Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
University Professor & Kilpatrick Chair of Corporate Finance and Securities Law Usha Rodrigues was featured on Law360 regarding special purpose acquisition companies. The article titled "3 Hurdles That Could Slow The Pace Of SPACs In 2022" was written by Tom Zanki and published 1/3/22.
Metadata Services & Special Collections Librarian Rachel Evans presented "Totally Tubular 2.0: Exhibiting your Excellence with DCX" as part of an Elsevier BePress academic librarian event during December (with A. Connolly).
Joseph S. Miller, the holder of the Rogers Chair of Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition Law, has been elected to the American Law Institute. The ALI is "the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize and otherwise improve the law." The ALI's members work to "influence the development of the law in both existing and emerging areas," collaborate with other "eminent lawyers, judges and academics," give back to the legal profession and "contribute to the public good."
Associate Professor Laura Phillips Sawyer published "Voting Trusts and Antitrust: Rethinking the Role of Shareholder Litigation in Public Regulation, from the 1880s to the 1930s" in 39 Law and History Review 569 (2021) (with N.R. Lamoreaux).
Brock Associate Professor in Professional Responsibility Nathan S. Chapman was featured in The Augusta Chronicle regarding defamation cases. The article titled "Local radio host Austin Rhodes sued for defamation by Evans resident" was written by Abraham Kenmore and published 12/20/21.