Faculty & Research


Below, please find a sample of recent scholarship by our faculty members on the University of Arkansas flagship campus in Fayetteville. Our faculty have consistently placed in top law journals over the last three years, including California, Michigan, Cornell, Virginia, Texas, UCLA, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Minnesota, Iowa, Notre Dame, and Boston University.

Jordan Blair Woods

Assistant Professor of Law

Jordan Blair Woods

Policing, Danger Narratives, and Routine Traffic Stops, 117 Mich. L. Rev. 635 (2019).

Religious Exemptions and LGBTQ Child Welfare, 103 Minn. L. Rev. 2343 (2019).

Unaccompanied Youth and Private-Public Order Failures, 103 Iowa L. Rev. 1639 (2018).

LGBT Identity and Crime, 105 Calif. L. Rev. 667 (2017).

Khaled Beydoun

Associate Professor of Law

Khaled Beydoun

Lone Wolf Terrorism: Types, Stripes and Double Standards, 112 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1213 (2018).

American Islamaphobia: Understanding The Roots and Rise of Fear (Univ. of Calif. Press 2018).

Reverse Passing, 64 UCLA L. Rev. 282 (2017) (with Erika K. Wilson).

Between Indigence, Islamophobia, and Erasure: Poor and Muslim in 'War on Terror' America, 104 Calif. L. Rev. 1463 (2016).

Alan M. Trammell

Assistant Professor of Law

Alan M. Trammell

Demystifying Nationwide Injunctions, 98 Tex. L. Rev. 67 (2019).

Precedent and Preclusion, 93 Notre Dame L. Rev. 565 (2017).

Personal Jurisdiction and the “Interwebs,” 100 Cornell L. Rev. 1129 (2015) (with Derek E. Bambauer).

A Tale of Two Jurisdictions, 68 Vand. L. Rev. 501 (2015).

Jill Wieber Lens

Associate Professor of Law

Jill Wieber Lens

Children, Wrongful Death, & Punitive Damages, 100 B.U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2020).

Tort Law’s Devaluation of Stillbirth, 19 Nev. L.J. 955 (2019).

The Ultimate in Women’s Labor: Stillbirth and Grieving, in Routledge International Handbook of Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health (2019).

Defective Punitive Damage Awards, 2017 Utah L. Rev. 1019 (2017).

Carol Goforth

University Professor and Clayton N. Little Professor of Law

Carol Goforth

Regulation of Cryptotransactions (forthcoming West Academic 2020).

The Lawyer’s Cryptionary: A Resource for Talking to Clients About Crypto-transactions, 41 Campbell L. Rev. 47 (2019).

How Blockchain Could Increase the Need for and Availability of Contractual Ordering for Companies and Their Investors, 94 N.D. L. Rev. 1 (2019).

Securities Treatment of Tokenized Offerings Under U.S. Law, 46 Pepp. L Rev. 405 (2019).

Securities Treatment of Tokenized Offerings Under U.S. Law, 46 PEPP. L REV. 405 (2019).

Laurent Sacharoff

Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Professor of Law

Laurent Sacharoff

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

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

Unlocking the Fifth Amendment: Passwords and Encrypted Devices, 87 Fordham L. Rev. 203 (2018).

Who Should Own Police Body Camera Videos?, 95 Wash. U. L. Rev. 269 (2017).

Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile

E.J. Ball Professor of Law

Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile

The Intersection of FinTech (Cryptocurrency) and Trademark Law, 53 U.C. Davis L. Rev. Online (forthcoming 2019-2020).

Emerging Market Economies and International Investment Law: Turkey-Africa Bilateral Investment Treaties, 52 Vand. J. Transnat’l L. (forthcoming 2019).

Africa-China Bilateral Investment Treaties: A Critique, 35 Mich. J. Int’l L. 131 (2013).

Trade, Empires, and Subjects - China-Africa Trade: A New Fair Trade Arrangement or the Third Scramble for Africa? 41 Vand. J. Transnat’l L. 505 (2008).

Danielle Weatherby

Associate Professor of Law

Danielle Weatherby

Shackled Speech: How President Trump’s Treatment of the Press and the Citizen-Critic Undermines the Central Meaning of the First Amendment, 23 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 311 (2019) (with Terri R. Day).

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

Contemplating Masterpiece Cakeshop, 74 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. Online 86 (2017) (with Terri R. Day).

