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

Vanderbilt Law Review

The Impact of Banning Confidential Settlements on Discrimination Dispute Resolution, 77 Vand. L. Rev. 51 (2024) (with Joni Hersch).

By Blair Druhan Bullock

Lewis and CLark Law Review

Repairing the Family Law Attorney, 28 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 473 (2024).

By Daniel Bousquet

Georgetown Environmental Law Review

Building Power: Can Wind and Solar Development Foster Equity and Democracy, 38 Georgetown Environmental L.R. (forthcoming 2025).

By Peter Norman

Columbia Human Rights Law Review

The Gendered Violence of Asylum Reporting Requirements, 56 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 405 (2025).

By Amelia McGowan

Connecticut Law Review

Do Rural Places Matter? 57 Conn. L. Rev. 129 (2024).

By Steve Clowney

University of Louisville Law Review

The SEC and Crypto: Risks of Overzealous Enforcement, 63 U. Louisville L. Rev. 521 (2025).

Carol Goforth

Faculty Scholarship

Robert Anderson

Robert Anderson

Bunker Sales and Contractual Maritime Liens - A U.S. Law Perspective, 31 J. Int'l Maritime L. 18 (2025)

The Evolution of the Poison Pill, 51 J. Corp. L. (forthcoming 2026).

The Sea Corporation, 108 Cornell L. Rev 1569 (2023).

Daniel Bousquet

Daniel Bousquet

The Co-Parent Trap, 91 Brook. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026).

Repairing the Family Law Attorney, 28 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 473 (2024).

Benjamin Brady

Benjamin Brady

Statutory Damages Under the Copyright Act: An Empirical Survey, 2022 Mich St. L. Rev. 1179 (with Chris Sprigman and Roy Germano).

Howard Brill

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

Blair Druhan Bullock

Vertical Jurisdictional Inequities, 93 Tenn. L. Rev. 751 (2026).

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. 1132 (2023).

Jorge Camacho

Jorge Camacho

Toward Maximalist Regulation of Policing, 110 Marq. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2026).

The (In)evitability of Punishment, 56 U. Memphis L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2027).

Shrinking the Footprint of the Criminal Legal System through Policies Informed by Psychology and Neuroscience, 2 Commc'ns Psych. 38 (2024) (with Arielle Baskin-Sommers et al.).

Steve Clowney

Steve Clowney

Taking NIMBY's Seriously, 59 Conn. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026).

Do Rural Places Matter? 57 Conn. L. Rev. 129 (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).

Sarah Cravens

Sarah Cravens

Retaining Authority in Misconduct Matters After Judicial Resignations, 27 Legal Ethics (2026) (peer reviewed).

Off the Record: Transparency Challenges in Judicial Misconduct and Discipline, 74 Case Western L. Rev. 1053 (2024).

Recording Judges: Filling Gaps in Judicial Discipline, 24 J. App. Prac. & Proc. 1 (2024) (peer selected and peer edited).

Amanda Fisher

Amanda Fisher

The Doctrine of Legal Language, ___ UMKC L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2026).

Is it Even Possible to be a Parent and Ethnographer? In Communities of Practice and Ethnographic Fieldwork: Routledge (eds. Coutin, S.B., Cabatingan, L., & Nevarez Martinez, D.): Routledge (2024).

Memory: The Past, Present & Future of Law School Exams, 38 W. Mich. U. T.M. Cooley L. Rev. 29 (2023).

Will Foster

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 2026).

Reckoning with Tax Risk, 42 Va. Tax Rev. 473 (2023).

Executive Tax Discretion, 73 Ala. L. Rev. 291 (2021) (with Andrew Lawson).

Carol Goforth

Carol Goforth

Regulation of Cryptoassets (2d ed., West Academic, 2022) (with Yuliya Guseva; 3d ed. 2026).

I’ve Looked at Crypto from Both Sides Now, 48 U.A.L.R. L. Rev. 451 (2026).

The SEC and Crypto: Risks of Overzealous Enforcement, 63 U. Louisville L. Rev. 521 (2025).

