Law Faculty Scholarship
Submissions from 2017
Challenges of Multi-State Series and Framework for Judicial Analysis, Alberto R. Gonzales and J. Leigh Griffith
Series LLCs Part 2 - Current Status, Multi-State Issues and Potential Uniform Limited Liability Company Protected Series Act, Alberto R. Gonzales and J. Leigh Griffith
Anti-Profanity Laws and the First Amendment, David L. Hudson Jr.
Is Bar Exam Failure a Harbinger of Professional Discipline?, Jeffrey S. Kinsler
The Secret to 85% First-Time Bar Passage Rates, Jeffrey S. Kinsler and David L. Hudson Jr.
Stringent Yet Flexible: Circuit Courts' Use of the Substantial Evidence Test in Asylum Cases, Amy L. Moore
Collision Course: State Community Property Laws and Termination Rights Under the Federal Copyright Act - Who Should Have the Right of Way?, Loren E. Mulraine
Religious Freedom: The Original Civil Liberty, Loren E. Mulraine
Submissions from 2016
Buckle Up: State Child Safety Restraint Laws Need to Be Strengthened to Better Protect Children, Ellen A. Black
State 'Right to Try' Acts: A Good Start, but a Federal Act Is Necessary, Ellen A. Black
Nationwide Permit 13, Shoreline Armoring, and the Important Role of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Coastal Climate Change Adaptation, Travis Brandon
Local, State, and Federal Responses to Stalking: Are Anti-Stalking Laws Effective?, Tracey Carter
Corporate Criminal Liability, Moral Culpability, and the Yates Memo, Lucian E. Dervan
Internal Investigations and the Evolving Fate of Privilege, Lucian E. Dervan
Voices on Innocence, Lucian E. Dervan, Richard A. Leo, Meghan J. Ryan, Valena Elizabeth Beety, Gregory M. Gilchrist, and William W. Berry
'White Collar Crime': Still Hazy After All These Years, Lucian E. Dervan and Ellen S. Podgor
Everything Old is New Again: Will Narrow Networks Succeed Where HMOs Failed?, Deborah R. Farringer
Advancing Executive Branch Immigration Policy Through the Attorney General's Review Authority, Alberto R. Gonzales and Patrick J. Glen
Series LLCs Part 1 — Current Status, Multi-State Issues and Potential Uniform Limited Liability Company Protected Series Act, Alberto R. Gonzales and J. Leigh Griffith
First Amendment Right to Receive Information and Ideas Justifies Citizens' Videotaping of the Police, David L. Hudson Jr.
Dissecting the Hybrid Rights Exception: Should it Be Expanded or Rejected?, David L. Hudson Jr. and Emily H. Harvey
Fair Play Fair Pay: The Need for A Terrestrial Public Performance Right and General Copyright Reform, Loren E. Mulraine
Symposium Panel: Bringing Blurred Lines into Focus, Loren E. Mulraine
The Meaning of the Constitution and the Selection of Judges, Harold See
A Special Delivery: Litigating Pregnancy Accommodation Claims after the Supreme Court’s Decision in Young v. United Parcel Service, Inc., Lynn Ridgeway Zehrt
Submissions from 2015
Keep Out FDA: Food Manufacturers' Ability to Effectively Self-Regulate Front-of-Package Food Labeling, Ellen A. Black
Sentencing the Wolf of Wall Street: From Leniency to Uncertainty, Lucian E. Dervan
Keeping Our Eyes on the Prize: Examining Minnesota as a Means for Assuring Achievement of the 'Triple Aim' Under the ACA, Deborah R. Farringer
Advising the President: The Growing Scope of Executive Power to Protect America, Alberto R. Gonzales
I Am My Brother's Keeper: How the Crossroads of Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property and Entertainment Can Be Used to Affect Social Justice, Loren E. Mulraine
Defamation and the Government Employee: Redefining Who Constitutes a Public Official, Jeffrey Omar Usman
Submissions from 2014
Menu Labeling: The Unintended Consequences to the Consumer, Ellen A. Black
