Sonja R. West, who holds the Brumby Distinguished Professorship in First Amendment Law at the University of Georgia School of Law, was featured in a recent Fortune article discussing challenges associated with high-profile defamation lawsuits. The article, titled “Inside the economics of Candace Owens’s media empire and the Macron lawsuit threatening to unravel it,” was written by Lily Mae Lazarus and published on December 2, 2025.



