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Submissions from 2024

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Artificial Intelligence and Legal Malpractice Liability, Vincent R. Johnson

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Why Equity Follows the Law, Adam J. MacLeod

Submissions from 2023

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A Tribute to Gerald S. "Geary" Reamey, Michael Ariens

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The Scholar: Twenty-Five Years of Change, Catherine Casiano

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Military Women in World Cinema: A 20th Century History and Filmography, Introduction, Deborah A. Deacon and Stacy Fowler

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Dinner with Andre: A Personal Tribute to Andre Hampton, David Dittfurth

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When Machines Can Be Judge, Jury, and Executioner: Justice in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (book review), Stacy Fowler

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The Mystery of the Leavenworth Oaths, M H. Hoeflich and Stephen M. Sheppard

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Ethical Lawyering: The Role of Honor, Conscience, and Codes (reviewing Michael S. Ariens, The Lawyer’s Conscience: A History of American Lawyer Ethics), Vincent R. Johnson

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The First Woman Dean of a Texas Law School: Barbara Bader Aldave at St. Mary's University, Vincent R. Johnson

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A Quarter Century of Challenges and Progress in Education, and an Agenda for the Next Quarter Century, Albert H. Kauffman

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Taking Corrigibility Seriously, Dora Klein

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Is, Ought, and the Limited Competence of Experts, Adam J. MacLeod

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Total Return Meltdown: The Case for Treating Total Return Swaps as Disguised Secured Transactions, Colin P. Marks

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The Lawyer as Dream Enabler, Gerald S. Reamey

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"Grossly Negligent Utilities," "Unimaginable Property Damage" and the Scope of Liability Insurers' Duty to Indemnify Subrogated Property Insurers - Probative and Empirical Inferences from Courts' Divided Subrogation and Indemnification Decision, Willy E. Rice

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Transforming Military Justice: The 2022 and 2023 National Defense Authorization Acts, David A. Schlueter and Lisa Schenck

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This is Not Your Grandparents' Military Justice System: The 2022 and 2023 National Defense Authorization Acts, David A. Schlueter and Lisa M. Schenck

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Idaho's Law of Seduction, Michael L. Smith

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Originalism and the Meaning of "Twenty Dollars", Michael L. Smith

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Policy's Place in Pedestrian Infrastructure (book review), Michael L. Smith

Submissions from 2022

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Anti-Discrimination Ethics Rules and the Legal Profession, Michael Ariens

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The Appearance of Appearances, Michael Ariens

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The Fall of an American Lawyer, Michael Ariens

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"Only to Have a Say in the Way He Dies:" Bodily Autonomy and Methods of Execution, Alexandra L. Klein

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When Police Volunteer to Kill, Alexandra L. Klein

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One Step Backward: The Ninth Circuit's Unfortunate Rule 404(b) Decision in United States v. Lague, Dora Klein

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Beyond Compulsory Licensing: Pfizer Shares Its COVID-19 Medicines with the Patent Pool, Chenglin Liu

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Respecting the Identity and Dignity of All Indigenous Americans, Bill Piatt

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The Cost of Unstable Property: Oil, Gas, and Other Confusing Mineral Interests, Chad J. Pomeroy

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Distracted Walking, Michael L. Smith

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Originalism and the Inseparability of Decision Procedures from Interpretive Standards, Michael L. Smith

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The Third Amendment in 2020, Michael L. Smith

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Originalism's Implementation Problem, Michael L. Smith and Alexander S. Hiland

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Reconstruction of the Reasonable Person Standard under Chinese Patent Law, Weihong Yao and Robert H. Hu

Submissions from 2021

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Model Rule 8.4(g) and the Profession's Core Values Problem, Michael Ariens

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Collective Wisdom: When to Impeach with an Inconsistent Statement, A. J. Bellido de Luna

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Testing Privilege: Coaching Bar Takers towards "Minimum Competency" during the 2020 Pandemic, Afton Cavanaugh

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Lawyers, Mistakes, and Moral Growth (reviewing Mike H. Bassett, The Man in the Ditch: A Redemption Story for Today), Vincent R. Johnson

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The End of the Golden Age of American Legal Education: My Year as Interim Dean, Vincent R. Johnson

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The Informed Consent Doctrine in Legal Malpractice Law, Vincent R. Johnson

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The Proposed Rules on Advertising and Solicitation, Vincent R. Johnson

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Meaningless Guarantees: Comment on Mitchell E. McCloy's “Blind Justice: Virginia's Jury Sentencing Scheme and Impermissible Burdens on a Defendant's Right to a Jury Trial", Alexandra L. Klein

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The Beginning of the End: Abolishing Capital Punishment in Virginia, Alexandra L. Klein

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A Few Words for the Firing Squad (editorial), Alexandra L. Klein and Brandon Hasbrouck

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“Rule of Inclusion" Confusion, Dora Klein

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The World Health Organization: A Weak Defender Against Pandemics, Chenglin Liu

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The World Health Organization: A Weak Defender against Pandemics, Chenglin Liu

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Lech's Mess with the Tenth Circuit: Why Governmental Entities Are Not Exempt from Paying Just Compensation When They Destroy Property Pursuant to Their Police Powers, Emilio R. Longoria

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When is a Warranty Not a Warranty?: Deconstructing the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act’s Narrow Definition of “Warranty”, Colin P. Marks

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The Uniform Commercial Code Survey: Introduction, Jennifer S. Martin, Colin P. Marks, and Wayne Barnes

