The Reporter: Law Library News and Information

In August 2025, the Law Library added the following new titles to the collection to support the research and curricular needs of our faculty and students.

CIVIL RIGHTS, GENERALLY

Schroeder, Jarad, The Structure of Ideas: Mapping a New Theory of Free Expression in the AI Era (2024).

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, GENERALLY

Schriss, William J., Six Constitutions over Texas: Texas’ Political Identity, 1830-1900 (2024).

ENERGY AND UTILITIES LAW

Ferrey, Steven, Powering the Future: A Lawyer’s Guide to Clean Energy (2024).

HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

Forret, Jeff, The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War (2024).

JURISPRUDENCE

Sadowski, Miroslaw Michal, Intersections of Law and Memory: Influencing Perceptions of the Past (2024.

Newman, Jon O. and Marin K. Levy, Written and Unwritten: The Rules, Internal Procedures, and Customs of the United States Courts of Appeals (2024).

LAW ENFORCEMENT

Memmel, Scott, Pressing the Police and Policing the Press: The History and Law of the U.S. Press-Police Relationship (2024).

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE

Novak, Marko, The Logic of Legal Argumentation: Multi-Modal Perspectives (2024).

SPORTS

Long, Alex B., Professional Wrestling and the Law: Legal Battles from the Ring to the Courtroom (2024).

WATER LAW

Robison, Jason Anthony, Law of Water Rights and Resources (2025).

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.

In July 2025, 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

Summer, Andy, Migration in the Law of Damages (2025).

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, GENERALLY

Pozen, David, The Constitution of the War on Drugs (2024).

Turley, Jonathan, The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in An Age of Rage (2024).

CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE

Monaghan, Nicola, Contemporary Challenges in the Jury System: A Comparative Perspective (2025).

ECONOMICS

Sekera, June A., The Public Economy in Crisis: A Call for a New Public Economics (2016).

INSURANCE LAW

Richmond, Douglas R. and Samuel J. Arena, Jr., The Insurer’s Duty to Defend: Issues and Analysis (2024).

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

Barnett, Jonathan M., The Big Steal: Ideology, Interest, and the Undoing of Intellectual Property (2024).

LEGAL EDUCATION

Abrams, Jamie R., Inclusive Socratic Teaching: Why Law Schools Need It and How to Achieve It (2024).

LEGISLATION

Pressman, Heather, An Accessible Past: Making Historic Sites Accessible (2024).

Guard, Louis H. and Joyce P. Jacobsen, All the Campus Lawyers: Litigation, Regulation, and the New Era of Higher Education (2024).

MILITARY, WAR, AND PEACE

Hamm, Scott Dale, Taming America’s Warriors: Assessing U.S. Military Discipline and Responses to Law of War Violations, 1943-2006 (2025).

Dominguez, Casey B.K., Commander in Chief: Partisanship, Nationalism, and the Reconstruction of Congressional War Powers (2024).

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

Robinson, Sir James Gray, A Comprehensive Guide to Wellness in Law (2024).

PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

Kaufman, Whitley R.P., Beyond Legal Positivism: The Moral Authority of Law (2023).

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.

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

Articles, Books, and More

1. Gerry W. Beyer, Estate Planning Lessons from the Texas Courts, Est. Plan. Dev. for Tex. Prof., June 2025, at 1.
2. Dajiang Nie, Sharing Legal Research Class Recordings with Your Students, 117 Law Libr. J. 288 (2025).
3. William R. Casto, In Praise of Neagle, 15 J. Nat’l Security L. & Pol’y 155 (2025).
4. Victoria Sutton, Native America: Universities as Quasi-Cities, Sovereignty, and the Power to Name, 11 Am. Indian L.J. 1 (2025).
5. Gerry W. Beyer, ed., Keeping Current—Probate, Prob. & Prop., Jul/Aug. 2025, at 32.

Blogs, Op-Eds, and Newsletters

1. Prof. Sutton published 5 articles on her blog unintended consequences, including titles such as No Disrespecting the Flag, Ebola, with Love, Geoengineering is a Dangerous Game, Who Brought Space Bacteria to Earth? and Altruism, from Animals to Humans.
2. Prof. Camp published 1 article on his blog Lessons from the Tax Court, titled The New Regulation on Supervisory Approval of Penalties.

