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May 2022 Law Faculty Publications & News

Throughout the month of May, the Law Library received alerts for full-time TTU Law Faculty publications and news. Below is a compilation of those daily alerts for May 1st to May 31st, 2022.

Articles, Essays, and Reviews

  1. Prof. Victoria Sutton, What Have We Learned about Federalism and Public Health Emergencies Since 2001?, 69-FEB Fed. Law. 50 (2022).

Citations

  1. Prof. Gerry W. Beyer’s article Videotape and the Probate Process is cited in the following publication: Eunice L. Ross & Thomas J. Reed, Will Contests sec. 14:14 2d ed. (2022).
  1. Prof. Bryan T. Camp’s article The Play’s the Thing: A Theory of Taxing Virtual Word’s is cited in the following article: Sheldon A. Evans, Pandora’s Loot Box, 90 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 376 (2022).
  1. Prof. Gerry W. Beyer’s article Ante-Mortem Probate: A Viable Alternative is cited in the following article: Reid K. Weisbord & David Horton, The Future of Testamentary Capacity, 79 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 609 (2022).
  1. Prof. Arnold H. Loewy’s article Why Roe v. Wade Should be Overruled is cited in the following article: Clarke D. Forsythe & Regina Maitlen, Stare Desis, Settled Precedent, and Roe v Wade: An Introduction, 34 Regent U. L. Rev. 385 (2021-22).
  1. Prof. William R. Casto’s article The Early Supreme Court Justices’ Most Significant Opinion is cited in the following article: Joshua J. Schroeder, Leviathan Goes to Washington: How to Assert the Separation of Powers in Defense of Future Generations, 15 Fla. A&M U. L. Rev. 1 (2021).
  1. Prof. Jarod S. Gonzalez’s article On the Edge: The ADA’s Direct Threat Defense and the Objective Reasonableness Standard is cited in the following article: Kimberly L. Jones & Emma M. Feeney, COVID-19 and the Americans with Disabilities Act: When Might the Disease be Considered a Disability for which Employees Have Legal Protections in the Workplace?, 99 Denv. L. Rev. 311 (2022).
  1. Prof. Jarod S. Gonzalez’s article At the Intersection of Religious Organization Mission and Employment Laws: The Case of Minister Employment Suits is cited in the following article: Patrick Hornbeck, A Nun, A Synagogue Janitor, and a Social Work Professor Walk Up to the Bar: The Expanding Ministerial Exception, 70 Buff. L. Rev. 695 (2022).
  1. Prof. Richard Murphy’s article Notice and Opportunity to be Heard Before the President Kills You is cited in the following article: Michael Herz & Kevin M. Stack, The False Allure of the Anti-Accumulation Principle, 102 B.U. L. Rev. 925 (2022).
  1. Prof. Gerry W. Beyer’s article When You Pass on, Don’t Leave the Passwords Behind: Planning for Digital Assets is cited in the following article: Andrew Gilden, Endorsing After Death, 63 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1531 (2022).
  1. Prof. Jaord S. Gonzalez’s article At the Intersection of Religious Organization Missions and Employment Laws: The Case of Minister Employment Suits is cited in the following article: Farhan I. Mohiuddin, Getting Paid to Discriminate: The Clash Between Religious Autonomy and Principles of Justice and Fairness, 59 Hous. L. Rev. 973 (2022).
  1. Prof. William R. Casto’s article The Early Supreme Court Justices’ Most Significant Opinion is cited in the following article: T. T. Arvind & Christian R. Burset, A New Report of Entick v. Carrington (1765), 110 Ky. L.J.265 (2021-22).
  1. Prof. Richard W. Murphy’s article Arbitrariness Review Made Reasonable: Structural and Conceptual Reform of the “Hard Look” is cited in the following article: Jonathan H. Adler, Super Deference and Heightened Scrutiny, 74 Fla. L. Rev. 267 (2022).
  1. Prof. John L. Watts’ article Tyranny by Proxy: State Action and the Private Use of Deadly Force is cited in the following article: Jacob D. Charles & Darrell A. H. Miller, Violence and Nondelegation, 135 Harv. L. Rev. F. 463 (2022).
  1. Prof. John L. Watts’ article Differences without Distinctions: Boyle’s Governmental Contractor Defense Fails to Recognize the Critical Difference Between Civilian and Military Plaintiffs and Between Military and Non-Military Procurement is cited in the following publication: Dan B. Dobbs, Paul T. Hayden, & Ellen M. Bublick, Dobbs’ Law of Torts, § 352 (2d ed. 2022).
  1. Prof. Dustin B. Benham’s article Twombly and Iqbal Should (Finally) Put the Distinction between Intrinsic and Extrinsic Fraud out of its Misery is cited in the following article: Amir Shachmurove, Entombed Writs’ Effective Renaissance: Surveying and Sealing Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(B)’s Interpretive Gaps, 70 Clev. St. L. Rev. 761 (2022).
  1. Prof. William R. Casto’s article Foreign Affairs and the Constitution in the Age of Fighting Sail is cited in the following article: Homer A. La Rue, Outsourcing the Cyber Kill Chain: Reinforcing the Cyber Mission Force and Allowing Increased Contractor Support of Cyber Operations, 12 J. Nat’l Security L. & Pol’y 583 (2022).
  1. Prof. Larry R. Spain’s article The Opportunities and Challenges of Providing Equal Access to Justice in Rural Communities is cited in the following article: Luz E. Herrera, Amber Baylor, et al., Evaluating Legal Needs, 36 Notre Dame J.L. Ethics & Pub. Pol’y 175 (2022).

