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.

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Submissions from 2020

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College Athletes in Revenue-Generating Sports as Employees: A Look into the Alt-Labor Future, Roberto L. Corrada

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The Northwestern University Football Case: A Dissent, Roberto L. Corrada

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Can Political Headwinds Against U.S. Offshore Wind Power Help Policy Change Course?, K.K. DuVivier

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Siting Wind Turbines, K.K. DuVivier

The Law of Distributed Generation in the United States—Conclusions [including microgrids], K.K. DuVivier

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Moat Mentality: Onshore and Offshore Approaches to Wind Waking, K.K. DuVivier and Brendan Mooney

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An Ethical Framework for Global Vaccine Allocation, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Govind Persad, Adam Kern, Allen Buchanan, Cécile Fabre, Daniel Halliday, Joseph Heath, Lisa Herzog, R. J. Leland, Ephrem T. Lemango, Florencia Luna, Matthew S. McCoy, Ole F. Norheim, Trygve Ottersen, G. Owen Schaefer, Kok Chor Tan, Christopher Heath Wellman, Jonathan Wolff, and Henry S. Richardson

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Fair Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Govind Persad, Ross Upshur, Beatriz Thome, Michael Parker, Aaron Glickman, Cathy Zhang, Connor Boyle, Maxwell Smith, and James P. Phillips

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How the Coronavirus May Force Doctors to Decide Who Lives, Who Dies, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, James Phillips, and Govind C. Persad

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Amici Curiae Brief of the International Municipal Lawyers Association and Legal Scholars in Support of Defendants-appellees in Portland Pipe Line Corporation, et al. v. City of South Portland, et al., Sarah J. Fox, Sara C. Bronin, Nestor M. Davidson, Keith H. Hirokawa, Ashira Pelman Ostrow, Dave Owen, Laurie Reynolds, Jonathan D. Rosenbloom, and Sarah Schindler

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Pandemic Guidelines, Not Changed Malpractice Rules, Are the Right Response to COVID-19, Valerie Gutmann Koch, Govind C. Persad, and Wendy Netter Epstein

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Not All Violence in Relationships is “Domestic Violence", Tamara L. Kuennen

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The Law of Toxic Substances and Hazardous Waste, Jan G. Laitos, John S. Applegate, Mary J. Angelo, and Jeffrey M. Gaba

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Pioneers of Environmental Law, Jan G. Laitos and John Copeland Nagle

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Principles of Natural Resources Law, 2d ed., Jan G. Laitos and Sandra B. Zellmer

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US Public Attitudes Toward COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates, Emily A. Largent, Govind Persad, Samantha Sangenito, Aaron Glickman, Connor Boyle, and Ezekiel J. Emanuel

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Sensitive Species Data in Colorado’s State and Local Government Decision-Making, Kevin J. Lynch, Marissa Hoffman, Katherine Klein, John Molera, Merrily Newcomb, Sarah Matsumoto, Wyatt Sassman, and Natalie Norcutt

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Climate Policy & Environmental Justice Recommendations for Colorado: Environmental Justice and the Climate Action Plan to Reduce Pollution, Kevin J. Lynch, Edwin Lamair, and Evan Healey

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Respecting Disability Rights — Toward Improved Crisis Standards of Care, Michelle M. Mello, Govind Persad, and Douglas B. White

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Fair Coronavirus Triage Guidelines—Not Business as Usual—Will Save More Patients with Disabilities from Covid-19, Joseph Millum and Govind C. Persad

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Choosing Affordable Health Insurance, Govind Persad

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Disability Law and the Case for Evidence-based Triage in a Pandemic, Govind Persad

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Expensive Patients, Reinsurance, and the Future of Health Care Reform, Govind Persad

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A Conceptual Framework for Clearer Ethical Discussions About COVID-19 Response, Govind C. Persad

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Advance Directives and Transformative Experience: Resilience in the Face of Change, Govind C. Persad

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Arizona’s Crisis Standards of Care and Fair Allocation of Resources During COVID-19, Govind C. Persad

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How Triage During COVID-19 Can be Fair to Patients with Disabilities, Govind C. Persad

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Philosophers on Access to Medicine: What Sort of Access to Which Medicines?, Govind C. Persad

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What Are the Ethics Behind Covid-19 “Immunity Passports”?, Govind C. Persad and Ezekiel J. Emanuel

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Diversity and Solidarity in Response to Covid-19, Govind C. Persad and David Wasserman

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The Case for Valuing Non-health and Indirect Benefits, Govind Persad and Jessica du Toit

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The Ethics of COVID-19 Immunity-based Licenses ("Immunity Passports"), Govind Persad and Ezekiel J. Emanuel

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Fairly Prioritizing Groups for Access to COVID-19 Vaccines, Govind Persad, Monica E. Peek, and Ezekiel J. Emanuel

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Allocating Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19. Reply, Govind Persad, James Phillips, and Ezekiel J. Emanuel

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Criminal Trespass and Computer Crime, Laurent Sacharoff

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The Fourth Amendment Inventory as a Check on Digital Searches, Laurent Sacharoff

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Expanded Outdoor Dining Must Make Room for Public in Public Spaces, Sarah Schindler

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Pardoning Dogs, Sarah Schindler

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Tear It All Down: Highways as Racist Monuments, Sarah Schindler

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Tear It All Down: Highways as Racist Monuments, Sarah Schindler

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How the Law Fails Tenants (and Not Just During a Pandemic), Sarah Schindler and Kellen Zale

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Looking Back: A Case Study of Career Interest and Experiential Learning in Law School, David I.C. Thomson and Stephen Daniels

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Setting Priorities Fairly in Response to Covid-19: Identifying Overlapping Consensus and Reasonable Disagreement, David Wasserman, Govind C. Persad, and Joseph Millum

