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 Strategic Initiatives & Alston Associate Chair in Corporate Law Mehrsa Baradaran's book The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap was reviewed on the London School of Economics Review of Books.
Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives & Alston Associate Chair in Corporate Law Mehrsa Baradaran and her book The Color of Money were featured in Financial Times. The article titled "Mehrsa Baradaran on 'opportunity zones'" was written by Brendan Greeley and published on 1/25/19.
Kilpatrick Chair of Corporate Finance and Securities Law Usha Rodrigues's article "Law and the Blockchain" (104 Iowa Law Review 679 (2019)) was reviewed by Anna Gelpern in JOTWELL (Jan. 29, 2019). In the review, Gelpern states, "The specter of runaway firms impervious to legal intervention could be a very big governance deal. Kudos to Usha Rodrigues for spotting it and launching the conversation."
Hosch Associate Professor Kent Barnett's forthcoming article "Some Kind of Hearing Officer" was reviewed by Kathryn Watts in JOTWELL (Jan. 28, 2019). In the review, Watts notes that Barnett's work "begins to pull the cover back from the administrative state's previously hidden judiciary."
Smith Professor Hillel Y. Levin published "A proposal to reduce vaccine exemptions while respecting rights of conscience" (with S. Kershner, T. Lytton and D. Salmon) on The Conversation. The article was published 1/2/19.