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. 51 (2024) (with Joni Hersch).
Repairing the Family Law Attorney, 28 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 473 (2024).
Building Power: Can Wind and Solar Development Foster Equity and Democracy, 38 Georgetown Environmental L.R. (forthcoming 2025).
The Gendered Violence of Asylum Reporting Requirements, 56 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 405 (2025).
Do Rural Places Matter? 57 Conn. L. Rev. 129 (2024).
The SEC and Crypto: Risks of Overzealous Enforcement, 63 U. Louisville L. Rev. 521 (2025).
Faculty Scholarship
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
The Co-Parent Trap, 91 Brook. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026).
Repairing the Family Law Attorney, 28 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 473 (2024).
Benjamin Brady
Statutory Damages Under the Copyright Act: An Empirical Survey, 2022 Mich St. L. Rev. 1179 (with Chris Sprigman and Roy Germano).
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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).
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).
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).
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
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
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).
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
Building Power: Can Wind and Solar Development Foster Equity and Democracy, 38 Georgetown Environmental L.R. (forthcoming 2026).
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
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
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
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
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).