by ICLE on Liability of Local Governments.  His topic was "Mitigating Liability Through Offers of Judgment." 

On Sept. 29, 2007, Professor Linda Edwards spoke at a plenary session of the Persuasion Institute at Cornell Law School.  Her topic was “Writing the Story: Perspective, Voice, Detail, and Language.”  The Persuasion Institute trains federal capital defense lawyers in appellate brief writing.  On Nov. 2, Professor Edwards spoke at American University’s Washington College of Law.  Her topic was “The Law’s Narrative.”

Professor Stephen Johnson recently co-authored Significant Flaws: Why the Rapanos Guidance Misinterprets the Law, Fails to Protect Waters, and Provides Little Certainty with Jim Murphy (National Wildlife Federation), which will be published in the South Carolina Environmental Law Journal.   Professor Johnson also recently provided comments to the (U.S.) House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Waste regarding H.R. 1103, the Environmental Justice Act of 2007.

On September 19-21, 2007, Professor David Hricik gave a presentation entitled Protecting Your Clients, Your Business, and Yourself to the Rhode Island Bar Association and Aon Insurance Company.    The following week, he gave a presentation on Ethical Issues for IT Practitioners at the Virginia Bar Associations Annual Conference for Information Technology Lawyers.   On October 6, he gave a presentation entitled Current Client Conflicts & Liability in Patent Practice to the Iowa Intellectual Property Law Association Annual Conference. On November 1, he gave a presentation on concurrent conflicts of interest in patent practice to the Colorado Bar Association Intellectual Property Law Section in Denver, Colorado.  On November 4-6, he served as an advisor to the roundtable for the intellectual property firms of PILOT/LEGIS at its annual conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. 

In addition, Professor Hriciks article, Avoiding Conflicts from Client E-mails, co-authored with second year law student Chase Scott, was published at 11 No. 3. J. Internet Law (Sept. 2007).

Professor Hricik was also recently appointed co-chair of the Attorneys' Loss Prevention and Ethics Subcommittee of the ABA Professional Liability Litigation Committee.

On September 8, 2007, Professor Karen Sneddon presented M & Ms, Highlighting, and Freewriting, Oh My!: Active Learning Techniques to Teach the Statement of Facts, at the Southeast Legal Writing Conference at Nova Southeastern Law School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

In addition, her article, The Potential of Podcasts, was published at 22 No. 1 The Second Draft: Bulletin of the Legal Writing Institute 11 (Fall 2007).

Professor Timothy Floyd was recently appointed to serve as the Vice-Chair of the Georgia State Bar's Access to Justice Committee.  He continues to serve on (1) the Civil Justice Committee of the Supreme Court of Georgia Equal Justice Commission (chairing the Public Education Subcommittee and serving on the pro Bono Subcommittee); (2) the National Advisory Committee for Equal Justice Works; and (3) the Advisory Board of the Georgia Council for Restorative Justice, which he chairs. 

He made several presentations last spring and summer, including (1) a presentation on Restorative Justice on March 7, 2007, for the Atlanta Bar Association's March Madness CLE; (2) a presentation in Destin, Florida, on Professionalism and the Criminal Defense Lawyer on April 26, 2007, to the Georgia Assocation of Criminal Defense Lawyers; (3) a presentation on The Role of Externships in Values Clarification and the Formation of Professional Identity at the AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education in New Orleans on May 5, 2007; and (4) a presentation on Ethics and Conflicts of Interest on August 17, 2007, at the Macon Judicial Circuit Public Defender Leadership Retreat in Cordele, Georgia.   He also was program planner and presenter for a CLE Program, Making 'Justice for All' a Reality, at the State Bar of Georgia Annual Meeting on June 15, 2007. 

His recent publications include (1) Lawyers and Prophetic Justice, 58 MERCER L. REV. 513 (2007); (2) Texas, it's time to get in step on capital punishment: State needs to recognize the laws in its death penalty system, OP-Ed Column, Dallas Morning News, August 22, 2007; and (3) A Law Professor's Inside Take on Bush's Commutation Policy, Wall Street Journal Online Law Blog, July 5, 2007. 

