January 2025 Law Faculty Publications & News

Throughout the month of January, the Law Library received alerts for full-time TTU Law Faculty publications and news. Below is a compilation of those daily alerts for January 1st to January 31st, 2025.

Articles, Books, & More

1. Bryan T. Camp, The Impact of SEC v. Jarkesy on Civil Tax Fraud Penalties, 27 Fla. Tax Rev. 478 (2025).
2. Gerry W. Beyer, Wills & Trusts, 10 SMU Ann. Tex. Surv. 307 (2024).
3. Gerry W. Beyer, ed., Keeping Current—Probate, Prob. & Prop., Jan./Feb. 2025, at 26.
4. Gerry W. Beyer, Ramifications of Retaining a Client’s Original Will (or a Copy), Est. Plan. Dev. for Tex. Prof., Dec. 2024, at 1.
5. Gerry W. Beyer, 19 & 19A, West’s Legal Forms – Residential Real Estate (5^th ed. 2024-25 Supp.).
6. Victoria Sutton, We Can Protect The “Waters of The United States” As Long As They Stay Out of The Hydrological Cycle, 61 Idaho L. Rev. 89 (2025).
7. Amy Hardberger et al., Greening up the City with Native Species: Challenges and Solutions, Diversity 2025, 17(1), 56.
8. Geoffrey S. Corn & Brandon E. Beck, Massey V. Texas: Eroding the Exclusionary Rule and Incentivizing Police Misconduct, 12 Tex. A&M L. Rev. 177 (2024).
9. Barbara Lauriat, Frand Arbitration Will Destroy Frand, 30 Mich. Tech. L. Rev. 1 (2024).

Op-Eds, Blogs, & Newsletters

1. Prof. Sutton published 5 articles on her blog unintended consequences, including titles such as When New Year Ceremonies were Crimes, Traditional corn and science, Adapting to the Polar Vortex, Fire is medicine, and The Biopracy of Tobacco.
2. Prof. Camp published 1 article on his blog Lessons from the Tax Court, titled The 150 Day Rule For Filing Tax Court Petitions.

Quotations

1. Prof. Beyer is quoted in the following article: Jeff Sanders, Analysis: Bitter Family Fights Have Torpedoed Sports Ownership Groups Before; Could the Padres Be Next?, San Diego Union-Tribune (3:23pm; Jan. 11, 2025).
2. Prof. Corn is quoted in the following article: Dan Gooding, Trump Wants to Brand Cartels as Terrorist Groups. It Could Backfire, Newsweek, (12:59pm; Jan. 9, 2025).

Citations

1. Prof. Murphy’s article Pragmatic Administrative Law and Tax Exceptionalism is cited in the following article: Stephanie H. McMahon, Tax Scholars and the Courts: Applying the APA to Tax Since Mayo, 77 Tax Law. 625 (2024).
2. Prof. Camp’s article A History of Tax Regulation Prior to the Administrative Procedure Act Stephanie H. McMahon, Tax Scholars and the Courts: Applying the APA to Tax Since Mayo, 77 Tax Law. 625 (2024).
3. Prof. Lauriat’s article “The Examination of Everything”: Royal Commissions in British Legal History is cited in the following article: Jonathan Green, The Misunderstood History of Interpretation in England, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 911 (2024).
4. Prof. Beyer’s book Teaching Materials on Estate Planning is cited in the following article: William A. Drennan, Bribing a Survivor to Protect Your Cadaver – Part 1, 39 Prob. & Prop. 30 (2025).
5. Prof. Murphy’s article Punitive Damages, Explanatory Verdict, and the Hard Look is cited in § 8:8 of Federal Jury Practice and Instructions (January 2025 Update).
6. Prof. Casto’s article The Supreme Court in the Early Republic: The Chief Justiceships of John Jay and Oliver Ellsworth is cited in the following article: Anthony J Bellia Jr. & Bradford R. Clark, Constitutional Federalism and the Nature of the Union, 66 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 281 (2024).
7. Prof. Pawlowic’s article Letters of Credit: A Framework for Analysis of Transfer, Assignment, Negotiation and Transfer by Operation of Law is cited in multiple sections within § 5 of Uniform Laws Annotated Uniform Commercial Code (2025 Update).
8. Prof. Corn’s article The Gallagher Case: President Trump Corrupts the Profession of Arms is cited in the following article: Laura A. Dickinson, Protecting The U.S. National Security State From A Rogue President, 16 Harv. Nat’l Sec. J. 1 (2025).
9. 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
10. Revised Approach to Legal Analysis: A Revised Approach to Legal Analysis, 50 U. Dayton L. Rev. 43 (2024).
11. Prof. Murphy’s article The DIY Unitary Executive is cited in the following article: Emily S. Bremer, Presidential Adjudication, 110 Va. L. Rev. 1749 (2024).
12. Prof. Casto’s article Pacificus & Helvidius Reconsidered is cited in the following article: Shalev Gad Roisman, The Limits of Formalism in the Separation of Powers, 16 J. Legal Analysis 178 (2024).
13. Prof. Murphy’s article Democracy, Chevron Deference, And Major Questions Anti-Deference is cited in the following article: Supreme Court Overrules Chevron Doctrine’s Presumption in Favor of Agency Interpretation of Ambiguous Statutes, 45 No. 9 Construction Litigation Reporter NL 15 (2024).
14. Prof Murphy’s book Administrative Law and Practice is cited in the following article: Natalie Hatton, Rights and Redress for Transgender Survivors of Prison Rape: The Failures of the Prison Rape Elimination Act, 66 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 539 (2024).
15. Prof. Beyer’s article Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Planning Your Estate is cited in the following article: Zachary L. Catanzaro, Algorithmic Dead Hands: What Is Dead May Never Die, 35 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 83 (2024).
16. Prof. Black’s article Is the IRS The Solution to Illegal Immigration? is cited in the following article: Shayak Sarkar, Internal Revenue’s External Borders, 112 Calif. L. Rev. 1645 (2024).

