Submissions from 2025
Submissions from 2024
Long Live the Federal Rules of Evidence!, Daniel J. Capra and Liesa L. Richter
Painting a Clearer Picture: Introducing New Federal Rule of Evidence 107 Regulating Illustrative Aids, Daniel J. Capra and Liesa L. Richter
Altered Stakes: Reimagining the Amount-in-Controversy Requirement, Steven Gensler and Roger Michalski
Sounds Marks, Deborah Gerhardt and Jon J. Lee
A Wolf in Sheep’s Attire: How Consent Enfeebles Our Fourth Amendment, Stephen E. Henderson and Guha Krishnamurthi
A New Approach to Attorney Regulation, Jon J. Lee
More Than Friends: A New Theory for the Third-Party Doctrine, Eang Ngov
Green Colonialism: Sidelined While on the Front Lines, M. Alexander Pearl
The Consequences of Mythology: Supreme Court Decisionmaking in Indian Country, M. Alexander Pearl
Conflicts and Confluences between Surface and Mineral Estates with CCUS, Joseph Schremmer
The Potential for Conflicts between CCS Projects and Mineral Extraction, Joseph Schremmer
Growing Tensions: Consumer Privacy and Corporate Disclosures, Megan Wischmeier Shaner
Submissions from 2023
Propaganda for War & International Human Rights Standards, Evelyn Aswad
Search and Seizure Budgets, Kiel Brennan-Marquez and Stephen E. Henderson
Diversity Disclosures: Unconstitutionally Compelled Speech by the SEC, Steven Cleveland
The S.E.C.'s Unconstitutionally Compelled Speech, Steven Cleveland
Role-Reversibility, AI, and Equitable Justice — Or: Why Mercy Cannot Be Automated, Stephen E. Henderson and Kiel Brennan-Marquez
The Macroeconomics of Intellectual Property, Eric E. Johnson
Name, Image, and Likeness Deals and Immigration Consequences for International Student-Athletes, Eric E. Johnson and Kit Johnson
Private Sanctions, Public Harm?, Jon J. Lee
Racism and Trademark Abandonment, Jon J. Lee
Ethics by Appointment: An Empirical Account of Obscured Sanctioning in MDL Cases, Roger Michalski
Fractional Sovereignty, Roger Michalski
How to Survive the Culture Wars: Conflict of Laws Post-Dobbs, Roger Michalski
The Pro Se Gender Gap, Roger Michalski
Torts and Personhood, Melissa Mortazavi
Where Neutrality Stops and Reality Begins: Why Considering Identity is Vital to Lead and Class Counsel Selection, Melissa Mortazavi
Asymmetries, Norm Matching, and the Pursuit of Equity between the Police and the Public, Eang Ngov
On Warrants & Waiting: Electronic Warrants & The Fourth Amendment, Tracy Hresko Pearl
Lost in Translation: The Best Evidence Rule and Foreign-Language Recordings in Federal Court, Liesa L. Richter
Ad Coelum and the Design of Property Rights, Joseph Schremmer
Subsurface Trespass: Private Remedies and Public Regulation, Joseph Schremmer
The Concurrent Use of Land for Carbon Sequestration and Mineral Development, Joseph Schremmer
Lawyerless Law Development, Colleen Shanahan, Jessica Steinberg, Alyx Mark, and Anna Carpenter
Remediating Injustices for Black Land Loss: Taking the Next Step to Protect Heirs' Property, Phyllis C. Taite
Taxing Wealth: Strategic Methods to Address Growing Inequalities, Phyllis C. Taite
Welfare v. Wealthfare: The Illusion of Equality in Tax Policy, Phyllis C. Taite
Submissions from 2022
Convergence & Conflict : Reflections on Global and Regional Human Rights Standards on Hate Speech, Evelyn Aswad and David Kaye
The Field of State Civil Courts, Anna Carpenter, Alyx Mark, Colleen Shanahan, and Jessica Steinberg
Judges in Lawyerless Courts, Anna Carpenter, Colleen Shanahan, Jessica Steinberg, and Alyx Mark
Appraisal Rights and "Fair Value", Steven Cleveland
The Million-Dollar Diversity Docket, Steven Gensler and Roger Michalski
A Tale of Four Decades: Lessons from USPTO Trademark Prosecution Data, Deborah Gerhardt and Jon J. Lee
In Celebration of Dissents (And Lengthy Textbooks): How Digital Became Different for the Fourth Amendment And Why It Is Time for a Real Warrant Default, Stephen E. Henderson
The Jury Veto, Stephen E. Henderson
Leadership Evolution: The Rise of Lawyers in the C-Suite, Garry Jenkins and Jon J. Lee
An Intellectual Property Fix for Platform Salesjacking, Eric E. Johnson
An Immigration Solution for Improving Rural Healthcare, Kit Johnson
Lawful Work While Undocumented: Business Entity Solutions, Kit Johnson
Beyond the Narrow Harvard Model of Legal Education: Restoring Legal Education According to the Proposals of Valentin Tomberg, Brian McCall
How El Salvador Has Changed U.S. Law by a Bit: The Consequences for the UCC of Bitcoin Becoming Legal Tender, Brian McCall
