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

Michigan Law Review

Abortion, Original Public Meaning, & the Ambiguities of Pregnancy, 123 Mich. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2023) (co-authored with Evan Bernick).

By Jill Lens

Notre Dame Law Review

The Incoherence of Evidence Law, 99 Notre Dame L. Rev. (forthcoming 2024).

By G. Alexander Nunn

Alabama Law Review

The Value Triad, 75 Ala. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2023).

By Caleb Griffin

Vanderbilt Law Review

The Impact of Banning Confidential Settlements on Discrimination Dispute Resolution, 77 Vand. L. Rev. (forthcoming) (co-authored with Joni Hersch).

By Blair Druhan Bullock

Washington University Law Review

Judicial Moral Prophecy, 101 Wash. U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2023).

By Daniel B. Rice

Faculty Scholarship

Alena Allen

Alena Allen

The Emotional Woman, 99 N.C. L. Rev. 1027 (2021).

Tort Norms in Context: Fostering Discussions about Gender and Racial Bias in Tort, in Integrating Doctrine and Diversity: Inclusion Equity in the Law School Classroom (Nicole P. Dyszlewski et. al. eds.), Carolina Press (2021).

Rape Messaging, 87 Fordham L. Rev. 1033 (2018).

Howard Brill

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).

Blair Druhan Bullock

Blair Druhan Bullock

Frivolous Floodgate Fears, 98 Ind. L. J. (forthcoming 2023).

Uncovering Harassment Retaliation, 72 Ala. L. Rev. 671 (2021).

The Use and Misuse of Econometric Evidence in Employment Discrimination Cases, 71 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 2365 (2014) (with Joni Hersch).

Carl Circo

Carl Circo

Construction Law Apologetics, 74 Ark. L. Rev. 319 (2022).

The Construction Industry in the U.S. Supreme Court: Part 1, Contract Law, 41(2) Const. Law 6 (2021).

The Construction Industry in the U.S. Supreme Court: Part 2, Constitutional and Statutory Cases, 41(3) Const. Law 5 (2021).

Will Foster

Will Foster

Executive Tax Discretion, William E. Foster and Andrew Lawson, 73 Ala. L. Rev. 291 (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

Carol Goforth

Regulation of Cryptoassets (with Yuliya Guseva) (2d Ed., West Academic, 2022).

Regulation by Enforcement: Problems with the SEC’s Approach to Cryptoasset Regulation, 82 Md. L. Rev. 107 (2023)

How Nifty! But are NFTs securities, commodities, or something else?, 90 U.M.K.C. L. Rev. 775 (2022).

Caleb Griffin

Caleb Griffin

Systemically Important Platforms, 107 Cornell L. Rev. 445 (2022).

Collective Contracts, 48 B.Y.U. Law Review (forthcoming 2023).

We Three Kings: Disintermediating Voting at the Index Fund Giants, 79 Md. L. Rev. 954 (2020).

Amanda Beth Hurst

Amanda Beth Hurst

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

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

Jill Wieber Lens

Jill Wieber Lens

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

Counting Stillbirths, 56 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 525 (2023).

Abortion, Pregnancy Loss, & Subjective Fetal Personhood, 75 Vand. L. Rev. 1649 (2022) (co-authored with Greer Donley).

Cynthia Nance

Cynthia Nance

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

Alex Nunn

Alex Nunn

The Living Rules of Evidence, 170 University of Pennsylvania L. Rev. 937 (2022).

Jurisdictional Elements and the Jury, 107 Cornell L. Rev. 515 (2022).

Law, Fact, and the Legal Process, 70 Emory L.J. 1273 (2021).

Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile

Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile

International Food Law: History and Evolution, in The Global Food Challenge (Ilja Pavone et al eds., forthcoming 2023).

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).

Daniel Rice

Daniel Rice

Repugnant Precedents and the Court of History, 121 Mich. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2023).

Reforming Variable Vagueness, 23 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 960 (2021).

Confining Cases to Their Facts, 105 Va. L. Rev. 865 (2019) (with Jack Boeglin).

Annie Smith

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

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

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).

The Dobbs Effect: Abortion Rights in the Rear View Mirror and the Civil Rights Crisis that Lies Ahead, 64 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. Online Art. 1 (with Terry Day) (2023).