Foohey appointed to Post Professorship
Pamela Foohey, who teaches in the areas of bankruptcy and secured transactions, was named the Allen Post Professor in early 2025.
A newly elected fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, Foohey focuses her scholarship primarily on empirical studies of bankruptcy and related parts of the legal system, combining quantitative and qualitative techniques. She serves as a co-investigator on the Consumer Bankruptcy Project, a long-term research project studying persons who file bankruptcy. Data from this research project serve as the basis of her recently published co-authored book Debt’s Grip: Risk and Consumer Bankruptcy (University of California Press, August 2025). Her work in business bankruptcy focuses on nonprofit entities, with a particular emphasis on how religious institutions use reorganization. Data from this project are included in her in-progress book Forgive Us Our Debts: How Black Churches Use Bankruptcy to Survive, forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press.
Foohey, who came to UGA in 2024, is also a co-author of Secured Transactions: A Systems Approach, a leading textbook on the topic, and of Commercial Transactions: A Systems Approach. Leading journals publishing her work include the Virginia Law Review, the Southern California Law Review, the Boston College Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review and Law & Contemporary Problems, among others.
Kadri promoted to associate professor
Thomas E. Kadri, who joined the UGA law faculty in 2020, has earned the rank of associate professor with tenure.
Kadri’s research focuses on torts and criminal law, with an emphasis on how technology, law and social norms enable and affect privacy, speech and abuse. His scholarship appears or is forthcoming in journals including the California Law Review, the Harvard Law Review Forum, the UCLA Law Review, the Texas Law Review and the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology.
In 2021, he received a National Science Foundation grant to fund a $750,000 project on digital evidence and privacy rights. As a principal investigator for this interdisciplinary collaboration with computer scientists, he is researching whether artificial intelligence can constrain police discretion in searching digital devices while satisfying constitutional and statutory privacy laws.
Kadri also serves as an affiliated researcher and the legislative & policy director at the Clinic to End Tech Abuse at Cornell University, where he leads the organization’s advocacy efforts and advises federal and state legislators on laws to protect survivors of abuse.
Redmon promoted to clinical associate professor
Prosecutorial Justice Program Director Melissa D. Redmon has been elevated to the rank of clinical associate professor.
She came to UGA in the spring of 2019 after working in the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office for more than 10 years. She tried more than 30 complex cases to completion and served as deputy district attorney of the Public Integrity Unit and as director of the Domestic Violence Policy and Trial Unit. In 2015, she was recognized as the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office Attorney of the Year.
Previously Redmon served as a senior assistant district attorney in Clayton County, worked with Metro Conflict Defenders in Fulton County and handled both criminal and civil matters at the law firm Lawton & Thornton.
Redmon has provided expert analysis to high profile media outlets such as USA Today, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Georgia Public Broadcasting and MSNBC.
Taxel named clinical associate professor
Elizabeth Taxel (J.D.’09), who serves as the director of the Criminal Defense Practicum, has been promoted to clinical associate professor.
Since joining the law school in 2020, Taxel has broadened the reach of the practicum to serve more than 15 counties throughout Georgia. She created the school’s Prisoner Advocacy Project to provide legal advice, support and referrals to individuals who are incarcerated. Additionally, she launched a summer program to support law students working in public defender offices across the nation.
Taxel has remained active in the legal community by serving as a pro bono expert consultant for public defenders on complex felonies. She also conducts trainings on litigation skills and strategy for members of the defense bar.
In 2023, she authored a report for the United Nations Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in Law Enforcement’s visit to Atlanta, focusing on racial disparities and pretrial detention in DeKalb County.
Taylor awarded promotion
Clinical Services and Research Librarian Amy Taylor was elevated to the rank of Librarian III.
She joined the Alexander Campbell King Law Library in 2018, and she leads the unit’s outreach to the law school’s clinical programs in addition to teaching Legal Research, Advanced Legal Research and Georgia Legal Research. From August 2023 to June 2024, she served as the interim associate director of research services.
Active in the American Association of Law Libraries and the Southeastern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries, she has presented at annual meetings in recent years on the topics of active learning implementation and data visualization.
In 2019 she was the recipient of a UGA Affordable Course Materials Grant to help the transition from costly textbooks to open educational resources for her courses.