Notes

  1. Prof. Richard Murphy’s Admin L. & Prac. §§ 4:22, 5:68 (3d ed. 2019) was mentioned in the Medicare and Medicaid Prac. Guide (2022).
  1. Prof. Gerry W. Beyer’s article Non-Fungible Tokens: What Every Estate Planner Need to Know was mentioned in the following article: Anna Sulkin, The Busy Practitioner’s Guide to Recent Journal Articles, Trusts & Estates (2022).
  1. On June 15, 2022, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer received the Distinguished Probate Attorney Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the Real Estate, Probate, and Trust Law Section of the State Bar of Texas at the State Bar’s Advanced Estate Planning & Probate Course in San Antonio. This award recognizes distinguished Texas probate attorneys who have made significant and sustained contributions to the Texas probate, estate, and trust law bar throughout their careers.
  1. Professor Gerry W. Beyer’s Barbri Wills & Trusts presentations are distributed nationally to recent law school graduates who are studying for the July 2022 bar examination. In total, students taking the bar exam in 44 states view his videos: all UBE states as well as California, Hawaii, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.  In addition, Prof. Beyer regularly answers questions from Bar/Bri students located in these states by e-mail or Zoom conferences.

July 2019 New Books

2019 July New Books

In July 2019, the Law Library added the following new titles to the collection to support the research and curricular needs of our faculty and students.

CIVIL LAW

  1. Elizabeth Cabraser and Fabrice N. Vincent, eds., The Law of Class Action: Fifty-State Survey, 2019 (2019).

CONTRACTS

  1. Frank J. Doti, Contract Law: Flowcharts and Cases: A Visual Guide to Understanding Contracts (2016).

DOMESTIC RELATIONS

  1. Gregg Herman, ed., 101+ Practical Solutions for the Family Lawyer: Sensible Answers to Common Problems (2019).
  2. Mark E. Sullivan, The Military Divorce Handbook: A Practical Guide to Representing Military Personnel and Their Families (2019).

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

  1. Jerry L. Anderson, et.al., Environmental Law Practice: Problems and Exercises for Skills Development (2018).

EVIDENCE

  1. Shannon Lex Bales, The Trial Presentation Companion: A Step-By-Step Guide to Presenting Electronic Evidence in the Courtroom (2018).

LEGAL ANALYSIS AND WRITING

  1. Alexa Z. Chew and Katie Rose Guest Pryal, The Complete Legal Writer (2016).
  2. Mary Barnard Ray and Jill J. Ramsfield, Legal Writing: Getting It Right and Getting It Written (2018).
  3. Richard C. Wydick and Amy E. Sloan, Plain English for Lawyers (2019).
  4. Patricia T. O’Conner, Woe is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English (2019).

