April 2023 Law Faculty Publications & News

Publications

  • Prof. Victoria Sutton, Appellate Courts: Stop Accepting an “Absurd” First Amendment Analysis for Native Nations’ Sacred Site Destruction, 23 J. App. Prac. & Process 193 (2023).
  • Prof. Amy Hardberger’s latest article is now officially published. This article was part of an invited symposium that she participated in last year. Meeting Water Affordability Challenges in the Era of the Unexpected, 16 St. Louis U. J. Health L. & Pol’y 61 (2022).

Citations

  • Prof. William Casto was cited in the following publication: Jon O. Newman, A Statutory Oddity: The Different and Sometimes Convoluted Ways That Congress Granted Circuit Court Trial Jurisdiction to the 19th-Century Federal District Courts, 105 Judicature 46 (2022).
  • Prof. Victoria Sutton’s article Harnessing Wind is Not (By Nature) Environmentally Friendly was cited in the following article: Andrew D. Hersom, Our Biggest Fans: Nuisance Immunity for Grid-Scale Wind Energy Projects in Maine, 75 Me. L. Rev. 117 (2023).
  • Prof. Brie D. Sherwin’s article Anatomy of a Conspiracy: Law, Politics, and Science Denialism in the Era of COVID-19 was cited in the following article: Rachel Kincaid, Mass Incarceration and Misinformation: The COVID-19 Infodemic Behind Bars, 19 U. St. Thomas L.J. 323 (2023).
  • Prof. Gerry W. Beyer’s publication 9 Texas Practice Series, Texas Law of Wills was cited in the following article: Mark Glover, Conditional Purging of Wills, 57 U. Rich. L. Rev. 275 (2023).
  • Prof. Bryan T. Camp’s article Lessons from the Tax Court: Naked Assessments! was cited in the following publication: Harvey Gilmore, The Kinder, Gentler IRS? Where?, 21 DePaul Bus. & Com. L.J. 31 (2022). 
  • Prof. DeLeith D. Gossett’s article “[Take Us to Our] Wretched Refuse”: The Deportation of America’s Adoptees was cited in the following article: Malinda L. Seymore, Adoption Ouroboros: Repeating the Cycle of Adoption as Rescue, 50 Pepp. L. Rev. 229 (2023).
  • Prof. Bryan T. Camp’s article Tax Administration as Inquisitorial Process and the Partial Paradigm Shift in the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 was cited in the following article: Scott A. Schumacher, Taxes, Administrative Law, and the Agency Expertise: Questioning the Orthodoxy, 76 Tax Law. 341 (2023).
  • Prof. Nancy J. Soonpaa’s article Stress in Law Students: A Comparative Study of First-Year, Second-Year, and Third-Year Students was cited in the following article: Chloe Sovinee-Dyroff, Introverted Lawyers” Agents of Change in the Legal Profession, 36 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 111 (2023).
  • Prof. Jarod S. Gonzalez’s article A Tale of Two Waivers: Waiver of the Jury Waiver Defense Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Was cited in the following publication: Arthur R. Miller, 9 Fed. Prac. & Proc. Civ. Sec. 2321 (4th ed.) (April 2023 update).
  • Prof. Victoria Sutton was cited in the following publication: Tessa Dysart, Foreword: Appellate Issues In and Around Indian Country, 23 J. App. Prac. & Proc. (2023).
  • Prof. Victoria Sutton’s article Native American Exclusion as a Form of Paper Genocide was cited in the following article: Meera E. Deo, Better than BIPOC, 41 Minn. J. L. & Ineq. 71 (2023).
  • Prof. Arnold H. Loewy’s article The Fourth Amendment: History, Purpose, and Remedies was cited in the following article: Rebecca Laden, Bond Conditions as Fourth Amendment Seizures, 44 Cardozo L. Rev. 1211 (2023).
  • Prof. Bryan T. Camp’s article Proceduralist Reflections on Home Mortgage Foreclosure was cited in the following article: Vijay Raghavan, The Case Against the Debt Tax, 91 Fordham L. Rev. 1849 (2023).
  • Prof. Gerry W. Beyer was cited in the following article: Rosemary H. Buhl, The Evolution and Current Trends in Estate Planning, 102 Apr. Mich. B.J. 20 (2023).
  • Prof. Brie D. Sherwin’s article After the Storm: The Importance of Acknowledging Environmental Justice in Sustainable Development and Disaster Preparedness was cited in the following article: Luz E. Herrera, Taylor Garner, et. al., Establishing a Conditional Driver Permit in Texas, St. Mary’s L. Rev. & Soc. Just. 385 (2023).

Notes

  • Prof. Alyson Outenreath was invited to serve on the planning committee for TexasBarCLE’s 41st Annual Tax Law CLE to be held in August 2023.
  • Prof. Amy Handberger was recently selected to be the Chair of the Groundwater Task Force of the International Water Resources Association, which is an non-profit, with members around the world, that provides a research based forum working at the nexus of science and policy for focusing on sustainable management of the world’s water resources. 
  • On April 14, 2023, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer traveled to McKinney, Texas where he was the featured speaker for the Collin County Bar Association’s Probate Section at the Collin County Courthouse. His presentation and accompanying article were entitled Recent Developments from the Texas Courts which highlighted significant new judicial opinions addressing intestacy, wills, estate administration, and trusts issues. Three opinions from the Supreme Court of Texas were among the important decisions analyzed.
  • On April 20, 2023, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer presented a virtual lecture for Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas entitled Recent Estate Planning Developments from the Texas Courts. During the presentation, he stressed the important lessons from judicial opinions addressing intestacy, wills, probate, and trusts issues that impact the clients which LANWT serves.
  • On April 21, 2023, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer was an invited presenter for UCLA’s Continuing Education of the Bar’s 45th Annual Estate Planning Institute. His virtual presentation viewed statewide in California was entitled Multi-State Estate Planning Techniques. He also prepared an article with the same name to accompany his presentation.
  • On April 25, 2023, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer traveled to Dallas to speak for the Probate, Trusts, & Estates Law Section of the Dallas Bar Association. To an audience of approximately 150 attorneys, Prof. Beyer presented his paper entitled Case Law Update which discusses recent Texas judicial developments relating to intestate success, wills, estate administration, and trusts.
  • On April 26, 2023, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer virtually appeared as an invited speaker for the Electronic Signature & Records Association. Two of the main topics he discussed were electronic wills and the Uniform Electronic Estate Planning Documents Act for which he served as the Reporter for the Uniform Law Commission.
  • Horn Prof. Victoria Sutton was an invited panelist for the Arizona State University, Indigenous Innovation, Data Economies, and AI (IDEAS) Summit, March 31, 2023, speaking on Data Justice.  https://sols.asu.edu/ideas#tab-id-3746-3/ .
  • Prof. Sutton moderated a closed discussion on cross cultural views of enhancement at The Ethical and Legal Significance of Super Soldiers workshop, at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law, with The Annenberg Public Policy Center & the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Friday, April 14, 2023. Her paper, “American’s Super Soldiers have always been Native American,” was selected for a chapter in a volume on Super Soldiers to be published by Oxford University Press. https://www.penncerl.org/conferences/the-ethical-and-legal-significance-of-super-soldiers/
  • Prof. Brandon Beck had a recent news interview with Voz de America (the Voice of America Spanish language broadcast) regarding Governor Abbott’s proposal to impose mandatory minimum firearms offenses in Texas: https://www.vozdeamerica.com/a/propuesta-sobre-porte-ilegal-de-armas/7029436.html

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