Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
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).
Stembler Family Distinguished Professor in Business Law Christopher M. Bruner published a chapter titled “Corporate Governance and Sustainability Incentives” in Global Corporations and Sustainability: Rethinking Legal and Economic Frameworks (B. Choudhury ed.) (Edward Elgar, 2025).
Distinguished Research Professor & Shackelford Distinguished Professor in Taxation Law Emeritus Walter Hellerstein published “A State Tax Perspective on Proposed Federal Cryptoasset Guidance” in 118 Tax Notes State 539 (2025) (with A. Appleby).