Starting this fall, Assistant Professor María P. Angel will lead courses in the areas of torts, data privacy, and AI law and policy.

Angel most recently served as a resident fellow with the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. She has also held lecturer positions at the Universidad Sergio Arboleda, the Universidad Externado de Colombia and the Universidad del Rosario.

A Fulbright Scholar, she is the author of the book The Datafied Public Administration, Governing through Big Data. She has also written: “From Privacy to the Data Economy: The FTC’s Reframing of its Regulatory Priorities” in the Arizona State Law Journal (forthcoming), “Privacy’s Algorithmic Turn” in the Boston University Journal of Science and Technology Law and “Distinguishing Privacy: A Critique of Privacy as Social Taxonomy” in the Columbia Law Review (co-authored).

Angel earned her bachelor’s and law degrees from the Universidad de los Andes and her LL.M. in administrative law from the Universidad del Rosario. In 2024, she received her Ph.D. in Law from the University of Washington, where she served as an articles editor of the Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts.

Mateusz “Matt” Blaszczyk joined the School of Law as an assistant professor, teaching in the areas of property, law and technology, and intellectual property as well as an undergraduate course titled Law, AI and Ethics.

He comes to UGA from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was a Research Fellow in Law and Mobility and co-led a seminar on emerging technologies and the law. Previously, he was a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and served as a law clerk at the U.S. Copyright Office and as a judicial intern at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

His recent articles include: “Copyright’s Nominal Humanism” in the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review (forthcoming), “Copyright Doctrine before the Tribunal of Science” in the Journal of the Copyright Society and “Impossibility of Emergent Works’ Protection in U.S. and EU Copyright Law” in the North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology.

Blaszczyk earned his LL.B. from King’s College London and his LL.M. from Georgetown University. During his studies, he was senior editor of the King’s Student Law Review Forum, an LL.M. adviser and editor of the Georgetown Journal of International Law, and a visiting editor of the University of Bologna Law Review.

Clinical Assistant Professor Brenda J. Gohr became the School of Law’s new director of the Veterans Legal Clinic earlier this year, replacing longtime Clinical Professor Alexander W. “Alex” Scherr, who retired in June.

Currently holding the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, Gohr has more than 15 years of military service (both active duty and reserve) in the U.S. Air Force. Her work has encompassed military justice matters, operations law and civil law issues in addition to service in the Office of Disability Counsel.

Beyond her military work, she most recently served as of counsel for The Veteran’s Advocate and operated her own legal practice specializing in veteran and military law. Gohr also served as an assistant appellate defender for the Iowa Office of the State Public Defender from 2016 to 2019 and as an independent contractor for the law firm Gary Myers, Daniel Conway and Associates during 2015 and 2016.

She earned her B.A. cum laude from Bowling Green State University and her Juris Doctor from the Mitchell Hamline School of Law.

Taylor Nchako will join the School of Law in the fall semester of 2027 as an assistant professor. She will teach property, environmental law, and a U.S. trade in Africa seminar.

She is presently serving as a staff attorney for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Previously, she was the Climate and Clean Energy Fellow for two years at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, where she also taught an environmental justice seminar in the spring of 2025.

Her scholarship includes “ESG Backlash in the United States – Investor Concerns or ‘Red Scare’?” in the Journal of Law and Political Economy as well as the forthcoming articles “A Strategic Approach to ESG Reporting” and “Reimagining International Investment Law for the Age of Minerals” in the Lewis & Clark and Washington & Lee law reviews, respectively.

Nchako earned two bachelor’s degrees summa cum laude from UGA and a J.D. cum laude from the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, where she served as the online editor-in-chief of the Northwestern University Law Review.

Laurie Ann Taylor joined the School of Law this fall as a lecturer. She will teach legal writing.

Before coming to UGA, she served as counsel at Bondurant Mixson & Elmore. She also worked for one year as an attorney advisor at the U.S. Copyright Office in Washington, D.C., where she researched and drafted sections of the office’s advisory reports on artificial intelligence.

She previously clerked for Judge Cormac J. Carney of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and interned for Judge Timothy C. Batten Sr. (J.D.’84) of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

Taylor earned her Bachelor of Arts with highest honors from Emory University and her Master of Music in Voice Performance from the University of Michigan. She received her Juris Doctor cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she served as the editor-in-chief of the Harvard Negotiation Law Review and symposium chair of the Harvard Journal of Legislation as well as earned the Harvard Certificate of Distinction in Teaching twice.

Her teaching experience includes multiple fellowships held at Harvard University while attending law school. She was the head teaching fellow for the law school’s CopyrightX course and the undergraduate Conflict Resolution in a Divided World course.

Last fall, the School of Law appointed Myles B. Solomon as the director of its new Sports Law Program, which is designed to provide students a solid foundation in the rapidly evolving and complex legal landscape of athletic pursuits.

While working as a lawyer and agent for more than 20 years, he specialized in the representation of NCAA Division I football coaches, basketball coaches and athletic directors. In addition, he has represented coaches and universities in NCAA infractions cases and compliance reviews. Having represented NFL players as an NFLPA-licensed agent, he has also been at the forefront of NIL representation, serving as general counsel for two NIL-athlete-agent-representation firms.

He previously served as an adjunct professor at the University of South Carolina in the sport and entertainment management department, where he taught Contracts and Negotiations in addition to Sports Law. He also spent seven years as an attorney with the litigation firm Bassi, Edlin, Huie & Blum in San Francisco.

Solomon earned his Bachelor of Science in Sport Administration and his Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina.

Tim Wilson was appointed the digital initiatives and technology librarian at the Alexander Campbell King Law Library during the spring. He is responsible for the management and development of the law school’s institutional repository and archives, while also participating in the overall operation of the law library.

He comes to UGA with almost eight years of library experience, with approximately six years at law libraries. Wilson most recently held the position of digital collections and scholarly services librarian at Florida International University. Previously, he was an electronic resources librarian at the Georgetown Law Library and an electronic services librarian at the St. Mary’s University School of Law. Additionally, he served as a web services librarian for the University of Texas at Dallas for two years.

Wilson’s other experience includes serving as a web developer/specialist and teaching abroad in Ukraine (through the U.S. Peace Corps) and in the Czech Republic.

Wilson earned his Bachelor of Arts, Juris Doctor and Master of Library and Information Sciences from the University of Alabama.

Melissa C. McCall became the Alexander Campbell King Law Library’s instruction and faculty services librarian earlier this year. As such, she guides faculty and student research with materials, instruction and other resources.

McCall’s legal career began in the U.S. Virgin Islands. She served as a judicial clerk for Judge Patricia D. Steele of the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands. She was subsequently appointed by the governor as legal counsel in the Division of Environmental Protection, where she would later serve as director. She also worked as an associate at the Law Office of Andrew C. Simpson in St. Croix.

Her other legal experience includes serving as a legal analyst for the Delaware Department of State through Epiq and working as an administrative hearing officer for the state governments of Texas and Missouri through Robert Half.

McCall earned her B.A. from Binghamton University, her J.D. from Syracuse University, her M.S. from Stony Brook University and her M.L.I.S. from the University of Washington.