In the next few months, he will be speaking at (1) a National Conference on The Role of Law Schools in Fostering Commitment to Pro Bono Publico, sponsored by Columbus School of Law, Catholic University in Washington, D.C. on October 5 and 6 (topic: Cultivating a Culture of Commitment: The Role of Professional Partnerships); (2) the Faithful Lawyers Quarterly Breakfast in Atlanta on October 19 (topic: Lessons Learned from a Client on Death Row); and (3) a National Conference on Law as a Healing Profession, sponsored by Tuoro University School of Law on November 5, 2007 (topic: Practice, Spirituality and Religion).  Finally, Professor Floyd is an invited participant at the National Conference on Legal Education at the Crossroads: Ideas to Action, which will be held at the University of South carolina School of Law on November 2-4.

Professor Mark Jones' article, Fundamental Dimensions of Law and Legal Education: An Historical Framework - A History of Legal Education, Phase I: From the Founding of the Republic Until the 1860s, was published at 39 J. MARSHALL L. REV. 1041 (2006).    Professor Jones continues to serve as coordinator of Mercer University's Professionalism and Vocation Across the Professions Project.

On July 26, Professor Linda Edwards spoke to 60 Brazilian federal judges and their staffs in Rio de Janeiro. The topic was Legal Analysis and Writing in the U.S.  She also taught Comparative Property Law at the University of Buenos Aires as part of the Summer Study Abroad Program that Mercer Law School sponsors in conjunction with Stetson Law School. 

Earlier in the summer, Professor Edwards was part of the faculty at the Legal Writing Institute Scholarship Workshop in Boulder, Colorado, June 10 - 12.  On June 16, she made two presentations at the Assocation of Legal Writing Directors conference in Denver, Colorado.

Finally, on July 1, Professor Edwards was the plenary speaker at the workshop for New Legal Writing Teachers, hosted by the Association of American Law Schools. She spoke on Scholarship By
Legal Writing Professors.

Professor Jack Sammons' article, Censoring Samba: An Aesthetic Justice for the Protection of Speech, will be published in Volume 36 of the Stetson Law Review (2007).   

In addition, Professor Sammons spent part of his summer teaching a course on Comparative Free Expression Law in Granada, Spain, as part of the Summer Study Abroad program that the Law School offers in conjunction with Stetson Law School.

He was also recently appointed Vice Chairman of the State Bar of Georgia Task Force on Lawyer Advertising.

In October, Professor Ted Blumoff will be presenting a paper entitled Forgiveness: A Natural Counterpoint to Vengeance, at the University of Indiana Law School as part of the Scholarship Conference of the Society for Evolutionary Analysis of Law. 

On September 15, 2007, Dean Daisy H. Floyd will be the Keynote Speaker, addressing Forming Professionals: A Journey of Identity and Purpose, at the Creighton University Campus Program on Professional Disposition and Values.   She will also be a workshop leader, addressing  Listening to Students: A SOTL Approach to the Development of Professional Dispositions and Values, in the program. 

On September 26, she will be a panelist, addressing Fueling the Law School Pipeline: Meeting the Challenge of Declining Minority Applicants, at the State Bar of Georgia Diversity Program on
Fueling the Pipeline: Solutions to Continue Diversifying the Profession. 

Then, on November 5, she will be speaking at Touro Law School on Law as a Healing Profession. 

Professor Linda Jellum's article, Chevron's Demise: A Survey of Chevron from Infancy to
Senescence, will be published in Volume 59 of the Administrative Law Review (2007). 

In August, she made a presentation entitled Getting Involved in SEALS  at the Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS).   Professor Jellum is a Board Member for SEALS and Chair of the Organization's Mentor Committee.   She also serves as Vice-Chair of the Judicial Revew Committee of the American Bar Association's Section on Administrative Law.  

Professor Joseph E. Claxton recently participated in a panel discussion dealing with legal issues affecting the mentally ill and/or the mentally handicapped that was sponsored by various Middle Georgia advocacy groups.  Professor Claxton also just concluded over a decade of service as the associate editor of The Journal of Southern Legal History.

