Bruner publishes book on corporate law

Specializing in corporate law, corporate governance, comparative law and sustainability, Stembler Family Distinguished Professor in Business Law Christopher M. Bruner recently published A Research Agenda for Corporate Law. He co-edited the book with the University College London’s M. Moore.

Bruner has presented on a range of corporate and financial issues over the past 18 months to academic audiences around the globe, including the University College London, the London School of Economics, the University College Dublin, Lund University (Sweden), Tilburg University (Netherlands), the University of Ghent (Belgium), the University of Macerata (Italy), the National University of Singapore and York University (Canada). He also presented to audiences across the United States during this period, including at Princeton University, the University of Minnesota and UC Berkeley.

Last year, Bruner was appointed a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute, “an international non-profit membership organization that provides a platform for debate and dialogue among academics, policymakers, and business leaders.” Research members are appointed “based on the quality of their research publications and contribution to the field of corporate governance.”

Bruner, who joined the UGA Law faculty in 2017, presently serves as a faculty-co-director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center.

Phillips-Sawyer writes and speaks on antitrust law

Wilson Associate Professor in Business Law Laura Phillips-Sawyer has been busy as antitrust law remains a pressing legal and political issue. She has provided expert media commentary regarding Google Search antitrust litigation, appearing in print and on television with BBC News, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Spectrum News.

Most recently, her scholarship has appeared in the University of Chicago Law Review (“Restructuring American Antitrust Law: Institutionalist Economics and the Antitrust Labor Immunity, 1890–1940s”) and in an edited volume of leading antitrust scholars titled Antimonopoly and American Democracy (Oxford University Press).

This past academic year, she presented her work at the New York University Law School, Oxford University and the Stanford Law School. She also gave related talks at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University and for the American Bar Association Antitrust Section, among others.

Phillips-Sawyer teaches Antitrust Law and a new course titled Antimonopoly and American Democracy, which is part of the school’s undergraduate minor. Previously, she has taught international political economy in the MBA curriculum and a course on financial crises and regulation. She holds courtesy appointments in UGA’s Economics Department and History Department. Before joining the UGA Law faculty in 2020, she was an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School.

Ringhand authors book on SCOTUS confirmation hearings

Hosch Professor & Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor Lori A. Ringhand published her Stanford University Press book Supreme Bias: Gender and Race in U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings (with C.L. Boyd and P.M. Collins) during the 2023-24 academic year. The title, deemed “essential reading for students of the Court” by Choice, was the subject of a one-day conference held at the law school during February.

Her other recent scholarly works include: “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.

During 2023, she delivered the Vacketta-DLA Piper Lecture on the Role of Government and the Law at the University of Illinois College of Law and spoke at the State of the South: The Center for Access to Justice’s Annual Conference, the University of Texas School of Law’s National Federalist Society Student Symposium and at a judicial-decision making symposium hosted by the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law.

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