April 2017 – New Books List

In April 2017, the Law Library added the following new titles to the collection to support the research and curricular needs of our faculty and students.

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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, GENERALLY

  1. Zoltan Balazsan, The Principle of the Separation of Powers: a Defense (2016).
  2. Gary Lawson, “A Great Power of Attorney”: Understanding the Fiduciary Constitution (2017).

CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE

  1. James Forman, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (2017).

CYBER LAW

  1. Kevin F. Steinmetz, Hacked: A Radical Approach to Hacker Culture and Crime (2016).
  2. Daniel B. Garrie, Law Firm Cybersecurity (2017).

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

  1. Albert I. Telsey, The ABCs of Environmental Regulation (2016).

FIRST AMENDMENT

  1. Randy Bobbitt, Free Speech on America’s K-12 and College Campuses: Legal Cases from Barnette to Blaine, (2017).

HEALTH LAW AND POLICY

  1. Daniel Sledge, Health Divided: Public Health and Individual Medicine in the Making of the Modern American State (2017).

HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

  1. Stephen A. Simon, The U.S. Supreme Court and the Domestic Force of International Human Rights Law (2016).

INDIAN AND ABORIGINAL LAW

  1. David E. Wilkins, Dismembered: Native Disenrollment and the Battle for Human Rights (2017).

INTERNATIONAL LAW

  1. Thomas Alan Lund, The Creation of the Common Law: The Medieval “Year Books” Deciphered (2015).
  2. John Eaton, Finding English Law: Quick Access to Key Titles (2017).

LEGAL ANALYSIS AND WRITING

  1. Elizabeth Fajans, Scholarly Writing for Law Students: Seminar Papers, Law Review Notes and Law Review Competition Papers (2017).

LEGAL HISTORY

  1. Brian Tierney, Liberty and Law: The Idea of Permissive Natural Law, 1100-1800 (2014).

LEGAL PROFESSION

  1. Heidi K. Gardner, Smart Collaboration: How Professionals and Their Firms Succeed by Breaking Down Silos (2016).
  2. Stephen R. Covey, First Things First: To Live, to Love, to Learn, to Leave a Legacy (1994)(2003 ed.).
  3. Jonathan McDowell, From Law School to Lawyer: Tools, Procedures, and Steps to Grow Your Practice (2015).

LEGAL RESEARCH AND LIBRARIES

  1. Jessie Daniels, Being a Scholar in the Digital Era: Transforming Scholarly Practice for the Public Good (2016).
  2. Andy Tattersall, Altmetrics: a practical guide for librarians, researchers and academics (2016).

MILITARY, WAR, AND PEACE

  1. Michael N. Schmitt (ed.), Tallinn Manual 2.0 on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Operations (2017).

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

  1. Bob Ward, The Most Interesting Mock Trial Case Files in the World (2016).
  2. Glenn C. Altschuler, Ten Great American Trials: Lessons in Advocacy (2016).

PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

  1. William H.F. Altman, The Guardians on Trial: The Reading Order of Plato’s Dialogues from Euthyphro to Phaedo (2016).
  2. Frank Anechiarico, Legal but Corrupt: A New Perspective on Public Ethics (2017).
  3. Amos N. Guiora, The Crime of Complicity: The Bystander in the Holocaust (2017).

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.

April 2017 Law Faculty Publications & News

Throughout April 2017, the Law Library received alerts for full-time TTU Law Faculty publications and news. Below is the compilation of daily alerts for April 1, 2017 to April 30, 2017.

Published:
1. Arnold H. Loewy, Punishing Violence Against Women: Seeking the Right Balance, 49 TEX. TECH L. REV. 211 (2016).

2. DeLeith Duke Gossett, ‘[Take from Us Our] Wretched Refuse’: The Deportation of America’s Adoptees disclosure, 85 U. CIN. L. REV. 33 (2017).

3. Sally McDonald Henry, The $1.5 Billion General Motors Recalls at the Dangerous Intersection of Chapter 11, Article 9, and TARP., 85 U. CIN. L. REV. 131 (2017).

Cited:
1. Prof. Humphrey’s article ‘‘Let’s Talk About Sex”: Legislating and Educating on the Affirmative Consent Standard was cited in the following article: Jonathan Witmer-Rich, Unpacking Affirmative Consent: Not As Great As You Hope, Not As Bad As You Fear, 49 TEX. TECH L. REV. 57 (2016).

2. Prof. Murphy’s Administrative Law And Practice treatise was cited in the following article: Kent Barnett, How the Supreme Court Derailed Formal Rulemaking, 85 GEO. WASH. L. REV. ARGUENDO 1 (2017).

3. Prof. Murphy’s article Due Process and Targeted Killing of Terrorists was cited in the following article: Barry Kellman, Targeted Killings – Never Not an Act of International Criminal Law Enforcement, 40 B.C. INT’L & COMP. L. REV. 27 (2017).

4. Prof. Murphy’s article Judicial Deference, Agency Commitment and Force of Law was cited in the following comment: Richard W. Murphy, Judicial Deference, Agency Commitment, and Force of Law, 66 OHIO ST. L.J. 1013 (2005).

