Associate Dean Bradley Jacob presented “The Curse of Voting? Unintended Consequences of the 17th Amendment” on Thursday, March 24, 2022, at Dinsmore & Shohl LLP in San Diego, CA.
Professor Jim Duane will be presenting at the Fed Soc chapter of the Idaho Lawyers “Tearing Down the Walls that Keep American Jurors in the Dark,” on April 20, 2022.
Recent academic work of the Robertson Center for Constitutional Law includes several updates. Associate Dean Brad Lingo and Professor Mike Schietzelt have just posted to SSRN their most recent paper, “What Lord of the Rings Can Teach the Supreme Court About Abortion.” It’s available here. They have also placed their most recent full-length article, “A Second-Class First Amendment Right? Text, Structure, and Free Exercise After Fulton,” in the Wake Forest Law Review. It will be published in September and can be downloaded here.
Additionally, Associate Dean Lingo’s review of Judge Kenneth Starr’s most recent book, “Relieving the Crisis in Religious Liberty: Book Review of Religious Liberty in Crisis, Exercising Your Faith in an Era of Uncertainty,” which was published earlier this year in the Regent University Law Review, remains in SSRN’s “Top Ten” list for the Law & Religion eJournal. It can be downloaded here.
Professor Ben Madison’s author page with the Washington & Lee University School of Law Scholarly Commons had 25 new downloads just in March of 2022 across the 4 papers he has listed there, for a total of 623 downloads on that page alone.
Professor Lynne Marie Kohm’s paper, "THE INTERSECTIONALITY OF RACE AND CLASS IN BIOETHICS," as recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: NursingRN: Racial Issues (Topic) Top Ten.
Professor Lou Hensler’s latest article, “New York Times v. Sullivan Transformed American Defamation Law From Thumper’s Rule to Incented Obloquy,” which you can download on SSRN, was featured by The ALI Adviser on April 6.
Professor Lynne Marie Kohm’s paper with Ukrainian social scientist Irina Chekhovska, "CHILD POLICY & NATIONAL STRENGTH: RESTORING UKRAINE IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE CHILD," which you can download at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3167502, was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: SIRN: IDA (Families with Children) (Sub-Topic) Top Ten.
Professor Sandra Alcaide’s now has work posted to her SSRN Author page.