Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
Congratulations to Lindsey Simon for being appointed by the Board of Regents to the School of Law’s Robert Cotten Alston Associate Chair in Corporate Law. Her recent scholarship includes “Bankruptcy Grifters” in the Yale Law Journal (which was selected by the AALS as an honorable mention in its 2021 Scholarly Papers Competition) and “The Settlement Trap” in the Indiana Law Journal.
Alston Associate Chair in Corporate Law Lindsey Simon's article "Bankruptcy Grifters" (131 Yale Law Journal 1154 (2022)) was reviewed by R.J. Effron in JOTWELL (Nov. 7, 2022). In the review titled "Fighting the grift: The stubborn creep of bankruptcy as a forum for aggregate litigation," Effron says Simon's article is "a must-read for anyone interested in modern aggregate litigation."
Metadata Services & Special Collections Librarian Rachel Evans published "Conference Roundup - Code4Lib 2022 Report" in 48 Technical Services Law Librarian 6 (2022).
Hosch Professor & Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor Lori A. Ringhand presented "Democracy and the Constitution" (a book proposal) at a University of Wisconsin Constitutionalism 2022 Faculty Discussion Group during October.
Hosch Professor & Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor Lori A. Ringhand presented "The Court and the Constitution" as part of the Wisconsin Law Review Symposium titled "Controlling the Supreme Court: Now and 'far into the future'" during October.