Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
Professor William Ortman published “Plea Bargaining Abolitionism: A History” in 22 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 1 (2025).
Post Professor Pamela Foohey was featured by Newsweek regarding the increasing numbers of people and businesses filing for bankruptcy. The article titled “U.S. Bankruptcy Filings Surge" was written by Hugh Cameron and was published 12/2/25.
Brumby Distinguished Professor in First Amendment Law Sonja R. West was featured by Fortune regarding the difficulties of high-profile defamation suits. The article titled “Inside the economics of Candace Owens’s media empire and the Macron lawsuit threatening to unravel it" was written by Lily Mae Lazarus and was published 12/2/25.
Smith Professor Hillel Y. Levin published “A Primer on the Proximate Cause Requirement of PLCAA’s Predicate Exception: Holding Firearm Manufacturers Liable for Third-Party Criminal Misuse of Their Products” in 73 Buffalo Law Review 633 (2025) (with T.D. Lytton).
Wilson Associate Professor in Business Law Laura Phillips-Sawyer published a chapter titled “The Problem of Market Power in Postwar America: Antitrust Law, Accountability, and Changing Ideas of Market Power” in Can Democracy and Capitalism Be Reconciled (S. Miller and S. Milkis ed.) (Oxford University Press, 2025).