Professor Stephen Johnson's article "Good Guidance, Good Grief," was recently published in Volume 92 of the Missouri Law Review.   His article, "Bringing Deference Back (But for Long?)" is forthcoming in the Catholic University Law Review. 

On May 21st, Professor Jim Fleissner made a presentation in Marietta, Georgia to 80 Georgia magistrates and judges at a program sponsored by the Georgia Institute for Continuing Judicial Education. His presentation focused on the Supreme Court's constitutional criminal procedure jurisprudence.

As Deputy Special Counsel in United States v. Libby, Professor Fleissner co-authored the government's sentencing submissions and appeared as co-counsel at Libby's sentencing on June 5th. Most recently, Professor Fleissner co-authored the government brief resulting in the U.S. Court of Appeals' order denying Libby bail pending appeal on June 29th, just hours before Libby's prison sentence was commuted by President Bush. Professor Fleissner will represent the United States in Libby's appeal of his conviction.

On August 2, 2007, Professor Jim Fleissner gave the keynote address at the annual conference of the National Association of Appellate Court Attorneys in New Orleans.  The conference was attended by over 100 attorneys who work on the staffs of state and federal appellate courts.  Professor Fleissner’s address was entitled “The Rest of the Story About Special Testimonial Privileges for Reporters.”

On August 24, 2007, Professor Sarah Gerwig Moore moderated a panel entitled “Ethical Considerations in Pro Bono Representation” at the Georgia State Bar Young Lawyers Division’s Leadership Academy.   In June, Professor Moore taught two courses, Crime and Punishment in America and The Death Penalty in America at the Chautauqua Institute in New York.  

Earlier, her article, “Hush, Little Baby, Don't Say a Word: How Seeking the ‘Best Interests of the Child’ Fostered a Lack of Accountability in Georgia’s Juvenile Courts,” was published at 58 Mercer L. Rev. 531 (2006). 

In addition, she serves as the Co-Chair of the College Hill Corridor Commission (a City commission with chairs appointed by the Mayor and President Underwood).  Information about the Commission is available here.

Professor Hricik's article, An Opinion from Trial Counsel: A Hand of Sand?, was published at 35 Am. Intell. Prop. L.Q.J. 171 (Spring 2007).   His article, co-authored with Tamsen Valoir, entitled Patents and Trademarks: The Duty of Good Faith, was published at 89 J. Pat. & Trademark Off. Soc'y 287 (Apr. 2007).

In addition, on July 17, Professor Hricik gave a presentation at the annual meeting of the National Association of Patent Practitioners on the ethical obligations of patent agents in Las Vegas, Nevada.  On August 9 and 10, Professor Hricik presented a lecture on ethics entitled "Protecting Your Clients, Yourself, and Your Business" to attorneys in Kingston, Rhode Island and Bristol, Rhode Island.  

Professor Karen Sneddon gave a presentation entitled "Just the Facts, Ma'm: Using the Presentation of Facts to Enhance Students' Analysis" at the Biennial Conference of the Association of Legal Writing Directors at the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law in Denver, Colorado on June 15, 2007.

Professor Sneddon was also recently appointed as a member of the Executive Committee for the AALS Section on New Law Professors. 

Professor David Ritchie's book, Mastering Legal Analysis and Communications, will be released shortly by Carolina Academic Press.    Information about the book is available online at www.cap-press.com/books/1694

Professor Anthony Baldwin has contributed a chapter to a forthcoming book, published by Vanderbilt Press, that examines the impact of Brown v. Board of Education on the lives of law professors. 

He will also be serving on the University's Professional Sports Counseling Committee. 

Professor Karen Sneddon gave a presentation entitled, Revision in the Classroom: An Alternative to Peer Review, at the Seventh Annual Rocky Mountain Conference at The William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 10 , 2007. 

In addition, her article, Revising Revision in the Classroom, was recently published at 15 No. 2 PERSP. 130 (Winter 2007).