College Students and State Voter ID Laws: Can I Vote in the State Where I Attend College? I Have a Student ID Card, Tracey Carter
The Quest for Finality: Five Stories of White Collar Criminal Prosecution, Lucian E. Dervan
In Search of Justice: An Examination of the Appointments of John G. Roberts and Samuel A. Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court and Their Impact on American Jurisprudence, Alberto R. Gonzales
No Right at All: Putting Consular Notification in Its Rightful Place after Medellin, Alberto R. Gonzales and Amy L. Moore
Two Years Later and Counting: The Implications of the Supreme Court's Taxing Power Decision on the Goals of the Affordable Care Act, Alberto R. Gonzales and Donald B. Stuart
Reality Over Ideology: A Practical View of Special Needs Voucher Programs, Elizabeth Adamo Usman
Finding the Lost Involuntary Public Figure, Jeffrey Omar Usman
Resolving the Great Divide in Pregnancy Discrimination, Lynn Ridgeway Zehrt
Twenty Years of Compromise: How the Caps on Damages in the Civil Rights Act of 1991 Codified Sex Discrimination, Lynn Ridgeway Zehrt
Submissions from 2013
Post-Crawford: Were Recent Changes to State Voter ID Laws Really Necessary to Prevent Voter Fraud and Protect the Electoral Process?, Tracey Carter
White Collar Over-Criminalization: Deterrence, Plea Bargaining, and the Loss of Innocence, Lucian E. Dervan
The Innocent Defendant’s Dilemma: An Innovative Empirical Study of Plea Bargaining’s Innocence Problem, Lucian E. Dervan and Vanessa Edkins
Pleading Innocents: Laboratory Evidence of Plea Bargaining's Innocence Problem, Vanessa Edkins and Lucian E. Dervan
Drones: The Power to Kill, Alberto R. Gonzales
The Growing Regulatory State of Banking, Alberto R. Gonzales
What Implications Will the Supreme Court's Taxing Power Decision Have on the Goals of the Affordable Care Act and Healthcare?, Alberto R. Gonzales and Donald B. Stuart
Black Armbands, 'Boobies' Bracelets and the Need to Protect Student Speech, David L. Hudson Jr.
Constitutional Constraints on Retroactive Civil Legislation: The Hollow Promises of the Federal Constitution and Unrealized Potential of State Constitutions, Jeffrey Omar Usman
Submissions from 2012
We Are Who We Admit: The Need to Harmonize Law School Admission and Professionalism Processes with Bar Admission Standards, Timothy P. Chinaris
Bargained Justice: Plea Bargaining's Innocence Problem and the Brady Safety-Valve, Lucian E. Dervan
International White Collar Crime and the Globalization of Internal Investigations, Lucian E. Dervan
An Immigration Crisis in a Nation of Immigrants: Why Amending the Fourteenth Amendment Won't Solve Our Problems, Alberto R. Gonzales
The Secondary-Effects Doctrine: Stripping Away First Amendment Freedoms, David L. Hudson Jr.
Time for the Supreme Court to Address Off-Campus, Online Student Speech, David L. Hudson Jr.
Capital Punishment, Cultural Competency, and Litigating Intellectual Disability, Jeffrey Omar Usman
Submissions from 2011
American Prison Culture in an International Context: An Examination of Prisons in America, The Netherlands, and Israel, Lucian E. Dervan
Information Warfare and Civilian Populations: How the Law of War Addresses a Fear of the Unknown, Lucian E. Dervan
New Crimes and Punishments: A Case Study Regarding the Impact of Over-Criminalization on White Collar Criminal Cases, Lucian E. Dervan
Overcriminalization 2.0: The Symbiotic Relationship Between Plea Bargaining and Overcriminalization, Lucian E. Dervan
Re-Evaluating Corporate Criminal Liability: The DOJ’s Internal Moral Culpability Standard for Corporate Criminal Liability, Lucian E. Dervan
The Surprising Lessons from Plea Bargaining in the Shadow of Terror, Lucian E. Dervan
Pearson v. Callahan and Qualified Immunity: Impact on First Amendment Law, David L. Hudson Jr.