LEGAL EDUCATION

  1. Teresa Power, The ABCs of Law School: Diary of a First Year Student (2019).
  2. Michael Hunter Schwartz and Paula J. Manning, Expert Learning for Law Students (2018).
  3. Christopher J. Lucas and John W. Murry, Jr., New Faculty: A Practical Guide for Academic Beginners (2011).

LEGAL PROFESSION

  1. Toni Jaeger-Fine, Becoming a Lawyer: Discovering and Defining Your Professional Persona (2019).
  2. Aaron Dignan, Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization? (2019).
  3. Marc I. Steinberg and Stephen B. Yeager, Inside Counsel: Practices, Strategies, and Insights (2015).
  4. Grover E. Cleveland, Swimming Lessons for Baby Sharks: The Essential Guide to Thriving as a New Lawyer (2016).

LEGAL RESEARCH AND LIBRARIES

  1. Elyse H. Fox, 11 Power Communications for Law Librarians: A Manual and Workbook (2019).
  2. John M. Budd, The Changing Academic Library: Operations, Culture, Environments (2018).
  3. Michael J. Krasulski and Trevor A. Dawes, eds., Twenty-First Century Access Services: On the Frontline of Academic Librarianship (2013).

NATURAL RESOURCES LAW

  1. Eric L. Kwa, ed., Natural Resources Law of Papua New Guinea (2010).

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

  1. Carole C. Berry and Raymond Michael Ripple, Effective Appellate Advocacy: Brief Writing and Oral Argument (2016).
  2. Ronald H. Clark, Jury Selection Handbook: The Nuts and Bolts of Effective Jury Selection (2018).
  3. Thomas A. Mauet and David Marcus, Pretrial (2019).
  4. Elyse H. Fox, compiler, Resources in Third-Party Legal Opinion Letters (2014).
  5. Thomas A. Mauet, Trial Techniques and Trials (2017).

PROPERTY–PERSONAL AND REAL

  1. Alan Mallach, Jessica Bacher, and Meg Byerly Williams, eds., Vacant and Problem Properties: A Guide to Legal Strategies and Remedies (2019).

PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY

  1. Clara E. Hill, Helping Skills: Facilitating Exploration, Insight, and Action (2014).

SENTENCING AND PUNISHMENT

  1. Frederic Block, Crimes and Punishments: Entering the Mind of a Sentencing Judge (2019).

TECHNOLOGY LAW

  1. Joshua Walker, On Legal AI (2019).

WORKPLACE VIOLENCE

  1. Don Philpott, The Workplace Violence Prevention Handbook (2019).

All of these books are available from the Law Library.  If you would like to check out any of these titles, please contact the circulation desk at either 806-742-3957 or circulation.law@ttu.edu.  Library staff will be able to assist in locating and checking out any of these items.

February 2019 New Resources

2019 Feb new books

In February 2019, the Law Library added the following new resources to the collection to support the research and curricular needs of our faculty and students.

New Resources

GAO Reports and Comptroller General Decisions – A new database available from HeinOnline.  Contains reports on audits, surveys, investigations, and evaluations of federal programs conducted by the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO). All published reports, testimonies, correspondence, and special publications are included (documents that are restricted or classified are not). GAO Comptroller General Decisions contain decisions and opinions issued by the Comptroller General in areas of federal law such as appropriations, bid protests, and federal agency rulemaking.

New Books

COMPARATIVE AND FOREIGN LAW

  1. Gary Slapper and David Kelly, The English Legal System (2014).
  2. P.S.R.F. Mathijsen, A Guide to European Union Law: As Amended by the Treaty of Lisbon (2010).
  3. Lorna Woods and Philippa Watson, Steiner & Woods EU Law (2012).

CYBER LAW

  1. Catherine D. Marcum, Cyber Crime (2019).

DOMESTIC RELATIONS

  1. Brett R. Turner, Equitable Distribution of Property (2019).
  2. Diane L. Redleaf, They Took the Kids Last Night: How the Child Protection System Puts Families at Risk (2018).

