Today on Athens News Matters, a local poet wins a statewide award. Plus, a law professor discusses how mass harm lawsuits can better benefit victims.
UGA poetry student wins John Lewis Writing Grant
O-Jeremiah Agbaakin is a PhD student in the Creative Writing Program in the Department of English at the University of Georgia, specializing in poetry. He sat down with WUGA last year to discuss the poet’s role in society.
The Nigeria-born artist recently won the John Lewis Writing Grant in Poetry from the Georgia Writers Association. Inspired by the late Civil Rights icon, the grant gives support to Black writers in Georgia.
Agbaakin joined WUGA’s Emma Auer once again to explore his changing views on poetry and to read his latest work.
UGA Law professor uncovers legal scam in new book
Across the US, thousands of women have sued pelvic mesh manufacturers, and some have fallen prey to a lawsuit scheme designed to profit every player but the victims themselves.
Dr. Elizabeth Chamblee Burch is the Fuller E. Callaway Chair of Law at the University of Georgia. She recently published a book on this scam, a culmination of years of research. The Pain Brokers: How Con Men, Call Centers, and Rogue Doctors Fuel America’s Lawsuit Factory came out in January.
She sat down with WUGA’s Emma Auer to discuss the work and the future of personal-injury litigation.
