Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
Hosch Professor & Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor Lori A. Ringhand was featured on Bloomberg Law regarding her research on U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings and questioning tendencies. The article titled "In Cruz Battle, Jackson Sees Similar Hurdles as Past Minorities" was written by Kelsey Butler and published 3/22/22.
Legal Writing Instructor Travis M. Trimble published "Environmental Law" in 72 Mercer Law Review 1135 (2021).
Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch's article "Information for the Common Good in Mass Torts" (70 DePaul Law Review 345 (2021) with A.D. Lahav) was reviewed by Nora Freeman Enstrom in JOTWELL (Mar. 22, 2022). In the review titled "Facilitating the Information-forcing Function of Tort Law," Enstrom says Burch and her coauthor argue that "besides damages, tort law very often involves the transfer of something just as valuable if less quantifiable: information."
Hosch Professor & Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor Lori A. Ringhand presented on "Reforming the Supreme Court of the United States" as part of a University of Texas School of Law Colloquium during March.
Dean Peter B. "Bo" Rutledge and second-year students Rachel L. Byers and Jacqueline G. D'Aniello published "A Quintet of Arbitration Cases Hit the Supreme Court's Docket" in the Daily Report on 3/18/22.