Anne S. Emanuel
Professor of Law Emerita- Education
J.D., Emory University School of Law
- Specializations
Criminal Law & Procedure
Legal History
Trusts and Estates
- Biography
Anne S. Emanuel, professor of law emerita, teaches in the areas of criminal law and criminal procedure, wills & trusts and fiduciary administration. She is a 1975 graduate of the Emory University School of Law, where she served as editor in chief of the Emory Law Review. After graduation, she clerked for Judge Elbert P. Tuttle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. Emanuel released an authorized biography of Judge Tuttle in 2012, Elbert Parr Tuttle: Chief Jurist of the Civil Rights Revolution, and has published four articles in connection with that project.
Emanuel worked for two years with the Atlanta law firm, Huie, Brown & Ide. The firm represented Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, and Emanuel worked on issues that rose out of construction of the East Line. She left the practice and returned to clerking, in the office of Chief Justice Harold N. Hill of the Georgia Supreme Court, for whom she worked for eight years. After Chief Justice Hill’s retirement, she joined the Georgia State Law faculty.
Emanuel served as reporter for the Trust Code Revision Committee, whose work was enacted as the Georgia Trust Act of 1991. She has been a member of the Board of the Federal Defenders Inc. for the Northern District of Georgia and of the Atlanta Bar Association, and a long-term board member of the Georgia Center for Law in the Public Interest, now Greenlaw Inc., and the Formal Advisory Opinion Board of the State Bar of Georgia.
From 2004-2006, she served as chair of Georgia’s ABA Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Committee; that work culminated in the publication of Evaluating Fairness and Accuracy in State Death Penalty Systems: The Georgia Death Penalty Assessment Report. Also, from 2004-06, she served as associate dean for academic affairs.
In early 2012, Emanuel received the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southern Center for Human Rights as well as the Lifetime Commitment to Public Service Award from the Emory Public Interest Committee.
- Publications
Books
Anne Emanuel, Elbert Parr Tuttle: Chief Jurist of the Civil Rights Revolution (2011).
Anne S. Emanuel, Chair, Evaluating Fairness and Accuracy in State Death Penalty Systems: The Georgia Death Penalty Assessment Report (American Bar Association Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project Assessments Project 2006).
Book Chapters
Alfred C. Aman & Anne S. Emanuel, Clerking for Judge Elbert Tuttle: A Privileged Witness, in Of Courtiers and Princes: Stories of Lower Court Clerks and Their Judges (Todd C. Peppers, ed. 2020).
Articles
Anne S. Emanuel, Judge Kravitch, Litig., Spr. 2020, at 12.
Anne S. Emanuel, Constance Baker Motley: 1921-2005, SCLC Nat'l Mag., Winter 2006, at 106.
Anne S. Emanuel, The Tuttle Trilogy: Habeas Corpus and Human Rights, 10 J. S. Legal Hist. 5 (2002).
Anne S. Emanuel, Forming the Historic Fifth Circuit: The Eisenhower Years, 6 Tex. F. on C.L. & C.R. 233 (2002-2003).
Anne S. Emanuel, Turning the Tide in the Civil Rights Revolution: Elbert Tuttle and the Desegregation of the University of Georgia, 5 Mich. J. Race & L. 1 (1999-2000).
Anne S. Emanuel, Book Review, Ga. B. J., April 1997, at 40 (reviewing Martha Grace Duncan, Romantic Outlaws, Beloved Prisons: The Unconscious Meanings of Crime and Punishment (1996)).
Anne S. Emanuel, Judge Tuttle Honored by ACLU, Ga. Civ. Liberties, Fall 1996.
Anne S. Emanuel, Lynching and the Law in Georgia Circa 1931: A Chapter in the Legal Career of Judge Elbert Tuttle, 5 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 215 (1996-1997).
Anne S. Emanuel, Spendthrift Trusts: It's Time to Codify the Compromise, 72 Neb. L. Rev. 179 (1993).
Anne S. Emanuel, The Georgia Trust Act, Ga. St. B. J., Nov. 1991, at 95.
Anne S. Emanuel, The Guilty But Mentally Ill Plea and Verdict: An Eighth Amendment Analysis, 68 N.C. L. Rev. 37 (1989).
Anne S. Emanuel, The Concurrent Sentence Doctrine Dies a Quiet Death -- or are the Reports Greatly Exaggerated?, 16 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 269 (1988).
Anne S. Emanuel, An Analysis of Alternatives to Incarceration in Georgia : A Special Research Project, 24 Emory L.J. Supp. 1 (1975).
Popular Press
Anne Emanuel, A Portrait of Courage, GSU Mag., Spring 2012, at 9.
Anne S. Emanuel, When Finality is More Important Than Certainty, Fulton County Daily Rep., Dec. 16, 2011, at 9.
Anne S. Emanuel, Davis Backers Come in All Stripes, Atlanta J.-Const., Oct. 27, 2008, at A9.
Anne S. Emanuel, Lawyer’s Calling Was Civil Rights: Constance Baker Motley, 1921-2005, Atlanta J.-Const., Oct. 10, 2005, at A13.
Anne S. Emanuel, Death Penalty: It's Inaccurate, Unfair, Ineffective, Atlanta J.-Const., May 2, 2008, at A13.
Other
Anne S. Emanuel, Biographical Sketch of Judge Tuttle, American National Biography (Oxford U. Press ed. 2001).