Professor Sneddon and Professor David Hricik will begin publishing Writing Matters,  a regular column about legal writing, in the Georgia Bar Journal in April, 2007. 

On March 12, Professor Linda Jellum spoke at a Georgia State University Law School faculty workshop about her article Chevron's Demise: A Survey of Chevron from Infancy to Senescence.

Professor Hricik’s article, Patent Agents: The Person You Are, was published at 20 Geo. J. legal Ethics 261 (2007).  An article he co-authored with Tamsen Valoir, Trademarks:  The Duty of Candor and Conflicts of Interest, appears in the April 2007 issue of the Journal of the Patent & Trademark Office Society, and his article Mining for Embedded Data: Is it Ethical to Take Intentional Advantage of Other People's Failures?, was published at 8 N.C. J. Law & Tech. 231 (2007).  His article, You Ask for It Back, But Then What?,  was published at 12 Ga. B.J. 22 (June 2007).   

On April 12, Professor Hricik gave a one-hour presentation on Concurrent Conflicts in Patent Practice to the 2007 Georgia SpringPosium Intellectual Property CLE Symposium in Atlanta, Georgia.  On April 26, he appeared with Richard Zielinski and John A. Default at a plenary session at the ABA’s Spring 2007 National Legal Malpractice Conference, speaking on Managing the Expert Witness – An Advanced Discussion.  On April 30, he served on a panel discussing ethical issues in trademark practice at the International Trademark Association's annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois.He also presented lectures on Conflicts and Liability in Patent Practice for the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s Advanced Prosecution Seminar in Washington, D.C. on June 7, 2007, Minneapolis Minnesota on June 14th, and in Portland, Oregon, on June 21st.

In addition, Carolina Academic Press announced the forthcoming publication of Professor Hricik's book, Mastering Civil Procedure. 

In March, Professor Harold Lewis spoke at the Advanced Employment Law Conference, sponsored by the Atlanta Bar Association's Labor and Employment Law Section, regarding offensive and defensive uses of Georgia's offer of judgment rule in tort cases arising from employment. 

On January 26, 2007, Professor Jim Fleissner spoke at a symposium hosted by Chapman University Law School in Orange County, California.  The symposium was entitled “Miranda at 40: Applications in a Post-Enron, Post-9-11 World.”  The symposium’s keynote speaker was former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese. Professor Fleissner presentation was on “Miranda and the Law of Privileges.”

Associate Professor of Law David Ritchie has been invited to speak on U.S. law and jurisprudence in Brazil.  On November 27, 2006 he will speak to the bar association for the City of Rio de Janeiro.  On November 29, 2006 he will deliver a lecture on “Constitutional Hybridism” at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas School of Law.  He will also give a lecture at Universidade Gama Filho, Rio de Janeiro on December 7, 2006.  Finally, on December 15, 2006 he will give the closing address for the academic session at the Escola da Magistratura Regional Federal da 2ª Região [EMARF].  This final talk will be delivered to all the federal judiciary for the State of Rio de Janeiro.

On January 13, 2007, Professor Hricik served on a panel discussing ethical issues in office management at the 2007 Chicago Law Practice Management & Technology Law Conference.   On February 7, he gave a presentation to the Middle Georgia Trial Lawyer's Association on the ethical issues created by embedded data, and on February 9, he gave a telephonic presentation on ethical issues associated with patent agents to lawyers, patent agents and professionals employed by 3M in Minnesota and Texas.  On March 2, he gave a presentation in Dallas, Texas at the 20th Annual State Bar of Texas Intellectual Property Course on Ethical Issues in Opinions of Counsel and in Working with Patent Agents.

On March 24, Professor Hricik served on two panels at the American Bar Association’s 2007 TechShow meeting in Chicago, Illinois.  At the show, which drew more than 2,000 participants, Professor Hricik spoke on ethical issues in high technology, including website disclaimers, and addressed the issues created by inadvertent transmission of embedded data. 

