Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch was featured by KPFA regarding her new book, The Pain Brokers: How Con Men, Call Centers, and Rogue Doctors Fuel America’s Lawsuit Factory (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2026). The segment titled “Book Week” aired as part of “The Ralph Nader Radio Hour” hosted by Ralph Nader and broadcast 5/4/26.
Distinguished Research Professor & Shackelford Distinguished Professor in Taxation Law Emeritus Walter Hellerstein published a revised edition of his treatise, State Taxation vols. I-III, 3d ed. (Thomson Reuters, 2026) (co-authored with his late father J. Hellerstein and A. Appleby).
Associate Professor Thomas E. Kadri published “Brokering Safety” (co-authored with C. Sharma & S. Adler) in 114 California Law Review 479 (2026).
Wilson Associate Professor in Business Law Laura Phillips-Sawyer presented “Power Moves: How Law and Public Policy Reshaped the Late-Twentieth-Century U.S. Firm” at a conference titled “Antitrust, Regulation, and the Democratization of the Economy” hosted by the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago during April.
Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch presented her book The Pain Brokers: How Con Men, Call Centers, and Rogue Doctors Fuel America’s Lawsuit Factory (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2026) at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law during April.