August 2016 Law Faculty Publications & News

Throughout August 2016, the Law Library’s Faculty Services & Scholarly Communications Department received alerts for full-time TTU Law Faculty publications and news. Below is the compilation of daily alerts for August 1, 2016 to August 31, 2016.

Published:

1. Gerry W. Beyer, Beyer’s Texas Property Code Annotated with Related Texas Law (2016 ed.).

Op/Ed:

1. Arnold Loewy & Charles Moster, It’s Debatable: Commenting in Anonymity, Lubbock Avalanche-J. (Aug. 7, 2016, 12:02 AM), http://lubbockonline.com/editorials/2016-08-07/its-debatable-supreme-courts-ut-ruling-good-or-bad#.
2. Arnold Loewy & Charles Moster, It’s Debatable: Is Supreme Court’s UT Ruling Good or Bad?, Lubbock Avalanche-J. (Aug. 21, 2016, 12:12 AM), http://lubbockonline.com/editorials/2016-08-21/its-debatable-commenting-anonymity#.V7tIMVsrLcs.

Cited:

1. Professor Camp’s article, Form Over Substance in Fifth Circuit Tax Cases, was cited in the following article: Susan C. Morse & Robert Deutsch, Tax Anti-Avoidance Law in Australia and the United States, 49 Int’l Law. 111 (2016).

2. Professor Soonpaa’s article, Stress in Law Students: A Comparative Study of First-Year, Second-Year, and Third-Year Law Students, was cited in the following article: Todd David Peterson, The Moral Obligation of Law Schools to Address Law Student Wellbeing: A Review Essay About the Happy Lawyer, 30 Notre Dame J.L. Ethics & Pub. Pol’y 67 (2016).

3. Dean Dickerson’s articles, Deposition Dilemmas: Vexation Scheduling and Errata Sheets and The Law and Ethics of Civil Depositions, were cited in the following article: Matthew Rogers & Suzanne Valdez, “Retreat to the Boundary of the Rules”: Resurrecting Professionalism in Depositions and the Implications of Gamesmanship for Kansas Practitioners, 64 U. Kan. L. Rev. 1065 (2016).

4. Professor Murhpy’s treatise, Administrative Law and Practice, was cited in the following article: Jonathan S. Marashlian et al., Confusion, Uncertainty, and Fear: How the FCC’s Increased Reliance on Adjudication is Harming Carriers, Competition, Consumers, and Investment, 68 Fed. Comm. L.J. 207 (2016).

5. Professor Christopher’s article, Eye of the Beholder: How Perception Management Can Counter Stereotype Threat Among Struggling Law Students, was cited in the following article: Judith Welch Wegner, Contemplating Competence: Three Meditations, 50 Val. U. L. Rev. 675 (2016).

6. Professor Rosen’s article, Civilian Courts and the Military Justice System: Collateral Review of Courts-Martial, was cited in the following article: Christian R. Burset, Merchant Courts, Arbitration, and the Politics of Commercial Litigation in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire, 34 Law & Hist. Rev. 615 (2016).

7. Professor Metze’s article, Plugging the School to Prison Pipeline by Addressing Cultural Racism in Public Education Discipline, was cited in the following article: Jason P. Nance, Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Tools for Change, 48 Ariz. St. L.J. 313 (2016).

8. Professor Krahmer’s article, Foreign Currency Instruments Under the U.C.C., was cited in the following statute: U.C.C. § 4-212 (Am. Law Inst. & Unif. Law Comm’n 2016).

9. Professor Krahmer’s article, Commercial Transactions, was cited in the following statute: U.C.C. § 1-201 (Am. Law Inst. & Unif. Law Comm’n 2016).

10. Professor Pawlowic’s article, Framework for Analysis of Tranfer, Assignment, Negotiation, and Transfer by Operation of Law, was cited in the following provisions of the U.C.C.: U.C.C. §§ 5-101, 5-111, 5-116, 5-106, 5-103 (Am. Law Inst. & Unif. Law Comm’n 2016).

11. Professor Weninger’s article, The Abolition of Plea Bargaining: A Case Study of El Paso County, Texas, was cited in the following article: Russell D. Covery, Plea Bargaining and Price Theory, 84 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 920 (2016).

12. Professor Casto’s book, The Supreme Court in the Early Republic, was cited in the following article: John O. McGinnis, The Duty of Clarity, 84 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 843 (2016).

13. Professor Murphy’s article, Separation of Powers and the Horizontal Force of Precedent, was cited in the following article: John O. McGinnis, The Duty of Clarity, 84 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 843 (2016).

14. Professor Velte’s article, So You Want to Have a Second Child? Second Child Bias and the Justification-Suppression Model of Prejudice in Family Responsibilities Discrimination, was cited in the following article: Julie Manning Magid, Cloaking: Public Policy and Pregnancy, 53 Am. Bus. L.J. 439 (2016).

15. Professor Benham’s article, Dirty Secrets: The First Amendment in Protective-Order Litigation, was cited in the following article: Craig Smith et al., Finding A Balance Between Securing Confidentiality and Preserving Court Transparency: A Re-Visit of Rule 76A and its Application to Unfiled Discovery, 69 SMU L. Rev. 309 (2016).

16. Professor Weninger’s article, Electronic Discovery and Sanctions For Spoliations: Perspectives From the Classroom, was cited in the following treatise: 14 Washin. Prac., Civil Procedure § 21:28 (2ed.) (2016).

17. Professor Benham’s article, Beyond Congress’s Reach: Constitutional Aspects of Inherent Power, was cited in the following article: Kevin M. Clermont, Civil Procedure’s Five Big Ideas, 2016 Mich. St. L. Rev. 55 (2016).

18. Professor Beyer’s article, Pet Animals: What Happens When Their Humans Die?, was cited in the following article: Kelsey Kobil, When It Comes To Standing, Two Legs Are Better Than Four, 120 Penn St. L. Rev. 621 (2016).

19. Professor Beyer’s article, Cyber Estate Planning and Administration, was cited in the following article: Jared Walker, Return of the UFADAA: How Texas and Other States’ Adoption of the RUFADAA Can Change the Internet, 8 Est. Plan. & Community Prop. L.J. 577 (2016).

20. Professor Beyer’s article, Decanting is Not Just for Sommeliers, was cited in the following article: Caroline M. Watson, Why Oh Why Wyoming: Why Connecticut Should Amend Its Trust Situs Laws And Move Onward And Westward With Wyoming, 29 Quinnipiac Prob. L.J. 469 (2016).

21. Professor Beyer’s article, 2015 Texas Estate Planning Legislative Update, was cited in the following article: Brent Debnam, Deadly Intentions: Posthumously Modifying Unambiguous Wills to Protect the Actual Intentions of Texas’s Testators, 8 Est. Plan. & Community Prop. L.J. 461 (2016).

22. Professor Velte’s article, Obergefell’s Expressive Promise, was cited in the following article: Morgan Shell, Transgender Student-Athletes in Texas School Districts: Why Can’t the UIL Give All Students Equal Playing Time, 48 Tex. Tech. L. Rev. 1043 (2016).

23. Professor Beyer’s book, Modern Legal Dictionary For The Legal Profession, was cited in the following article: Yoshinori H.T. Himel, Americans’ Misuse of “Internment,” 14 Seattle J. for Soc. Just. 797 (2016).

24. Professor Murphy’s article, Abandoning Standing: Trading a Rule of Access for a Rule of Deference, was citing in the following article: Rachel Bayefsky, Psychological Harm and Constitutional Standing, 81 Brook. L. Rev. 1555 (2016).

Quoted:

1. Professor Beyer was interviewed by VICE news about pet trusts. The article can be found here.
2. Professor Rosen was interviewed by POLITIFACT about military and court-martial laws. The article can be found here.

News:

1. Professor Beyer’s pet trust expertise was highlighted in Vice Media article: Jules Suzdaltsev, Why Rich People Set Up Trust Funds for Their Pets, Vice, July 31, 2016 (containing extensive interview with Prof. Beyer).
2. On August 19, 2016, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer was an invited speaker at the annual Advanced Estate Planning Conference sponsored by the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants in San Antonio, Texas. His presentation, attended by over 300 CPAs, attorneys, and other professionals, was entitled Anticipating Will Contests and How to Avoid Them.
3. On August 7^th, Professor Tracy Pearl delivered a talk entitled “50 Years Later: Miranda & The Police” at the Southeastern Association of Law School’s 2016 Conference on Amelia Island in Florida.
4. On August 17, 2016, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer was the speaker at a two-hour program in Kansas City sponsored by the Financial Planning Association of Greater Kansas City. His presentation was entitled Digital Assets, Pets, and Guns: Estate Planning Does Not Include Just Grandma’s Cameo Brooch Anymore.
5. The Governor’s Task Force on Infectious Diseases met in Austin, Monday August 8th, and member, Prof. Victoria Sutton participated. The charge of the Task Force includes making recommendations regarding Texas responses to Zika.
6. Dean Amy L. Jarmon presented on a panel at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) annual conference in August on the topic “Adapting to New Realities in Legal Education.”