Submissions from 2010
Waging War Within the Constitution, Alberto R. Gonzales
Brokering Education: A Study of Charter Receipt, Renewal, and Revocation in Louisiana's Charter Schools, Amy L. Moore
Good Enough for Government Work: The Interpretation of Positive Constitutional Rights in State Constitutions, Jeffrey Omar Usman
Submissions from 2009
The Unmerry Widow: Spousal Disinheritance and Life Insurance in North Carolina, Jeffrey S. Kinsler
Lost in the Maze of Appeals: The Eleventh Circuit's Review of Decisions by the Board of Immigration Appeals, Amy L. Moore
The Game is Afoot: Constitutionalizing the Right to Hunt and Fish in the Tennessee Constitution, Jeffrey Omar Usman
A Decade Later: Adarand and Croson and the Status of Minority Preferences in Government Contracting, Lynn Ridgeway Zehrt
Submissions from 2008
Arthur Andersen and the Temple of Doom, Jeffrey S. Kinsler
Submissions from 2007
Georgia's Noble Revolution: Three Governors, Two Armies, the Georgia Supreme Court, and the Gubernatorial Election of 1946, Lucian E. Dervan
Plea Bargaining's Survival: Financial Crimes Plea Bargaining, a Continued Triumph in a Post-Enron World, Lucian E. Dervan
Submissions from 2006
Blogs and the First Amendment, David L. Hudson Jr.
Submissions from 2005
Even Judges Don’t Know Everything: A Call for a Presumption of Admissibility for Expert Witness Testimony in Lawyer Disciplinary Proceedings, Timothy P. Chinaris
More Than the Camel’s Nose: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act as Bad News for Lawyers, Clients, and the Public, Timothy P. Chinaris
Justice Brennan's Significant Departure and Warning of an Evisceration, David L. Hudson Jr.
Student Expression in the Age of Columbine: Securing Safety and Protecting First Amendment Rights, David L. Hudson Jr.
Submissions from 2004
Does Capital Punishment Have a Future? : A Resource Guide for Teachers, David L. Hudson Jr.
The Separation of Powers and the Public Policy Role of the State Court in a Routine Case, Harold See
Submissions from 2003
Circuit-Specific Application of the Internal Revenue Code: An Unconstitutional Tax, Jeffrey S. Kinsler
Taxation Without Explanation: The Federal Gift Tax, Jeffrey S. Kinsler
Submissions from 2002
Three Governors: Herman Talmadge, the Georgia Supreme Court and the Gubernatorial Election of 1946, Lucian E. Dervan
Balancing Act : Public Employees and Free Speech, David L. Hudson Jr.
Fear of Violence in Our Schools: Is ‘Undifferentiated Fear’ in the Age of Columbine Leading to a Suppression of Student Speech?, David L. Hudson Jr.
Justice Clarence Thomas: The Emergence of a Commercial-Speech Protector, David L. Hudson Jr.
Reflecting on the Virtual Child Porn Decision, David L. Hudson Jr.
The Courts’ Inconsistent Treatment of Bethel v. Fraser and the Curtailment of Student Rights, David L. Hudson Jr. and John E. Ferguson Jr.
The Evolution of Iranian Islamism from the Revolution Through the Contemporary Reformers, Jeffrey Omar Usman
Submissions from 2001
Selected Conceptions of Federalism: The Selective Use of History in the Supreme Court's States' Rights Opinions, Lucian E. Dervan
The New Face of Creationism: The Establishment Clause and the Latest Efforts to Suppress Evolution in Public Schools, Deborah R. Farringer
Joseph McCarthy, The Law Student, Jeffrey S. Kinsler
