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 Broken Fourth Amendment Oath, 74 Stan. L. Rev. 2021 (forthcoming)

by Laurent Sacharoff

Bigotry, Civil Rights, and LGBTQ Child Welfare, Michigan Law Review (forthcoming)

by Jordan Blair Woods

The Living Rules of Evidence, Pennsylvania Law Review (forthcoming)

by G. Alexander Nunn

Systemically Important Platforms, Cornell Law Review (forthcoming)

by Caleb Griffin

What Does the Decline in the U.S. Dollar’s Global Role Mean for Cryptocurrencies?, St. Louis Law Journal (forthcoming)

by Carol R. Goforth

Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Reproductive Justice, 98 Washington University Law Review 1059 (2021)

by Jill Wieber Lens

Faculty Scholarship

Howard W. Brill

Baseball Mascots and the Law, 65 U. Kan. L. Rev. 105 (2016) (with Christian H. Brill).

1 Arkansas Practice Series: Law of Damages (6th ed. 2014) (with Christian H. Brill).

The Conflict Between Human Right to Education and Copyright, book chapter in Intellectual Property and Human Rights (2020).

Antitrust Efficient Enforcer and the Financial Products Benchmark Manipulation Litigation, 13 Ohio St. Bus. L.J. 99 (2019).

Will Foster

Executive Tax Discretion, William E. Foster and Andrew Lawson, Ala. L. Rev. (Forthcoming 2021).

The Gallerist’s Gambit: Financial Innovation, Tax Law, and the Making of the Contemporary Art Market, 42 Colum. J.L. & Arts 479 (2019) (with Michael W. Maizels).

Enduring Design for Business Entities, 2015 Utah L. Rev. 955.

Carol Goforth

Regulation of Cryptotransactions (West Academic 2020).

Cinderella’s Slipper: A Better Approach to Regulating Cryptoassets as Securities, Hast. Bus. L. J. (Forthcoming 2021).

Regulation of Crypto: Who is the SEC Protecting?, Am. Bus. L. J. 271 (2021).

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).

Reflecting Risk: Chemical Disclosure and Hydraulic Fracturing, 48 Ga L. Rev. 83 (2013).

Amanda Beth Hurst

Faux Federalism, Ky. L. J. (Forthcoming 2021).

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

Christopher Kelley

Internationalizing the U.S. Law School Classroom: Lessons Learned from Teaching Transnationally, 52 Int’l Law. 131 (2019) (with Natalia Borozdina).

Ann M. Killenbeck

Ferguson, Fisher, and the Future: Diversity and Inclusion as a Remedy for Implicit Racial Bias, 42 J.C. & U.L. 59 (2016).

Jill Wieber Lens

Second-Trimester Abortion Dangertalk, with Greer Donley. B.C. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2021).

Miscarriage, Stillbirth, & Reproductive Justice, 98 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1059 (2021).

Medical Paternalism, Stillbirth, & Blindsided Mothers, 106 Iowa L. Rev. 665 (2021).

Margaret Sova McCabe

Cooperation or Compromise: Understanding the Farm Bill as Omnibus Legislation, 14 J. Food L. & Pol’y 1 (2018).

Eating for the Environment: The Potential of Dietary Guidelines to Achieve Better Human and Environmental Health Outcomes, 47 Envtl. L. 741 (2017).

Tiffany Murphy

Prosecuting the Executive, 56 San Diego L. Rev. 105 (2019).

Federal Habeas Corpus and Systemic Official Misconduct: Why Form Trumps Constitutional Rights, 66 U. Kan. L. Rev. 1 (2017).

When Numbers Lie: The Under-Reporting of Police Justifiable Homicides, 21 Berkeley J. Crim L. 42 (2016).

Cynthia Nance

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

Alex Nunn

The Living Rules of Evidence, 170 University of Pennsylvania L. Rev. (forthcoming 2022).

Jurisdictional Elements and the Jury, 106 Cornell L. Rev. (Forthcoming 2021).

Law, Fact, and the Legal Process, 69 Emory L.J. __ (forthcoming 2021).

Settled Law, 107 Va. L. Rev. 57 (2020) (with Alan Trammell).

Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile

International Food Law: History and Evolution, in The Global Food Challenge (Ilja Pavone et al eds., forthcoming 2021).

China-Africa Trade and Investment: Text, Cases, & Materials (Under Contract Oxford University Press).

Business And Human Rights in Africa: History, Politics, Context, Emerging Trends (Under Contract Routledge).

Laurent Sacharoff

The Broken Fourth Amendment Oath, 74 Stan. L. Rev. (Forthcoming 2021)

The Fourth Amendment Inventory, 105 Iowa L. Rev. 1643 (2020).

What Am I Really Saying When I Open My Smartphone: A Response to Orin S. Kerr, 97 Tex. L. Rev. Online 63 (2019).

Susan Schneider

Food, Farming & Sustainability: Readings in Agricultural Law (2d ed. Carolina Press 2016).

Moving in Opposite Directions?: Exploring Trends in Consumer Demand and Agricultural Production, 43 Mitchell Hamline L. Rev. 400 (2017).

Beyond the Food We Eat: Animal Drugs in Livestock Production, Duke Envtl L. & Pol’y F. 227 (2015).

Annie Smith

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).

Imposing Injustice: The Prospect of Mandatory Arbitration for Guestworkers, 40 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Soc. Change 2 (2016).

Tim Tarvin

The Fifth Amendment Privilege Against Self-Incrimination in Bankruptcy: Protecting Clients and Avoiding Professional Error, 62 Advocate 33 (2019).

Combating Professional Error in Bankruptcy Analysis Through the Design and Use of Decision Trees in Clinical Pedagogy, 91 St. John’s L.R. 427 (2017).

The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination in Bankruptcy and the Plight of the Debtor, 44 Seton Hall L.R. 47 (2014).

Danielle Weatherby

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

Speech Narcissism, 70 Florida L. Rev. 839 (2018) (with Terri R. Day).

Commentary, Hively v. Ivey Tech Community College, 853 F.3d 339 (7th Cir. 2017), in Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Employment Discrimination Opinions (Ann McGinley & Nicole Porter eds., 2020).