Mapping the Civil Justice Gap in Federal Court, Roger Michalski and Andrew Hammond
Virtual Annual Meetings: A Path Toward Shareholder Democracy and Stakeholder Engagement, Yaron Nili and Megan Wischmeier Shaner
The Fourth Amendment in the Age of Autonomous Vehicles, Tracy Hresko Pearl
Waste and the Governance of Private and Public Property, Tara Righetti and Joseph Schremmer
A Unifying Doctrine of Subsurface Property Rights, Joseph Schremmer
The Institutional Mismatch of State Civil Courts, Colleen Shanahan, Jessica Steinberg, Alyx Mark, and Anna Carpenter
Corporate Resiliency and Relevancy in the Private Ordering Era, Megan Wischmeier Shaner
The Democratic (Il)Legitimacy of Assembly-Line Litigation, Jessica Steinberg, Colleen Shanahan, Anna Carpenter, and Alyx Mark
Shadow Dockets Lite, Hayley Stillwell
Inequality by Unnatural Selection: The Impact of Tax Code Bias on the Racial Wealth Gap, Phyllis C. Taite
Teaching Cultural Competence in Law School Curricula: An Essential Step to Facilitate Diversity, Phyllis C. Taite and Nicola Boothe
Malicious Prosecution as Undue Process: A Fourteenth Amendment Theory of Malicious Prosecution, Timothy Tymkovich and Hayley Stillwell
Submissions from 2021
Taking Exception to Assessments of American Exceptionalism: Why the United States Isn't Such an Outlier on Free Speech, Evelyn Aswad
The Trial Lottery, Kiel Brennan-Marquez, Darryl Brown, and Stephen E. Henderson
"The" Rule: Modernizing the Potent, but Overlooked, Rule of Witness Sequestration, Daniel J. Capra and Liesa L. Richter
Behind Bartkus: A Flamboyant Lawyer, a Vindictive Judge, and the Untold Story of Double Jeopardy’s Dual Sovereignty, Stephen E. Henderson and Dean Strang
Seeing Those We’ve Rendered Invisible – A Clarion Call for Criminal Justice, Stephen E. Henderson and Jordan Thomas
Uncertain Risk, Science Experiments, and the Courts, Eric E. Johnson
Women of Color in Immigration Enforcement, Kit Johnson
Catching Unfitness, Jon J. Lee
Federal (De)Funding of Local Police, Roger Michalski and Stephen Rushin
Radical Reformation: Diverse Pathways to Attorney Licensure Will Yield a More Diverse Profession, Carla Pratt
Pore Space Property, Joseph Schremmer
Democracy on a Shoestring, Joshua Sellers and Roger Michalski
Judges and the Deregulation of the Lawyer's Monopoly, Jessica Steinberg, Anna Carpenter, Colleen Shanahan, and Alyx Mark
The Meaningless Factual Basis Inquiry of Rule 11(b)(3), Hayley Stillwell
May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor: How the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Fortified the Great Wealth Divide, Phyllis C. Taite
Tax Code Bias and Its Starring Role in Perpetuating Inequalities, Phyllis C. Taite
Submissions from 2020
In a World of "Fake News," What's a Social Media Platform to Do?, Evelyn Aswad
Losing the Freedom to be Human, Evelyn Aswad
To Protect Freedom of Expression, Why Not Steal Victory from the Jaws of Defeat?, Evelyn Aswad
Evidentiary Irony and the Incomplete Rule of Completeness: A Proposal to Amend Federal Rule of Evidence 106, Daniel J. Capra and Liesa L. Richter
Politicians as Fiduciaries: Public Law v. Private Law When Altering the Date of an Election, Steven Cleveland
Expedited Trial Programs in Federal Court: Why Won't Attorneys Get on the Fast Track?, Steven S. Gensler and Jason Cantone
Wills Speak, Katheleen Guzman
Double Jeopardy’s Dual Sovereignty: A Tragic (and Implausible) Lack of Humility, Stephen E. Henderson and Dean Strang
Legal Lessons From a Very Fast Problem: COVID-19, Eric E. Johnson and Theodore Bailey
Rising Up Without Pushing Down: Lessons Learned from the Suffragettes' Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric, Kit Johnson
Double Standards: An Empirical Study of Patent and Trademark Discipline, Jon J. Lee
Demystifying Unconscionability: An Historical and Empirical Analysis, Brian McCall
What Good is John Finnis? Assessing the Personal and Common Good in Natural Law and Natural Rights, Brian McCall
Incivility as Identity, Melissa Mortazavi
Hands off the Wheel: The Role of Law in the Coming Extinction of Human-Driven Cars, Tracy Hresko Pearl
Police Funding, Stephen Rushin and Roger Michalski
Getting Past Possession: Subsurface Property Disputes as Nuisances, Joseph Schremmer
Join with Me, Won't You? Civic Engagement, COVID-19, and the Millennial Generation of Law Professors, Joseph Schremmer
COVID, Crisis, and Courts, Colleen Shanahan, Alyx Mark, Jessica Steinberg, and Anna Carpenter
Privately Ordered Fiduciaries, Megan Wischmeier Shaner