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 2008
Sentencing High-Loss Corporate Insider Frauds After Booker, Frank O. Bowman III
The Sounds of Silence: American Criminal Justice Policy in Election Year 2008, Frank O. Bowman III
The Patent Lottery: Exploiting Behavioral Economics for the Common Good, Dennis D. Crouch
Knowing Which Deanship is the Right One, R. Lawrence Dessem
Maybe Deaning is Not for You, R. Lawrence Dessem
The 60th Anniversary of the Everson Decision and America's Church-State Proposition, Carl H. Esbeck
The Application of RFRA to Override Employment Nondiscrimination Clauses Embedded in Federal Social Services Programs, Carl H. Esbeck
What the Hein Decision Can Tell Us About the Roberts Court and the Establishment Clause, Carl H. Esbeck
Managing California's Fiscal Roller Coaster, David Gamage
Card Check Recognition: New House Rules for Union Organizing?, Rafael Gely and Timothy D. Chandler
Four Lessons from the Whole Foods Case, Thom Lambert
Antitrust (Over-?) Confidence, Thom Lambert and Joshua D. Wright
An Appreciation of Marc Galanter's Scholarship, John M. Lande
Developing Better Lawyers and Lawyering Practices: Introduction to the Symposium on Innovative Models of Lawyering, John M. Lande
Practical Insights From an Empirical Study of Cooperative Lawyers in Wisconsin, John M. Lande
The Movement Toward Early Case Handling in Courts and Private Dispute Resolution, John M. Lande
Where's the Harm?: Free Speech and the Regulation of Lies, Lyrissa Lidsky
Nanoethics'? What's New?, Paul J. Litton
Non-Beneficial Pediatric Research and the Best Interest Standard: A Reconciliation, Paul J. Litton
Non-Beneficial Pediatric Research and the Best Interest Standard: A Reconciliation, Paul J. Litton
Responsibility Status of the Psychopath: On Moral Reasoning and Rational Self-Governance, Paul J. Litton
Is Acquisition Everything? Protecting the Rights of Occupants Under the Fair Housing Act, Rigel C. Oliveri
Health Courts?, Philip G. Peters Jr.
Resuscitating Hospital Enterprise Liability, Philip G. Peters Jr.
From Making Money Without Doing Evil to Doing Good Without Handouts: The Google.org Experiment in Philanthropy, Shruti Rana
Confronting ADR Agreements' Contract/No-Contract Conundrum with Good Faith, Amy J. Schmitz
Curing Consumer Warranty Woes Through Regulated Arbitration, Amy J. Schmitz
Embracing Unconscionability’s Safety Net Function, Amy J. Schmitz
Ethical Considerations in Drafting and Enforcing Consumer Arbitration Clauses, Amy J. Schmitz
Complying with Export Laws without Importing Discrimination Liability: At Attempt to Integrate Employment Discrimination Laws and the Deemed Export Rules, Sandra F. Sperino
The "Disappearing Dilemma": Why Agency Principles Should Now Take Center Stage in Retaliation Cases, Sandra F. Sperino
Enforcing Class Arbitration in the International Sphere: Due Process and Public Policy Concerns, S. I. Strong
Viewing Virtual Property Ownership through the Lens of Innovation, Ryan Vacca
Privacy and Funeral Protests, Christina E. Wells
Submissions from 2007
The Right to a Reader, Douglas E. Abrams
The Writer's Theater, Douglas E. Abrams
Those Pesky Footnotes - Part I, Douglas E. Abrams
Those Pesky Footnotes - Part II, Douglas E. Abrams
Top 10 Stories You Probably Missed: Respect Brings Out the Best in Kids and Parents, Douglas E. Abrams
Fiduciary Duties in Distressed Corporations: Second-Generation Issues, Royce de R. Barondes
A National Putative Father Registry, Wells Conference on Adoption Law, Mary M. Beck
Investigating the Justice System Response to Domestic Violence in Missouri, Mary M. Beck, Brandi L. Byrd, M. Meghan Davidson, Niels C. Beck, and Gregory F. Petroski
American Buffalo: Vanishing Acquittals and the Gradual Extinction of the Federal Criminal Trial Lawyer, Frank O. Bowman III
A Tribute to Roger Groot, Frank O. Bowman III
Authorship, Audiences, and Anonymous Speech, Thomas F. Cotter and Lyrissa Lidsky
When Accommodations for Religion Violate the Establishment Clause: Regularizing the Supreme Court's Analysis, Carl H. Esbeck
Why Mortgagors Can't Get No Satisfaction, R. Wilson Freyermuth
The Law and Economics of Identity, Rafael Gely
Social Isolation and American Workers: Employee "Blogging" and Legal Reform, Rafael Gely and Leonard Bierman
Life, Health, and Disability Insurance: Understanding the Relationships, Robert H. Jerry II
Reflections on Leadership, Robert H. Jerry II
Reflections on Leadership, Robert H. Jerry II
Judging Judges and Dispute Resolution Processes, John M. Lande
Listening to Experienced Users, John M. Lande
Principles for Policymaking about Collaborative Law and Other ADR Processes, John M. Lande
Medium-Specific Regulation of Attorney Advertising: A Critique, Lyrissa Lidsky and Tera Peterson
Issues in the Interpretation of 180-Day Exclusivity, Erika Lietzan and David E. Korn
The Insignificance of Choice and Wallace's Normative Approach to Responsibility, Paul J. Litton
Undermining Individual and Collective Citizenship: The Impact of Exclusion Laws on the African-American Community, S. David Mitchell
Doctors & Juries, Philip G. Peters Jr.
