Our faculty are leaders in scholarship, teaching and service, as detailed in our faculty profiles. Here are highlights of their recent achievements:
Clinical Associate Professor & Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation Clinic Director Emma M. Hetherington was featured in The Independent regarding sex trafficking allegations at an Atlanta hotel. The article titled "She was forced to have sex with 8 men a day: Victims reveal the horrors of sex trafficking at more than 100 hotels" was written by Richard Hall and Alicja Hagopian and was published 7/8/24. The article was republished by other media outlets including Bloomberg Law and Yahoo! News.
Distinguished Research Professor & Shackelford Distinguished Professor in Taxation Law Emeritus Walter Hellerstein co-presented "Global Summary of Jurisdictions' VAT/GST Treatment of Services Connected to the Trade in Crypto-Assets" at a meeting of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Working Party No. 9 on Consumption Taxes in Paris, France, during June.
Assistant Professor Assaf Harpaz presented his draft paper "Global Tax Wars and the Shift to Cross-Border Taxation" at the Junior Tax Workshop, held at the University of Wisconsin Law School during June. He also served as a discussant in the workshop.
Marshall Chair of Constitutional Law Randy Beck has offered insight on the U.S. Supreme Court decisions regarding Moody v. NetChoice & NetChoice v. Paxton: “The Court remanded both cases for further proceedings, concluding that the lower courts had not conducted a sufficiently thorough analysis of the reach of the Texas and Florida laws to determine whether they were facially invalid under the First Amendment."
Stembler Family Distinguished Professor in Business Law Christopher M. Bruner's article "The Fiduciary Enterprise of Corporate Law” (74 Washington & Lee Law Review 791 (2017)) was cited by the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico in the case Storm River, LLC v. Jordan Foster Construction, LLC.