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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Talmadge Chair Peter B. “Bo” Rutledge published “Whither Leviathan? The Seepage of Constitutional Law into Public-Private Arbitration in the United States” in The Comparative Constitutional Foundations of Private-Public Arbitration (S.W. Schill ed.) (Oxford University Press, 2025). 

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Assistant Professor Desirée LeClercq recently presented on the future of multilateralism, trade and worker rights for World Trade Organization officials and researchers in Switzerland.

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Associate Professor with Tenure Thomas E. Kadri presented his forthcoming article “Deepfake Torts: Emerging Tort Frameworks in U.S. Deepfakes Regulation” (co-authored with Brumby Distinguished Professor in First Amendment Law Sonja R. West) at the Journal of Tort Law symposium titled “Tort Liability for Deepfakes” during July.

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Brumby Distinguished Professor in First Amendment Law Sonja R. West presented her forthcoming article “Deepfake Torts: Emerging Tort Frameworks in U.S. Deepfakes Regulation” (co-authored with Associate Professor with Tenure Thomas E. Kadri) at the Journal of Tort Law symposium titled “Tort Liability for Deepfakes” during July.

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Wilson Associate Professor in Business Law Laura Phillips-Sawyer recently presented as part of the Harvard Business School Workshop titled “Globalization, Multinationals, and Institutions” at the Business History Conference in Atlanta. Additionally, she chaired the panel “Trust and Antitrust – Standard Oil and the Creation of the Global Economy.”