EMPLOYMENT PRACTICE

  1. Meera E. Deo, Unequal Profession: Race and Gender in Legal Academia (2019).
  2. Wendi S. Lazar, executive ed. ; Terese M. Connolly and Gregory S. Chiarello eds., Zero Tolerance: Best Practices for Combating Sex-Based Harassment in the Legal Profession (2018).

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

  1. Mark A. Ryan, ed., The Clean Water Act Handbook (2018).
  2. Harry Verhoeven, ed., Environmental Politics in the Middle East: Local Struggles, Global Connections (2018).
  3. Shelley Ross Saxer and Jonathan Rosenbloom, Social-Ecological Resilience and Sustainability (2018).

IMMIGRATION LAW

  1. ILRC Staff Attorneys, Essentials of Asylum Law (2018).

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

  1. Irene Calboli and Martin Senftleben, eds., The Protection of Non-Traditional Trademarks: Critical Perspectives (2018).

LEGAL ANALYSIS AND WRITING

  1. Jill Barton and Rachel H. Smith, The Handbook for the New Legal Writer (2019).

LEGAL EDUCATION

  1. Helen Sword, Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write (2017).
  2. Gary R. Morrison, Designing Effective Instruction (2013).
  3. Christine Harrington and Todd Zakrajsek, Dynamic Lecturing: Research-Based Strategies to Enhance Lecture Effectiveness (2017).
  4. Robert F. Mager, Preparing Instructional Objectives: A Critical Tool in the Development of Effective Instruction (2012).

LEGAL PROFESSION

  1. Faith Pincus, Being Heard: Presentation Skills for Attorneys (2018).
  2. Jeremy W. Richter, Building a Better Law Practice: Become a Better Lawyer in Five Minutes a Day (2018).
  3. Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell, The Lawyer’s Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: Smart Ways to Work Together (2018).
  4. Ida O. Abbott, The Lawyer’s Guide to Mentoring (2018).
  5. Andy Clark, Lawyer Wellness is Not an Oxymoron: Why Tomorrow’s Top Lawyers Must Embrace Wellness Today and What You Need to do to be One of Them (2013).
  6. Larry Port and Dave Maxfield, The Lean Law Firm: Run Your Firm Like the World’s Most Efficient and Profitable Businesses (2018).
  7. Lee Holcomb, Lifestyle Lawyer: The Female Attorney’s Guide to Designing a Law Career You Love (2018).

PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

  1. Katerina P. Lewinbuk, Connecting Ethics and Practice: A Lawyer’s Guide to Professional Responsibility (2019).

SMALL BUSINESS LAW

  1. Jean L. Batman, Advising the Small Business: Forms and Advice for the Legal Practitioner (2018).

TRIAL PRACTICE

  1. David Berg, The Trial Lawyer: What it Takes to Win (2018).

All resources are available from the Law Library.  If you would like to check out any of these titles, please contact the circulation desk at either 806-742-3957 or circulation.law@ttu.edu.

All electronic databases are available through the Library’s webpage, http://www.depts.ttu.edu/law/lawlibrary/index.php.

Library staff will be able to assist in locating and checking out any of these items or helping you contact the Librarian on call for questions about electronic resources.

November 2018 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 1 to November 30, 2018.

Book Chapters

1. Alyson M. Drake, Foreign Law in SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITIES, AND THE LAW: A RESEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHY 2006-2016 (AALL 2018).

2. Alyson M. Drake, Comparative Law in SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITIES, AND THE LAW: A RESEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHY 2006-2016 (AALL 2018).

3. Alyson M. Drake, International Law in in SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITIES, AND THE LAW: A RESEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHY 2006-2016 (AALL 2018).

Articles

1. Gerry W. Beyer, Wills & Trusts, 4 SMU ANN. SURV. 451 (2018).

2. Gerry W. Beyer, Keeping Current—Probate, 32 PROB. & PROP. 25 (2018).

3. Gerry W. Beyer, The Will Execution Ceremony: Should it be in Pictures?, 45 EST. PLAN. 25 (2018).

4. Gerry W. Beyer & Katherine Peters, Sign on the [Electronic] Dotted Line: The Rise of the Electronic Will, WILLS, TRUSTS, & EST. L. EJOURNAL (2018).

