Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:

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Brumby Distinguished Professor in First Amendment Law Sonja R. West was featured in The Wall Street Journal regarding defamation lawsuits against the press. The article titled "Sarah Palin’s Defamation Case Against New York Times Goes to Trial—Again" was written by Corinne Ramey and Isabella Simonetti and published 4/13/25. Portions of the article have been republished by other outlets.

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Post Professor Pamela Foohey presented her forthcoming book Debt’s Grip: Risk and Consumer Bankruptcy (co-authored with R.M. Lawless and D. Thorne) as part of the Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law symposium titled "Debt in the Real World" during March. Additionally, she presented as part of the panel on Dignity Not Debt: An Abolitionist Approach to Economic Justice

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Assistant Professor Assaf Harpaz was featured in Newsweek regarding state taxes in California. The article titled “Florida Wants to Cut Property Taxes – But California Has a Warning” was written by Giulia Carbonaro and published 4/10/25.

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Assistant Professor Desirée LeClercq published "Gender-Based Violence and Harassment at Sea" in 57 Cornell International Law Journal 99 (2024). 

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Assistant Professor Desirée LeClercq published “Labor Strife and Peace” in 15 UC Irvine Law Review 216 (2024).