Scott Titshaw

Professor Titshaw currently serves as Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development and teaches Property, Immigration Law, and a seminar on Sexuality and the Law. He has previously taught Family Law, International Business Transactions, Real Estate Transactions, Immigration Practice, a Migration Problems and Policy Seminar, and an Asylum and Human Rights Clinic. Professor Titshaw has written extensively on immigration law, comparative law, and family law issues.  He was awarded a 2014-15 Fulbright-Schuman fellowship to complete research on these topics at the European University Institute (E.U.I.) in Florence, Italy, and at Leiden University Law School’s campus in The Hague, The Netherlands. In the fall of 2023, he conducted research on comparative citizenship law at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies in Florence.

Prior to joining the faculty at Mercer, Professor Titshaw was an adjunct professor at the University of Georgia School of Law and practiced immigration and transactional law for twelve years with Arnall Golden Gregory LLP in Atlanta, Georgia.  He also clerked with U.S. District Court Judge Adrian Duplantier in New Orleans, Louisiana, served as a legal translator with Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) in Karlsruhe, Germany, and worked as a visiting foreign attorney with Roedl & Partner GbR in Nuremberg, Germany.

Professor Titshaw earned a B.A. from Georgetown University, a J.D., cum laude, from the University of Georgia School of Law, and an LL.M., magna cum laude, from the Universität Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany.