With a long tradition of rigorous legal scholarship, University of Denver Sturm College of Law faculty members publish articles in the nation’s top scholarly journals and in numerous peer-reviewed and specialty journals. The faculty’s extensive record of interdisciplinary scholarly publication includes academic books, treatises, and leading law school casebooks, in addition faculty members implement innovative approaches to teaching and learning.
Submissions from 2025
Not Demented Enough: Dementia and Competency to Stand Trial, Rashmi Goel
Bostock and the Limits of Textualism: A Doctrinal Structuralist Approach, Martin J. Katz
Virtual Dignitary Torts, Zahra Takhshid
Symposium Introduction: Interrogating the Hidden Curriculum: Implications for Formation of Professional Identity, David I. C. Thomson
Consumer Protection and the Illusory Promise of the Unconsciounability Defense, Benjamin C. Zipursky and Zahra Takhshid
Submissions from 2024
Remembering Dr. Dmitry Karshtedt as a Scholar and Friend, Jonas Anderson, Sean Seymore, and Timothy R. Holbrook
From Gods to Google: How Religious Speech Cases May Fortify the Deregulatory First Amendment, Rebecca Aviel, Margot E. Kaminski, Toni M. Massaro, and Andrew Keane Woods
Existential Advocacy: Lawyering for AI Safety and the Future of Humanity, John Bliss
Teaching Law in the Age of Generative AI, John Bliss
Trusting What You Can’t See: Audit Oversight and the PCAOB, J. Robert Brown Jr.
The Long Shadow of Food Lion, KNIGHT FIRST AMEND. INST. (May 31, 2024), Alan K. Chen
College Athlete Unionization, Roberto L. Corrada
RPL, CRT, & LatCrit: "Finding the 'Me' in the Legal Academy", Roberto L. Corrada
How Crime Dramas Undermine Miranda, Ian Farrell and Nancy Leong
How the Supreme Court Ghosted the PHOSITA: Amgen and Legal Constructs in Patent Law, Timothy R. Holbrook
Confusion Over Trademark Extraterritoriality…and Beyond, Timothy R. Holbrook and Anshu Garg
Relative and Absolute Patentability, Timothy R. Holbrook and Mark D. Janis
Pleading Failures in Monell Litigation, Nancy Leong, Katelyn Elrod, and Matthew Nilsen
Forced Pooling: The Unconstitutional Taking of Private Property, Kevin J. Lynch
Preemption: Opportunities and Obstacles for Climate Adaptation, Kevin J. Lynch
Living the Good Life in the Anthropocene, Kevin J. Lynch, Karrigan Börk, Karen Bradshaw, Rebecca Bratspies, Bruce Carpenter, Cinnamon Carlarne, Robin Kundis Craig, Sarah Fox, Josh Galperin, Francis Hicks, Keith Hirokawa, Ruhan S. Nagra, Michele Okoh, Jessica Owley, Amber Polk, Melissa Powers, Shannon Roesler, J .B . Ruhl, Danielle Stokes, and Anastasia Telesetsky
Comparative Study of Bystander Liability in the U.S. & the Iranian Legal Systems, Abbas Mirshekari, Zahra Takhshid, and Mona Abdi
Democracy, Discourse, and the Artificially Intelligent Corporation, Michael R. Siebecker
Reconceiving Corporate Rights and regulation in the AI Era, Michael R. Siebecker
Data as Likeness, Zahra Takhshid
Wearable AI, Bystander Notice, and the Question of Privacy Frictions, Zahra Takhshid
The Guided Sequence for Formation of Professional Identity, David I. C. Thomson
Submissions from 2023
The Weaponization of Attorney’s Fees in an Age of Constitutional Warfare, Rebecca Aviel and Wiley Kersh
Mother Nature on the Run: The SEC, Climate Change Disclosure, and the Major Questions Doctrine, J. Robert Brown Jr.
Speaking With Complete Candor: Shareholder Retification and the Elimination of the Duty of Loyalty, J. Robert Brown Jr.