News

1. Prof. Hardberger’s groundwater project, the culmination of several years of work between her and Gabriel Eckstein, was cited twice in a report to the White House (Footnotes 24 & 25) written by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology about groundwater resilience. Prof. Hardberger maintains that the content from her project was written by and fully credited to her students, with she and Eckstein contributing as editors.
2. On January 10, 2025, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer was an invited speaker for the Collin County Bar Association’s Estate Planning & Probate Section. Because of the winter storm that hit Dallas, his presentation was via Zoom and was entitled Confidentiality Breach or Not: Revealing Information About a Client’s Testamentary Documents Post-Mortem.
3. On January 24, 2025, Prof. Beyer was the featured speaker at Estate Planners Day in Tucson, Arizona sponsored by the Southern Arizona Estate Planning Council. His participation included presenting on three topics: “I Prepared the Decedent’s Will” – To Tell or Not to Tell? That is the Question, Escaping the Estate Planning “Blue Screen of Death” with Competent and Ethical Practices, and Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on Today’s Estate Planner.
4. On January 26, 2025, Prof. Beyer was the invited virtual guest speaker for the Treasure Coast Exotic Bird Club. His presentation and accompanying article were entitled What If Your Parrot Outlives You? Preparing for Your Bird’s Future.
5. Prof. Humphrey has been selected to receive the 2025 Alumni Achievement Award from her undergraduate alma mater, Westminster College (Fulton, MO). She will receive the prestigious award during the college’s Alumni Weekend (and her 30th college reunion) in April.
6. Prof. Outenreath was invited to serve on the planning committee of the 2025 Choice, Governance & Acquisitions of Entities TexasBarCLE program. Additionally, she was admitted as a member of the Fellows of the Texas Bar Foundation, and continues to serve on the Board of Directors of the Texas Federal Tax Institute.
7. Prof. Outenreath continues to serve in multiple leadership positions in the State Bar of Texas Tax Section: Council Member serving as a Law School Representative, Co-Chair of the Law School Outreach and Scholarship Committee, Vice Chair of the Continuing Legal Education Committee, and a member of the Past Chair Advisory Board.
8. On January 17, 2025, Prof. Beyer was an invited speaker at the 2025 Ski & CLE program in Big Sky, Montana sponsored by the State Bar of Montana. To a combined audience of approximately 200 in-person and virtual attendees, Prof. Beyer presented on the topic of Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on Today’s Estate Planner.
9. Prof. Beyer’s co-authored article, The Viability of Inserting Descriptive Photos in Wills: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, won the Best Cutting-Edge Trust & Estate Article award when the American Bar Association’s Probate & Property magazine announced the winners of the 2024 Excellent in Writing Awards. Prof. Beyer’s co-author, Scout S. Blosser, is a 2023 Tech Law grad who is an associate attorney at the Lubbock law firm of McCleskey, Harriger, Brazill & Graf.
10. Prof. Humphrey was appointed to serve on the Texas Bar Foundation Board of Trustees, with her three-year term beginning June 1, 2025. The Texas Bar Foundation solicits charitable contributions and provides significant funding to enhance the rule of law and the system of justice.
11. Prof. Arrington presented AI & the Law Office at the West Texas Bankruptcy Bar Association Meeting on Friday, Jan. 31.
12. On January 31, 2024, Prof. Beyer was an invited speaker at the 24^th Annual Symposium on Legal Malpractice & Ethics in San Antonio, Texas sponsored by the St. Mary’s Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics. His presentation was entitled Don’t Byte Off More Than You Can Chew: Ethical Considerations for the Estate Planner in the World of Generative Artificial Intelligence.