Throughout the month of November, the Law Library received alerts for full-time TTU Law Faculty publications and news. Below is a compilation of those daily alerts for November 1st to November 30th, 2019.
Articles & Book Chapters
1. Gerry W. Beyer, ed., Keeping Current—Probate, Prob. & Prop., Nov./Dec., at 24.
2. Bryan Camp, Lesson From The Tax Court: No Jurisdiction Over Ambiguous NOD, TaxProf Blog (Nov. 4, 2019).
3. Jamie J. Baker, Ask a Director, 24 AALL Spectrum 30 (2019).
4. Bryan Camp, Lesson From The Tax Court: One Year At A Time, TaxProf Blog (Nov. 11, 2019).
5. Jamie Baker, AI and Legal Research in Law Librarianship in the Age of AI (ALA Edition 2019).
Op-Ed
1. Arnold Loewy and Charles Moster, It’s debatable: Should companies be held liable for actions generations later?, Lubbock Avalanche-J (Nov. 17, 2019, 1:01 AM), https://www.lubbockonline.com/news/20191117/its-debatable-should-companies-be-held-liable-for-actions-generations-later.
Quotes
1. Professor Camp was quoted in the following article: Steven Chung, Tax Court Decides Whether a Tax on Marijuana Sales is an Unconstitutionally Excessive Fine, Above the Law (Nov. 13, 2019, 11:50 am), available at: https://abovethelaw.com/2019/11/tax-court-decides-whether-a-tax-on-marijuana-sales-is-an-unconstitutionally-excessive-fine/.
2. Professor Beyer was quoted in the following article: Samuel Smith, Coptic Christian woman wins court case against Egypt’s Islamic inheritance law, The Christian Post (Nov. 27, 2019), available at: https://www.christianpost.com/news/coptic-christian-woman-wins-court-case-against-egypts-islamic-inheritance-law.html.
3. Prof. Tracy Pearl was quoted in the following article: Ian Duncan, A more than decade-long delay in a seat belt warning system shows how car-safety rules get bogged down in bureaucracy, The Washington Post (Nov. 24, 2019 at 6:10 pm), available at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/a-more-than-decade-long-delay-in-a-seat-belt-warning-system-shows-how-car-safety-rules-get-bogged-down-in-bureaucracy/2019/11/24/0547c21e-07e4-11ea-8ac0-0810ed197c7e_story.html.
Citations
1. Prof. Christopher’s article Whack-A-Mole: Why Prosecuting Digital Currency Exchanges Won’t Stop Online Money Laundering is cited in the following article: Margaret Ryznar, A Coffee Break for Bitcoin, 95 Ind. L.J. Supplement 1 (2019).
2. Prof. Christopher’s article The Bridging Model: Exploring the Roles of Trust and Enforcement in Banking, Bitcoin, and the Blockchain is cited in the following article: Margaret Ryznar, A Coffee Break for Bitcoin, 95 Ind. L.J. Supplement 1 (2019).
3. Prof. Christopher’s article The Bridging Model: Exploring the Roles of Trust and Enforcement in Banking, Bitcoin, and the Blockchain is cited in the following article: Dirk A. Zetzsche et. al., The Ico Gold Rush: It’s A Scam, It’s A Bubble, It’s A Super Challenge for Regulators, 60 Harv. Int’l L.J. 267, 268 (2019).
4. Prof. Christopher’s work in Will I Pass the Bar Exam? is cited in the following article: Marsha Griggs, Building a Better Bar Exam, 7 Tex. A&M L. Rev. 1 (2019).
5. Prof. Gonzalez’s article The New Batson: Opening the Door of the Jury Deliberation Room After Peña-Rodriguez v. Colorado is cited in the following article: Ryan D. Brown, Winning the Waiting Game: How Oklahoma Can Rectify the Discrepancy Between Its No-Impeachment Rule and Peña-Rodriguez v. Colorado, 72 Okla. L. Rev. 403 (2020).
6. Prof. Beyer’s work in Digital Wills: Has the Time Come for Wills to Join the Digital Revolution is cited in the following article: Twenty-First Century Wills, 33-DEC Prob. & Prop. 52 (2019).
7. Prof. Beyer’s work in Sign on the [Electronic] Dotted Line: The Rise of the Electronic Will is cited in the following article: Twenty-First Century Wills, 33-DEC Prob. & Prop. 52 (2019).
8. Prof. Murphy’s work in Arbitrariness Review Made Reasonable: Structural and Conceptual Reform of the “Hard Look” is cited in the following article: Frédéric Gilles Sourgens, The Paris Paradigm, 2019 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1637 (2019).
9. Prof. Casto’s article Foreign Affairs Crises and the Constitution’s Case or controversy Limitation: Notes from the Founding Era is cited in the following article: Frédéric Gilles Sourgens, The Paris Paradigm, 2019 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1637 (2019).
10. Prof. Loewy’s article A Proposal for the Universal Collection of DNA is cited in the following article: Ellen Wright Clayton, Barbara J. Evans, James W. Hazel, and Mark A. Rothstein, The Law of Genetic Privacy: Applications, Implications, and Limitations, 6 J.L. & Biosciences 1 (2019).
News
1. On November 12, Professor Beyer was the Distinguished Speaker for the Community Foundation of Sarasota County. Professor Beyer presented Cyber Estate Planning and Administration.
2. On November 12, 2019, Professor Beyer presented Avoiding the Estate Planning “Blue Screen of Death” with Competent and Ethical Practices for the Southwest Florida Estate Planning Council.
3. Associate Dean Humphrey was selected as one of only forty esteemed female alumni, “40 Years, 40 Women” to be recognized in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of women attending her undergraduate institution, Westminster College.
4. Associate Dean Humphrey is serving as the Chair of the Association of American Law School (AALS) Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research (LWRR). Under her leadership, the LWRR Section has been selected as the AALS Section of the Year.
5. Professor Sutton’s short documentary, Cyborgs—Should we be better than we are? was one of ten films selected for the first SIGMA Xi STEM Film Festival at the annual meeting in Madison, Wisconsin.
6. Professor Sutton’s documentary The Court Martial of Apache Kid which was written, directed, and produced by Professor Sutton received the Best Documentary Made in Texas at the Austin Indie Film Festival.
7. On November 20-21, Professor Beyer presented a half-day CLE program for the Red River Valley Estate Planning Council in Fargo, North Dakota. His lectures and accompanying articles were entitled: Anticipating Will Contests and How to Avoid Them, State Law Pitfalls: Don’t Step in It When Your Clients Step Across State Lines, and What Estate Planners in Common Law Marital Property States Need to Know About Community Property.
8. The following articles authored by Prof. Gerry W. Beyer appear in the most recent issue of the Real Estate, Probate, and Trust Law (REPTL) Reporter: Potpourri; Intestacy, Wills, Estate Administration, and Trusts Update; and Estate Planning Highlights of the 2019 Texas Legislature. REPTL Reporter is the official publication of the Real Estate, Probate, and Trust Law Section of the State Bar of Texas, the largest section of the Texas Bar with over 9,000 members.
The Reporter 