November 2024 Law Faculty Publications & News

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, 2024.

Articles, Books, and More

1. Gerry W. Beyer, Texas Law of Wills (9 & 10 Tex. Prac. 2024-2025 ed.).
2. Gerry W. Beyer & James M. Kosakow, Irrevocable Trusts (4th ed. 2024-2025).
3. Gerry W. Beyer, ed., Keeping Current—Probate, Prob. & Prop., Nov./Dec. 2024, at 26.
4. Gerry W. Beyer, Estate Planning and Probate Law, 87 Tex. B.J. 868 (2024).
5. Brian D. Shannon & Daniel H. Benson, Texas Criminal Procedure and the Offender with Mental Illness (7^th Ed).

Quotations

1. Prof. Corn is quoted in the following article: Sig Christenson, Would Trump try to use the armed forces against “the enemy from within’? We asked the generals, San Antonio Express-News (Nov. 1, 2024; 9:00am), available at: https://www.expressnews.com/news/texas/article/trump-military-enemy-within-crush-dissent-19871215.php

Citations

1. Prof. Beyer’s book Texas Law of Wills is cited in the following article: Elizabeth S. Miller, Is a Will the Only Way? Transfers on Death and Transfer Restrictions in LLC Agreements, 22 Fla. St. U. Bus. Rev 107 (2024).
2. Prof Beyer’s article Estate Planning in the Digital Age is cited in §2:8, §12:5, and §15:12 of Georgia Trusts and Trustees (November 2024 Update).
3. Prof Beyer’s article Estate Planning in the Digital Age is cited in §2:14, §2:3, and §6:25 of Redfearn Wills and Administration in Georgia (November 2024 Update).
4. Prof. Beyer’s book Modern Dictionary for the Legal Profession is cited in §59:20 of Comparative Environmental Law and Regulation (November 2024 Update).
5. Prof. Watts’ article A Confused Sea: Vicarious Liability for Punitive Damages Under Maritime Law is cited in §5:10 of Admiralty and Maritime Law (November 2024 Update).
6. Prof. Casto’s article The Origins of Federal Admiralty Jurisdiction in an Age of Privateers, Smugglers, and Pirates is cited in §3:1 of Admiralty and Maritime Law (November 2024 Update).
7. Prof. Murphy’s book Federal Practice and Procedure is cited in the following article: David Hutchison, Standing in Texas: Exploring Standing under the Original Meaning of the Texas Constitution, 103 Tex. L. Rev. 227 (2024).
8. Prof. Pawlowic’s article Letters of Credit: A Framework for Analysis Transfer, Assignment, Negotiation and Transfer by Operation of Law is cited in §5 of Uniform Commercial Code (November 2024 Update).

News

1. On November 2, 2024, Prof. Beyer was in Austin where he was a faculty member at the Rocky Mountain Fellows Institute of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. Prof. Beyer’s presentations and accompany articles were entitled AI in the Trusts & Estates Field and Estate Planning for Cyber Property.
2. On November 7^, 2024, a four-part documentary series titled The Rain We Keep featuring Prof. Hardberger’s participation began airing on Panhandle PBS. The series intends to educate viewers about the depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer and describe how affected people are trying to manage, change, and forestall that drawdown. The series can be viewed on demand here: https://www.panhandlepbs.org/Rain/.
3. On November 7, 2024, Prof. Beck gave a guest lecture (by Zoom) to Duke University School of Law’s Second Amendment Seminar. The title of the 1-hour lecture was “Federal Crime Policy, Rahimi, and the Supreme Court.”  Brandon’s article, “The Federal War on Guns,” was an assigned reading in the course.
4. On November 8, 2024, Prof. Beyer was in Des Moines, Iowa where he was an invited speaker for the Iowa Academy of Trust & Estate Counsel. To an audience of approximately 100 estate planning attorneys, Prof. Beyer presented his paper entitled Predicting and Preventing Will Contests.
5. On November 12, 2024, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer was an invited co-panelist for a program sponsored by the American Bar Association’s Section of Real Property, Trust, and Estate Law entitled Professors’ Corner—AI Is My Paralegal: Uses of New Technology in Practice.
6. On November 15, 2024, Prof. Beyer was an invited speaker at the 2024 Fall Conference of the National College of Probate Judges in Gulf Shores, Alabama. His presentation and accompanying article were entitled Estate Planning for Cyber Property: Electronic Communications, Cryptocurrency, Non-Fungible Tokens, and the Metaverse.
7. On October 18, 2024, Prof. Beck gave a CLE presentation to the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. The title of the 1-hour presentation was “Search and Seizure Issues in the Post-Carpenter Era.”
8. On November 22, 2024, Prof. Henry spoke at the Oklahoma Bar Center on Banking Law Update.