The faculty at the University of Missouri School of Law research, publish and teach in a wide variety of disciplines of the law. Where possible, the Law Library has provided open access to this body of work.
Submissions from 2011
Impeding Reentry: Agency and Judicial Obstacles to Longer Halfway House Placements, S. David Mitchell
Citizenship Under Fire: The Forging of the New Americans, Shruti Rana
Airspace in a Green Economy, Troy A. Rule
Consumer Casualties, Amy J. Schmitz
Arbitration Ambush in a Policy Polemic, Amy J. Schmitz
Rethinking Discrimination Law, Sandra F. Sperino
Jurisdictional Discovery in Transnational Litigation: Extraterritorial Effects of United States Federal Practice, S. I. Strong
Health Inflation, Wealth Inflation, and the Discounting of Human Life, Ben L. Trachtenberg
Lies, Honor, and the Government’s Good Name: Seditious Libel and the Stolen Valor Act, Christina E. Wells
Preemption & the Regulatory Paradigm in the Roberts Court, Christina E. Wells, William E. Marcantel, and Dave Winters
Submissions from 2010
Judges and Their Editors, Douglas E. Abrams
Sports in the Courts: How Sports References Strengthen Written Advocacy and Judicial Opinions (Part I), Douglas E. Abrams
Sports in the Courts: How Sports References Strengthen Written Advocacy and Judicial Opinions (Part II), Douglas E. Abrams
Sports in the Courts: the Role of Sports References in Judicial Opinions, Douglas E. Abrams
What Great Writers Can Teach Lawyers and Judges: Wisdom from Plato to Mark Twain to Stephen King (Part 1), Douglas E. Abrams
A Primer on Child Abuse and Neglect Law, Douglas E. Abrams and Sarah H. Ramsey
Debacle: How the Supreme Court Has Mangled American Sentencing Law And How It Might Yet Be Mended, Frank O. Bowman III
Prolegomenon on the Status of the Hopey, Changey Thing in American Criminal Justice, Frank O. Bowman III
Lessons in Price Stability from the U.S. Real Estate Market Collapse, Andrea Boyack
A Reappraisal of Attorneys' Fees in Bankruptcy, Michelle A. Cecil
An Empirical Study of the Role of the Written Description Requirement in Patent Prosecution, Dennis D. Crouch
Book Review: Reviewing Part III of Innovation for the 21st Century: Harnessing the Power of Intellectual Property and Antitrust Law, Dennis D. Crouch
Operating Efficiently Post-Bilski by Ordering Patent Doctrine Decision-Making, Dennis D. Crouch and Robert P. Merges
Uniformity, Inferiority, and the Law of the Circuit Doctrine, Martha Dragich
Disclose - Disclose - Disclose - Longmeyer Distorts the Trustee's Duty to Inform Trust Beneficiaries, David M. English, Berry T. Turney, and Dana G. Fitzsimons Jr.
Panel Discussion at "Signs of the Times: The First Amendment and Religious Symbolism", Carl H. Esbeck
Taxpayer Standing From Flast to Hein, Carl H. Esbeck
Plurality of Political Opinion and the Concentration of Media in the United States, William B. Fisch
Foreclosure by Arbitration?, R. Wilson Freyermuth
Private Transfer Fee Covenants: Cleaning Up The Mess, R. Wilson Freyermuth
Putting the Brakes on Private Transfer Fee Covenants, R. Wilson Freyermuth
Preventing State Budget Crises: Managing the Fiscal Volatility Problem, David Gamage
Managing Fiscal Volatility by Redefining "Tax Cuts" and "Tax Hikes", David Gamage and Jeremy Bearer-Friend
Minimizing the Harm of State Fiscal Volatility, David Gamage and Jeremy Bearer-Friend
Understanding Card-Check Organizing: The Public Sector Experience, Rafael Gely and Timothy D. Chandler
Educating the United States Supreme Court at Summers' School: A Lesson on the "Special Character of the Animal", Rafael Gely, Ramona L. Paetzold, and Leonard Bierman
The Supreme Court and the Sophisticated Use of DIGS, Rafael Gely and Michael E. Solimine
A Decision-Theoretic Rule of Reason for Minimum Resale Price Maintenance, Thom Lambert
Before You Take a Collaborative Law Case, John M. Lande
Helping Good Lawyers Help Clients Make Good Decisions about Dispute Resolution, John M. Lande
Collaborative Lawyers' Duties to Screen the Appropriateness of Collaborative Law and Obtain Clients' Informed Consent to Use Collaborative Law, John M. Lande and Forrest Steven Mosten
The Potential Contribution of ADR to an Integrated Curriculum: Preparing Law Students for Real World Lawyering, John M. Lande and Jean R. Sternlight
Unofficial Legislative History of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act 2009, An, Erika Lietzan, Krista Hessler Carver, and Jeffrey Elikan
Thoughts on Preemption in the Wake of the Levine Decision, Erika Lietzan and Sarah E. Pitlyk
The Future of Music: Reconfiguring Public Performance Rights, Gary Myers and George Howard