Citations

1. Prof. Corn’s book National Security Law: Principles and Policy is cited in the following article: Christopher Muhawe, The (In)visible Immigrant’s Privacy, 9 Geo. L. Tech. Rev. 290 (2025).
2. Prof. Camp’s article Tax Administration as Inquisitorial Process and the Partial Paradigm Shift in the IRS Restructuring Reform Act of 1998 is cited in the following article: Susannah Camic Tahk, The Tax Separation of Powers, 78 Tax Law. 167 (2025).
3. Prof. Murphy’s article Arbitrariness Review Made Reasonable: Structural and Conceptual Reform of the “Hard Look” is cited in the following article: Branden Currey, Rationalizing the Administrative Record for Equitable Constitutional Claims, 133 Yale L.J. 2017 (2025).
4. Prof. Murphy’s article The DIY Unitary Executive is cited in the following article: Emily S. Bremer, Presidential Adjudication, 110 Va. L. Rev. 1749 (2025).
5. Prof. Metze’s article Nothing Changes- It All Remains the Same: Modern Capital Punishment (Human Sacrifice by a Different Name) is cited in the following article: John D. Bessler, International Abolitionist Advocacy: The Rise of Global Networks to Advance Human Rights and the Promise of the Worldwide Campaign to Abolish Capital Punishment, 34 Minn. J. Int’l L. 1 (2025).
6. Prof. Beyer’s article Simplification of Inter Vivos Trust Instruments—From Incorporation by Reference to the Uniform Custodial Trust Act and Beyond is cited in §3-715 of the Uniform Probate Code Annotated (July 2025 Update).
7. Prof. Pawlowic’s article Framework for Analysis of Transfer, Assignment, Negotiation, and Transfer by Operation of Law is cited in multiple sections of the Uniform Laws Annotated Uniform Commercial Code (July 2025 Update).
8. Prof. Beyer’s article Don’t Byte Off More Than You Can Chew: Ethical Considerations for the Estate Planner in the World of Generative Artificial Intelligence is cited in the Recent Developments section of Korean Estate, Tax, and Personal Financial Planning (July 2025 Update).
9. Prof. Murphy’s article Punitive Damages, Explanatory Verdict, and the Hard Look is cited in §8:8 of Federal Jury Practice and Instructions (July 2025 Update).
10. Prof. Beyer’s article Sign on the [Electronic] Dotted Line: The Rise of the Electronic Will is cited in the following article: Margaret Isabel Hall, Tina Cockburn, Bridget J. Crawford, Rosie Harding & Kelly Purser, Risks, Benefits, Opportunities, and Electronic Formalities in the Law of Wills: A Comparative Approach, 70 McGill L.J. 139 (2025).
11. Prof. Casto’s article The Early Supreme Court Justices’ Most Significant Opinion is cited in the following article: Joshua J. Schroeder, Courting Oblivion Part III: Enacting a Chelsea Manning Act of Oblivion and Amnesty, 73 Clev. St. L. Rev. 857 (2025).

News

1. On July 2, 2025, Prof. Beyer was the featured presenter for the InterActive Legal Speaker Series. His virtual presentation entitled Artificial Intelligence and the Estate Planner: Resistance is Futile was viewed live by over 400 attendees and the recording of his presentation will be viewed by hundreds more.
2. On July 16, 2025, Prof. Beyer was a co-leader for the AALS Trusts & Estates Section online discussion forum entitled T&E and the NextGen Bar.
3. Prof. Beyer was recently reappointed as the American Bar Association’s Probate and Property Magazine editor for the Keeping Current — Probate column. Prof. Beyer has held this position since 1992.
4. In May of this year, Prof. Valastro presented a work in progress, Defined Contribution Plans as Contracts, at the 2025 University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law Developing Ideas Conference. Also in May, she presented another project at the 12th Annual Governance of Emerging Technologies & Science Conference. The resulting paper, Regulating Retirement Savings Roulette: A Framework for Evaluating Prudence of Cryptocurrency Investments in 401(k)s, was accepted for publication in 63 San Diego Law Review, Vol. 1 (2026).

Throughout the month of June, the Law Library received alerts for full-time TTU Law Faculty publications and news. Below is a compilation of those daily alerts for June 1st to June 30th, 2025.

Articles, Books, and More

1. Geoffrey S. Corn & Tyler R. Smotherman, Improving Compliance with International Humanitarian Law in an Era of Maneuver War and Mission Command, 78 SMU L. Rev. 3 (2025).

Blogs, Op-Eds, and Newsletters

1. Prof. Sutton published 5 articles on her blog unintended consequences, including titles such as The Other Slavery, Federal Courts Left (Not) to Protect Sacred Sites, Is Agroterrosism the Next Disaster, National Guard and its Two Heads, and The Military and Civilians.
2. Prof. Camp published 1 article on his blog Lessons from the Tax Court, titled The Key Word in “Net Operating Loss”.
3. Prof. Corn published an article alongside co-authors Claire Finkelstein and Orde Kittrie titled Why Trump Didn’t Have to Ask Congress Before Striking Iran in The Washington Post.

