September 2024 Law Faculty Publications & News

Throughout the month of September, the Law Library received alerts for full-time TTU Law Faculty publications and news. Below is a compilation of those daily alerts for September 1st to September 30th, 2024.

Articles, Books, and More

1. Gerry W. Beyer, Potpourri, 62-3 Real Est., Prob., & Tr. L. Rep., at 4 (2024).
2. Gerry W. Beyer, Intestacy, Wills, Estate Administration, and Trusts Update, 62-3 Real Est., Prob., & Tr. L. Rep., at 5 (2024).
3. Gerry W. Beyer, ed., Keeping Current—Probate, Prob. & Prop., Sept./Oct. 2024, at 29.
4. Gerry W. Beyer, Recent Developments from the Texas Courts, Est. Plan. Dev. for Tex. Prof., Sept. 2024, at 1.
5. Gerry W. Beyer, Beyer’s Texas Property Code Annotated (2024 ed).
6. Gerry W. Beyer, “He’s Dead, Jim” or Not?, review of Alyssa A. DiRusso, Life and Death Matters in Conflict of Laws, 97 Tul. L. Rev. 703 (2023), JOTWELL (Sept. 11, 2024).
7. John L. Watts, The Confrontation Clause & State Action, 77 SMU L. Rev. 399 (2024).
8. Richard W. Murphy, 32 Fed. Prac. & Proc. Judicial Review, Federal Practice and Procedure (September 2024 Update).

Op-Eds

1. Victoria Sutton, Online Learning in Law Schools – The Pandemic Experiment (September 27, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4969711.

Quotations

1. Prof. Corn is quoted in the following article: Choice facing N.Y. judge: Does Taliban leader get war-related immunity? (Sept. 1, 2024; 10:00am), The Washington Post, available at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/09/01/taliban-najibullah-trial-wartime-immunity/.
2. Prof. Beyer is quoted in the following work: §5:16 of the Ga. Guardianship and Conservatorship (September 2024 Update).

Citations

1. Prof. Murphy’s article Punitive Damages, Explanatory Verdicts, and the Hard Look is cited in §12:3 and §12:4 of the Illinois Civil Jury Instructions Companion Handbook (September 2024 Update).
2. Prof. Murphy’s article Abandon Chevron and Modernize Stare Decisis for the Administrative State is cited in the following article: Alyssa Greenstein, The EPA in the Age of Chevron Deference Ambiguity and Decline, 36 Geo. Envtl. L. Rev. 269 (2024).
3. Prof. Murphy’s article Democracy, Chevron Deference, and Major Questions Anti-Deference is cited in the following report: Supreme Court Overrules Chevron Doctrine’s Presumption of Favor of Agency Interpretation of Ambiguous Statutes, 45 No. 9 Construction Litigation Reporter NL 15 (September 2024).
4. Prof. Corn’s article Self-Defense Targeting: Blurring the Line Between the Just ad Bellum and the Jus in Bello is cited in the following article: Peter S. Konchak, The Forty-Seven Years’ War: Identifying the Cold War as an Armed Conflict as a Matter of International Law, 38 Emory Int’l L. Rev. 263 (2024).
5. Prof. Rosen’s article Deterring Pre-Viability Abortions in Texas Through Private Lawsuits is cited in the following article: Bailey Harvey, Welcome to Texas: Home of the Most Extreme Abortion Ban in the United States, Generating Vast Child Welfare Disparities, 26 Scholar: St. Mary’s L. Rev. & Soc. Just. 365 (2024).
6. Prof. James’ article Twenty-First Century Pirates of the Caribbean: How the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Robbed Fourteen CARICOM Countries of Their Tax and Economic Policy Sovereignty is cited in the following article: Allison Christians, Tarcisio Diniz Magalhaes, Why Data Giants Don’t Pay Enough Tax, 18 Harv. L. & Pol’y Rev. 119 (2024).
7. Prof. Murphy’s article Judicial Deference, Agency Commitment, and Force of Law is cited in the following article: Jack M. Beermann, The Anti-Innovation Supreme Court: Major Questions, Delegation, Chevron, and More, 65 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1265 (2024).
8. Prof. Casto’s article Pacificus & Helvidius Reconsidered is cited in the following article: Shalev Gad Roisman, Balancing Interests in the Separation of Powers, 91 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1331 (2024).
9. Prof. Murphy’s article Politicized Judicial Review in Administrative Law: Three Improbable Responses is cited in the following article: Sanne Knudsen, Sidestepping Substance: How Administrative Law Plays an Outsized Role in Shaping Environmental Policy and Why Recalibration is Necessary, 76 Admin. L. Rev. 519 (2024).

News

1. On September 6, 2024, Prof. Beyer was featured luncheon speaker for the Tarrant County Probate Bar Association in Fort Worth. Prof. Beyer’s presentation entitled attendees to one hour of Texas MCLE credit and was entitled Probate Case Law Update.
2. On September 13, 2024, Prof. Beyer was the guest speaker for the Southern Nevada Estate Planning Council in Las Vegas. His presentation and accompanying article were entitled Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on Today’s Estate Planner.
3. On September 14, 2024, Prof. Gonzalez presented Private Contractors, Security-Clearance Determinations, and Employment Discrimination Law at the 19^th Annual Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment and Labor Law (COSELL) co-hosted by the University of San Diego School of Law and California Western School of Law in San Diego, California. 
4. On September 7, 2024, Prof. Arrington presented Will the NextGen Bar Truly Test Legal Research? An Evaluation to the Central States Law Schools Association Annual Conference in Lubbock, TX, and later delivered the same presentation at Western Regional Legal Writing Conference in Seattle, WA.
5. On September 27, 2024, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer was an invited speaker at the 50^th Annual Notre Dame Tax & Estate Planning Institute in South Bend, Indiana. His presentation was entitled Artificial Intelligence in the Trusts & Estates Practice.
6. On September 19-22, 2024, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer attended the Fall meeting of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel in Chicago. As the Chair of the Artificial Intelligence Subcommittee, Prof. Beyer organized and/or lead discussions on ABA Formal Opinion 512, Pennsylvania Opinion 2024-200, Deepfakes, Perplexity, AI hotlines for whistleblower protection, and required MCLE on AI imposed by a growing number of states. As Co-Chair of the Legal Education Committee, he organized and/or led discussions on the NextGen bar exam, the failed revision to the Uniform Determination of Death Act, the gift tax treatment of loan guarantees, and the use of artificial intelligence in the teaching of Wills & Trusts.
7. On September 18, 2024, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer was a virtual speaker for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ (AICPA) Engage webinar. His topic was entitled Artificial Intelligence: What CPAs Need to Know.
8. On Sept. 27, 2024, Prof. Sutton presented her paper on her study that examines the effect of online learning in law schools and scores on the multi-state bar examination (MBE) and bar passage rate at the annual Online Learning Conference at the Univ of Denver, Sturm College of Law.