Professor Stephen Johnson recently authored The Rulemaking Response to Rapanos, which was published in a Vermont Law School compilation of essays on the Supreme Court's Rapanos v. United States decision.  He also co-authored a supplement to WETLANDS LAW AND POLICY, an ABA book that he co-edited in 2005.  Finally, he was appointed to the Book Publications Committee of the ABA, Section of Environment, Energy and Natural Resources.

On September 22, 2006, Professor Hricik finished his series of five lectures on behalf of the Rhode Island Bar Association on Death, Office Disasters and Other More Common Dilemmas.

On September 29, 2006, he gave a presentation on Ethical Issues Facing Information Technology Lawyers at the 6th Annual Virginia Information Technology Legal Institute in Fairfax, VA. 

On October 13, 2006, Professor Hricik spoke in Chapel Hill, North Carolina at the University of North Carolina School of Law Symposium, "Ghosts in the Machine,” concerning the new e-discovery rules and related matters. 

On October 14, 2006, Professor Hricik spoke in Galveston, Texas at the Houston Intellectual Property Law Association Annual Meeting on Ethical Issues in IP Practice.

On October 19, 2006, he appeared on a panel with Judge Sharon Prost of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and Judge Kent A. Jordan of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware at a plenary session of the Annual Meeting of the American Intellectual Property Law Association in Washington D.C.  The panel discussed willful patent infringement. In addition, Professor Hricik gave a presentation at the same meeting on ethical issues facing patent agents.

Finally, Professor Hricik was interviewed by the National Law Journal concerning the impact of a case scheduled for October 4, 2006 oral argument before the US Supreme Court that involves questions of statutory interpretation, patent law and policy, and subject matter jurisdiction.

November activities: On November 10, Professor Hricik presented a webcast to approximately 400 attorneys on Ethical issues for Patent Agents and Their Employers on behalf of the American Intellectual Property Law Association. On November 17, he moderated a panel presentation on ethical issues in patent prosecution and participated as a panel member addressing ethical issues in intellectual property litigation at Loyola Los Angeles Law School, as part of the school's Seventh IP Special Focus symposium.

December activities: On December 8, Professor Hricik gave a webcast for the American Intellectual Property Law Association entitled "Navigating Conflicts of Interest in Patent Prosecution."  In addition, on the same day, he gave a presentation on behalf of the Law School's continuing legal education program, providing an update on ethical issues.

The Journal of Legal Writing recently published an article of Professor Linda Edwards as the lead article of its volume: "Scholarship by Legal Writing Professors: New Voices in the Legal Academy," 11 J. Leg. Writing 3. This 212-page article is the culmination of a massive project analyzing the purposes of legal scholarship and applying those purposes to categories of scholarship about legal writing. It includes an extensive bibliography of publications by legal writing professors.  She has also recently completed the second edition of her book, "Legal Writing and Analysis," published by Aspen Publishers, and consulted at the Asylum Law Clinic at the Villanova University School of Law, where she worked with faculty members to improve the Sudanese Asylum Clinic at the University of Malta. 

Professor Linda Jellum, with Professor Russell Weaver at the Brandeis School of Law, co-authored Chenery II and the Development of Federal Administrative Law, which is forthcoming in 58 ADMIN. L. REV. ___ (2006). 

Professor Jack Sammons spoke on the topic of "St. Paul and Freedom of Expression" to the Mercer University Faculty/Staff Christian Fellows on September 19th.   In the spring, he presented a paper on "St. Augustine, Lying, and  Lawyers" at Baylor University School of Law.  This summer, he taught a course on "Comparative Free Expression Law" at the University of Granada School of Law as part of the Stetson International Law Program.

Professor Ted Blumoff's article, "The Problems with Blaming," will be published this fall as a chapter in a book titled Law, Mind and Brain by Ashgate Publishing (London).

Professor David Hricik was recently invited to serve as the Editor of the Statutory Construction Blog, which is part of the Law Professor Blogs Network.  You can read Professor Hricik's blog at http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/statutory/

Professor Jim Fleissner recently got a favorable decision in an appeal in which he served as counsel on behalf of the United States in his role as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney.  On August 1, 2006, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued an opinion in favor of the government in New York Times v. Alberto Gonzales, a case in which Professor Fleissner filed briefs and presented oral argument.  On August 26, 2006, Professor Fleissner was a guest speaker at the national convention of the Society of Professional Journalists in Chicago.  Professor Fleissner discussed recent litigation over the scope of journalists' privilege to protect confidential sources and proposals for a new federal shield law. 

