Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
Smith Professor Hillel Y. Levin, who has written extensively about vaccination law and policy and co-authored model legislation designed to improve vaccination compliance, advises schools about what policies they must, should, may, and may not adopt to protect their students. His recommendations were featured on WJCL-TV, the ABC affiliate in Savannah, on 4/30/19.
Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives & Alston Associate Chair in Corporate Law Mehrsa Baradaran's book The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap was awarded the 2019 Best Book in Urban Affairs Award, which is presented by the Urban Affairs Association.
Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch was featured in Legal NewsLine regarding her thoughts on a law firm that gave some of its clients two days to decide whether to dismiss their lawsuits or accept a settlement from Johnson & Johnson. The article titled "Pelvic mesh lawyers pressured clients to dismiss cases to avoid costs of trial" was written by Daniel Fisher and published 4/25/19.
Brumby Distinguished Professor in First Amendment Law Sonja R. West's article "The Fragility of the Free American Press" (112 Northwestern University Law Review 47 (2017) (with R.A. Jones)) was cited by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida in the case of Folta v. The New York Times and Lipton.
Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives & Alston Associate Chair in Corporate Law Mehrsa Baradaran was featured in a Public Broadcasting System documentary titled "Boss: The Black Enterprise Business" that aired 4/23/19.