Regent Law News

Delegate Tom Fast (Law ’93) has been representing the 32nd District of West Virginia in the West Virginia House of Delegates since 2015. Against towering odds, Fast was elected in 2014 as the first Republican representative in Fayette County in 86 years and was reelected to a second term in 2016. Since 2015, Tom has served on multiple committees in the State House, starting in the Judicial Committee and being promoted to Chairman of the Industry and Labor Committee and Co-Chairman of the Jails and Prisons Committee. He has been proud to be a co-sponsor on a number of successful bills, including a few pro-life bills that passed despite significant opposition. His current success in office has been the result of many years of perseverance. He ran for State Senate in 1998 and State House in 2000 and 2002 without success. But, this time, he could feel things would be different. Despite the adversity that he knew running again could bring, Tom remembers it hitting him when he woke up on

Dean Michael Hernandez appeared on CBN Newswatch discussing the Masterpiece Cakeshop victory at the Supreme Court, where the lead attorneys were Regent Law alumni.  See http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2018/june/supreme-court-colorado-ridiculed-jack-phillips-faith .  Professor James Davids just posted The Role of Worldview in the Judicial Decisions of Justice John Paul Stevens , 11 Liberty U. L. Rev. 723 (2017) on SSRN.com.  * Professor Tom Folsom was in the top 10% of downloads on SSRN for the month of May.  Download his papers at http://bitly.com/folsompublications . * _______________________________________________ *  Publications available to view and download for free.

Prof. Jeffrey Brauch just uploaded new pieces to SSRN: ·        The Dean and Family Life . *   ·        The Law School Special Event: Lessons Learned in our 20th Year . *   ·        Commemorative Address: Celebrating 25 Years of God’s Faithfulness , 25 Regent L. Rev. 109 (2011-12). *   ·        The Student-Faculty Retreat , 35 U. Toledo L. Rev. (2003). ·        Why the Journal of International Law at Regent University?   *   ·        Why I Must Teach , 34 U. Toledo L. Rev. (2002). *   The Journal of Global Justice and Public Policy is now on SSRN! ·        Prof. Jeffrey Brauch’s Introduction to the Journal of Global Justice and Public Policy , 1 J. Global Justice & Pub. Pol’y 1 (2014). *   ·        Stay tuned for articles written by current students and Regent Law alumni. Prof. Harry Hutchison just uploaded a new piece to SSRN: ·        Chasing Shadows: the Economic and Noneconomic Thrust of BDS , published in Cardozo Law’s 1 Int’l. Comparative, Pol’y