Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
University Professor & Kilpatrick Chair of Corporate Finance and Securities Law Usha Rodrigues was featured on Bloomberg Law regarding a proposed Digital World Acquisition Corporation SPAC merger. The article titled "SPAC Traders Value Trump Media 40-Times Higher Than He Does" was written by Bailey Lipschultz and published 4/18/23. The article was reprinted by other media outlets around the globe including Australia's WAToday.
Associate Professor Jonathan Peters was featured in The Washington Post regarding the Dominion Voting Systems/Fox News litigation. The article titled "The Dominion vs. Fox defamation case is finally going to trial" was written by Elahe Izadi, Jeremy Barr and Sarah Ellison and was published 4/16/23. The article was reprinted by other media outlets including The Detroit News.
Associate Professor Jonathan Peters was featured in The Washington Post regarding the Goldwater v. Ginzburg case and its parallels to the Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News case. The article titled "A '60s magazine's election hit job is a warning for Fox News vs. Dominion" was written by Frederic J. Frommer and published 4/16/23.
Marshall Chair of Constitutional Law Randy Beck provides insight into U.S. Supreme Court case Counterman v. Colorado. Beck says the chief legal question about the rule that "true threats" are not protected by the First Amendment. The issue is whether the speaker has to subjectively know or intend that others understand the comments as threatening, or whether it is enough that a "reasonable person" would view the words as a threat of violence.
Metadata Services & Special Collections Librarian Rachel Evans presented as part of the panel titled "Is It Time to Stop Digitizing Everything? How to Focus and Fund Your Digital Collection" at the Computers in Libraries 2023 conference during March.