Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
Associate Professor Laura Phillips-Sawyer and her book American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the ‘New Competition,’ 1890-1940 were featured on Deutschlandfunk (German public radio) regarding John D. Rockefeller and antitrust laws in America. The segment titled "Aufstieg und Zerschlagung des Rockefeller-Konzerns" ("Rise and breakup of the Rockefeller corporation") was hosted by Caspar Dohmen and aired 11/2/22.
Hosch Professor & Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor Lori A. Ringhand was featured in the Savannah Morning News regarding the potential impacts of Georgia's Senate runoff election. The article titled "Georgia's runoff will determine if Senate is split 50-50 or 51-49. What's the difference?" was written by Abraham Kenmore and published 11/28/22. The article was reprinted in USA Today and other outlets.
Hosch Professor & Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor Lori A. Ringhand was featured in Vox regarding voting in Georgia's Senate runoff election. The article titled "The high stakes and unique weirdness of the Georgia Senate runoff, briefly explained" was written by Li Zhou and published 11/25/22.
Brumby Distinguished Professor in First Amendment Law Sonja R. West co-authored "Presuming Trustworthiness," based on her presentation at the Columbia University Knight First Amendment Institute symposium titled "Lies, Free Speech, and the Law" (with R.A. Jones) earlier this year.
President Joe Biden will soon sign the Safe Connections Act into law. The legislation, which seeks to help survivors of domestic violence sever ties with their abusers by offering a path to more easily separate from shared wireless service plans, was unanimously passed by the U.S. Senate. Assistant Professor Thomas E. Kadri, whose research focuses on law and technology with an emphasis on technology-enabled abuse, has been an adviser on the text of the bipartisan legislation. He offers insight into the new law.