What We Know About Malpractice Settlements, Philip G. Peters Jr.
A Special Publication, Richard C. Reuben
Several Initiatives on Media and Conflict under Way, Richard C. Reuben
Tort Reform Renews Debate over Mandatory Mediation, Richard C. Reuben
News Reporting and Its Impact on Conflict, Richard C. Reuben
Process Purity and Innovation in Dispute Resolution: A Response to Professors Stempel, Cole, and Drahozal, Richard C. Reuben
Consideration of 'Contracting Culture' in Enforcing Arbitration Provisions, Amy J. Schmitz
Dangers of Deference to Form Arbitration Provisions, Amy J. Schmitz
Recreating Diversity in Employment Law by Debunking the Myth of the McDonnell Douglas Monolith, Sandra F. Sperino
On Misjudging and its Implications for Criminal Defendants, their Lawyers and the Criminal Justice System, Rodney J. Uphoff
Design Patents: An Alternative When the Low Standards of Copyright Are Too High, Ryan Vacca
Expanding Preferential Treatment under the Record Rental Amendment beyond the Music Industry, Ryan Vacca
Who Knew - The Admissibility of Subsequent Remedial Measures when Defendants are without Knowledge of the Injuries, Ryan Vacca and Mark G. Boyko
Submissions from 2006
When Teaching Sports, Teach Citizenship As Well, Douglas E. Abrams
The Model Federal Sentencing Guidelines Project: Adjustments for Guilty Pleas and Cooperation with the Government, Model Sentencing Guidelines §3.7 - 3.8, Frank O. Bowman III
The Model Federal Sentencing Guidelines Project: A Simplified Economic Crimes Guideline, Model Sentencing Guidelines §2B1.1, Frank O. Bowman III
The Model Federal Sentencing Guidelines Project: A Simplified Sentencing Grid, Model Sentencing Guidelines §1.1, Frank O. Bowman III
The Model Federal Sentencing Guidelines Project: Departures, Model Sentencing Guidelines §5.1, Frank O. Bowman III
The Model Federal Sentencing Guidelines Project: Determining the Sentencing Range and the Sentence Within Range, Model Sentencing Guidelines §1.2 - 1.8 , Frank O. Bowman III
The Model Federal Sentencing Guidelines Project: Sentencing Factors Applicable to All Offense Types, Model Sentencing Guidelines §3.1 - 3.6, Frank O. Bowman III
The Year of Jubilee or Maybe Not: Some Preliminary Observations About the Operation of the Federal Sentencing System After Booker, Frank O. Bowman III
'Tis a Gift To Be Simple: A Model Reform of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, Frank O. Bowman III
Bankruptcy Reform: What's Tax Got To Do With It?, Michelle A. Cecil
Forward: Symposium on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Bankruptcy Reform, Michelle A. Cecil
Transformed, Not Transcended: The Role of Extrajudicial Dispute Resolution in Antebellum Kentucky and New Jersey, Carli N. Conklin
A Uniform Probate Code for Indian Country at Last, David M. English
Governance and the Religion Question: Voluntaryism, Disestablishment, and America's Church-State Proposition, Carl H. Esbeck
Play in the Joints Between the Religion Clauses' and Other Supreme Court Catachreses, Carl H. Esbeck
Insufficient Causes, David A. Fischer
Constitutional Referendum in the United States of America, William B. Fisch
Crystals, Mud, BAPCPA, and the Structure of Bankruptcy Decisionmaking, R. Wilson Freyermuth
Modernizing Security in Rents: The New Uniform Assignment of Rents Act, R. Wilson Freyermuth
Commodification and Contract Formation: Placing the Consideration Doctrine on Stronger Foundations, David Gamage
Segmented Rankings for Segmented Markets, Rafael Gely
Workplace Blogs and Workers' Privacy, Rafael Gely and Leonard Bierman
Dead Poets and Academic Progenitors: The Next Generation of Law School Rankings with Paul Caron, Rafael Gely and Paul L. Caron
Regulating the Business of Insurance: Federalism in an Age of Difficult Risk, Robert H. Jerry II and Steven E. Roberts
Regulating the Business of Insurance: Federalism in an Age of Difficult Risk, Robert H. Jerry II and Steven E. Roberts
Overvalued Equity and the Case for an Asymmetric Insider Trading Regime, Thom Lambert
The Case Against Smoking Bans, Thom Lambert