Faculty and Scholarship
College of Law faculty are excellent teachers, scholars, and practitioners. Their influential and well-respected scholarship is placed in some of the most esteemed law publications in the nation.
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Scholarship spotlight
Our professors are exceptional teachers, and they’re also highly respected scholars whose interests cover a variety of legal topics. They are engaged in learning and lead their students by example, regularly publishing articles in prestigious national journals. Our faculty are sought after both nationally and internationally level to provide their perspectives on current legal issues.
Their expertise enriches the classroom experience for University of Tennessee College of Law students.
Ben Barton
College of Law Professor Ben Barton’s latest book, “The Credentialed Court: Inside the Cloistered, Elite World of American Justice,” is the culmination of 12 years of research on the lives of America’s Supreme Court justices.
The book, that was released March 8, 2022, combines empirical studies of every justice’s background from John Jay to Amy Coney Barrett that demonstrate how today’s justices arrive on the Court with much narrower experiences than their predecessors.
Alex Long
Professor Alex Long’s article “If the Train Should Jump the Track …”: Divergent Interpretations of State and Federal Employment Discrimination Statutes, 40 Ga. L. Rev. 469 (2006) was recently cited by a dissenting judge on the Iowa Supreme Court in Godfrey v. State, 2021 WL 2671324 (Iowa June 30, 2021).
The majority opinion overturned a $1.5 million jury verdict against the governor of Iowa involving alleged sexual orientation discrimination and retaliation.
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