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Polly J. Price

Professor of Law; Associated Faculty, Department of History

Torts and American legal history

Polly J. Price joined the Emory Law School faculty in 1995. An honors graduate of Harvard Law School, Professor Price clerked for Judge Richard S. Arnold of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. Following her clerkship she practiced law for several years at King & Spalding in Atlanta and Washington, D.C. While a student at Emory, Price was a Bobby Jones Scholar, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and point guard for the women’s basketball team. She was a teaching fellow in a Harvard undergraduate course while a student at Harvard Law School.

At Emory, she has taught torts, legal methods, American legal history, pretrial litigation, Latin American legal systems, and seminars in tort law and legal history. She also taught courses in American Constitutional History, Torts and Product Liability at the law faculty in Dresden, Germany, and she has twice lectured at the Free University of Berlin. In 2001, Professor Price was the U.S. representative in Pretoria, South Africa, at the Equality Law Conference for South African Judges and Magistrates, under the auspices of a speaker’s grant from the U.S. State Department’s Rule of Law Project. In Fall 2002, Price was a visiting professor at Vanderbilt Law School.

Area of Specialty: Torts, American legal history

Select Publications:
Property Rights: Rights and Liberties Under the Law (2003); “Full Faith and Credit and the Equity Conflict,” 84 Virginia Law Review 747-842 (1998); “Natural Law and Birthright Citizenship in Calvin’s Case (1608),” 9 Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 73-145 (1997).

Education: B.A., M.A., Emory University, 1986; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1989.

 

  
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