University of Tennessee Winston College Law faculty continued to distinguish themselves through their scholarly publications, professional leadership and public engagement throughout the spring semester.
Andrew D. Appleby, associate professor of law, was selected as an editor of the TaxProf Blog, which is consistently one of the most visited law professor blogs.
Brad Finney, assistant professor of law, will have his most recent article, “Against Crypto Exceptionalism,” published by the Southern California Law Review. He also presented earlier versions of the article at Texas A&M University School of Law and Emory University School of Law.
William Davenport Mercer, teaching professor, published a review of Lynching in Virginia: Racial Terror and Its Legacy (UVA Press, 2024) in Volume 92 of the Journal of Southern History.
Briana Rosenbaum, associate dean for access and community engagement and associate professor of law, has been appointed to the Law School Admission Council’s new Rural Access to Justice Workgroup. Co-chaired by Dean Aviva Abramovsky of the University of Idaho College of Law and Dean Rebecca Zietlow of the University of Toledo College of Law, the workgroup will investigate innovative approaches to expanding the pipeline of future rural attorneys. Its work will include assessing the barriers that discourage rural residents from pursuing legal education and proposing ways to strengthen their pathways into the profession.
Paula Schaefer, Art Stolnitz Distinguished Professor of Law and Interim Director of the Winston Fellows Program, is chair and a founding member of the AALS Section on Shared Governance, which was recently granted provisional status by AALS. The section is aimed at providing resources for new law faculty about their role in shared governance; helping law school deans and faculties recognize the importance of shared governance for protecting academic freedom, preserving democratic norms, and maintaining accreditation compliance; and providing comparative data and resources on law schools’ faculty governance policies through a central database.
Kate Schaffzin,director of the Reeves Institute for Professional Leadership and Douglas A. Blaze Distinguished Professor of Law, presented her latest research and hosted a panel discussion, “AALS Research Collaboration: Women Attorneys in Higher Education Leadership,” at the AALS Annual Meeting in January. Panelists included Barnard College President Laura Rosenbury, AALS President and Pennsylvania State University Law Dean Danielle Conway, University of Kansas Law Dean Stephen Mazza, and co-author Katie Kempner.
Maurice Stucke, Lindsay Young Distinguished Professor of Law, was interviewed by ABC News in December about the sale of Warner Bros. Discovery. View the story here.
Christopher Sundby, assistant professor of law, published “The Neuroscience of Evidentiary Rules: The Case of the Present Sense Impression” in Volume 78 of the SMU Law Review. The article proposes reforming the present sense impression based on original empirical research testing the psychological assumptions behind the rule and provides a blueprint for how neuroscience research can be used to improve the empirical underpinnings of the rules of evidence generally. View the article here.