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How tax laws disadvantage Black Americans but subsidize white Americans

Tax returns are calculated based on income, but a new book highlights how the tax code disproportionately impacts people of color. Dorothy Brown, professor at Emory University School of Law and author of “The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans and How We Can Fix It” joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss.

UGA law school jumps ahead of Emory in recent rankings

U.S. News & World Report released its annual report of law school rankings in March.  This ranking list takes into account every law school in the country. The rankings were out of 197 law schools across the U.S. UGA’s law school jumped up four spots in the list, from number 31 in the 2020 rankings. According to USN, UGA’s 17 schools and colleges offer concurrent enrollment options with the School of Law, which allow students to earn a second degree while in their second and third years of law school. According to a USN article, joint degree programs with the law school include juris doctor and master of business administration through the Terry College of Business, and juris doctor combined with a master’s in education with the College of Education’s sports studies program.  

Immigration Attorney Office Opens in Tifton, GA, headed by Amna Shirazi

Immigration Attorney Office Opens in Tifton, GA, headed by Amna Shirazi News provided by Share this article TIFTON, Ga., May 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/  Amna Shirazi, an award-winning Atlanta immigration lawyer who practices in immigration court, opened an office in Tifton at the beginning of March. Shirazi owns and runs an existing, successful law office in Atlanta, Shirazi Immigration Law, and is expanding her office to the city of Tifton, in order to serve a region (South Georgia) she believes to be underserved when it comes to immigration law. Amna Shirazi s goal for the new branch is to bring the five-star attorney experience of Shirazi Law to the more rural areas of South Georgia.

Gainesville s Darren Hutchinson is inaugural John Lewis Chair at Emory

Years later, in honor of Lewis life and death, he will transition this July from University of Florida Levin College of Law professor to the Emory University School of Law s inaugural John Lewis Chair for Civil Rights and Social Justice. That means a lot to me on a personal and professional level because he is such an important figure in history, Hutchinson said. He was a civil rights advocate. That s who I am. I m not a wealthy donor. I m not a person who had a very powerful background . This would be the first [chair] where it s named after a civil rights and social justice advocate for the purpose of hiring someone to do that work, which makes it special to me.

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