Our faculty often help us make sense of the world. Over in the law school, that’s definitely true of professor Hank Chambers.

Chambers, whose expertise includes voting rights­­, criminal law, constitutional law, and employment discrimination, recently spoke on campus about his areas of legal research. Poised with what he referred to as the "world's most expensive stopwatch," he set a five-minute timer on his iPhone and shared the ways he tried to apply legal doctrine to real world issues.

National, state and local media frequently ask him to help put legal issues into perspective. Most recently, he discussed President Trump's Supreme Court nominee with NewsRadio 1140 WRVA and weighed in on the issues we will likely see at the Supreme Court this year for U.S. News & World Report.

To be honest, there are few hot topics Chambers has not written on. He’s tackled voter ID laws, the limits of executive power, presidents as spiritual leaders, local and national corruption law, and religion in the workplace.

For him, the thrill of his work is in wrestling with the tough questions, and helping to advance legal understanding.

"These issues will continue to rile us, rattle us, and make us think," Chambers said.