Quotations

1. Prof. Corn is quoted in the following article: Drew Goins, Still no certainty on Iran, if you can believe, The Washington Post (June 24, 2025; 9:00am).
2. Prof. Hardberger is quoted in the following article: Danielle Salazar, Talking Points: KAMC’s Jen Phillips speaks with Lieutenant Gov. Dan Patrick, Everything Lubbock (June 15, 2025; 5:28pm).

Citations

1. Prof. Murphy’s book Administrative Law and Practice is cited in the following article: Gwyneth Tefft, Proposed Rule 3b-16: The Sec’s Attempt To Change Definition of ““Exchange” Under the Exchange Act Of 1934 Provides Lessons For a New Era of Crypto Regulation, 35 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 833 (2025).
2. Prof. Murphy’s article Arbitrariness Review Made Reasonable: Structural and Conceptual Reform of the “Hard Look” is cited in the following article: Yotam Kaplan, Adi Libson, Gideon Parchomovsky, The Renaissance of Private Law, 119 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1427 (2025).
3. Prof. Casto’s article James Iredell and the American Origins of Judicial Review is cited in the following article: Charles Thelen Plambeck, The Constitutional History of the North Carolina Free Elections Clause, 103 N.C. L. Rev. 1143 (2025).
4. Prof. Beyer’s book Teaching Materials on Estate Planning (4^th) is cited in the following article: William A. Drennan, R.I.P. – A Financial Incentive to Protect Your Cadaver?, 129 Penn St. L. Rev. 667 (2025).
5. Prof. Pawlowic’s article Framework for Analysis of Transfer, Assignment, Negotiation, and Transfer by Operation of Law is cited in multiple sections of the Uniform Laws Annotated Uniform Commercial Code (June 2025 Update).
6. Prof. Beyer’s article Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Creating an Estate Plan is cited in the following article: Agnieszka McPeak, AI, Ethics, and Augmented Lawyering, 56 U. Tol. L. Rev. 301 (2025).
7. Prof. Casto’s article Governmental Liability for Constitutional Torts: Proposals to Amend the Federal Tort Claims Act is cited in the following article: Audrey C. Burton, The Fine Print of Protection: Governmental Immunity in South Carolina, 76 S.C. L. Rev. 481 (2025).
8. Prof. Corn’s article Clinton, Kosovo, and the Final Destruction of the War Powers Resolution is cited in the following article: Zach Irwin, Unraveling the War Powers Resolution’s Role in Cyber Warfare, 82 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 915 (2025).
9. Prof. Casto’s article The Federal Courts’ Protective Jurisdiction Over Torts Committed in Violation of the Law of Nations is cited in the following article: Michael S. Cecil, Law as Integrity and the Alien Tort Statute, 38 Harv. Hum. Rts. J. 1 (2025).
10. Prof. Camp’s article The Play’s the Thing: A Theory of Taxing Virtual Worlds is cited in the following article: Jeffrey A. Maine, Virtual Currency as Real Currency, 17 Drexel L. Rev. 763 (2025).
11. Prof. Murphy’s article Arbitrariness Review Made Reasonable: Structural and Conceptual Reform of the “Hard Look” is cited in the following article: Todd Phillips, The Supreme Court’s Assault on Rulemakings, 74 DePaul L. Rev. 1217 (2025).
12. Prof. Brie Sherwin’s articles After the Storm: The Importance of Acknowledging Environmental Justice in Sustainable Development and Disaster Preparedness and Regulating Coal Ash Waste in the Trump Era are cited in the following article: Jehan El-Jourbagy, Elissa Underwood Marek, Jeff Todd, Preventing Disaster Through Corporate-Community Agreements, 103 Or. L. Rev. 429 (2025).
13. Prof. Beyer’s article The Will Execution Ceremony- History, Significance, and Strategies is cited in the following article: Milton J. Hernandez, IV, Louisiana’s Notarial Will: A Case for Simplification of the Signature and Attestation Clause Form Requirements, 99 Tul. L. Rev. 713 (2025).
14. Prof. Beyer’s article Videotape and the Probate Process: The Nexus Grows is cited in §14:14 of Will Contests 2^nd (June 2025 Update).
15. Prof. Corn’s article “Light Him Up”: Addressing the Dangerous Intersection of Traffic Stops and Consent is cited in the following article: Warren Buff, Brandon Hasbrouck, Policing as General Warrants, 173 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1735 (2025).
16. Prof. Beyer’s article Preparing a Will for a Client with Communication Challenges is cited in the following article: Autumn Watterson, Silent Voices, Loud Justice: Ensuring Equal Access to Legal Services for Deaf, [D]eaf, and Hard of Hearing Individuals, 17 Est. Plan. & Community Prop. L.J. 415 (2025).
17. Prof. Murphy’s article Enhancing the Role of Public Interest Organizations in Rulemaking via Pre-Notice Transparency is cited in the following article: William Vester, Turning Square Corners: Regents and Arbitrary-And-Capricious Review’s Distributional Stakes, 134 Yale L.J. 2182 (2025).
18. Prof. Rosen’s article Funding “Non-Traditional” Military Operations: The Alluring Myth of a Presidential Power of the Purse is cited in the following article: John D. Bessler, Lost and Found: The Forgotten Origins of the “Cruel and Unusual Punishments” Prohibition, 14 Brit. J. Am. Legal Stud. 213 (2025).

