Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
Associate Dean for Faculty Development & Hosch Professor Elizabeth Weeks was featured in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution regarding a memo that recommended safety netting in Major League Baseball stadiums to help keep fans from falling over protective railings and its potential impact on litigation involving the Atlanta Braves and MLB. The article titled "Major League Baseball warned railings were unsafe before Atlanta fan's fall" was written by Bill Rankin and published 3/11/19.
Hosch Associate Professor Melissa J. "M.J." Durkee was appointed vice chair of the American Society of International Law membership committee.
Hosch Professor Lori A. Ringhand presented "What Law: Campaign Finance Regulation in the Age of the Internet" at the Centre for American Legal Studies at the Birmingham City University School of Law.
Hosch Associate Professor Kent Barnett was featured in Bloomberg Law regarding a recent U.S. Treasury Department statement regarding arguing subregulatory guidance. The article titled "Department won't seek certain types of deference to regulatory interpretations made in notices, revenue rulings" was written by Allyson Versprille, Carolina Vargas and Isabel Gottlieb and published 3/7/19.
Stembler Family Distinguished Professor in Business Law Christopher Bruner published a review of a forthcoming article by Ofer Eldar and Andrew Verstein titled "The Enduring Distinction between Business Entities and Security Interests" (Southern California Law Review) in JOTWELL. The review titled "Asset Partitioning and Financial Innovation" was published 3/6/19. Bruner is a contributing editor to JOTWELL's Corporate Law section.