Amann serves as visiting researcher and fellow at Oxford and Trinity College Dublin

Diane Marie Amann, who is a Regents’ Professor of International Law and the holder of the Woodruff Chair in International Law, was in residence during her fall 2024 research-intensive semester in the United Kingdom and Ireland. At the University of Oxford, she served as a research visitor at the Faculty of Law Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and visiting fellow at Exeter College. At Trinity College Dublin, she was a visiting research scholar at the School of Law.

While abroad she spoke on child rights in the context of armed conflict and similar violence at the annual forum of the International Nuremberg Principles Academy in Germany. She also presented her scholarship on that issue and on the topic of women professionals in post-World War II international trials to academic audiences at her two host institutions and at Queen’s University Belfast, the University of Reading and the University of Warwick. She returned to the UK in spring 2025 to speak by invitation of the Oxford Union on world leaders’ immunities from criminal prosecution.

Amann, who also serves as a faculty co-director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center, is the author of more than 100 publications in English, French and Italian.

Her recently published scholarship includes: “Child-Taking” in the Michigan Journal of International Law, “A Nuremberg Woman and the Hague Academy” in the European Journal of International Law, “Children and the ICC Arrest Warrant against the President and the Children’s Rights Commissioner of Russia” in American Society of International Law Annual Meeting Proceedings and “What Figures Lurk on Madame Elysé’s Path? Reflections on Philippe Sands’ The Last Colony” in the Temple International & Comparative Law Journal.

Bruner published multiple works on corporate and financial law

Stembler Family Distinguished Professor in Business Law Christopher M. Bruner recently published several peer-reviewed works on corporate and financial law, including “Corporate Personhood, Corporate Rights, and the Contingency of Corporate Law” in Transnational Legal Theory, “National Identity and Economic Development in Market-Dominant Small Jurisdictions” in the Journal of Law and Political Economy and “Developments and Debates on Corporate Sustainability in the US” in European Company Case Law. He also authored “Managing Fraud Risk in the Age of AI” in an edited volume titled Fraud and Risk in Commercial Law.

This academic year, Bruner has presented to audiences in the United States and abroad, including at George Washington University, the University of Maryland, the University of Richmond, Bucerius Law School (Germany), Rennes 2 University (France) and the University of Oslo (Norway).

A faculty co-director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center, Bruner joined the School of Law’s faculty in 2017. His books include The Corporation as Technology: Re-Calibrating Corporate Governance for a Sustainable Future (Oxford University Press, 2022), Re-Imagining Offshore Finance: Market-Dominant Small Jurisdictions in a Globalizing Financial World (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Corporate Governance in the Common-Law World: The Political Foundations of Shareholder Power (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

LeClercq shares expertise on international and labor law

Assistant Professor Desirée LeClercq presented her research on international trade and labor law over the past year to a range of professional and academic audiences around the globe, including to the World Trade Organization in Switzerland and the Queen’s University Canada, as well as at the University of Michigan, Cornell University and Johns Hopkins University. She also testified before the U.S. International Trade Commission regarding the “United States Mexico Agreement Automotive Rules of Origin: Economic Impact and Operation, 2025 Report.”

Additionally, she published “Labor Strife and Peace” in the UC Irvine Law Review, “Gender-Based Violence at Sea” in the Cornell International Law Journal and “Enforcement of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement Rapid Response Mechanism: Views From Mexican Auto Sector Workers” (co-authored, Cornell University Center of Applied Research on Work, 2024), among others.

LeClercq, who came to UGA in the fall of 2024, serves as a faculty co-director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center and the faculty adviser for the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law. During the spring, she led the school’s International Law Colloquium Series, which included 12 scholars presenting works in progress related to international economic law.

Parker selected for rural engagement workshop cohort

Assistant Professor Meighan Parker was chosen for the UGA Rural Engagement Workshop 2025 cohort. The program, which is limited to no more than 20 faculty members, supports collaborative research benefiting rural Georgia.

Parker’s research focuses on health law and policy, with an emphasis on the legal implications of novel telehealth and digital health technologies designed to democratize healthcare. Specifically, she studies the impact of these new technologies on the practice of medicine and access to care, especially in marginalized and vulnerable communities.

With respect to the Rural Engagement Workshop, her project will center around partnering with rural Black churches to establish telehealth spaces on church campuses to address possible healthcare gaps in their communities and legal hurdles related to these partnerships.

Parker came to the School of Law in 2024 after serving as a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School, where she taught Legal Research & Writing. Before entering academia, Parker served as a managing associate at Sidley Austin and an associate at Ropes & Gray.

Ringhand’s book recognized with multiple honors

Hosch Professor & Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor Lori A. Ringhand’s co-authored book Supreme Bias: Gender and Race in U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings (Stanford University Press, 2023) was selected as one of the Top 10 Choice Reviews 2024 Outstanding Academic Titles from the past year. This prestigious list reflects the best scholarly titles reviewed by Choice during the previous calendar year. The book also received a Pritchett Award, which recognizes the best book on law and courts published during the previous year.

Her other recent scholarship includes: “Gender, Race, and Interruptions at Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings” in the American Political Science Review, “The Court and the Constitution” in the Wisconsin Law Review, “Contextualizing Corruption: Foreign Financing Bans and Campaign Finance Law” in the Cardozo Law Review and “Constructing the Supreme Court: How Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Have Affected Presidential Selection and Senate Confirmation Hearings” in Polity.

This past year she presented her work at York University in Toronto, Emory University, the University of Wisconsin and at the Knight Election Law Forum.

A nationally recognized U.S. Supreme Court scholar, Ringhand teaches Constitutional Law and Election Law. She joined the law school faculty in 2008.