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Setting Priorities Fairly in Response to Covid-19: Identifying Overlapping Consensus and Reasonable Disagreement, David Wasserman, Govind Persad, and Joseph Millum

Submissions from 2019

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Windmills of Your Mind: Understanding the Neurobiology of Emotion, Debra S. Austin

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Rights as a Zero-Sum Game, Rebecca Aviel

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Accounting and Corporate Finance for Lawyers, Stacey L. Bowers

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Focusing Patent Litigation, Bernard Chao

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Saliency, Anchors & Frames: A Multicomponent Damages Experiment, Bernard Chao

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How Evidence of Subsequent Remedial Measures Matters, Bernard Chao and Kylie Santos

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Distributed Renewable Energy, K.K. DuVivier

Horizontal Regulatory Coherence Aspects of the TPP, David A. Gantz and Jorge Huerta-Goldman

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Saving the Electoral College: Why the National Popular Vote Would Undermine Democracy, Robert M. Hardaway

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How Science Has Influenced, but Should now Determine, Environmental Policy, Jan G. Laitos

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Natural Resources Law, 3d ed., Jan G. Laitos

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Fracking the Public Trust, Kevin J. Lynch

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Authority Without Identity: Defending Advance Directives via Posthumous Rights Over One's Body, Govind Persad

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Considering Quality of Life while Repudiating Disability Injustice: A Pathways Approach to Setting Priorities, Govind Persad

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Cost-effectiveness in Animal Health, Govind Persad

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Examining Pharmaceutical Exceptionalism: Intellectual Property, Practical Expediency, and Global Health, Govind Persad

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Justice and Public Health, Govind Persad

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Transparency Trade-offs Priority Setting, Scarcity, and Health Fairness, Govind Persad

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Will More Organs Save More Lives? Cost‐effectiveness and the Ethics of Expanding Organ Procurement, Govind Persad

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Do Pharmaceutical Patents Generate Unique Global Health Duties?, Govind C. Persad

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What Should We Ask About Age-Based Criteria in Healthcare?, Govind C. Persad

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Differential Payment to Research Participants in the Same Study: An Ethical Analysis, Govind Persad, Holly Fernandez Lynch, and Emily Largent

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Are Medicaid Closed Formularies Unethical?, Leah Rand and Govind Persad

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What Am I Really Saying When I Open My Smartphone: A Response to Prof. Kerr, Laurent Sacharoff

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Reconsidering the Strength of the Boundary Line, Sarah Schindler

Submissions from 2018

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Intimate Partner Violence & Men’s Professional Sports: Advancing the Ball, Chelsea Augelli and Tamara L. Kuennen

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Rule 8.4 and the First Amendment: Distinguishing Between Discrimination and Free Speech, Rebecca Aviel

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Drifting Law Students: Public Interest Caught in the Law Firm Pipeline, John Bliss

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Rethinking the First Year Curriculum, John Bliss

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The Law School Laboratory: A Call for Developing the “Third Apprenticeship” Through Experimental Research, John Bliss

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Does Cryptocurrency Trading Favor Retail Investors, and if So, for How Long?, Stacey L. Bowers

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What is an Initial Coin Offering (ICO)?, Stacey L. Bowers

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Lost Profits in a Multicomponent World, Bernard Chao

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Why Courts Fail to Protect Privacy: Race, Age, Bias, and Technology, Bernard Chao, Catherine Durso, Ian Farrell, and Christopher Robertson

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The New Settlement Tools, Bernard Chao, Christopher Robertson, and David Yokum

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Reflections of a “Pitiyanqui”: My History with LatCrit, Roberto L. Corrada

Colorado Employment Law and Practice, Roberto L. Corrada and Theresa L. Corrada

Labor Law in the Contemporary Workplace, Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Martin H. Malin, Roberto L. Corrada, Christopher David Ruiz Cameron, and Catherine L. Fisk

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Distributed Renewable Energy: Summary and Key Recommendations, K.K. DuVivier

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Left-Wing, Right-Wing: The Case for Realignment of Political Labels, Robert M. Hardaway

Marijuana Politics: Uncovering the Troublesome History and Social Costs of Criminalization, Robert M. Hardaway

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Positive Institutions: Organizations, Laws, and Policies, Peter H. Huang, Anne M. Brafford, Debra S. Austin, and Martha Knudson

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Jeff Sessions’s New Pot Policy: What Happens Now?, Sam Kamin

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Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics About Marijuana Legalization, Sam Kamin

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Maybe This Time Is Different, Sam Kamin

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“You’ve Always Had the Power.” Marijuana, Federalism, and Separation of Powers, Sam Kamin

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A Rosetta Stone for Causation, Martin J. Katz

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Making Sense of Causation in Mixed Movies Cases, Martin J. Katz

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The Paralysis Paradox and the Untapped Role of Science in Solving “Big” “Environmental Problems, Jan G. Laitos and Christopher Ainscough

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Regulation of Toxic Substances and Hazardous Waste, 3d ed., Jan G. Laitos, John S. Applegate, Jeffrey M. Gaba, and Noah M. Sachs

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Costs and Consequences of Wake Effects Arising from Uncoordinated Wind Energy Development, J.K. Lundquist, K.K. DuVivier, D. Kaffine, and J.M. Tomaszewski

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A Fracking Mess: Just Compensation for Regulatory Takings of Oil and Gas Property Rights, Kevin J. Lynch

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Distributive Justice and the Relief of Household Debt, Govind Persad

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Downward Mobility and Rawlsian Justice, Govind Persad

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Evaluating the Legality of Age-based Criteria in Health Care: From Nondiscrimination and Discretion to Distributive Justice, Govind Persad

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Paying Patients: Legal and Ethical Dimensions, Govind Persad