Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:

desiree leclercq

Assistant Professor Desirée LeClercq offers insight on potential international trade changes under the new Trump administration. The Biden administration used a trade agreement negotiated under the first Trump administration, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), to empower workers in the trade sector in Mexico through targeted enforcement. When asked if President-elect Trump will abandon the “worker-centered” trade agenda of the USMCA, she said it is unlikely.

orford

Assistant Professor Adam D. Orford was featured in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution regarding potential changes in environmental law. The article titled “Trump unwound environmental rules before. He’s vowed to again in a second term” was written by Drew Kann and Meris Lutz and was published 11/7/2024. The article has been picked up by other news outlets. 

rachel evans

Metadata Services & Special Collections Librarian Rachel Evans published "Information Overload: Communication Styles and Emotional Intelligence – How AI Can Assist Your Asynchronous Messages" in 29 AALL Spectrum 22 (2024) (with A. Abdullah, H. Bakken, V. Horton and J. Tubinis).

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Information Technology Librarian Jason Tubinis published "Information Overload: Communication Styles and Emotional Intelligence – How AI Can Assist Your Asynchronous Messages" in 29 AALL Spectrum 22 (2024) (with A. Abdullah, H. Bakken, R. Evans and V. Horton).

pamela foohey

Professor Pamela Foohey co-published “Debt on the Ground: The Scholarly Discourse of Bankruptcy and Financial Precarity” in 20 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 219 (2024) (peer reviewed) (with R.M. Lawless and D. Thorne).