A. Kenyatta Greer

Seeking social justice through sustainable energy
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that in 2018 there were 63.1 million tons of food waste — 35.3 million tons of which went to American landfills. Currently, the EPA reports that more than 22 percent of landfilled waste in the United States is food waste. And, while food waste does decompose, nasty things happen when all the food we throw out piles up in our communities.
A. Kenyatta Greer
As those tons of food waste decompose...

Students
This weekend, Emory University School of Law held its Degree Candidate Recognition Ceremony, celebrating students who earned doctor of juridical science, juris doctor, master of laws, master of comparative law, juris master, and dual degrees. Nearly 300 students attended in person and approximately 15 student participated virtually, viewing the event as it was live streamed through the school’s website.
The celebratory energy was higher than usual, one faculty member noted; the gymna...

Building community in a cold world
“Coming to law school, for me, has been a valuable exercise in growing as a person, figuring out what is meaningful for me, and determining what I want to spend my energy pursuing,” says Adriano Omar Iqbal 23L, editor-in-chief of the Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal and future trial attorney for the U.S. Trustee Program—the Department of Justice’s bankruptcy oversight arm. What he found, he says, is that he has an ethical imperative to help people to gr...

Beginning with the next admitted class, the Juris Master (JM) degree will have a new name: Master of Legal Studies (MLS).
After extensive research on the evolution of the Juris Master degree across academia — and benchmarking against peer institutions — Emory Law administration determined that the moniker “Master of Legal Studies” is more in line with what schools are now naming programs that offer similar experiences and opportunities. In addition, this new name is more descriptive of the co...

JD student profile
After finishing college in three years — and with two bachelor’s degrees — Nikki Hurtado 24L applied to Emory Law as an Early Decision student.
She was the consummate overachiever: President’s Scholar. Foote Fellow. Magna cum laude graduate from the University of Miami with a Bachelor of Science degree in Education in Sport Administration and one in Human and Social Development.
“I remember receiving my admissions letter from our previous associate dean of admissions, Ethan...

JM student profile
Traditionally, most law school graduates go on to be lawyers.
But for Morieka Johnson 94C 24L and other recipients of the juris master degree, there is the opportunity to learn from world-class legal scholars and take that knowledge into a number of careers that require one to look at situations through a legal framework.
Her work isn’t just law adjacent. She is on staff at the Emory Police Department, a cohort of 43 sworn officers who serve the Emory University, Oxford Col...

On Sunday, May 12, Emory University School of Law graduated more than 300 students during ceremonies held at the Gas South Convention Center in Duluth.
They earned doctor of juridical science, juris doctor, master of laws, and juris master degrees. This was the last time Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law Mary Anne Bobinski will preside over graduation as dean, as she closes her tenure and returns to faculty this summer.
Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law and dean designate Richard D. F...

Professor Nicole Morris, director of the TI:GER (Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results) program, will serve as principal advisor for the inaugural HBCU IP Futures Collaborative, a program that will connect leading faculty at HBCUs to foster best practices for teaching IP to non-law students. In support of this program, the Michelson Institute for Intellectual Property is providing digital curricula, resources, and $25,000 grants to participating institutions.
The HBCU IP Futur...

Scholarship
On April 5, 2024, Emory University School of Law celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project (FLT) with a day of panels featuring prominent international and US feminist legal theorists.
The event culminated in the dedication of the FLT archive in Emory University’s Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library. Initiated in 1984 by Martha A. Fineman, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, the Feminism and Legal Theory Project has remained steadfast in its interdiscipli...

“Coming to law school, for me, has been a valuable exercise in growing as a person, figuring out what is meaningful for me, and determining what I want to spend my energy pursuing,” says Adriano Omar Iqbal, editor-in-chief of the Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal (EBDJ) and future trial attorney for the U.S. Trustee Program, the Department of Justice’s bankruptcy oversight arm. What he found, he says, is that he has an ethical imperative to help people to grow from perceived failures by c...

In the early 1970s, the Warren M. Robbins Library at the National Museum of African Art was looking for weekend guides. Doris Ligon, a then-40-something mother of adult children, was interested in bolstering her knowledge of the African continent, she applied for the job and earned it.
Ligon’s training required her to learn a great deal of information about Africa – not just about its art. It was a “marvelous experience,” she recalls. In 1979, Robbins gave his museum to the Smithsonian, and o...

Adjunct professor Janet Metzger pushes law students outside their comfort zones teaching a class where drama and the law collide.

Law student Tsering Choedon, an India-born Tibetan, is using an Emory Law education and her own life experiences to further the cause of stateless people....

Fashion has no gender.