Main content

Browse recent writing, presentations, accolades, and media mentions.

Our scholarly community

A Dynamic Faculty

Emory Law faculty research represents a wide range of scholarship that includes books, articles, essays, symposia, and presentations. Their writing appears in leading journals and many lecture around the world. Our community fosters respect, collegiality, and collaboration in scholarship, teaching, learning, and service.

Faculty profiles
Emory Law faculty
Faculty Spotlight

Joanna M. Shepherd

Joanna Shepherd is vice dean and Thomas Simmons Professor of Law. She is a nationally recognized expert on judicial behavior, judicial elections, tort reform, and empirical legal studies. She is the co-author, with Michael Kang, of the recent Free to Judge: The Power of Campaign Money in Judicial Elections (Stanford 2023). She has also published broadly in law reviews, legal journals and economics journals including Stanford Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Southern California Law Review, New York University Law Review, Duke Law Journal, UCLA Law Review, The Journal of Legal Studies, and the Journal of Law & Economics. Shepherd’s research has been cited by numerous courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court in Glossip v. Gross (2015) and Williams-Yulee v. Florida Bar (2015). She has testified about her empirical work before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Academy of Sciences, and before several state legislative committees.

Read full bio
Joanna M. Shepherd
Apr
18
GBS Veterans and Diversity KEGS
Coca-Cola Commons, GBS
4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Faculty Events

Loading...

Latest Insights Issue

In this issue of Emory Law Insights, we are sharing excerpts from three great books by Emory Law faculty. The publications explore a wide range of topics, including faculty tenure, judicial election campaigns, as well as the relationship between racism, international criticism, and social change in the U.S. during the Cold War. These are just three books of many important contributions from Emory Law faculty this year. For more, check out our scholarship news archives and faculty pages.

Read the issue
Latest Insights

Faculty in the News

Emory Law Faculty Scholarship Newsletters