Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
The First Amendment Clinic was featured by First Amendment Watch, a New York University online news site, regarding its work on behalf of women who allegedly endured abusive gynecological and other medical treatments while in the custody of U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. First Amendment Clinic Director and Clinical Assistant Professor Clare R. Norins and the clinic's Legal Fellow Samantha Hamilton were quoted. The article titled "To Help ICE Detainees Speak Out, a First Amendment Clinic Asked a Court to Keep Their Testimonies Secret" was written by Soraya Ferdman and published 12/11/20.
Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch and her book Mass Tort Deals: Backroom Bargaining in Multidistrict Litigation was featured in a Legal Newsline article regarding MDL reform. The article titled "Plaintiffs lawyer rips colleagues over multidistrict litigation fees, pressure tactics" was written by Daniel Fisher and published 12/11/20.
Associate Professor Christian Turner and Justin C. Van Orsdol (J.D.'20) published "The Gun Subsidy" in 68 Buffalo Law Review 1117 (2020).
Post Professor Melissa J. "MJ" Durkee presented "Interpretive Entrepreneurs" as part of a St. John's University School of Law's Center for International and Comparative Law Colloquium during November. Her article with the same title is forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review.
Stembler Family Distinguished Professor in Business Law Christopher M. Bruner published "Distributed Ledgers, Artificial Intelligence and the Purpose of the Corporation" in 79 Cambridge Law Journal 431 (2020).