Modern Statutory Interpretation - Problems, Theories and Lawyering Strategies, by Professor Linda Jellum and Professor David Hricik, has been published by the Carolina Academic Press.

On April 7^th, Professor Jim Fleissner was a featured speaker at the 19^th Annual Media and the Law Seminar in Kansas City, Missouri.  Over 200 media lawyers and members of the press attended the seminar.  Professor Fleissner spoke on government subpoenas issued to the media in criminal cases.  On March 15th, Professor Fleissner made two presentations at a training program for the three U.S. Attorneys Offices in Georgia.  Professor Fleissner’s part-time service as deputy to Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald in the prosecution of I. Lewis Libby has included recent involvement in responding to various pretrial motions concerning discovery and other matters.  Professor Fleissner was the principal author of the response of the United States filed on March 17^th to the defendant’s motion to dismiss the indictment on the ground that the delegation of authority to the Special Counsel was not in conformity with the Appointments Clause of the Constitution.

On February 13, 2006, Professor Jim Fleissner, representing the United States as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, argued on behalf of the government before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in The New York Times Co. v. Alberto Gonzales.  The argument was held at the Thurgood Marshall Federal Courthouse in Manhattan.  The New York Times was represented by Floyd Abrams of Cahill, Gordon & Reindel.  The case involves the government’s efforts to obtain from telephone companies the toll records of two New York Times reporters in an inquiry into whether government officials leaked information compromising law enforcement actions against two Islamic charities being investigated for funding terrorist activities.  This is one of several matters Professor Fleissner has continued to work on since returning to the law school in July after a leave of absence during which he served in the Department of Justice.  

Articles by Professor Stephen Johnson regarding the Information Quality Act were recently published in the Administrative Law Review and the Catholic University Law Review.  "Junking the Junk Science Law: Reforming the Information Quality Act" appears at 58 Admin. L. Rev. 963 (2006).  "Ruminations on Dissemination: Limits on Administrative and Judicial Review Under the Information Quality Act" appears at 55 Cath. U. L. Rev. 101 (2005). 

The American Bar Association has released a report that concludes that Georgia should place a moratorium on seeking the death penalty because it cannot ensure fairness in defendants' trials and appeals.  The report was prepared by a task force of 10 Georgia attorneys, including Professors Jack Sammons and Tim Floyd.   

Professor Hricik gave presentations (1) on "The Ethics of Blawgging" at the first annual seminar on Blog Law and Blogging for Lawyers in San  Francisco on April 20-21; (2) to the Washington State Intellectual Property Law Section of the Washington Bar Association in Seattle on March 24 on Ethical Issues in Patent, Trademark and Copyright Practice; and (3) at the University of Akron School of Law at the 8th Annual Richard C. Sughrue Symposium on Intellectual Property Law and Policy on Prosecution Bars and other Issues Associated with Combining Other Forms of Representation with Prosecution on March 6, 2006.  In addition, he moderated panel discussions (1) in Vancouver, Canada on June 1, 2006 on "Ethical Issues in the Online Delivery of Legal Services" at the ABA National Conference on Professional Responsibility; and (2)  in Palm Springs, California on February 4, 2006 on “Ethical Issues in Intellectual Property Practice” at the Spring Stated Meeting of the American Intellectual Property Law Association. Further, an article he co-authored along with his research assistant, Amy Falkingham, entitled "Lawyers Still Worry Too Much About Transmitting E-Mail Over the Internet" was published at 10 J. Tech. L. & Pol'y 265 (2005), his article entitled, "The Speed of Normal: Conflicts, Competency, and Confidentiality in the Digital Age" was published at 10 Comp. Law Rev. & Tech. J. 73 (2006), and his article entitled, "I Can Tell When You're Telling Lies: Ethics and Embedded Confidential Information" was published at 30 J. Legal Prof. 79 (2006). 