5. Prof. James’s article The African-American Church, Political Activity, and Tax Exemption was cited if the update of W. COLE DURHAM AND ROBERT SMITH, 4 RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS AND THE LAW § 32:14.

6. Prof. James’s article Reaping Where They Have Not Sowed: Have American Churches Failed to Satisfy the Requirements for the Religious Tax Exemption? was cited in the following article: Cody S. Barnett, Bringing in the Sheaves: Combating Televangelists’ Abuse of the Internal Revenue Code, 105 KY. L.J. 365 (2017).

7. Prof. Casto’s article The Early Supreme Court Justices’ Most Significant Opinion was cited in the following article: Ryan C Williams, Questioning Marks: Plurality Decisions and Precedential Constraint, 69 STAN. L. REV. 795 (2017).

8. Prof. Casto’s article “Dear Sister Antillico . . .”: The Story of Kirksey v. Kirksey was cited in the following article: William A. Drennan, Charitable Naming Rights Transactions: Gifts or Contracts?, 2016 MICH. ST. L. REV. 1267 (2016).

9. Prof. Beyer’s presentation “Cyber Estate Planning and Administration,” was cited in the following issue: Marvin E. Blum, Filling in the Gaps, 2017 WLNR 10054929 (2017).

10. Prof. Beyer’s article Digital Wills: Has the Time Come for Wills to Join the Digital Revolution? was cited in the following article: David Horton, Tomorrow’s Inheritance: The Frontiers of Estate Planning Formalism, 58 B.C. INT’L & COMP. L. REV. 539 (2017).

11. Prof. Beyer’s article Avoiding the Estate Planning “Blue Screen of Death”–Common Non-Tax Errors and How to Prevent Them was cited in the following article: Deborah S. Gordon, Mor(t)ality and Identity: Wills, Narratives, and Cherished Possessions, 28 YALE J.L. & HUMAN. 265 (2016).

12. Prof. Beyer’s and Prof. Shannon’s book SKILLS & VALUES: PROPERTY LAW was cited in the following article: Frances Tubb, Full Speed Ahead: The Texas Central High-Speed Rail and the Sacrifice Required from Residents of Rural Texas, 49 TEX. TECH L. REV. 547 (2017).

13. Prof. Camp’s article Dual Construction of RICO: The Road Not Taken in Reves was cited in the following article: Doug Rendleman, Commercial Bribery: Choice and Measurement Within A Remedies Smorgasbord, 74 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 369 (2017).

14. Prof. Loewy’s article The Two Faces of Insanity was cited in the following article: Michael L. Perlin, Esq., “God Said to Abraham/kill Me A Son”: Why the Insanity Defense and the Incompetency Status Are Compatible with and Required by the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Basic Principles of Therapeutic, 54 AM. CRIM. L. REV. 477 (2017).

15. Prof. Loewy’s article Taking Bakke Seriously: Distinguishing Diversity from Affirmative Action in the Law School Admissions Process was cited in the following treatise: MARION A. COWELL, JR., W. RANDY EADDY, SUCCESSFUL PARTNERING BETWEEN INSIDE AND OUTSIDE COUNSEL §§ 39:7, 39:83 (May 2017).

16. Prof. Baker’s blog Ginger (Law) Librarian was cited in the following article: Anonymous, Search Engine and AI Update, 22 No. 4 Internet L. Researcher NL 5 (2017).

17. Prof. Black’s article Psst! Wanna Buy a Bridge? IP Transfers of Non-Existent Property was cited in the following article: Julie Manning Magid, Monetize vs. Incentivize: Contracting for Health Care Innovation, 19 U. PA. J. BUS. L. 369 (2017).

18. Prof. Shannon’s, as 1AFAR Representative on the NCAA Division I Council, email to Jo Potuto, Professor of Law, University of Nebraska College of Law, was cited in the following article: Josephine (Jo) R. Potuto, Two, Four, Six, Eight; What Can We Now Regulate? The Regulatory Mentality and NCAA Satellite Camps (et al), 35 QUINNIPIAC L. REV. 287 (2017).

19. Prof. Metze’s article Speaking Truth to Power: The Obligation of the Courts to Enforce the Right to Counsel at Trial was cited in the following article: Sharon Finegan, The Replacements: Conflicting Standards for Obtaining New Counsel Under the Sixth Amendment, 65 CLEV. ST. L. REV. 129 (2017).

20. Prof. Velte’s article Obergefell’s Expressive Promise was cited in the following article: Deepa Das Acevedo, Sovereignty and Social Change in the Wake of India’s Recent Sodomy Cases, 40 B.C. INT’L & COMP. L. REV. 1 (2017).

21. Prof. Velte’s article Obergefell’s Expressive Promise was cited in the following article: Frederick Schauer, The Supreme Court As Public Educator?, 88 U. COLO. L. REV. 333 (2017).

22. Prof. Weninger’s article The Abolition of Plea Bargaining: A Case Study of El Paso County, Texas was cited in the following article: Ronald F. Wright, Kay L. Levine, Place Matters in Prosecution Research, 14 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 675 (2017).

23. Prof. Weninger’s article The Abolition of Plea Bargaining: A Case Study of El Paso County, Texas was cited in the following article: Jonathan Abel, Cops and Pleas: Police Officers’ Influence on Plea Bargaining, 126 YALE L.J. 1730 (2017).

24. Prof. Chiappinelli’s article Red October: Its Origins, Consequences, and the Need to Revive the National Market System was cited in the following article: Investment Strategies: Derivatives and Program Trading, 1 LAW SEC. REG. § 1:76.

25. Prof. Gonzalez’s article State Antidiscrimination Statutes and Implied Preemption of Common Law Torts: Valuing the Common Law was cited in the following article: Sarah Golabek-Goldman, Ban the Address: Combating Employment Discrimination Against the Homeless, 126 YALE L.J. 1788 (2017).

26. Prof. Velte’s article All Fall Down: A Comprehensive Approach to Defeating the Religious Right’s Challenges to Antidiscrimination Statutes was mentioned in the following post Howard Friedman, Recent Articles of Interest, 2017 WLNR 11005240 in Religion Clause.

Quoted:

1.  Prof. Rosen’s article ‘Goldstone reconsidered’ was quoted in the following article: Ryder McKeown, International law and its discontents: Exploring the dark sides of international law in International Relations, Review of International Studies (2017).

2. Prof. Rosen’s article Funding “Non-Traditional” Military Operations: The Alluring Myth of A Presidential Power of the Purse was quoted in the following article: Michael Farris, Poverty, Inequality, and the Law: The Thirty-Fifth Annual Federalist Society National Symposium on Law and Public Policy – 2016: Defying Conventional Wisdom: The Constitution Was Not the Product of a Runaway Convention, 40 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL’Y 61 (2017).

3. Prof. Loewy’s article Police-Obtained Evidence and the Constitution: Distinguishing Unconstitutionally Obtained Evidence from Unconstitutionally Used Evidence was quoted in the following article: Michael J. Zydney Mannheimer, The Two Mirandas, 43 N. KY. L. REV. 317 (2016).

4. Prof. Murphy’s update in the Administrative Law and Practice treatise was quoted in the following publication: BALCA Decisions, 94, Interpreter Releases, Art. 11 (2017).

News:
1. On April 8, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal published an article Texas Tech Law professor says Gorsuch a ‘pleasant surprise’ as nominee, Democrats ‘unwise’ to oppose where Prof. Loewy commented a confirmation of Justice Gorsuch. The article can be found here.

2. The Texas Tech School of Law’s Center for Water Law and Policy hosted its annual film screening and panel discussion featuring “A River Between Us” about the largest river restoration project in American history. The panel included David Sandino, senior staff counsel to the California Department of Water Resources, and M. Alexander Pearl, associate professor of law at the Texas Tech School of Law and associate director for the Center for Water Law and Policy.

3. On April 25, Prof. Beyer traveled to Dallas where he spoke at a meeting of the Probate, Trusts and Estates Section of the Dallas Bar Association. His topic and accompanying article were entitled Morals from the Courthouse: A Study of Recent Texas Cases Impacting the Wills, Probate, and Trust Practice.

4. On April 26, Prof. Beyer gave a presentation entitled The Basics of a Will for the 88th Annual West Texas County Judges and Commissioners Association Conference in Lubbock sponsored by the Texas Association of Counties.

5. On April 28, Prof. Beyer was a speaker at the Kansas City Estate Planning Symposium sponsored by the University of Missouri. To an audience exceeding 500 estate planning professionals, Prof. Beyer presented on two topics: (1) What Estate Planners in Common Law Marital Property States Need to Know About Community Property and (2) Anticipating Will Contests and How to Avoid Them.

6. The Women’s Energy Network of the Permian Basin held their first luncheon of the year at Petroleum Club in February where Prof. Keffer was the guest speaker with his presentation “Finding More, Knowing Less: The Oil and Gas Industry.” The article can be found here.

7. The International Institute of Space Law recognized Prof. Sutton’s professional involvement in space law and voted her into full membership at their most recent board meeting.

March 2017 Law Faculty Publications & News

Throughout March 2017, the Law Library received alerts for full-time TTU Law Faculty publications and news. Below is the compilation of daily alerts for March 1, 2017 to March 31, 2017.

Published:

1. GERRY W. BEYER, 13, 15 WEST’S TEX. FORMS, REAL PROPERTY (2d ed. 2017).

2. Richard Murphy, Administrative Law and Practice, 2 ADMIN. L. & PRAC. § 5:18 (3d ed.). (Feb. 2017 Update).

Articles:

  1. Sally McDonald Henry, Chapter 11 Zombies, 50 Ind. L. Rev. 579 (2017).

Cited:

  1. Prof. Beyer’s article, When You Pass On, Don’t Leave the Passwords Behind: Planning for Digital Assets, was cited in the following article: Natalie M. Banta, Property Interests in Digital Assets: The Rise of Digital Feudalism, 38 Cardozo L. Rev. 1099 (2017).
  1. Prof. Beyer’s blog, Murderer’s Family Faces Court Battle Over Inheritance, was cited in the following article: Kelsey I. Cox, The Need for Reform: A Comprehensive Legislative Analysis of the Illinois “Slayer Statute”, 11 Charleston L. Rev. 119 (2017).
  1. Prof. Christopher’s article, Whack-A-Mole: Why Prosecuting Digital Currency Exchanges Won’t Stop Online Money Laundering, was cited in the following article: Lawrence J. Trautman and Alvin C. Harrell, Bitcoin Versus Regulated Payment Systems: What Gives?, 38 Cardozo L. Rev. 1041 (2017).
  1. Prof. Camp’s article, The Mysteries of Erroneous Refunds, was cited in the following article: Allen D. Madison, The Legal Consequences of Noncompliance with Federal Tax Laws, 70 Tax Law. 367 (2016).
  1. Prof. Camp’s article, The Play’s the Thing: A Theory of Taxing Virtual Worlds, was cited in the following article: Adam B. Thimmesch, Transacting in Data: Tax, Privacy, and the New Economy, 94 Denv. L. Rev. 145 (2017).
  1. Prof. Camp’s article, Form over Substance in the Fifth Circuit was cited in the following article: Bret Wells, The Foreign Tax Credit War, 2016 B.Y.U. L. Rev. 1895 (2016).
  1. Prof. Murphy’s article, The Limits of Legislative Control Over the “Hard-Look”, was cited in the following article: D.A. Candeub, Tyranny and Administrative Law, 59 Ariz. L. Rev. 49 (2017).
  1. Prof. Murphy’s update on the Administrative Law & Practice treatise was cited in the following article: Sally Brown Richardson, Privacy and Community Property, 95 N.C. L. Rev. 729 (2017).
  1. Prof. Benham’s essay, Emerging Issues in Texas Dismissal Practice: Pleading Standards and Important Miscellany, was cited in the following comment: George Hayek, TRCP 91a: Resolving the Confusion, 54 Hous. L. Rev. 775 (2017).

Quoted:

  1. Prof. Camp’s article, ‘Loving’ Return Preparer Regulation, was quoted in: Jay A. Soled & Kathleen DeLaney Thomas, Regulating Tax Return Preparation, 58 B.C.L. Rev. 151, 204 (2017).
  1. Prof. Murphy’s & Charles H. Koch Jr. 2016 treatise update of 4 Admin. L. & Prac. § 13:14 (3d ed.), was quoted in: John Kendrick, (Un)limiting Administrative Review: Wind River, Section 2401(a), and the Right to Challenge Federal Agencies, 103 Va. L. Rev. 157, 210 (2017).
  1. Prof. Murphy’s article, Judicial Deference, Agency Commitment, and Force of Law, was quoted in: Aditya Bamzai, The Origins of Judicial Deference to Executive Interpretation, 126 Yale L.J. 908 (2017).
  1. Prof. Humphrey’s article, ‘‘Let’s Talk About Sex”: Legislating and Educating on the Affirmative Consent Standard, was quoted in the following: Eleanor Christie Gourley, Getting to Yes-Means-Yes: Re-Thinking Responses to Rape and Rape Culture on College Campuses, 52 Wash. U.J.L. & Pol’y 195, 207 (2016).
  1. Prof. Camp’s articles, Tax Administration as Inquisitorial Process and the Partial Paradigm Shift in the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 and The Failure of Adversarial Process in the Administrative State, were quoted in the following article: Pippa Browde, A Reflection on Tax Collecting: Opening A Can of Worms to Clean Up A Collection Due Process Jurisdictional Mess, 65 Drake L. Rev. 51 (2017).
  1. Prof. Beyer’s article, Digital Wills: Has the Time Come for Wills to Join the Digital Revolution?, was quoted in the following article: Alberto B. Lopez, Posthumous Privacy, Decedent Intent, and Post-Mortem Access to Digital Assets, 24 GEO. MASON L. REV. 183 (2016).

News:

  1. On March 3, 2017 Prof. Beyer was a speaker at the 2017 Estate Planning & Community Property Law Journal Seminar held at the Texas Tech University School of Law. His topic and accompanying article were entitled Case Law Update.
  1. As an editor, Prof. Beyer published a new edition of Keeping Current—Probate in the Probate and Property Journal- it offers a look at selected recent cases, rulings and regulations, literature, and legislation.
  1. On March 8, 2017, Prof. Beyer was a speaker at the 2017 County Court Assistants Training Conference sponsored by the Texas Association of Counties in Lubbock. Prof. Beyer’s presentation was an overview of probate and estate administration under Texas law.
  1. On March 12, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal published an article about Prof. Sutton who is producing her first documentary “The Court Martial of the Apache Kid.”
  1. On March 20, 2017, Prof. Loewy was interviewed by FOX34 News concerning Judge Gorsuch confirmation hearing. The article can be found here.
  1. On March 22, 2017, Prof. Beyer presented a continuing education program for the Red River Valley Estate Planning Council in Fargo, North Dakota. His presentations and accompanying articles were entitled Cyber Estate Planning and Administration and Avoiding the Estate Planning “Blue Screen of Death” With Competent and Ethical Practices.
  1. On March 25, 2017, Prof. Beyer was a speaker at the 2017 Spring Management Workshop conducted by the Equipment Marketing and Distribution Association in Savannah, Georgia. Prof. Beyer’s presentation was entitled Estate Planning Basics: Don’t Be Afraid to Ask!
  1. On March 31, 2017, Prof. Beyer was a guest speaker for approximately 300 attendees at a symposium sponsored by the Southwest Parkinson Society entitled After the Diagnosis, Now What? His presentation was entitled After the Diagnosis: Getting Your House in Order.
  1. On March 31, 2017, Prof. Tracy Pearl presented her paper Fast & Furious: The Misregulation of Driverless Cars, which was specially selected for discussion at the 2017 We Robot Conference at Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut.
  1. On March 31, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal published a debate between Prof. Loewy and Charles Moster on whether employer contributions to Social Security should be abolished. The article can be found here.
  1. The Office of the Vice President for Research at Texas Tech recently announced that Prof. Beyer was named the 2017 Outstanding Researcher from the School of Law.

February 2017 Law Faculty Publications & News

Throughout February 2017, the Law Library’s Faculty Services & Scholarly Communications Department received alerts for full-time TTU Law Faculty publications and news. Below is the compilation of daily alerts for February 1, 2017 to February 28, 2017.

Published:

  1. Richard Murphy, Administrative Law and Practice – 3 Admin. L. & Prac. (3d ed 2017).
  1. Sally McDonald Henry, Paying-to-Play in Chapter 11, 17 J. Bus. & Sec. L. 113 (2016).
  1. Gerry W. Beyer & Brooke Dacus, Estate Planning for Mary Jane and Other Marijuana Users, 55-2 REPTL Reporter 50 (2017).
  1. Brie D. Sherwin, Joseph F. Mudge, Jaclyn E. Cañas-Carrell, Heather A. Lanza, Thomas R. Rainwater, Steven G. Platt, Scott T. McMurry, and Todd A. Anderson, Organochlorine Pesticide Residues in Caudal Scutes of Belize Morelet’s Crocodiles (Crocodylus moreletii), 50 (4) Journal of Herpetology 552–558 (2016).
  1. John Krahmer, Commercial Transactions, 2 SMU L. Rev. 103 (2016).

Cited:

  1. Prof. Murphy’s Punitive Damages, Explanatory Verdicts, and the Hard Look, was cited in the February 2017 update of: 1 Fed. Jury Prac. & Instr. § 8:8 (6th ed.)
  1. Prof. Camp’s article, The Failure of Adversarial Process in the Administrative State, was cited in the February 2017 update of: 2:13 Deriving procedural norms, 1 Admin. L. & Prac. (3d ed.)
  1. Prof. Murphy’s & Afsheen John Radsan’s article Measure Twice, Shoot Once: Higher Care for Cia-Targeted Killing, was cited in the following research article: Jennifer Varriale Carson, Assessing the Effectiveness of High-Profile Targeted Killings in the “War on Terror”. Criminology & Pub. Pol’y J. doi:10.1111/1745-9133.12274 (2017).
  1. Prof. Camp’s articles Tax Administration as Inquisitorial Process and the Partial Paradigm Shift in the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998, and Theory and Practice in Tax Administration were cited in the following article: Joshua D. Blank & Leigh Osofsky, Simplexity: Plain Language and The Tax Law, 66 Emory L.J. 189 (2017).
  1. Prof. Loewy’s article Rethinking Search and Seizure in a Post-9/11 World, was cited in the following article: Ric Simmons, Quantifying Criminal Procedure: How to Unlock the Potential of Big Data in Our Criminal Justice System, 2016 Mich. St. L. Rev. 947 (2016).
  1. Prof. Loewy’s essay Morals Legislation and the Establishment Clause was quoted in the following note: Charles B. Straut, Due Process Disestablishment: Why Lawrence v. Texas Is a First Amendment Case, 91 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1794 (2016).
  1. Prof. Beyer’s article Ante-Mortem Probate: A Viable Alternative was cited in the following article: Mark Glover, Probate-Error Costs, 49 Conn. L. Rev. 613 (2016).
  1. Prof. Beyer’s article Ante-Mortem Probate: A Viable Alternative was cited in the following article: Kyle Frizzelle, Better to Play Dead? Examining North Carolina’s Living Probate Law and Its Potential Effect on Testamentary Disposition, 39 Campbell L. Rev. 187 (2017).
  1. Prof. Camp’s article The Play’s the Thing: A Theory of Taxing Virtual Worlds was cited in the following article: Adam Chodorow, Bitcoin and the Definition of Foreign Currency, 19 Fla. Tax Rev. 365, 398 (2016).
  1. Prof. Camp’s was cited in the following article: Michelle Lyon Drumbl, Joint Winners, Separate Losers: Proposals to Ease the Sting for Married Taxpayers Filing Separately, 19 Fla. Tax Rev. 399 (2016).
  1. Prof. Camp’s article The Early Supreme Court Justices’ Most Significant Opinion was cited in the following article: Adam Dec, Controversy and Oversight: Recent Developments in 702 Surveillance and Article III Jurisprudence, 35 Rev. Litig. 293 (2016).
  1. Prof. Murphy’s article Chenery Unmasked: Reasonable Limits on the Duty to Give Reasons, was quoted in: 33 Fed. Prac. & Proc. Judicial Review § 8301 (1st ed.).
  1. Prof. Humphrey’s article ‘‘Let’s Talk About Sex”: Legislating and Educating on the Affirmative Consent Standard was cited in the following article review: Universities and Other Institutions of Higher Learning, 46 J.L. & Educ. 141 (2017).
  1. Prof. Velte’s essay Obergefell’s Expressive Promise was cited in the following colloquium: Marc Spindelman, Obergefell’s Dreams, 77 Ohio St. L.J. 1039 (2016).
  1. Prof. Velte’s essay Obergefell’s Expressive Promise was cited in the following article: Mark P. Strasser, Obergefell’s Legacy, 24 Duke J. Gender L. & Pol’y 61 (2016).
  1. Prof. Beyer’s article The Fine Art of Intimidating Disgruntled Beneficiaries with In Terrorem Clauses, was cited in the following blog post from February 16, 2017: Jonnette Watson Hamilton, Residential Tenancy Agreements, Options to Purchase, In Terrorem Clauses, and Relief from Forfeiture, WLNR 5079390 (2017).
  1. Prof. Loewy’s article, Rethinking Free Exercise of Religion After Smith and Boerne: Charting a Middle Course, was cited in: Teneille Ruth Brown, Medical Futility and Religious Free Exercise, 15 First Amend. L. Rev. 43 (2016).
  1. Prof. Camp’s article, The Retroactivity of Treasury Regulations: Paths to Finding Abuse of Discretion, was cited in the following article: Andy S. Grewal, Why Lenity Has No Place in the Income Tax Laws, 81 Mo. L. Rev. 1045 (2016).
  1. Prof. A. Pearl’s article Redskins: The Property Right to Racism was cited in the following law review: Katelynn Hill, Sports Law in Law Reviews and Journals, 27 Marq. Sports L. Rev. 259 (2016).

Quoted:

  1. Prof. Camp’s articles, The Failure of Adversarial Process in the Administrative State, & Tax Administration as Inquisitorial Process and the Partial Paradigm Shift in the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 were cited in: Bret N. Bogenschneider, The Taxing Power After Sebelius, 51 Wake Forest L. Rev. 941 (2016).
  1. Prof. Black’s article A National Tax Bar: An End to the Attorney-Accountant Tax Turf War was quoted in: Victoria Shannon Sahani, Reshaping Third-Party Funding, 91 Tul. L. Rev. 405 (2017).
  1. Prof. Batra’s article Judicial Participation in Plea Bargaining: A Dispute Resolution Perspective was quoted in: Darryl K. Brown, What’s the Matter with Kansas-and Utah?: Explaining Judicial Interventions in Plea Bargaining, 95 Tex. L. Rev. (2017).
  1. Prof. Velte’s article Obergefell’s Expressive Promise was quoted in: Matthew W. Green Jr., Same-Sex Sex and Immutable Traits: Why Obergefell v. Hodges Clears a Path to Protecting Gay and Lesbian Employees from Workplace Discrimination Under Title VII, 20 J. Gender Race & Just. 1 (2017).
  1. Prof. Sutton’s article Whistleblower and Liability Protections for Scientific Laboratory Employees and Insider Adversary Study for the Office of Safeguards and Security: US Department of `Energy. Final Report were quoted in the book: Matthew Bunn and Scott D. Sagan, Insider Treats, 2016.

News:

  1. On January 19, 2017, Prof. Shannon participated in a panel presentation at the 2017 NCAA Convention in Nashville. The panel was entitled, “Division I Issues Forum.”
  1. Prof. Beyer was quoted in the January 30, 2017 Tech Romance Ends in Fake Will Scheme, from the Arkansas Business Volume 34; Issue 5.
  1. On January 20, 2017, Prof. Shannon served as Parliamentarian for the third consecutive year at the NCAA Autonomy Business Session, which involves the five NCAA Division I Autonomy conferences (the Big 12, Big 10, Pac 12, ACC, and SEC). Professor Shannon and University of Minnesota President, Eric Kaler, were presiding over the proceedings.
  1. On February 2, 2017, Prof. Shannon addressed the Amarillo Criminal Defense Bar on the topic of Competency to Stand Trial.
  1. On February 2, 2017, Prof. Beyer was the guest speaker at a meeting of the Tarrant County Probate Bar Association. His presentation and accompanying article were entitled Cyber Estate Planning and Administration.
  1. On February 8, 2017, Prof. Beyer was a speaker for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Lubbock, Texas. His presentation was entitled “Do You Have Annoying Neighbors?” during which he discussed different types of annoyances and the remedies that are available.
  1. On February 10, 2017, Prof. Loewy was interviewed by FOX34 News concerning President Trump’s options on travel ban policy the article can be found here.
  1. Prof. Baker’s blog, The Ginger Law Librarian, was cited in Best of the Legal Blogs in 22 No. 2 Internet L. Researcher NL 3.
  1. On February 15, Prof. Baker’s blog, The Ginger Law Librarian, was listed as one of the Top Ten Blogs for Info Pros.
  1. Prof. Tracy Pearl presented a new film series called Lights, Camera, Law at the local Alamo Drafthouse. This semester, four films relating to law will be shown followed with a discussion about the topics of law discussed in the film.
  1. On February 14, the Daily Toreador published an article about the new film series Lights, Camera, Law and quoted Prof. Tracy Pearl.
  1. On February 16, 2017, Prof. Beyer was the guest speaker at the February meeting of the South Plains Trust & Estate Council in Lubbock, Texas. His presentation and accompanying article were entitled Intestate Succession: What Every Texas Estate Planner Needs to Know.
  1. On February 21, 2017, Prof. Camp and Victor Thuronyi, wrote an article for Forbes titled Disclosing President Trump’s Tax Returns – An Unconventional Idea, Forbes, the article can be found here.
  1. On February 24, 2017, Prof. Beyer presented a two-hour session entitled Digital Assets, Guns, and Pets: Estate Planning Does Not Include Just Grandma’s Cameo Brooch Anymore, as part of a CFP Continuing Education Program held in conjunction with “Opportunity Days” sponsored by the Texas Tech University Department of Personal Financial Planning.
  1. Prof. Velte was among over 200 law professors and law school clinicians that signed a motion in support of the State of Washington who filed suit against Donald Trump in the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. The motion moves the court for permission to file a brief amici curiae opposing the motion to stay the Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) issued by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.

January 2017 Law Faculty Publications & News

Throughout January 2017, the Law Library’s Faculty Services & Scholarly Communications Department received alerts for full-time TTU Law Faculty publications and news. Below is the compilation of daily alerts for January 1, 2017 to January 31, 2017.

Published:

  1. Gerry W. Beyer, Estate Planning and Probate Law, B.J., (2017).
  2. 9 & 10 Gerry W. Beyer, Texas Practice: Texas Law of Wills (4th 2016-2017).
  3. Gerry W. Beyer, Transfer of Death Deeds: A Texas Primer, Lubbock Law Notes, Dec. 2016, at 1.
  4. Gerry W. Beyer & Brooke Dacus, Estate Planning for Mary Jane and Other Marijuana Users, Plan. Dev. for Tex. Prof., Jan. 2017, at 1.
  5. Gerry W. Beyer, Texas Trust Law – Cases and Materials (3rd 2017).
  6. Tracy Hresko Pearl, Far from The Madding Crowd: A Statutory Solution to Crowd Crush, Hastings Law Journal, 68 Hastings L.J. 159 (2016).
  7. Brie D. Sherwin, Organochlorine Pesticide Residues in Caudal Scutes of Belize Morelet’s Crocodiles (Crocodylus moreletii), Journal of Herpetology 50(4):552-558 (2016).
  8. Brie D. Sherwin, Chocolate, Coca-Cola, and Fracturing Fluid: A Story of Unfettered Secrecy, Toxicology, and the Resulting Public Health Implications of Natural Gas Development, 77 Ohio St. L.J. 593 (2016).
  9. Gerry W. Beyer, Feature: 2016 The Year in Review: Estate Planning and Probate Law, 80 B. J. 28 (2017).
  10. Eric A. Chiappinelli, Jurisdiction Over Directors and Officers in Delaware, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, Dec. 2017.

Cited:

  1. Professor Murphy’s article Abandoning Standing: Trading a Rule of Access for a Rule of Deference was cited in the following article: Alexander Tom, Standing in a Federal Agency’s Shoes: Should Third-Party Action Affect Redressability under the National Environmental Policy Act?, 43 Ecology L.Q. 337 (2016).
  1. Professor Metze’s article, Plugging the School to Prison Pipeline by Addressing Cultural Racism in Public Education Discipline, was cited in: Sarah E. Redfield and Jason P. Nance, American Bar Association: Joint Task Force on Reversing the School-to-Prison Pipeline, 47 Mem. L. Rev. 1 (2016).
  1. Professor Loewy’s article Statutory Rape in a Post Lawrence v. Texas World was cited in: Dr. Anna High, Good, Bad and Wrongful Juvenile Sex: Rethinking the Use of Statutory Rape Laws Against the Protected Class, 69 L. Rev. 787 (2017).
  1. Professor Batra’s article Judicial Participation in Plea Bargaining: A Dispute Resolution Perspective was cited in: Nancy J. King & Ronald F. Wright, The Invisible Revolution in Plea Bargaining: Managerial Judging and Judicial Participation in Negotiations, 95 L. Rev. 325 (2016).
  1. Professor Velte’s article Egging on Lesbian Maternity: The Legal Implications of Tri-Gametic in Vitro Fertilization was cited in: Deborah Zalesne, The Intersection of Contract Law, Reproductive Technology, and the Market: Families in the Age of Art, 51 Rich. L. Rev. 419 (2017).
  1. Professor Casto’s articleThe Federal Courts’ Protective Jurisdiction Over Torts Committed in Violation of the Law of Nations was cited in: Dustin Cooper, Aliens Among Us: Factors to Determine Whether Corporations Should Face Prosecution in U.S. Courts for Their Actions Overseas, 77 L. Rev. 513 (2016).
  1. Dean Torres’,Is Link Rot Destroying Stare DecisisaAs We Know It? The Internet-Citation Practice of the Texas Appellate Courts was cited in: Lee F. Peoples, Is the Internet Rotting Oklahoma Law?, 52 Tulsa L. Rev. 1 (2016).
  1. Professor Casto’s article, Advising Presidents: Robert Jackson and the Destroyers for Bases Deal was cited in: Harold Hongju Koh, Triptych’s End: A Better Framework To Evaluate 21st Century International Lawmaking 126 Yale L.J. F. 337 (2017).
  1. Professor Casto’s article, The Federal Courts’ Protective Jurisdiction over Torts Committed in Violation of the Law of Nation was cited in: Lyle D. Kossis, The Define and Punish Clause and the Political Question Doctrine, 68 Hastings L.J. 45 (2016).
  1. Professor Murphy’s & Sidney A. Shapiro, Eight Things Americans Can’t Figure out About Controlling Administrative Power, was cited in: Jud Mathews, Minimally Democratic Administrative Law, 68 L. Rev. 605 (2016).
  1. Professor Metze’s article Death and Texas: The Unevolved Model of Decency, was cited in: Amy L. Greenbaum, The Death Penalty: Mentally Ill Men Are Executed; Mentally Ill Women Are Committed, 42 Marshall L. Rev. Online 1 (2016).
  1. On January 18, 2017 Professor Baker’s blog post AI as Premature Law Librarian Disruptor was cited in a Canadian online legal magazine, Slaw, in a column titled The Magic Ingredient.

Quoted:

  1. Professor Murphy’s & Sidney A. Shapiro, Eight Things Americans Can’t Figure out About Controlling Administrative Power, was quoted in: Aram A. Gavoor & Daniel Miktus, Public Participation in Nonlegislative Rulemaking, 61 L. Rev. 759 (2016).
  1. Professor’s Murphy’s article Measure Twice, Shoot Once, Higher Care for CIA-Targeted Killing, was quoted in: An Thien Tran, A Trifold Regulatory Convergence: Medical-Device Drones Under the Faa, Fda, and State Regimes, 68 Admin. L. Rev. 701 (2016).
  1. On January 21, 2017 Dean Rosen was quoted in a Huffington Post article by Matt Fuller titled, President Trump Just Told The CIA The U.S. Should Have Stolen Iraq’s Oil.
  1. On January 22, 2017 Professor Shannon was quoted in a Victoria Advocate article by Jessica Priest titled, Local Judge Shaped Mental Health law.
  1. Professor Beyer was quoted in a January 30, 2017 article titled Fake Will Scheme Puts Camden Real Estate Agent in Hot Water by Mark Friedman published in the Arkansas Business Weekly Journal.

News:

  1. On December 15, 2016, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer was notified that he was reappointed as Chair of the State Laws Committee of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, a nonprofit association of lawyers and law professors skilled and experienced in the preparation of wills and trusts; estate planning; and probate procedure and administration of trusts and estates of decedents, minors and incompetents. Its more than 2,700 members practice throughout the United States, Canada and other foreign countries.
  1. Professor Soonpa and Professor Beyer were part of the Blogger Panel during the AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco on, the program was titled “Building and Sustaining Academic Communities Through Blogging and Other Tools.”
  1. Professor Chiappinelli was invited back as a Guest Blogger on PrawfsBlawg for the month of January, he contributed 6 blog posts.
  1. On January 10, 2017, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer was the speaker at the January meeting of the Siouxland Estate Planning Council in Sioux City, Iowa. Prof. Beyer’s presentation was titled “Planning for Digital Assets” was attended by estate planning professionals from the tri-state area of Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota.
  1. The fifth edition of Prof. Beyer’s 10.5-hour discussion of Wills and Trusts was recently released by West Academic Publishing as parts of its Sum +Substance CD Series.
  1. Professor Beyer’s Feature: 2016 The Year in Review: Estate Planning and Probate Law was listed highlighted article by the Texas Bar Journal Board of Editors.
  1. On January 5, 2017, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer was a panelist at the AALS Annual Meeting for an “AALS Arc of Career Program” titled Building and Sustaining Academic Communities Through Blogging and Other Tools. Beyer shared his experiences as being the editor of the Wills, Trusts, & Estates Prof Blog since he started it in 2005. His blog was five times named as part of the ABA’s Blawg 100 and was inducted into the ABA’s Blawg 100 Hall of Fame in 2015.  His blog is the most popular estate planning blog in the nation and is the 22nd most popular blawg overall.
  1. Professor Beyer’s presentation to the Tarrant County Bar Association—Fort Worth Business & Estate Section on Nov. 17, 2016 Cyber Estate Planning and Administration was cited in: Marvin Blum, Filling in the Gaps, Wealth Management, January 26, 2017.