Laura Phillips-Sawyer

Awarded Jan 2024

Willson Center for the Humanities, Faculty Fellowship (2024-2025)

The Willson Center Fellowship supports excellence in arts and humanities research or creative practice and activity.

Willson Center Fellowships are intended to support humanities and arts scholars or practitioners. Interdisciplinary research or creative practice and activity is encouraged, including with the sciences, social sciences and other domains.

Featured in The New York Times Sept 2023

In Its First Monopoly Trial of Modern Internet Era, U.S. Sets Sights on Google

The 10-week trial, set to begin Tuesday, amps up efforts to rein in Big Tech by targeting the core search business that turned Google into a $1.7 trillion behemoth. Reported by David McCabe and Cecilia Kang

Featured in Wall Street Journal Aug 2023

Google Search Antitrust Suit Narrowed by Federal Judge Ahead of September Trial

Decision is a setback for 38 state attorneys general who sued Google in 2020. WSJ’s Miles Kruppa and Jan Wolfe reports. Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

Featured in Bloomberg Law July 2023

Companies Must Weigh Worker Impact Under New Merger Guidelines

The effect of corporate mergers on workers will be included for the first time in the guidelines set by US agencies for deal review, breaking from decades of antitrust enforcement. Bloombergs’s Dan Papscun reports. Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg

Featured in Wall Street Journal Jan2023

Google Prepares for Second Antitrust Battle as DOJ Targets Its Ads Business

Lawsuit calls for divestiture of parts of the search giant’s business. WSJ’s Miles Kruppa reports.

Published October 2023

Revisiting Interwar Global Economic Governance: Technocrats, Sovereignty, and the Perennial Problem of Legitimacy in Global Governance

Published online by Cambridge University Press

Featured Review of: The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War, by Nicholas Mulder, and The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance, by Jamie Martin.

Awarded June 2022

UGA School of Law, Faculty Research Award

Awarded for “Voting Trusts and Antitrust,” Law & History Review (with Naomi Lamoreaux)

The University of Georgia School of Law Office of Grants and Awards works with law faculty and administrative teams on identifying, applying for, and managing grant proposals and awards.

Awarded May 2022

UGA First-Year Odyssey Seminar, Design Innovation Award

Awarded for “Big Tech and American Antitrust Law”

The FYO Teaching Award recognizes outstanding instructors who have demonstrated creativity or innovation in instruction, connection to the instructor’s research and incorporation of FYOS program goals into the seminar.

Awarded April 2022

Stanton Foundation,
Informed Citizen Project’s Applied History Course Development Grant

Awarded for “Antimonopoly and American Democracy: Case Studies in American Capitalism”

The Stanton Foundation has created a program to provide grants of up to $50,000 for tenured and tenure-track faculty to develop new Applied History courses for undergraduates or first-year graduate students.

Awarded May 2021

Hugh O. Nourse Outstanding
MBA Teacher Award

University of Georgia, Terry College of Business, AY 2020-2021

Selected by graduating full-time MBA students, this honor recognizes stimulating classroom instruction, positive interaction with students and overall contribution to the full-time MBA experience.