Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
Post Professor Pamela Foohey presented her forthcoming co-authored book Debt’s Grip: Risk and Consumer Bankruptcy (University of California Press, 2025) as part of the “New Books in Health Law & Reproductive Justice” panel during the 48th Annual Health Law Professors Conference in June.
Assistant Professor Assaf Harpaz was featured in Newsweek regarding states that waive property taxes for senior citizens. The article titled “Map Shows States Exempting Elderly People From Paying Property Taxes” was written by Giulia Carbonaro and published 6/2/25.
Brumby Distinguished Professor in First Amendment Law Sonja R. West presented as part of a panel titled “The Future of Press Freedom” at the Democracy, Law, and Independent Journalism conference held at the University of Oxford in June.
Distinguished Research Professor & Shackelford Distinguished Professor in Taxation Law Emeritus Walter Hellerstein's treatise State Taxation was cited by the Wisconsin Court of Appeals regarding federal Public Law 86-262.
This fall, the School of Law will proudly welcome four new faculty members - Chaffin Chair of Fiduciary Law Victoria J. Haneman, Alston Chair in Corporate Law Anne M. Tucker, Professor William Ortman and Assistant Professor Eileen R. Prescott. Haneman will lead classes in the areas of trusts and estates, while Tucker will teach Corporations and Corporate Governance. Ortman will teach Evidence, and Prescott will instruct in the area of criminal law.