News

1. On May 30, 2025, Prof. Arrington presented Beyond the Basics: Elevating Legal Research Analysis for the AI and NextGen Bar Era at the Capital Area Legal Writing Conference in Washington, DC.
2. On June 4, 2025, Prof. Hardberger, as part of her work as a leadership team member of the Texas Tech Produced Water Consortium, received two new grants to continue ongoing work for the beneficial reuse of desalinated produced water, and to collaborate with Abilene Christian University and Natural Resources to prepare for commercial deployment of co-locating a nuclear power plant with a thermal desalination plant for desalinating hypersaline produced water in the Permian Basin.
3. On June 4, 2025, Prof. Beyer served as the lead-off speaker for the three-day Advanced Estate Planning & Probate course sponsored by TexasBarCLE in San Antonio, TX. To an audience of approximately 300 Texas attorneys, Prof. Beyer discussed recent Texas judicial developments relating to intestate succession, wills, estate administration, trusts, and related estate planning areas.
4. On June 12, 2025, Prof. Beyer was a speaker at the 59^th Annual Midwest Estate, Tax, & Business Planning Institute in Indianapolis, Indiana. His presentation was entitled Estate Planning for Cyber Property: Electronic Communications, Cryptocurrency, Non-Fungible Tokens, and the Metaverse.
5. On June 14, 2025, Prof. Beyer was the keynote speaker at the 45th Annual Estate Planning Retreat hosted by the Trust and Estate Section of the Colorado Bar Association in Vail, Colorado. To an audience of approximately 250 Colorado attorneys, Prof. Beyer spoke about Estate Planning for Cyber Property: Electronic Communications, Cryptocurrency, Non-Fungible Tokens, and the Metaverse.
6. From June 18-21, 2025, Prof. Beyer attended the summer meeting of the American College of Trust & Estate Counsel in Montreal. During the meeting, he spoke at several Committee meetings including giving presentations on recent developments in artificial intelligence and Texas developments in the estate planning area. He also chaired the Academic Membership Committee, co-chaired the Legal Education Committee, and served as a judge of the Mary Moers Wenig Student Writing Competition.
7. On June 24 and 26, 2025, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer was a virtual speaker for the 59^th Short Course on Estate Planning sponsored by The Center for American and International Law. His topics and accompanying articles included: Anticipating Will Contests and How to Avoid Them, Fiduciary Selection, and Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on Today’s Estate Planner.

New Books

In June 2025, the Law Library added the following new titles to the collection to support the research and curricular needs of our faculty and students.

BANKING AND FINANCE

Pratt, Shannon P., Shannon Pratt’s The Lawyer’s Business Valuation Handbook: Understanding Financial Statements, Appraisal Reports, and Expert Testimony (2024).

BIOGRAPHY

Barnes, Rhae Lynn and Catherine Clinton, Roe v. Wade: Fifty Years After (2024).

CIVIL RIGHTS, GENERALLY

Hook, Sarah, Moral Rights, Creativity, and Copyright Law: The Death of the Transformative Author (2024).

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, GENERALLY

Balkin, J.M., Memory and Authority: The Uses of History in Constitutional Interpretation (2024).

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

Spier, Jaap, Climate Litigation in a Changing World (2023).

HEALTH LAW AND POLICY

Fishman, Joel, and Brian Dean Abramson, Vaccine Law: A Legal Research Guide (2024).

HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

Vitale, David, Trust, Courts, and Social Rights: A Trust-Based Framework for Social Rights Enforcement (2024).

INFORMATION PRIVACY

Steel, John and Julian Petley, The Routledge Companion to Freedom of Expression and Censorship (2024).

INTERNATIONAL LAW

Powers, Allison, Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law (2024).

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE

Sharma, Kavita and Padmavati Manchikanti, Artificial Intelligence in Drug Development: Patenting and Regulatory Aspects (2024).

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

Garfinkle, Marc D., $olo Contendere: How to go directly from Law School into the Practice of Law without Getting a Job (2024).

PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

Pina, Thiadora, Critical Lawyering Skills: A Path to Professional Identity (2025).

SPORTS

Anderson, Christopher B. and Courtney Selby, Sports Betting: A Legal Research Guide (2024).

TORTS

Domino, John C. The Right to Privacy in Texas: From Common Law Origins to 21^st Century Protections (2024).

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.