Chilling Climate Change Disclosure: The Enabling Role of Corporate Counsel in Management Misstatements of ESG Matters, J. Robert Brown Jr. and Eli Wald
Aequitas: Seeking Equilibrium in Title IX, Raymond Trent Cromartie
The Shared Ethical Framework to Allocate Scarce Medical Resources: A Lesson from COVID-19, Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Govind C. Persad
Belonging Matters: One School's Strategy for Fostering Community and Confidence Among Students from Historically Excluded Groups, Alexi Freeman and Caley Carlson
Grandma Got Arrested: Police, Excessive Force, and People with Dementia, Rashmi Goel
Municipal Failures, Nancy Leong
Preliminary Injunctions in Public Law: The Merits, Kevin J. Lynch
Considering Vaccination Status, Govind C. Persad
Defining Health Affordability, Govind C. Persad
Fair Domestic Allocation of Monkeypox Virus Countermeasures, Govind C. Persad, R. J. Leland, Trygve Ottersen, Henry S. Richardson, Carla Saenz, G. Owen Schaefer, and Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Pass for Some, Fail for Others: An Empirical Analysis of Law School Grading Changes in the Early Covid-19 Pandemic, David Sandomierski, John Bliss, and Tayzia Collesso
Children's Digital Privacy and the Case Against Parental Consent, Zahra Takhshid
Resuscitating E-Commerce's Transnational Promise with Out-Of-Court Processes, Oladeji Tiamiyu
Technology Driven Racial Reconciliation: A Practical Guide for the Use of Technology in Truth Commissions, Oladeji Tiamiyu, Amy J. Schmitz, and Colin Rule
Did the Superbowl Ad Curse Heighten Defined Contribution Plan Fiduciary Duties?: Deciphering the Legal and Ethical Landscape of Cryptocurrency Options in 401(k)s, Lauren K. Valastro
Submissions from 2022
Learning Without Grade Anxiety: Findings from the Pass/Fail Experiment in North American Legal Education, John Bliss and David Sandomierski
Compelled Speech and the Regulatory State, Alan K. Chen
Investigative Deception Across Social Contexts, 22-14 KNIGHT FIRST AMEND. INST. (Dec. 16, 2022), Alan K. Chen
Teaching a Hybrid Administrative Law Simulation Class Using Jurassic Park, Roberto L. Corrada
Off-Label Prescription of COVID-19 Vaccines in Children: Clinical, Ethical, and Legal Issues, Jennifer deSante-Bertkau; Timothy Knilans; Govind Persad; Patricia Zettler; Holly Fernandez Lynch JD, MBE; and Armand H. Matheny Antimmaria
Time of Renewables, K.K. DuVivier and Haley Balentine
We Can Help Many of the 2,200 People Dying of COVID Every Day, Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Govind C. Persad
Preventive Law in Corporate Practice, Robert M. Hardaway
Colorado Evidence: Courtroom Manual, Robert M. Hardaway and Glen Weissenberger
Denied Boarding and Overbooked Flights: A Comparative Study of Contracts of Carriage by Air, Mohsen Izanloo, Zahra Takhshid, and Abolfazl Shahin
Time for USPTO to End Marijuana Company TM Disclaimers, Sam Kamin and Viva R. Moffat
HAS THE MEANING OF “BECAUSE OF” FINALLY BEEN SOLVED?, Martin J. Katz
Criminalization as a Solution to Abuse, Tamara L. Kuennen
Reviving “Part Two” of the Power and Control Wheel, Tamara L. Kuennen and Jennifer Eyl
Errors in Converting Principles to Protocols: Where the Bioethics of US Covid‐19 Vaccine Allocation Went Wrong, William F. Parker, Govind C. Persad, and Monica E. Peek
Reserve System Design for Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in a Pandemic: Some Perspectives from the Field, Parag A. Pathak, Govind C. Persad, Tayfun Sönmez, and M. Utku Unver
Equal Protection and Scarce Therapies: The Role of Race, Sex, and Other Protected Classifications, Govind C. Persad
Minimum Age Cutoffs and the Fair Allocation of Benefits, Govind C. Persad
Reforming Age Cutoffs, Govind C. Persad
Who Should Be Prioritized for Scarce Medical Assistance?, Govind C. Persad
Why the FDA Was Wrong to Delay Authorization of Vaccines for Kids Under 5, Govind C. Persad