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The AOC in the Age of COVID - Pandemic Preparedness Planning in the Federal Courts, Zoe Niesel

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Appraising Problems, Not Stuff, Chad J. Pomeroy

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If You Don't Care, Who Will?, Chad J. Pomeroy

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Police Use of Force Laws in Texas, Gerald S. Reamey

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Abolishing the Communications Decency Act Might Sanitize "Political Biased," "Digitally Polluted," and "Dangerously Toxic" Social Media? - Judicial and Statistical Guidance from Federal-Preemption, Safe-Harbor and Rights-Preservation Decisions, Willy E. Rice

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Evolution of Legal Topics, Rights and Obligations in the United States, Roberto Rosas

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Evolution of Legal Topics, Rights and Obligations in the United States, Roberto Rosas

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National, Military, and College Reports on Prosecution of Sexual Assaults and Victims’ Rights: Is the Military Actually Safer than Civilian Society?, David A. Schlueter and Lisa M. Schenck

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Taking Charge of Court-Martial Charges: The Important Role of the Commander in the American Military Justice System, David A. Schlueter and Lisa M. Schenck

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The Citation of Unpublished Cases in the Wake of COVID-19, Michael L. Smith

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Blockchain Emergencies & Open-Source Software Governance: Is "Rough Consensus" a Suicide Pact?, Blockchain Emergencies & Open-Source Software Governance: Is "Rough Consensus" a Suicide Pact?, Angela Walch

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Congress, Don't Rush Regulating Crypto (Opinion), Angela Walch

Submissions from 2020

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COVID-19 Pandemic: Policy and Legal Issues, Jeffrey F. Addicott

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The Army's G-RAP Fiasco: How the Lives and Careers of Hundreds of Innocent Soldiers Were Destroyed, Jeffrey F. Addicott

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Texas Supreme Court’s Failure to Offer Alternative Licensure Option Unnecessarily Hinders Our State’s Future Lawyers, Michael Ariens

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A Century in Uniform: Military Women in American Films, Introduction, Stacy Fowler and Deborah A. Deacon

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An Intersection of Gender, Race, and Sports: Guidelines for Universities Determining Whether Athletes Accused of Title IX Violations Should be Removed from Their Teams, David A. Grenardo

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Loopholes for the Affluent Bankrupt, David R. Hague

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Arthur C. Y. Yao (1906-2004): A Pioneer Chinese Professor at St. Mary's University School of Law, Robert H. Hu

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Confucius and the Chinese Legal Tradition, Chenglin Liu

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Pirates on the High Seas: An Institutional Response to Expanding U.S. Jurisdiction in Troubled Waters, Marshall B. Lloyd and Robert Summers

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The Case for the Rodeo: An Analysis of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo's Inverse Condemnation Case against the City of Houston, Emilio R. Longoria

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Public Rights after Oil States Energy, Adam J. MacLeod

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Contract Lore as Heuristic Starting Points, Colin P. Marks

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There Oughta Be a Law: What Corporate Social Responsibility Can Trach Us about Consumer Contract Formation, Colin P. Marks

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Machine Learning and the New Civil Procedure, Zoe Niesel

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Terrible Touhy: Navigating Judicial Review of an Agency's Response to Third-Party Subpoenas, Zoe Niesel

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A Comparative Study of Trademarks: USMCA (U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement) and NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), Roberto Rosas

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American Military Justice: Retaining the Commander's Authority to Enforce Discipline and Justice, David A. Schlueter and Lisa Schenck

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National, Military, and College Reports on Prosecution of Sexual Assaults and Victims' Rights (white paper), David A. Schlueter and Lisa Schenck

Submissions from 2019

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Reshaping American Jurisprudence in the Trump Era - The Rise of Originalist Judges, Jeffrey F. Addicott

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The Trump Travel Ban: Rhetoric vs Reality, Jeffrey F. Addicott

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Slavery and Freedom in Texas: Stories from the Courtroom, 1821-1871 (book review), Michael Ariens

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Beyond the Borders of the Law: Critical Legal Histories of the North American West (book review), Michael S. Ariens

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The Texas Supreme Court's Evolving Mineral-Deed Jurisprudence in the Shale Era: The Implications of Wenske v. Ealy, Laura H. Burney

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Back to the Future: Marriage and Divorce under the 2017 Tax Act, Mark W. Cochran

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Rules to Impeach By - What It Takes to Remove a President, David Dittfurth

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Fraud, Letters of Credit, and the Uniform Commercial Code: It is Time to Untether the Independence Principle, Richard Flint

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A Lesson in Civility, David A. Grenardo

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The Blue Devil's in the Details: How a Free Market Approach to Compensating College Athletes Would Work, David A. Grenardo

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You Are Not Alone: What Law Schools Must Do to Help Law Students with Mental Health and Substance Abuse Issues, David A. Grenardo

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Developing Countries and International Economic Law: The Case of Burma, Vincent R. Johnson

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Latino Education in Texas: A History of Systematic Recycling Discrimination, Albert H. Kauffman

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Memoir as Witness to Mental Illness, Dora W. Klein

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Mitigating Risk, Eradicating Slavery, Ramona Lampley

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Online Terms as in Terrorem Devices, Colin P. Marks

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Population Law and Policy: From Control and Contraception to Equity and Equality, Victoria Mather

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#PersonalJurisdiction: A New Age of Internet Contacts, Zoe Niesel

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Law Schools Harm Genizaros and Other Indigenous People by Misunderstanding ABA Policy, Bill Piatt, Moises Gonzales, and Katja Wolf