University of Georgia School of Law Professor Sonja R. West presented as part of an online panel titled “The Future of Press Freedom” at the University of Sheffield’s Centre for Freedom of the Media during January 2026.

The discussion featured panelists RonNell Andersen Jones (University of Utah College of Law) and Christina Koningisor (University of California-San Francisco School of Law). They focused on the edited volume by Jones and West, The Future of Press Freedom: Democracy, Law, and the News in Changing Time, and discussed press freedom in the United States and evolving threats to the press.

West holds the Otis Brumby Distinguished Professorship in First Amendment Law, a post shared by the law school and Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. She specializes in constitutional law, media law and the U.S. Supreme Court.