Op-Ed

1. Arnold Loewy & Charles Moster, It’s Debatable: Did misguided allegiance to president spur attempted bomber to act?, LUBBOCK AVALANCHE-J. (Nov. 4, 2018 12:19 a.m.), http://www.lubbockonline.com/news/20181104/its-debatable-did-misguided-allegiance-to-president-spur-attempted-bomber-to-act.

2. Arnold Loewy & Charles Moster, It’s Debatable: Did misguided allegiance to president spur attempted bomber to act?, LUBBOCK AVALANCHE-J. (Nov. 17, 2018 10:08 p.m.), https://www.lubbockonline.com/news/20181117/its-debatable-how-has-trump-done-so-far-as-president.

Citations

1. Prof. Murphy’s article Chenery Unmasked: Reasonable Limits on the Duty to Give Reasons is cited in the following article: Kathryn E. Kovacs, Rules About Rulemaking and the Rise of the Unitary Executive, 70 ADMIN. L. REV. 515 (2018).

2. Prof. Murphy’s article Arbitrariness Review Made Reasonable: Structural and Conceptual Reform of the “Hard Look” is cited in the following article: Kathryn E. Kovacs, Rules About Rulemaking and the Rise of the Unitary Executive, 70 ADMIN. L. REV. 515 (2018).

3. Prof. Murphy’s article Enhancing the Role of Public Interest Organizations in Rulemaking via Pre-Notice Transparency is cited in the following article: Kathryn E. Kovacs, Rules About Rulemaking and the Rise of the Unitary Executive, 70 ADMIN. L. REV. 515 (2018).

4. Prof. Casto’s book FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND THE CONSTITUTION IN THE AGE OF FIGHTING SAIL is cited in the following article: David Golove, The American Founding and Global Justice: Hamiltonian and Jeffersonian Approaches, 57 VA. J. INT’L L. 621, 623 (2018).

5. Prof. Metze’s article Speaking Truth to Power: The Obligation of the Courts to Enforce the Right to Counsel at Trial is cited in the following article: Chad G. Marzen, Inclusivity with Reciprocity: Permitting Law Teachers Outside of ABA-Accredited Law Schools Bar Admission Through Admission on Motion Rules, 43 U. DAYTON L. REV. 347 (2018).

6. Prof. Casto’s article Advising Presidents: Robert Jackson and the Destroyers-for-Bases Deal is cited in the following article: Harold Hongju Koh, Presidential Power to Terminate International Agreements, 128 YALE L.J. F. 432 (2018).

7. Professor Robert Sherwin’s article Clones, Thugs, ‘n (Eventual?) Harmony: Using the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to Simulate a Statutory Defamation Defense and Make the World Safe from Copyright Bullies is cited in the following article: Lauren Gorab, A Fair Use to Remember: Restoring Application of the Fair Use Doctrine to Strengthen Copyright Law and Disarm Abusive Copyright Litigation, 87 FORDHAM L. REV. 703 (2018).

8. Prof. Beyer’s book FAT CATS & LUCKY DOGS: HOW TO LEAVE (SOME OF) YOUR ESTATE TO YOUR PET is cited in the following article: Thomas E. Simmons, A Will for Willa Cather, 83 MO. L. REV. 641, 642 (2018).

9. Prof. Loewy’s article Why Roe v. Wade Should Be Overruled is cited in the following article: Clarke D. Forsythe & Bradley N. Kehr, A Road Map Through the Supreme Court’s Back Alley, 33 ISSUES L. & MED. 175 (2018).

10. Prof. Rosen’s article The “Especially Heinous” Aggravating Circumstance in Capital Cases–The Standardless Standard is cited in the following article: Emily V. Shaw et. al., Intellectual Disability, the Death Penalty, and Jurors, 58 JURIMETRICS J. 437 (2018).

11. Prof. Chiappinelli’s article How Delaware’s Corporate Law Monopoly Was Nearly Destroyed is cited in the following article: Brandon Mordue, The Revlon Divergence: Evolution of Judicial Review of Merger Litigation, 12 VA. L. & BUS. REV. 531 (2018).

