An article by Brad Areheart, professor of law, “The Bias Presumption” (with Dave Hall), was recently published by Georgetown Law Journal.
Ben Barton, Helen and Charles Lockett Distinguished Professor of Law, was quoted in The New York Times Magazine article “Lawyer Up? Increasingly, Americans Won’t, or Can’t.”
Teri Dobbins Baxter, Williford Gragg Distinguished Professor of Law, authored “History and Tradition of Inequality, Advocacy, and Progress,” to be published in the Kentucky Law Journal.
An article by Valarie Blake, professor of law, “The Social Costs of Health Care,” will be published in the UC Irvine Law Review. The article tells a story of how public and private health insurance harm important social opportunities for individuals and how health reform can address the problem going forward. In addition, she and Zack Buck, associate dean for faculty development and professor of law, co-authored Learning Health Law, a new casebook with Jill Wieber Lens. Learning Health Law, published by West, is the first modern health law casebook of its kind, allowing for a focus on problem-based learning and critical reasoning skills in health law.
Robert Blitt, Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter Distinguished Professor of Law, has a forthcoming article, “From Zero to Holy War: The International Community’s Failure to Confront the Russian Orthodox Church’s Escalating Support For War Against Ukraine,” in the Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy.
Dean and Elvin E. Overton Distinguished Professor of Law Lonnie T. Brown, Jr. delivered a keynote address titled “The Importance of Resilience in Effecting Social Change” at the Emory University Robert W. Woodruff Scholars Annual Retreat in January.
Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Professor of Law Zack Buck’s latest article, “Patients as Stakeholders,” will be published in the William & Mary Law Review. The article focuses on how corporate law doctrine, and particularly stakeholderism, could be applied to impact the regulation of for-profit hospitals to better protect patients.
Sherley Cruz, assistant professor of law, received Boston University’s Harriet E. Richards Alumnae Association’s Marjorie E. Kettell Distinguished Alum Award celebrating her achievements as a public interest lawyer and law professor. She also has accepted an offer to publish her article, “The Protection Illusion: Sexual Harassment Policies and Low-Wage Workers,” in the 103rd volume of the Denver Law Review, forthcoming in winter 2025.
An article by Judy Cornett, Winston College of Law Distinguished Professor, “‘The Most Natural State’ and Personal Jurisdiction After Ford Motor Company v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court,” has been published in the Houston Law Review at 62 Hous. L. Rev. 953 (2025).
“Gendered Insider Trading” by Joan Heminway, Rick Rose Distinguished Professor of Law, was published as a chapter in the recently released Research Handbook on Insider Trading, Second Edition (edited by Stephen Bainbridge and published by Edward Elgar Publishing).
An article by Alex Long, Williford Gragg Distinguished Professor of Law, “Discrimination, Model Rule 8.4(g), and the ABA’s Quixotic Quest for Uniformity,” was published in Volume 81 of the Washington & Lee Law Review. In addition, he also published “Victory Stadium: How a Lawyer, a Minister, and Twenty Professional Football Players Helped End Segregation in Virginia and Professional Sports” was published in Volume 111 of the Virginia Law Review Online.
An article by Paul McLaughlin, research librarian and assistant professor, “AI and Law Librarians: Introducing the Idea of Creating a Legal Information Research Team to Prepare Students for the Practice of Law” appeared in Legal Reference Services Quarterly.
Paula Schaefer, Art Stolnitz Distinguished Professor of Law, authored “The Motherhood Myth, Traditional Firms, and the Underrepresentation of Women,” to be published in FIU Law Review. The article provides evidence that women are underrepresented in law firms not because of motherhood but because of traditional firms’ heavy reliance on the unpaid labor of stay-at-home spouses. She also authored “Conditional Admission and the Hazards of Lawyer Assistance Programs Operating Without Transparency or Oversight,” to be published in the Oklahoma Law Review.
Maurice Stucke, Douglas A. Blaze Distinguished Professor of Law, was quoted in an article in The Washington Post on a bill to curtail the FTC’s antitrust authority. In addition, was the keynote speaker at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Isenberg School of Management’s Isenberg Strategy Summit, where he presented his latest research project on AI, Antitrust and Privacy.