Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives & Alston Associate Chair in Corporate Law Mehrsa Baradaran was featured on Project Syndicate regarding her book How the Other Half Banks. The article titled "Five Lessons from the US Government Shutdown" was written by Simon Johnson and published 1/31/19.
Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch will receive the 2019 Mangano Dispute Resolution Advancement Award for her groundbreaking scholarship in the area of multidistrict litigation settlement. Presented by the St. John's University Hugh L. Carey Center for Dispute Resolution, the award recognizes scholars whose published empirical research has furthered the advancement and understanding of the values and skills of dispute resolution. The honor will be formally presented in March.
Brumby Distinguished Professor in First Amendment Law Sonja R. West was featured in The Washington Post regarding public figures and inaccurate media coverage. The article titled "When they go low, Melania Trump calls her lawyers" was written by Emily Heil and published 1/30/19.
Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives & Alston Associate Chair in Corporate Law Mehrsa Baradaran was featured on NPR's "The Takeaway" regarding her thoughts on payday lenders benefiting from the government shutdown. The program titled "Payday Lenders and Pawnbrokers Were Winners in the Government Shutdown" aired 1/29/19.
Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives & Alston Associate Chair in Corporate Law Mehrsa Baradaran's book The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap was reviewed on the London School of Economics Review of Books.