12. Prof. Casto’s book FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND THE CONSTITUTION IN THE AGE OF THE FIGHTING SAIL is cited in the following article: John Harrison, The Constitution and the Law of Nations, 106 GEO. L.J. 1659 (2018).

Quotes

1. Prof. Camp is quoted in the following article: Alan K. Ota, Democrats ponder IRS whistleblowers on Trump tax returns, 18 MLEX US TAX WATCH 5 (2018).

News

1. Dean Victoria Sutton’s short documentary Apache Kid, U.S. Army Scout, was selected for the First Nations Film and Video Festival that has a focus on Native American women directors. The festival ran from November 1st to November 9th in Chicago, IL. A complete list of the film’s many festival selections and awards is located here.

2. Professor Tracy Pearl is the recipient of the 2019 Chancellor’s Council Distinguished Research Award for Texas Tech University. Established in 2001, the Chancellor’s Council Distinguished Teaching and Research Awards are presented to individuals who exemplify teaching or research excellence throughout the year. These are the highest honors given by the Texas Tech University System to faculty members at its component institutions. Winners of these awards have significantly advanced teaching or research efforts and are noted as leaders among colleagues and in their respective fields.

3. On November 2nd, Professor Gerry W. Beyer’s blog posting, Prince’s Estate Wants to Trademark the Color Purple, made Texas Bar Today’s list of top 10 blog posts for the week.

4. On November 2nd, Dean Victoria Sutton spoke at the first Health Law & Policy in Space Symposium at the University of Houston Law Center. Her talk centered upon biocontamination, human health, and planetary protection policy.

5. Also on November 2nd, Professor Brie Sherwin participated in a panel at Duke Law Environmental Law & Policy Forum’s Fall 2018 Symposium. The panel discussed the interactions between human health and climate change, policy tools needed to promote sustainable communities, and human resilience to pollution and climate change.

6. Professor Gerry W. Beyer’s blog, the Wills, Trusts, and Estates Prof Blog, is ranked #18 in all-time popularity, surpassing the SCOTUSblog for the first time ever. The ranking is out of the 4,479 blawgs monitored by Justia. His blog remains the #1 estate planning blog out of 245.

7. On November 14th, Professor Gerry W. Beyer was a speaker at the 39th Annual Inland Empire Estate Planning Seminar at the University of Redlands in Redlands, California. To a multi-disciplinary audience of over 110 attorneys, CPAs, trust officers, financial planners, and life insurance specialists, Prof. Beyer spoke about the interface between estate planning and weapon ownership and marijuana legalization in his presentation entitled Aiming High and Getting High: Estate Planning for Guns and Marijuana.

8. On November 16th, Professor DeLeith Gossett moderated a panel entitled “The Opioid Crisis: What Can Be Done for the Children” at the 2018 Silent Victims Conference at Duke University. The panel discussed the explosion in the number of children needing foster care due to the opioid crisis, as well as what the 1980’s drug epidemic can teach us about how best to help these children and their families.

9. Also on November 16th, Professor Brian Shannon moderated a panel entitled S.B. 1326, Competency Restoration Alternatives, Local Implementation, & a Look Ahead at the 2018 Texas Tech Mental Health Law Symposium.

9. The ABA Journal recently reaffirmed Professor Gerry W. Beyer’s blawg, The Wills, Trusts, & Estates Prof Blog, as a member of its Blawg 100 Hall of Fame.

10. Professor Gerry W. Beyer was the speaker at the November 27, 2018, meeting of the Probate, Trust, and Estates Section of the Houston Bar Association. His presentation and accompanying paper were entitled State Law Pitfalls: Don’t Step In It When Your Client Steps Across State Lines.

11. The State Bar of Texas recently informed Professor Gerry W. Beyer that his continuing legal education activities qualified him (for the thirty-second consecutive year) for membership in the State Bar College. The Texas Bar College is an honorary society of lawyers, chartered by the Supreme Court of Texas in 1981, to recognize and encourage lawyers who maintain and enhance their professional skills and the quality of their service to the public by completing at least double the required hours of continuing legal education each year.