Discriminatory Housing Advertisements On-Line: Lessons from Craigslist, Rigel C. Oliveri
ADR and the Rule of Law: Making the Connection, Richard C. Reuben
Renewable Energy and the Neighbors, Troy A. Rule
Shadows on the Cathedral: Solar Access Laws in a Different Light, Troy A. Rule
‘Drive-Thru’ Arbitration in the Digital Age: Empowering Consumers Through Regulated ODR, Amy J. Schmitz
Legislating in the Light: Considering Empirical Data in Crafting Arbitration Reforms, Amy J. Schmitz
Pizza-Box Contracts: True Tales of Consumer Contracting Culture, Amy J. Schmitz
A Modern Theory of Direct Corporate Liability for Title VII, Sandra F. Sperino
The New Calculus of Punitive Damages for Employment Discrimination Cases, Sandra F. Sperino
From Class to Collective: The De-Americanization of Class Arbitration, S. I. Strong
Jurisdictional Discovery in United States Federal Courts, S. I. Strong
Coconspirators, “Coventurers,” and the Exception Swallowing the Hearsay Rule, Ben L. Trachtenberg
Forward: Symposium on Broke and Broken: Can We Fix Our State Indigent Defense System?, Rodney J. Uphoff
Abolishing the Missing-Claim Rule for Judicial Cancellations, Ryan Vacca
Regulating Offensiveness: Snyder v. Phelps, Emotion, and the First Amendment, Christina E. Wells
State Secrets & Executive Accountability, Christina E. Wells
Submissions from 2009
But 'Will it Write'? How Writing Sharpens Decision-Making, Douglas E. Abrams
How Not to Seek an Award of Attorney's Fees, Douglas E. Abrams
Legal Writing: Sense and Nonsense, Douglas E. Abrams
Trading in the Marketplace of Ideas: Letters-to-the-Editor and Op-Ed Articles (Part II), Douglas E. Abrams
Stories of Crime, Trials, and Appeals in Civil War Era Missouri, Frank O. Bowman III
The Phases and Faces of the Duke Lacrosse Controversy: A Conversation, James E. Coleman, Angela Davis, K.C. Johnson, and Lyrissa Lidsky
Is Novelty Obsolete? Chronicling the Irrelevance of the Invention Date in U.S. Patent Law, Dennis D. Crouch
Nil: The Value of Patents in a Major Crisis Such as an Influenza Pandemic, Dennis D. Crouch
Forward: Sandra Day O'Connor, Earl F. Nelson, and State Judicial Selection and Retention Systems, R. Lawrence Dessem
Longmeyer Exposes or Creates Uncertainty about the Duty to Inform Remainder Beneficiaries of a Revocable Trust, David M. English, Turney P. Berry, and Dana G. Fitzsimons Jr.
Protestant Dissent and the Virginia Disestablishment, 1776-1786, Carl H. Esbeck
Why the Supreme Court has Fashioned Rules of Standing Unique to the Establishment Clause, Carl H. Esbeck
Federal and State Judicial Selection in an Interest Group Perspective, Rafael Gely and Michael E. Solimine
Participation and the Right to Health: Lessons from Indonesia, Sam F. Halabi
Dr. Miles is Dead. Now What?: Structuring a Rule of Reason for Minimum Resale Price Maintenance, Thom Lambert
A Middle Ground on Insider Trading, Thomas A. Lambert
Learning from Cooperative Negotiators in Wisconsin, John M. Lande
The Uniform Collaborative Law Act's Contribution to Informed Client Decision Making in Choosing a Dispute Resolution Process, John M. Lande and Forrest Steven Mosten
Anonymity in Cyberspace: What Can We Learn from John Doe?, Lyrissa Lidsky
Nobody's Fools: The Rational Audience as First Amendment Ideal, Lyrissa Lidsky
A New History and Discussion of 180-Day Exclusivity, Erika Lietzan, David E. Korn, and Shaw W. Scott
In With the New, Out With the Old: Expanding the Scope of Retroactive Amelioration, S. David Mitchell
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Landlords, Latinos, Anti-Illegal Immigrant Ordinances, and Housing Discrimination, Rigel C. Oliveri
"Streamlining" the Rule of Law: How the Department of Justice is Undermining Judicial Review of Agency Action, Shruti Rana
Personal Autonomy and Vacatur After Hall Street, Richard C. Reuben
The Impact of News Coverage on Conflict: Toward Greater Understanding, Richard C. Reuben
A Downwind View of the Cathedral: Using Rule Four to Allocate Wind Rights, Troy A. Rule
Nonconsensual Nonbinding = Nonsensical? Reconsidering Court-Connected Arbitration Programs, Amy J. Schmitz
Research in International Commercial Arbitration: Special Skills, Special Sources, S. I. Strong
Submissions from 2008
America's Founding Editors, Douglas E. Abrams
It's A Blessing, Douglas E. Abrams
Plain-English Drafting for the 'Age of Statutes', Douglas E. Abrams
Trading in the Marketplace of Ideas: Letters-to-the-Editor and Op-Ed Articles (Part I), Douglas E. Abrams
We are the Products of Editing, Douglas E. Abrams
Services as Capital Contributions: Understanding Kovacik v. Reed, Royce de R. Barondes