Faculty & Research
The law faculty at the University of Arkansas flagship campus in Fayetteville have consistently placed in top law journals over the last three years, including Stanford, California, Michigan, Cornell, Virginia, Texas, UCLA, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Minnesota, Iowa, Notre Dame, Emory, Boston University, Wisconsin, UC Davis, and OSU.
Recent Notable Faculty Publications
The Impact of Banning Confidential Settlements on Discrimination Dispute Resolution, 77 Vand. L. Rev. (forthcoming) (with Joni Hersch).
Civic Duties and Cultural Change, 113 Calif. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025).
Hacking Generative AI, 58 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025).
The Gendered Violence of Asylum Reporting Requirements, 56 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2024-25).
Do Rural Places Matter? 57 Conn. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2024).
The Sea Corporation, 108 Cornell L. Rev. 1569 (2023).
Faculty Scholarship
Robert Anderson
The Sea Corporation, 108 Cornell L. Rev 1569 (2023).
Contract Design, Default Rules, and Delaware Corporate Law, 77 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1197 (2020) (with Jeffrey Manns).
Howard W. Brill
Arkansas Professional and Judicial Ethics (9th ed. 2018).
1 Arkansas Practice Series: Law of Damages (6th ed. 2014 and 2023 supp.) (with Christian H. Brill).
Blair Druhan Bullock
The Impact of Banning Confidential Settlements on Discrimination Dispute Resolution, 77 Vand. L. Rev. 51 (2024) (with Joni Hersch).
Frivolous Floodgate Fears, 98 Ind. L. J. (2023).
Uncovering Harassment Retaliation, 72 Ala. L. Rev. 671 (2021).
Carl Circo
“Construction Law Apologetics”, 75 Ark. L. Rev. 319 (2022).
“The Construction Industry in the U.S. Supreme Court: Part 2, Constitutional and Statutory Cases”, Constr. Law., Summer 2021, at 5.
“The Construction Industry in the U.S. Supreme Court: Part 1, Contract Law”, Constr. Law., Spring 2021, at 6.
Steve Clowney
Do Rural Places Matter? 57 Conn. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2024).
Do Fraternities Violate the Fair Housing Act? An Empirical Study of Segregation in the Greek Organizations, 41 YALE L. & POL'Y REV. 152 (2023).
Anonymous Statues, 69 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol’y 37 (2023).
Amanda Fisher
New Beginnings: A Feminist Evaluation of Gendered Stigma in the Modern Legal Profession, 19 Rutgers J. L. & Pub. Pol’y 161 (2021).
Sharon Foster
Financial Benchmark Control as Monopoly Power, Hast. Bus. L. J. 233 (2021).
The Conflict Between Human Right to Education and Copyright, book chapter in Intellectual Property and Human Rights (2020).
Will Foster
Art Dealers as Intermediaries, in Research Handbook on Agency and Intermediation (Deborah A. DeMott and Tan Cheng-Han, Ed.) (with Anna Nolan-Wheatley) (forthcoming, 2025).
Reckoning with Tax Risk, 42 Va. Tax Rev. 473 (2023).
Executive Tax Discretion, 73 Ala. L. Rev. 291 (2021) (with Andrew Lawson).
Carol Goforth
SEC v. Ripple Labs: A Ripple or a Wave, 71 Drake L. Rev. (forthcoming 2024).
The Securities and Exchange Commission and Cryptoassets: A Study in Irony, Albany Law. Rev. 55 (2024).
Critiquing the SEC’s Ongoing Efforts to Regulate Crypto Exchanges, Wm. & Mary Bus. L. Rev. 305 (2023).
Sara Gosman
Planning for Failure: Pipelines, Risk, and the Energy Revolution, 81 Ohio St. L.J. 349 (2020).
Justifying Safety: The Paradox of Rationality, 90 Temp. L. Rev. 155 (2018).
Amanda Beth Hurst
Judging the Judiciary, 40 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2024).
