Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:

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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. 

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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).

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Associate Professor Thomas E. Kadri published “Brokering Safety” (co-authored with C. Sharma & S. Adler) in 114 California Law Review 479 (2026).

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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.

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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.