Emily H. Meazell
Associate Professor of Law
B.S., cum laude, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 1996
J.D., summa cum laude, University of Georgia School of Law, 2002
Emily Hammond Meazell joined the OU Law faculty in fall 2007 after having served as a visiting professor at the University of Georgia School of Law. She will be teaching torts, administrative law, local government law, and law and science.
Professor Meazell began her legal career as a law clerk to Judge Richard W. Story of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Following her clerkship, she served as an associate at the law firm Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP in Atlanta, Georgia. While with the firm, she worked on all aspects of civil litigation in cases ranging from complex business disputes to pro bono civil rights suits.
Professor Meazell graduated summa cum laude from the University of Georgia School of Law, where she was inducted into the Order of the Coif, elected to the Order of Barristers and served as a senior notes editor of the Georgia Law Review. A former civil engineer who practiced in the environmental field prior to attending law school, Professor Meazell earned a B.S., cum laude, from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where she was inducted into Tau Beta Pi. She focuses her research on the intersections of science and law. Her scholarship includes several peer-reviewed scientific publications as well as the first comprehensive empirical study of part-time policies and practices in Atlanta Law firms.