Belmont Criminal Law Journal
The Belmont Criminal Law Journal was started in January 2016, and is Belmont University College of Law’s newest publication. Since its inception, the Journal’s members have been working diligently to build a unique publication with a practitioner focus. The Belmont Criminal Law Journal serves to highlight scholarly work while also offering case summaries, notes, articles, and multimedia content that will educate law students, as well as practitioners working in the area of criminal law.
Current Volume: Volume 1 (2018)
Covers both the 2017 & 2018 Symposiums
2017 Symposium: Practical Perspectives on Issues in Criminal Law
2018 Symposium: Title IX Reform and Its Effect on the Criminal Law Field
Prosecutorial Ethics and Wrongful Convictions
Victor (Torry) S. Johnson
Belmont Criminal Law Journal Symposium 2017: Judicial Panel
Jeffery S. Bivins, Joseph A. Woodruff, Timothy L. Easter, and Angelita B. Dalton
Title IX from a Coordinator's Perspective
Kathy Hargis and Stephanie Roth
Getting It Right: Title IX's Role in Adjudicating Sexual Assault Claims
Mary Margaret "Meg" Penrose
Perspectives on Title IX From a General Counsel's Office
Laurence Pendleton and Jeff Farrar
Prosecuting and Defending Campus Assaults: Practitioners' Perspectives
Victor (Torry) S. Johnson and Richard McGee
Criminal Law in Practice Series: Appellate Procedure Panel
Leslie Price and Jeff DeVasher
State of Tennessee v. Antoine Perrier
Nickolas Bolduc and Dakota Dexter
State of Tennessee v. Kevin E. Trent
Ben Raybin and Juliana Lamar
State of Tennessee v. Sedrick Clayton
Amanda Gentry and Kendahl Shoemaker
The Gap Between Martinez and Davila: Serving the Next Generation of Federal Habeas Corpus Cases
Lexie Ward
Anything You Spit Can Be Use Against You
Juliana Lamar
2017-2018 Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Stephanie Vlasis
Managing Editor
Hayley Smith
Executive Online Content Editor
Hannah Riffe
Executive Transcripts Editor
Dylan Harper
Executive Notes Editor
Dylan Potter
Executive Events Editor
Megan McGill
Staff
Jessica Butler
Dakota Dexter
John Ross Glover
Erin Hagerty
Juliana Lamar
Nickolas Schulenberg
Caleb Self
Kendahl Shoemaker-Luce
Tim Sweatman
Lexie Ward
Faculty Advisor
Professor Jeffery Omar Usman
2016-2017 Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Whitney Hickerson
Managing Editor
Ashley Sample
Executive Online Content Editor
Jess Morgan
Executive Transcripts Editor
Casey Little
Executive Articles Editor
Paisley Paige Fultz
Executive Events Editor
Abby Benson
Staff
Ben Allen
Caleb Cassell
Hayley Chrystie
Dylan Harper
Kiel Kovalcik
Dylan Potter
Hannah Riffe
Hayley Smith
Alexa Spata
Jamie Sullivan
Stephanie Vlasis
Faculty Advisor
Professor Donald Cochran