B.A. 1967 Duke University; J.D. 1974 University of Georgia School of Law
; M.A.T. 1978 Antioch School of Law.
Member of the Mercer Law Faculty since 1978.
Involvement:
Vice Chair, State Bar of Georgia Task Force on Advertising; Vice Chair, Formal Advisory Opinion Board of the State Bar of Georgia; Executive Committee Member, Georgia/ABA Death Penalty Moratorium Task Force; Executive Committee Member, Georgia Judicial Campaign Ethics Committee; Reporter, Standards of the Bar Committee; National Professionalism Website Advisory Board; Ethics 2000 Advisory Committee; AALS Professional Responsibility Section; AALS Section on Law and Religion; Dan Bradley Fellowship Committee.
Publications:
Some of Professor Sammons articles can be downloaded from http://ssrn.com/author=54430 Recent Selected Publications Include: Justice as Play 2008, A Rhetorician's View of Religious Speech in Civic Argument 2008,The Moral Obligation of Lawyers to Write Well 2008, The Practice of Law as Parable 2008; Censoring Samba: An Aesthetic Justification for the Protection of Speech 2008; Parables and Pedagogy, 2006; Brainerd Currie Biographical Entry (Yale Encyclopedia of Law) 2005; “Cheater!”: The Central Moral Admonition of Legal Ethics, Games, Lusory Attitudes, Internal Perspectives, and Justice, 2004; Traditionalists, Technicians, and Legal Education, 2003; The Georgia Crawl (An Essay on The Theology of the Practice of Law), 2002;The Theology of the Practice of Law Symposium Afterwards: Four Concerns, 2002; Counter Productive? Book Review: ODonovan, Theology of Law and Authority in the English Reformation, 2001; Introduction, Quidsome Balm: The Collected Nonsense of Brainerd Currie, 2000; A Dialogue Concerning Heresy: Thomas More and Legal Ethics,1999; The Radical Ethics of Legal Rhetoricians, 1998; Chief Justice Logan Bleckley: An Introduction, 1998; Brainerd Currie: "I Am The Very Model of a Modern Intellectual", 1997; A Sixth Semester Conversation (Reviews of Kronman "The Lost Lawyer" and Glennon "A Nation Under Lawyers"), 1997; On Being A Good Christian and a Good Lawyer; God, Man, Law, Lawyering, Sandy Koufax, Roger Maris, Orel Hershiser, Looking at the Catcher, and Corked Bats in the Kingdome (With a Brief Appearance by Ty Cobb), 1996; Rank Strangers to Me: Shaffer and Cochrans Friendship Model of Moral Counseling in the Law Office, 1995; Rebellious Ethics and Albert Speer in Against the Grain: New Directions in Professional Ethics (Michael Goldberg, ed.) 1994; Honoring the Law in Communities of Force: Wildman & Terrells Teleology of Practice, 1992. Prof. Sammons essay on Rebellious Ethics has been recently republished in several business ethics texts and in a book collection of articles on professional ethics. An earlier article co-authored with Dr. Russell Cort, The Search for Good Lawyering: A Concept and Model of Lawyering Competencies, has been translated into several languages and was serialized by the ABA. An earlier book, Lawyer Professionalism published by Carolina Academic Press, was adopted at numerous law schools as required reading for legal ethics courses and was distributed to all members of several commissions on professionalism around the country..
Honors:
Griffin B. Bell Professor of Law; Brainerd Currie Honor Society; Most Distinguished Professor Award, Class of 2005; Senior Class Speaker, Class of 2006; Most Distinguished Professor Award, Class of 2007; Graduation Hooder, Class of 2008.
Teaches:
First Amendment (Freedom of Speech and Press), Evidence, Law and Religion, Legal Ethics Seminar, Comparative International Protection of Free Speech (Stetson International Law Program - Granada, SP).
Recent Speeches:
"The Practice of Law as Parable," (Seattle University School of Law Symposium "Law, Religion, and Pluralism" 2008); "St. Paul and Free Speech," (Mercer FSCF 2006); "St. Augustine and the Lying Lawyer" (Baylor School of Law, National Conference of Religiously Affiliated Law Schools, 2006); "Censoring Samba: An Aesthetic Grounding of Free Speech" (Stetson School of Law Faculty Development Exchange Program, 2005); Comments on Professionalism Among the Professions (University Colloquium on Professionalism, 2005); "A Rhetorician’s View of Religious Speech in Civic Argument" (Oxford University Symposium on The Publicity of Reasons, 2004); "Cheating and the Ethics of the Practice of Law (Macon/Mercer CLE 2004);"Method as Message" (Lilly Colloquim. 2004); "A Response to Robert Audis Religious Commitments and Secular Reasons" (University of Arksansas 2003); "An Update on Legal Ethics in Ga." (M/M CLE Program 2003); "A Christian Perspective on the Law as Rhetoric" (CLS National Scholars Symposium 2002); "Opening Plenary Session: An Examination of the Justifications for Our Jury System" (Georgia Jury Summit Conference 2002); "An Evaluation of Competency Based Evaluation", National Conference of Bar Examiners, 2001); "Testing for Legal Ethics: Can Performance Based Testing Measure Ethical Fitness?" (Georgia State Board of Bar Examiners 2001).
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