On February 13, Professor Ted Blumoff will be presenting a paper at the Law, Mind and Brain Conference in London.  The conference is sponsored by the University College London Law Faculty and the Gruter Institute.  The paper will be published by the University College London. 

 Professor Jack Sammons' article "Rebellious Ethics and Albert Speer" has been republished as a chapter in Eric Katz, Death by Design: Science, Technology, and Engineering in Nazi Germany (2006).  Professor Sammons currently serves either as a consultant or on the executive committees of the following: State Bar of Georgia Task Force on Lawyer Advertising, the Georgia/ABA Death Penalty Moratorium Committee, The Georgia Committee for Ethical Judicial Campaigns, and the State Bar of Georgia Standards of the Profession Task Force. He will present his paper "Censoring Samba: An Aesthetic Justification of Freedom of Speech" at Stetson College of Law in February and his paper "A Lawyer's Truth" at Baylor School of Law in March.

At the January meeting of the Association of American Law Schools in Washington, D.C., Professor David Brennen was elected chair of the Minority Groups section and chair-elect of the Taxation section.

Professor Stephen Johnson is serving as co-counsel with the Environment and Natural Resources Law Clinic at Vermont Law School to file an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the Association of State Wetlands Managers in Rapanos v. United States. The Court will hear arguments on the case in February.

Professor Linda Edwards has been elected to serve a three-year term on the Board of Governors of the Society of American Law Teachers.  SALT is America's largest membership organization for teachers of law.  It is dedicated to developing legal institutions with greater equality, justice and excellence.

Professor Hricik was appointed to chair the Ethics and Professionalism Committee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association. On October 29, 2005, he gave a presentation on Ethical Issues That Arise From Combining Prosecution with Litigation at the Plenary Session of the Association's Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. 

He also recently (1) gave a presentation on Ethical Issues in the Entertainment and Intellectual Property Law Practices at the 17th Annual Entertainment & Intellectual Property Law Conference at San Juan Puerto Rico on November 11, 2005; (2) spoke in Des Moines, Iowa on December 2 to the Iowa State Bar association's 2005 Federal Practice Committee on ethics and Expert Witnesses in Civil Litigation; (3) spoke in washington, D.C., on December 5 at the Intellectual Property Owners' association Annual PTO Day meeting on ethical Issues from Combining Litigation with Prosecution; and (4) gave a panel presentation on Using Technology Solutions to Minimize Legal Malpractice at the National Forum on LPL/ Malpractice on January 20, 2006, in Miami Beach, Florida.

In addition, his article, "To Whom it May Concern: Using Disclaimers to Avoid Disqualification by Receipt of Unsolicited E-mail from Prospective Clients", was published at 16 The Professional Lawyer 1 (Oct. 2005).  Another article that he co-authored with a Mercer student, Amy Falkingham, entitled, Lawyers Still Worry Too Much About Transmitting E-mail Over the Internet, was published at 11 U. Florida J. L. & Pub. Pol’y 265 (2005).

He was also quoted (1) in an ABA e-Journal article by Geri L. Dreiling, entitled Don't Buy This Ad: Missouri to Require Disclaimer Telling Potential Clients to Look Deeper (2) in an article on whether the U.S. Supreme Court will grant certiorari in a decision concerning e-mail privacy and the federal wiretap statutes.  Helen W. Gunnarsson, Victory for State Farm in Class Action Appeal, Ill. B.J. 18 (Oct. 2005); (3) in an article concerning the patent defense of inequitable conduct in Philip Jones, How to Avoid Losing Your Patent in 19 The Scientist 34 (Nov. 7 2005); and (4) in Attorney Coupon Offer Clipped, 5 ABA Journal E-Report 4 (Jan. 20, 2006).  Finally, an article co-authored by Professor Hricik, entitled "Arbitration Clauses for On-Going Relationships" was selected by the Houston Bar Foundation for its annual Outstanding Legal Article Award.