January 2018 Law Faculty Publications & News

Throughout 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 1 to January 31, 2018.

Books:

  1. GERRY W. BEYER, 19 & 19A WEST’S LEGAL FORMS – REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS (4th ed.) (2017-2018 Supplement).
  2. GERRY W. BEYER, TEXAS WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ESTATES (2018).

Articles:

  1. Gerry W. Beyer, Estate Planning and Probate Law, 81 Tex. B. J. 32 (2018).
  2. Gerry W. Beyer & Kerri G. Nipp, Practical Planning for Digital Assets and Administration of Digital Assets by Fiduciaries, 43 Tax Man. Est., Gifts & Tr. J. 3 (2018).
  3. Gerry W. Beyer, ed., Keeping Current—Probate, Prob. & Prop., Jan./Feb. 2018, at 32.* *The American Bar Association has appointed Prof. Beyer as the editor of this column for 25 consecutive years.
  4. Brian D. Shannon, The Revised NCAA Division I Governance Structure after Three Years: A Scorecard, 5 Tex. A&M L. Rev. 65 (2017).
  5. Rishi Batra, Resolving Civil Forfeiture Disputes, 66 U. Kan. L. Rev. 399 (2017).
  6. Gerry W. Beyer, Potpourri, REPTL Rep., 56-1, at 3 (2018).
  7. Gerry W. Beyer, Intestacy, Wills, Estate Administration, and Trusts Update, REPTL Rep., 56-1, at 4 (2018).
  8. Gerry W. Beyer, The Texas Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act: A Primer for Estate Planners, REPTL Rep., 56-1, at 112 (2018).

Op-Ed:

  1. Arnold Loewy & Charles Moster, It’s Debatable: Was CNN’s pot party broadcast appropriate?, Lubbock Avalanche-J. (Jan. 12, 2018 09:45 pm), http://lubbockonline.com/opinion/opinion-columnists/2018-01-12/it-s-debatable-was-cnn-s-pot-party-broadcast-appropriate.
  2. Arnold Loewy & Charles Moster, It’s Debatable: Is our society in a state of decline?, Lubbock Avalanche-J. (Jan. 26, 2018 07:52 pm), http://lubbockonline.com/opinion/opinion-columnists/2018-01-26/it-s-debatable-our-society-state-decline.

Cited:

  1. Prof. Loewy’s article A Proposal for the Universal Collection of DNA is cited in the following article: Ric Simmons, The Mirage of Use Restrictions, 96 N.C.L. Rev. 133 (2017).
  2. Prof. Murphy’s article Enhancing the Role of Public Interest Organizations in Rulemaking Via Pre-Notice Transparency is cited in the following article: Daniel Boger, Pre-Enforcement Review: An Evaluation from the Perspective of Ripeness, 36 Va. Envtl. L.J. 77 (2018).
  3. Prof. Krahmer’s article Wire Transfers, Good Faith, and “Phishing” is cited in the following article: Robert T. Luttrell, III, The Relation Between Good Faith, Fair Dealing and Ordinary Care in Payment Law Cases Under UCC Articles 3, 4 and 4a, 71 Consumer Fin. L.Q. Rep. 42 (2017).
  4. Dean Nowlin’s article The Warren Court’s House Built on Sand: From Security in Persons, Houses, Papers, and Effects to Mere Reasonableness in Fourth Amendment Doctrine is cited in the following article: The Virtues of Heterogeneity, in Court Decisions and the Constitution, 131 Harv. L. Rev. 872 (2018).
  5. Prof. Casto and Val D. Ricks’s article “Dear Sister Antillico . . .”: The Story of Kirksey v. Kirksey is cited in the following article: Judith L. Maute, Race Politics, O’Hare Airport Expansion, and Promissory Estoppel: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same, 69 Hastings L.J. 119 (2017).
  6. Professors Huffman and Rosen’s book Military Law: Criminal Justice and Administrative Process is cited in the following article: Seth Michael Engel, Fostering A Safe Warfighting Environment: Applying Title IX and Student Discipline in Higher Education to the Military’s Fight Against Sexual Assault, 32 Wis. J.L. Gender & Soc’y 133 (2017).
  7. Prof. Arnold Loewy’s article The Fourth Amendment as a Device for Protecting the Innocent is cited in the following article: David Gray, Collective Standing Under the Fourth Amendment, 55 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 77, 77 (2018).
  8. Prof. Arnold Loewy’s article The Warren Court as Defendant of State and Federal Criminal Laws: A Reply to Those Who Believe That the Court is Oblivious to the Needs of Law Enforcement is cited in the following article: Jeffrey D. Swartz, Esq., Terry v. Ohio at 50: What It Created, What It Has Meant, Is It Under Attack and Is the Court Opening the Door to Police Misconduct?, 38 N. Ill. U.L. Rev. 44, 45 (2017).

