Faculty News

UMass Law professors Lisa Owens and AnnaMarie Tabor present at Northeastern University

They will teach in the areas of consumer protection and criminal law and procedure

Professor McDonald was interviewed on the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy case, which brings attention to the opioid epidemic.

Judge George Phelan reflects on a busy 2023, while focusing on the year ahead.

UMass Law’s Shaun Spencer argued before the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court that the state’s alimony law should allow alimony awards that maintain patterns of savings that the parties followed during their marriage.

Professor Anna-Marie Tabor tells the U.S. Department of Labor’s ERISA Advisory Council why retirees need stronger benefit protections.

Professor Chaudhry presented his latest research on real estate taxation and affordable housing in Berlin.

UMass Law Professor Justine Dunlap joined the executive committee of the Massachusetts Access to Justice Commission.

With conversational and generative AI systems like ChatGPT on the rise, Professor Sylvia gave a talk on the ramifications of using artificial intelligence in the professional sphere.

Professor Owens recently published a new Article in a special issue of Frontiers in Sociology on Ethnography in the Open Science and Digital Age. The Article, Encountering Deception in Virtual Spaces: Guidelines for Virtual Ethnography, draws from an experience of deception in virtual fieldwork and considers implications for those designing methodologies for virtual ethnographies.