Strategic Plan for the School of Law

A. The State of the Law School This Strategic Plan is written in a different economic climate and is predicated on a different set of fiscal assumptions than the Strategic Plan submitted three years ago. The 1989 Strategic Plan formulated goals for improving the School of Law based on optimistic assumptions about five percent and ten percent increases in state funding levels. This Plan compels us to set priorities after a five percent budget reduction in FY92 that is expected to continue to be reflected in the budget base for future years. The 1989 Strategic Plan, as this one must be, was premised on a recognition of the significant progress made by the School of Law over the past twenty-five years in attracting a first-rate faculty and talented students and in creating an academic program of real excellence. Progress toward goals set in the 1989 Strategic Plan has been made despite an essentially flat state funding level. In fact, after the five percent budget reduction, state funding for the School of Law today is one percent less in inflation-adjusted dollars than seven years ago

The Principle of Nondivisiveness and the Constitutionality of Public Aid to Parochial Schools

The establishment clause issues in the three cases now before the Supreme Court [Tilton v. Richardson, Lemon v. Kurtzman, DiCenso v. Robinison] will be explored in this article in the light of a postulate and three derivative maxims which, it is suggested, are implicit in the Court\u27s earlier religion clause cases, particularly Walz v. Tax Commission. It is the author\u27s view that the establishment clause intends that government no be a divisive force in matters of religion and that analysis grounded in such a premise provides the surest delineation of the interests at stake in establishment clause litigation. Yet in considering the issues involved in aid to parochial schools, it is well to remember the observation of Professor Kurland that [a]nyone suggesting that the answer, as a matter of constitutional law, is clear one way or the other is either deluding or deluded

Discovery Abuse in the State of Georgia – Just How Bad Is It?

How frequently do Georgia lawyers encounter discovery abuse in civil litigation? What are the most prevalent kinds of discovery abuse? Do attorneys who usually represent plaintiffs perceive discovery abuse occurring more often or at about the same rate as attorneys from the defense bar? Is discovery abuse worse in metro-Atlanta than small town Georgia

Current Problems with Venue in Georgia

Georgia\u27s first constitution, the Constitution of 1777, contained a section providing that all matters in dispute between contending parties, residing in different counties, shall be tried in the county where the defendant resides, except in cases of real estate, which shall be tried in the county where such real estate lies. The practice of specifying rules of venue in the constitution thus dates from the very beginning of our state and has been repeated and expanded in subsequent constitutional revisions. The Constitution of 1798, for example, added the rule that joint obligors, residing in different counties, may be sued in the county of residence of either. The Constitution of 1861 included an explicit provision governing the place of venue for equitable actions, and with the adoption of the Constitution of 1868, all the present-day rules of venue had been fixed as part of the fundamental law of the states

Thermal effects on cephalopod energy metabolism - A case study for Sepia officinalis

Cephalopods are the largest, most active invertebrates and there is considerable evidence for their convergent evolution with fishes. However, most active cephalopods display standard and active metabolic rates that are several-fold higher than comparably sized fishes. Shifting habitat temperatures due to climate change will therefore affect a cephalopods energy metabolism much more than that of a fish. Prediction of the probable outcome of cephalopod-fish competition thus requires quantitative information concerning whole animal energetics and corresponding efficiencies. Migrating cephalopods such as squid and cuttlefish grow rapidly to maturity, carry few food reserves and have little overlap of generations. This "live fast, die young" life history strategy means that they require niches capable of sustaining high power requirements and rapid growth. This presentation aims to draw a bottom-up picture of the cellular basis of energy metabolism of the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis, from its molecular basis to whole animal energetics based on laboratory experiments and field data. We assessed the proportionality of standard vs active metabolic rate and the daily energetic requirements using field tracking data in combination with lab based respirometry and video analysis. Effects of environmental temperature on mitochondrial energy coupling were investigated in whole animals using in vivo 31P-NMR spectroscopy. As efficient energy turnover needs sufficient oxygen supply, also thermal effects on the blood oxygen-binding capacities of the respiratory pigment haemocyanin and the differential expression of its isoforms were investigated.Supported by NERC grant NERC/A/S/2002/00812

In Memoriam: Vaughn Charles Ball (1915-1985)

Vaughn C. Ball was the Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law from 1974 until his retirement in 1983. Vaughn\u27s death on December 2, 1985, deprived those of us who were fortunate to know him well of a wonderful colleague whose keen mind, wry humor, and engaging wit added sparkle to any conversation

Strategic Plan for the School of Law

The improvement of the Law School over the past twenty-five years has been a remarkable story of success. To preserve the Law School\u27s hard-won progress and to achieve the goal of moving it into the front ranks of this country\u27s great law schools will require a renewed commitment to its sustained excellence and a substantial enhancement of both private and state resources. The Law School will need some $125,000 in additional state funding for FY90 to get its budget into equilibrium and to maintain its present level of operations. Assuming funding then at the level currently projected, but no additional new resources, the Law School would concentrate its attention on enriching and reshaping incrementally its educational program to achieve an appropriate mix of both theory and skills courses with its already strong core of traditional doctrinal offerings to prepare its graduates for the demands of the legal profession in the Twenty-First Century. Simultaneously, the Law School would pursue the goal of institutionalizing a greater research ethos by seeking ways to meet instructional demands while offering faculty members more opportunities for research through release time from teaching

Book Review: Commentaries on the Constitution of Virginia (1974)

Book review of COMMENTARIES ON THE CONSTITUTION OF VIRGINIA, by A.E. Dick Howard (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1974)