Quoted:

  1. Prof. Christopher is quoted extensively in the following article: Tyler Roberts, What it takes to pass today’s nasty bar exam, Nat’l Jurist, Winter 2018, at 21.
  2. Prof. Camp is quoted in the following article: Nathan J. Richman, Proposals Would Provide Tax Court Filing Deadline Solutions, 2018 TNT 21-7.

News:

  1. On January 5, 2018, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer was the speaker at the year’s first meeting of the Southern Nevada Estate Planning Council. His presentation and accompanying article were entitled How to Anticipate and Avoid Will Contests. Attending the meeting were many of Nevada’s most prestigious estate planning attorneys, CPAs, and other professionals who work in the estate planning area.
  2. Dean and Professor Victoria Sutton made the following presentations at the annual American Association of Law Schools conference in San Diego, CA, Jan. 2-6, 2018: On January 3, Professor Sutton gave two presentations. The first was on her selected paper at the Associate Deans Section Program, Distance Education in Law Schools: Exploring Issues and Best Practices. The second was entitled How I Changed a Regulation Using Social Sciences Research for the panel on Law and Social Sciences. She is the outgoing chair and member of the Executive Committee of the section. On January 6, Professor Sutton gave a presentation on DIY biology and regulation on the panel for Biolaw, Legal Challenges of Editing the Genome: Coming to Terms with CRISPR Technology. She was elected Chair of the Biolaw section.
  3. On January 18, 2018, Professor Beyer was the luncheon speaker for the South Plains Trust and Estate Council in Lubbock. His presentation and accompanying article were entitled Cyber Estate Planning and Administration.
  4. Paul Whitfield Horn Professor Brian Shannon presented at the Division I Issues Forum at the NCAA Annual Convention on January 18, 2018, in Indianapolis.
  5. Paul Whitfield Horn Professor Brian Shannon served on the dais as Parliamentarian at the NCAA Autonomy Conference Discussion Forum and NCAA Autonomy Business Session on January 18-19, 2018, in Indianapolis. This marked the fourth straight year that Shannon has served in this role.
  6. Professors from the Texas Tech System were awarded the Chancellors Council Distinguished Teaching and Research Awards on January 25. Seven university professors from five colleges were recognized for their excellence and received a $5,000 stipend and an engraved medallion. Recipients included TechLaw’s own Professor Wendy-Adele Humphrey.
  7. On January 24, 2018, Professor Gerry W. Beyer participated in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s Kickoff Event at Texas Tech.  Out of the dozens of speakers slated to present for OLLI’s Spring 2018 program, he was one of five selected to discuss their upcoming presentations with the over 150 people in attendance at the event.  Prof. Beyer’s presentation, Don’t Let the Airlines Take You for a Ride – Know Your Flight Rights, is scheduled for April 10, 2018.
  8. The Real Estate, Probate, and Trust Law Council of the State Bar of Texas unanimously reappointed Professor Gerry W. Beyer as the Editor-in-Chief of the REPTL Reporter at its Winter Council meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 27, 2018. The REPTL Reporter is the official publication of the section which is the largest section of the State Bar of Texas with over 9,400 members.
  9. Professor Gerry W. Beyer recently served as one of the judges of the Student Writing Competition sponsored by the Real Estate, Probate, and Trust Law Section of the State Bar of Texas.