The Case for LGBT Equality: Reviving the Political Process Doctrine and Repurposing the Dormant Commerce Clause, 81 Brooklyn L. Rev. 1015 (2016) (with Terri R. Day).

Annie Smith

Associate Professor of Law and Director, Civil Litigation & Advocacy Clinic

Annie Smith

Prosecuting Labor Trafficking, 71 S.C. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2020).

Regulating Wage Theft, 94 Wash. L. Rev. 759 (2019) (with Jennifer J. Lee).

Imposing Justice: The Prospect of Mandatory Arbitration for Guestworkers, 40 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Soc. Change 375 (2016).

Susan Schneider

William H. Enfield Professor of Law and Director of the LL.M. Program in Agricultural & Food Law

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).

Examining Food Safety from a Food Systems Perspective: The Need for a Holistic Approach, 2014 Wis. L. Rev. 397 (2014).

Alex Nunn

Assistant Professor of Law

Alex Nunn

Beyond the Witness: Bringing a Process Perspective to Modern Evidence Law, 97 Tex. L. Rev. 1077 (2019) (with Edward K. Cheng).

DNA, Blue Bus, and Phase Changes, 20 Int’l J. Evidence & Proof 112 (2016) (with Edward K. Cheng).

Brian Gallini

Associate Professor of Law

Brian Gallini

The Interrogations of Brendan Dassey, 102 Marq. L. Rev. 777 (2019).

The Unlikely Meeting Between Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Benjamin Quarles, 66 Case W. L. Rev. 393 (2015).

The Historical Case for Abandoning Strickland, 94 Neb. L. Rev. 302 (2015).

Lonnie Ray Beard

Price Allocations with Respect to Sales of Farm Property: A Survey of Income Tax Considerations and Planning Possibilities, 43 Ark. L. Rev. 631 (1990)

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).

Carl Circo

Contract Law in the Construction Industry Context (2019).

Interpreting Stale Preferential Rights to Acquire Real Estate: Beyond the Restatement of Property, 62 Vill. L. Rev. 603 (2017).

Steve Clowney

Sorority Houses as Confederate Monuments, 105 Ky. L.J. (forthcoming).

Does Commodification Corrupt: Lessons from Paintings and Prostitutes, 50 Seton Hall L. Rev. (forthcoming).

Open Source Property (2016) (Co-author).

Should We Buy Selling Sovereignty?, 66 Duke L.J. Online 19 (2017).

Sharon Foster

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

Too Big to Prosecute: Collateral Consequences, Systematic Institutions and the Rule of Law, 34 Rev. Banking & Financial L. 655 (2015).

Will Foster

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.

Partisan Politics and Income Tax Rates, 2013 Mich. St. L. Rev. 703.

Amanda Beth Hurst

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).

Mark R. Killenbeck

All Banks in Like Manner Taxed? Maryland and the Second Bank of the United States, 44 J. Sup. Ct. Hist. 7 (2019).

William Johnson, the Dog that Did Not Bark?, 62 Vand. L. Rev. 407 (2009).

Pushing Things up to Their First Principles: Reflections on the Values of Affirmative Action, 87 Calif. L. Rev. 1299 (1999).

The Qualities of Completeness: More? Or Less?, 97 Mich. L. Rev. 1629 (1999).

Stacy L. Leeds

Beyond an Emergency Declaration: Tribal Governments and the Opioid Crisis, 67 U. Kan. L. Rev. 1013 (2019).

Robert B Leflar

Discerning Why Patients Die: Legal and Political Controversies in Japan, the United States, and Taiwan, 22 Mich. St. Int’l L. Rev. 777 (2014).

Mary Beth Matthews

Current Developments in the Law Regarding Agricultural Cooperatives, 1 Drake J. Agric. L. 173 (1996).

Cynthia Nance

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

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).

Tim Tarvin

The Fifth Amendment Privilege Against Self-Incrimination in Bankruptcy: Protecting Clients and Avoiding Professional Error, Advoc., Nov./Dec. 2019, at 33.

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).

Bankruptcy, Relocation and the Debtor’s Dilemma: Preserving Your Homestead Exemption Versus Accepting the New Job Out of State, 43 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 141 (2011).

Beth Zilberman

The Myth of Second Chances: Noncitizen Youth and Confidentiality of Delinquency Records, 31 Geo. Immig. L.J. 561 (2017).