In the Line for Scarce Covid Treatments, Immunocompromised Americans Should Go Before the Unvaccinated, Govind C. Persad and Emily Largent
A Comprehensive Covid-19 Response—The Need for Economic Evaluation, Govind C. Persad and Ankur Pandya
Fair Access to Scarce Medical Capacity for Non-Covid-19 Patients: A Role for Reserves, Govind C. Persad, Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez, and M. Utku Unver
Fair Allocation of Scarce Therapies for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), Govind C. Persad, Monica E. Peek, and Seema K. Shah
How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies, Govind C. Persad, Monica E. Peek, and Seema K. Shah
Flexible Administration of COVID-19 Vaccines and Therapeutics—A Call for Clarity Around Legality, Liability, and Compensation for Injury, Govind C. Persad; Patricia Zettler; and Holly Fernandez Lynch JD, MBE
COVID-19 Vaccine Refusal and Fair Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources, Govind Persad and Emily A. Largent
The Broken Fourth Amendment Oath, Laurent Sacharoff
Who Controls the Sidewalks?, Sarah Schindler
Runaway Rents: The Law Is Failing Renters, Sarah Schindler and Kellen Zale
Administrative Law: A Casebook, Bernard Schwartz, Roberto L. Corrada, and J Robert Brown Jr
The Incompatibility of Artificial Intelligence and Citizens United, Michael R. Siebecker
Dose Optimisation and Scarce Resource Allocation: Two Sides of the Same Coin, Garth Strohbehn, Govind C. Persad, William F. Parker, and Srinivas Murthy
Regulating Social Media in the Global South, Zahra Takhshid
The Impending Battle for the Soul of Online Dispute Resolution, Oladeji Tiamiyu
A Multicenter Weighted Lottery to Equitably Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapeutics, Douglas B. White, Erin K. McCreary, Chung-Chou H. Chang, Mark Schmidhoffer, J. Ryan Bariola, Naudia N. Jonassaint, Govind C. Persad, Robert D. Truog, Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez, and M. Utku Unver
Race-Specific, State-Specific COVID-19 Vaccination Rates Adjusted for Age, Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Kaitlyn M. Berry, and Govind C. Persad
Submissions from 2021
Remedial Commandeering, Rebecca Aviel
Lawyer Speech, Investigative Deception, and the First Amendment, Rebecca Aviel, Alan K. Chen, and false
Becoming Global Lawyers? A Comparative Study of Civic Professionalism, John Bliss
Rebellious Lawyers for Fair Housing: The Lost Scientific Model of the Early NAACP, John Bliss
Why Do States Ban “Electioneering” but Allow Guns at Polling Places?, Joseph Blocher and Alan Chen
Privacy Losses as Wrongful Gains, Bernard Chao
Seeking Transparency in Waco, Bernard H. Chao
Cheap Speech Creation, 54 U.C. DAVIS L. REV. 2405 (2021), Alan K. Chen
Is Green Energy Truly Green?...The Growing Pains of Green Energy, K.K. DuVivier
Preventing Wind Waste, K.K. DuVivier
Obligations in a Global Health Emergency - Authors' Reply, Ezekiel J. Emanuel
What are the Obligations of Pharmaceutical Companies in a Global Health Emergency?, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Allen Buchanan, Shuk Ying Chan, Cécile Fabre, Daniel Halliday, Joseph Heath, Lisa Herzog, R. J. Leland, Matthew S. McCoy, Ole F. Norheim, Carla Saenz, G. Owen Schaefer, Kok Chor Tan, Christopher Heath Wellman, Jonathan Wolff, and Govind Persad
This Is the Wrong Way to Distribute Badly Needed Vaccines, Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Govind C. Persad
US Should Share Vaccines It’s Not Using with the World, Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Govind C. Persad
Determining the Number of Refugees to Be Resettled in the United States: An Ethical and Policy Analysis of Policy-level Stakeholder Views, Rachel Fabi, Daniel Serwer, Namrita S. Singh, Govind Persad, Paul Spiegel, and Leonard Rubenstein
Intimate Partner Violence Through the Eyes of the Military “Dependent” Spouse, Xander Franklin and Tamara Kuennen