Sara Gosman

Sara Gosman

Planning for Failure: Pipelines, Risk, and the Energy Revolution, 81 Ohio St. L.J. 349 (2020).

Framing Energy Resilience, 35 J. Land Use & Envtl. L. 1 (2019).

Justifying Safety: The Paradox of Rationality, 90 Temp. L. Rev. 155 (2018).

Amanda Beth Hurst

Amanda Beth Hurst

Judging the Judiciary, 40 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 313 (2024).

Faux Federalism, 110 Ky. L. J. 221 (2022).

Gonzaga’s Ghosts, 86 Tenn. L. Rev. 289 (2019).

Ann Killenbeck

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).

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Alama Magaña

Public Defender Discretion, 59 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 885 (2025).

Diagonal Representation, 105 B.U. L. Rev. 53 (2025) (an invited response to Irene Oritseweyinmi Joe, Administering Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, 105 B.U. L. Rev. 1 (2025)).

Public Defenders as Gatekeepers of Freedom, 70 UCLA L. Rev. 978 (2023).

Amelia McGowan

Amelia McGowan

Cruel Deference: State Narratives, Credibility, and Power in Convention Against Torture Adjudications, St. Louis U. L.J. (Childress Lecture Symposium issue, forthcoming 2026).

The Gendered Violence of Asylum Reporting Requirements, 56 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 405 (2025).

Forced Back into the Lion’s Mouth: Per Se Reporting Requirements in US Asylum Law, 107 Marq. L. Rev. 633 (2024).

Tiffany Murphy

Tiffany Murphy

Criminal Procedure: The Post-Investigative Process in Criminal Procedure: the Post-Investigative Process, Carolina Academic Press (2025), with Cohen, Adelman, Abramson, Bender, and Hughes.

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).

Cynthia Nance

Cynthia Nance

The Value of a Law Degree, 96 Iowa L. Rev. 1629 (2011).

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Alistair Newbern

Promoting a Rhetoric of Judicial Legitimacy in Pro Se Litigation, 79 Ark. L. Rev. 273 (2026).

Prisoners of Pleading, 94 Wash. U. L. Rev. 899 (2017) (co-authored with Richard Frankel).

Peter Norman

Peter Norman

Building Power: Can Wind and Solar Development Foster Equity and Democracy, 38 Georgetown Environmental L.R. (forthcoming 2026).

Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile

Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile

The Legal Profession and the AI Crisis: Emerging Policy, Judicial and Regulatory Responses, 66 Santa Clara L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2026).

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.).

The Right to Water, in Teaching Business and Human Rights: Elgar Guides to Teaching (Anthony P. Ewing ed., 2023).

Susan Schneider

Susan Schneider

Food, Farming & Sustainability: Readings in Agricultural Law, 3rd ed. (2025) (companion website at www.foodfarmingsustainability.com).

Climate Change, Food Security, and the Myth of Unlimited Abundance, 19 J. Food L. & Pol’y 30 (2023).

Annie Smith

Annie Smith

State Approaches to Private Enforcement of Human Trafficking Law, 17 Ne. U. L. Rev. (forthcoming, 2026) (with Aaron Halegua).

Dismissing Human Trafficking: Forced Arbitration of Survivors' Civil Suits, 70 Vill. L. Rev. 259 (2025) (with Daniel Werner).

The Underprosecution of Labor Trafficking, 72 S.C. L. Rev. 477 (2020).

John Thorlin

John Thorlin

Thou Shalt Not: Free Exercise, Originalism, and the Ten Commandments in Public Schools, ___ Villanova L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2027).

Founding-Era Politics and Original Meaning: A New Approach to the Free-Exercise Clause, 75 Cath. U. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2026).

The Original Defensive War Power, 115 Ky. L.J. ___ (forthcoming 2026).

Mutual Defense Treaties and Presidential War Powers, 67 B.C. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026).

Danielle Weatherby

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).

Feminist Perspectives on Bostock v. Clayton County, 53 Conn. L. Rev. Online 1 (2020).

Student Discipline and the Active Avoidance Doctrine, 54 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 491 (2020).