Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
Assistant Professor Desirée LeClercq publishes “Enforcement of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement Rapid Response Mechanism: Views From Mexican Auto Sector Workers" (Cornell University Center of Applied Research on Work, 2024) (with A Covarrubias-V and C. Quintero Ramírez).
Assistant Professor Desirée LeClercq was featured on Inside U.S. Trade regarding her recent study of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s rapid-response mechanism. The article titled "Under Trump, hope – and recommendations – for the stronger use of RRM" was written by Margaret Spiegelman and published 12/5/24.
Sibley Professor in Corporate and Business Law Larry D. Thompson published Quiet Counsel: Looking Back on a Life of Service to the Law (Disruption Books, 2024).
Hosch Professor & Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor Lori A. Ringhand’s book Supreme Bias: Gender and Race in U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings (Stanford University Press, 2023) (with C.L. Boyd and P.M. Collins) was named a 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title. This prestigious list "reflects the best scholarly titles reviewed by Choice during the previous calendar year, as chosen by the editors." The book also received a Pritchett Award earlier this year.
Awards and initiates were recognized at the university’s annual Tucker Dorsey Blue Key Alumni Banquet on Nov. 22 at the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education & Hotel. Bo Rutledge and Kathy Pharr were awarded the 2024 faculty Blue Key Service Awards. Rutledge is the dean of the UGA School of Law and holds the Talmadge Chair of Law. Pharr is the vice president for marketing and communications and chief of staff to the president of the university.