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

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Assistant Professor Desirée LeClercq presented as part of the panel “The Trump Administration and International Law 2.0” at the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting during January in New Orleans. She also moderated the panel “Teaching Human Rights: From Specialized Courses to Doctrinal Integration.”

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Assistant Professor Eileen R. Prescott presented as part of the panel “Decarceral Evidence” at the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting during January in New Orleans. 

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Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch was featured by Law.com regarding her new book, The Pain Brokers: How Con Men, Call Centers, and Rogue Doctors Fuel America’s Lawsuit Factory (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2026). The article titled “Elizabeth Burch’s New Book ‘The Pain Brokers’ Details Scheme That Upended Pelvic Mesh” was written by Amanda Bronstad and published 1/12/26. 

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Callaway Chair Elizabeth Chamblee Burch published The Pain Brokers: How Con Men, Call Centers, and Rogue Doctors Fuel America’s Lawsuit Factory (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2026). 

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Post Professor Pamela Foohey presented her co-authored book Debt’s Grip: Risk and Consumer Bankruptcy (University of California Press, 2025) as part of three panels at the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting during January in New Orleans. The panels were “Economic Predation in the Age of Trump,” “New Books in Law and the Social Sciences” and “BAPCPA at 20: A Retrospective of the 2005 Bankruptcy Code Amendments.”