Faux Federalism, 110 Ky. L. J. 221 (2022).
Christopher Kelley
Teaching Abroad Independently: An Essay, 45 S. Ill. U. L. J. 105 (2021)
Internationalizing the U.S. Law School Classroom: Lessons Learned from Teaching Transnationally, 52 Int’l Law. 131 (2019) (with Natalia Borozdina).
Ann M. Killenbeck
Ann Killenbeck & Mark Killenbeck. Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard on Affirmative Action. SCOTUS 2023: Major Decisions and Developments of the U.S. Supreme Court (Eds. Morgan Marietta & Howard Schweber) (Springer publications) (2024).
Ann Mallatt Killenbeck, Ferguson, Fisher, and the Future: Diversity and Inclusion as a Remedy for Implicit Racial Bias, 42 J.C. & U.L. 58 (2016).
Eugene Lee & Ann M. Killenbeck, Social Science, Law and Psychiatry: A Dialogue on Context, in Principles and Practice of Forensic Psychiatry (Richard Rosner ed., 3d ed., 2016).
Ido Kilovaty
Hacking Generative AI, 58 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025).
Cybersecuring the Pipeline, 60 Houston L. Rev. (2023)
Attacking Big Data as a Use of Force, in Big Data and Armed Conflict Legal Issues Above and Below the Armed Conflict Threshold (Laura Dickinson, Edward Berg eds., Oxford University Press) (2023).
Margaret Sova McCabe
Standing to Enforce the Future: Citizen Suits and Climate Change, 66 B.C. L. Rev. 423 (2025).
Cooperation or Compromise: Understanding the Farm Bill as Omnibus Legislation, 14 J. Food L. & Pol’y 1 (2018).
Amelia McGowan
The Gendered Violence of Asylum Reporting Requirements, 56 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2024-25).
Forced Back into the Lion’s Mouth: Per Se Reporting Requirements in US Asylum Law, 107 Marq. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2023).
Tiffany Murphy
Impeachment vs. Indictment: How to Handle Criminality in the Executive Branch, 100 Denv. L. Rev. 847 (2023).
Prosecuting the Executive, 56 San Diego L. Rev. 105 (2019).
Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile
ESG, Supply Chain Due Diligence and the Food and Agricultural Industry: Changes and Challenges, in Research Handbook on International Food Law (Michael T. Roberts, ed., forthcoming 2023).
The Right to Water, in Teaching Business and Human Rights: Elgar Guides to Teaching (Anthony P. Ewing ed., forthcoming 2023).
Daniel Rice
Civic Duties and Cultural Change, 113 Calif. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2025).
Judicial Moral Prophecy, 101 Wash. U. L. Rev. 177 (2023).
Repugnant Precedents and the Court of History, 121 Mich. L. Rev. 577 (2023).
Susan Schneider
Climate Change, Food Security, and the Myth of Unlimited Abundance, 19 J. Food L. & Pol’y 30 (2023).
Annie Smith
Dismissing Human Trafficking: Forced Arbitration of Survivors' Civil Suits, 70 Vill. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025) (with Daniel Werner).
The Underprosecution of Labor Trafficking, 72 S.C. L. Rev. 477 (2020).
Regulating Wage Theft, 94 Wash. L. Rev. 759 (2019) (with Jennifer J. Lee).
John Thorlin
Just to Be Safe, Let's Keep Ignoring What "Arms" Meant in 1791, 129 Dickinson L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025).
Constitutional Hardball and Nationwide Preliminary Injunctions, 18 Duke J. Const. L. & Pub. Pol. 1 (2023).
Can Agencies Lie? A Realist’s Guide to Pretext Review, 80 Md. L. Rev. 1021 (2021).
Danielle Weatherby
The Dobbs Effect: Abortion Rights in the Rear View Mirror and the Civil Rights Crisis that Lies Ahead, 64 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. Online 1 (2023) (with Terri Day).
Student Discipline and the Active Avoidance Doctrine, 54 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 491 (2020).