December 2024 Law Faculty Publications & News

Throughout the month of December, the Law Library received alerts for full-time TTU Law Faculty publications and news. Below is a compilation of those daily alerts for December 1st to December 31st, 2024.

Articles, Books, and More

1. Stephen T. Black, Taxing the Digital Economy, 25 Wake Forest J. Bus. & Intell. Prop. L. 1 (2024).
2. Gerry W. Beyer, Potpourri, 62-4 Real Est., Prob., & Tr. L. Rep., at 4 (2024).
3. Gerry W. Beyer, Intestacy, Wills, Estate Administration, and Trusts Update, 62-4 Real Est., Prob., & Tr. L. Rep., at 5 (2024).
4. Amy Hardberger et.al., Innovative Approach to Sustainable Fertilizer Production: Leveraging Electrically Assisted Conversion of Sewage Sludge for Nutrient Recovery, ACS Omega 2024 9 (50), 49692-49706.

Quotations

1. Prof. Corn is quoted in the following article: Sig Christenson, Disgraced Air Force General Tried to Have Reprimand Watered Down. A Judge Said No., San Antonio Express News, (9:00am; Dec. 4, 2024), available at: https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/air-force-phillip-stewart-rape-reprimand-upheld-19958115.php.
2. Prof. Beyer is quoted in the following article: Ashlea Ebeling, His Will Was a Selfie Video, but Courts Ruled It Didn’t Count, Wall Street Journal, (9:00am; Dec. 14, 2024), available at: https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/his-will-was-a-selfie-video-but-courts-ruled-it-didnt-count-75e90cf8?mod=hp_featst_pos3.

Citations

1. Prof. James’ article Twenty-First Century Pirates of the Caribbean: How the Organizaton for Economic Cooperation and Development Robbed Fourteen CARICOM Countries of their Tax and Economic Policy Sovereignty is cited in the following article: Stephen T. Black, Taxing the Digital Economy, 25 Wake Forest J. Bus. & Intell. Prop. L. 1 (2024).
2. Prof. Murphy’s article Can They Do That? The Due Process and Article III Problems of Proposed Findings of Criminal Contempt in Bankruptcy Courts is cited in § 2:23 of Bankruptcy Law Manual 5^th Ed (December 2024 Update).
3. Prof. Murphy’s article Enhancing the Role of Public Interest Organizations in Rulemaking Via Pre-Notice Transparency is cited in the following article: Sharon Jacobs, The Challenges of Participatory Administration, 58 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 323 (2024).
4. Prof. Rosen’s article Targeting Enemy Forces in the War on Terror: Preserving Civilian Immunity is cited in the following article: Steffi Colao, Back Again: How Airborne Strikes Against Al-Shabaab Further U.S. Imperialism, 28 UCLA J. Int’l L. & Foreign Aff. 131 (2024).
5. Prof. Corn’s article The Political Balance of Power Over the Military: Rethinking the Relationship Between the Armed Forces, the President, and Congress is cited in the following article: John C. Dehn, The Good Officer: President Trump, General Milley, and the “Necessity” of Constitutional Fidelity, 90 Brook. L. Rev. 1 (2024).
6. Prof. Corn’s article Strange Bedfellows: How Expanding the Public Safety Exception to Miranda Benefits Terrorism Subjects is cited in § 17:4 of Maryland Law of Confessions (December 2024 Update).
7. Prof. Brie Sherwin’s article Anatomy of a Conspiracy Theory: Law, Politics, and Science Denialism in the Era of COVID-19 is cited in the following article: Christine Billy, Preparing for the Climate Crisis: OSHA, Deadly Heat, and Emergency Powers, 51 Ecology L.Q. 57 (2024).
8. Prof. Murphy’s article Constraining White House Political Control of Agency Rulemaking Through the Duty of Reasoned Explanation is cited in the following article: Christine Billy, Preparing for the Climate Crisis: OSHA, Deadly Heat, and Emergency Powers, 51 Ecology L.Q. 57 (2024).
9. Prof. Bubany’s article Taming the Dragon: An Administrative Law for Prosecutorial Decision Making is cited in the following article: Luca Azzariti Crousillat, The Badges and Incidents of Capital Punishment, 103 Tex. L. Rev. 459 (2024).
10. Prof. Baker’s article The Intersectionality of Law and Gender is cited in the following article: Erin Gow, The Value of Law and Library Degrees in the Legal Information Profession, 116 Law Libr. J. 369 (2024).
11. Prof. Murphy’s article The DIY Unitary Executive is cited in the following article: Andrew F. Popper, Democracy on the Brink, Down but Not Defeated, 10 U. Pa. J. L. & Pub. Aff. 1 (2024).
12. Prof. Soonpaa’s article The Continued Vitality of IRAC is cited in the following article: Scott Caron, The NextGen Bar Exam Meets the Next Generation Law Student: A Revised Approach to Legal Analysis, 50 U. Dayton L. Rev. 43 (2024).
13. Prof. Murphy’s book Federal Practice and Procedure 2nd is cited in the following article: Steven Michael McKevett, Between Sky and Space: NEPA’s Extraterritorial Application to the Stratosphere and Implications for SpaceX’s Starlink Satellite Constellation, 36 Geo. Envtl. L. Rev. 375 (2024).
14. Prof. Beyer’s book Texas Law of Wills is cited in the following article: Diane Kemker, Pro-Natalism in Probate Law, 74 Am. U. L. Rev. 367 (2024).
15. Prof. Murphy’s book Administrative Law & Practice is cited in the following article: Bradley Krause, Ghost Guns: A Case Study on the Tension Between Public Exigencies and Statutory Construction, 74 Cath. U. L. Rev. 121 (2025).

News

1. On December 6, 2024, Prof. Beck gave a guest lecture to the combined third-grade classes at Ramirez Elementary School titled “Lawyers and the Constitution” (45 min.).
2. On December 20, 2024, Prof. Beck gave a CLE presentation, by Zoom, to the Wyoming Bar Association titled “Federal Crime Policy and the Second Amendment” (1 hour). Brandon was invited by the University of Wyoming Firearms Research Center.