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 2017
Judge Gorsuch and the Role of Public Interest Litigation in Our Democracy, Alan K. Chen
Dilemmas in Access to Medicines: A Humanitarian Perspective – Authors' Reply, Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Govind Persad
Our Turn: Police Shouldn't Access Your Phone's Data Without a Court Order, Ian Farrell, Bernard H. Chao, and Christopher Robertson
ACA and AHCA Both Ignore the Same Problem, Robert M. Hardaway
Federal Lawsuit Highlights the Environmental Consequences of Immigration, Robert M. Hardaway
The Forgotten Letter of Coretta Scott King, Robert M. Hardaway
The French Election Shows the Risk of Abolishing the Electoral College, Robert M. Hardaway
Think Your Income Tax Rate Will Get Cut Through Tax Reform? Think Again, Robert M. Hardaway
Ahead for Marijuana: California Goes Legit and Canada May Be Next, Sam Kamin
The Trump Administration’s Nonsensical Stance on Marijuana, Sam Kamin
Fred Cheever - The Denver Law Ideal, Martin J. Katz
Shrinking and Altering National Monuments: Experts Assess Interior Secretary Zinke’s Proposals, Robert B. Keiter, Anthony Moffa, Sarah Schindler, and Syma A. Ebbin
Why Environmental Policies Fail, Jan G. Laitos and Juliana Okulski
Arkansas’s Reckless Rush to the Execution Chamber, Justin F. Marceau and Alan K. Chen
Bankruptcy Beyond Status Maintenance, Govind Persad
Beyond Administrative Tunnel Vision: Widening the Lens of Costs and Benefits, Govind Persad
Public Preferences about Fairness and the Ethics of Allocating Scarce Medical Interventions, Govind Persad
What is the Relevance of Procedural Fairness to Making Determinations about Medical Evidence?, Govind Persad
The Case for Resource Sensitivity: Why It Is Ethical to Provide Cheaper, Less Effective Treatments in Global Health, Govind C. Persad and Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Who Should Own Police Body Camera Videos?, Laurent Sacharoff and Sarah Lustbader
Equalizing Exactions, Sarah Schindler
Equalizing Exactions, Sarah Schindler
Great Walls of America, Sarah Schindler
Zinke Has Only One Legal Option for Katahdin Woods and Waters: Retain Its Monument Status, Sarah Schindler and Anthony Moffa
Skills & Values: Discovery Practice, David I.C. Thomson
Skills & Values: Lawyering Process, David I.C. Thomson
Architectural Exclusion: Race and Class in the City, Julia Toynbee Lagoutte
Submissions from 2016
The Professional Identity – Formation of Lawyers: How Does Becoming a Lawyer Change You?, John Bliss
Corporate Governance: Cases and Materials, J. Robert Brown Jr. and Lisa L. Casey
Regulatory Coherence and Standardization in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Phoenix X.F. Cai
Countering the Plaintiff’s Anchor: Jury Simulations to Evaluate Damages Arguments, John Campbell, Bernard Chao, Christopher Robertson, and David Yokum
Horizontal Innovation and Interface Patents, Bernard Chao
Enhancing Conservation Options: An Argument for Statutory Recognition of Options to Purchase Conservation Easements (OPCEs), Federico Cheever and Jessica Owley
Senate Should Not Delay Obama's Supreme Court Nomination, Alan K. Chen
Transmission and Transport of Energy in the Western U.S. and Canada: A Law and Policy Road Map, K. K. DuVivier, Nate Larsen, Nick Lawton, Sam Kalen, Stephen R. Miller, Melissa Powers, Tara Kathleen Righetti, Troy A. Rule, and Amelia Schlusser
NIMBY To NOPE—Or YESS?, K.K. DuVivier and Thomas Witt
Women Who Kill Women, Rashmi Goel
Make No Mistake, Brauchler Is Choosing the Death Penalty, Sam Kamin
Marijuana Legalization in Colorado: Lessons for Colombia, Sam Kamin
The Supreme Court Strikes Down Florida’s Blatantly Unconstitutional Capital Scheme, Sam Kamin
Time for Federal Government to Follow States on Marijuana Reform, Sam Kamin
The Experiential Course Book I Have Been Waiting For, Martin J. Katz
Keynote: Encouraging This Particular Form of (Very Fun) Madness - Roles for Deans & Faculty Members, Martin J. Katz and Phoenix X.F. Cai
Encouraging this Particular Form of (Very Fun) Madness – Roles for Deans and Faculty Members, Martin J. Katz and Phoenix X. F. Cai
Background Checks for Firearms Sales and Loans: Law, History, and Policy, David B. Kopel
The Strange Career of Private Takings of Private Property for Private Use, Jan G. Laitos
Regulation of Fracking Is Not a Taking of Private Property, Kevin Lynch
Health Theater, Govind Persad
Law, Science, and the Injured Mind, Govind Persad
Should Research Ethics Encourage the Production of Cost-effective Interventions?, Govind Persad
Expanding Deliberation in Critical-care Policy Design, Govind C. Persad
The Ethics of Expanding Access to Cheaper, Less Effective Treatments, Govind C. Persad and Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Sufficiency, Comprehensiveness of Healthcare Coverage and Cost-sharing Arrangements in the Realpolitik of Health Policy, Govind Persad and Harald Schmidt
Conspiracy as Contract, Laurent Sacharoff
Access, Exclusion, and Value, Sarah Schindler
Access, Exclusion, and Value, Sarah Schindler
Comments on When God isn't Green, Sarah Schindler
Exploring Options for Urban Sustainability in an Era of Scarce Water Resources: A Possible Ban on Lawns, Sarah Schindler
How Online Learning Can Transform Legal Education, David I.C. Thomson
Chapter 23. Transactional Lawyering, in Learning from Practice, Leah Wortham, Alexander Scherr, Nancy M. Maurer, and Susan L. Brooks
Submissions from 2015
Got Stress? You May Be Harming Your Brain, Debra S. Austin
Drink Like a Lawyer: The Neuroscience of Substance Use and its Impact on Cognitive Wellness, Debra S. Austin
Disquieting Discretion: Race, Geography & the Colorado Death Penalty in the First Decade of the Twenty-first Century, Meg Beardsley, Sam Kamin, Justin F. Marceau, and Scott Phillips
An Overview of the Proposed Crowdfunding Rules, Stacey L. Bowers
Corporate Drafting: A Practical Approach, Stacey L. Bowers
Crowdfunding: The SEC Finally Acts on the Proposed Rules, Stacey L. Bowers
The Proposed Crowdfunding Rules for Non-Accredited Investors and the Potential Associated Costs for Small Issuers, Stacey L. Bowers
House Meddling with SEC to Block Disclosure of Political Contributions, J Robert Brown Jr
It’s Time to Increase Shareholder Voices Inside the Boardroom, J Robert Brown Jr
The Future Direction of Delaware Law (Including a Brief Exegesis on Fee Shifting Bylaws), J. Robert Brown Jr.
Comment Letter on Rule 14a-8(I)(10), Securities & Exchange Commission, June 18, 2015, J. Robert Brown Jr.
Comment Letter: The NYSE and the End of the Structural Separation Between Regulatory and Commercial Interests of the Exchange, J. Robert Brown Jr.
Comment on Rule 14a-8(i)(9), Securities and Exchange Commission, June 30, 2015, J. Robert Brown Jr.
Secularism, Sharia, and the Turkish Financial Markets, J. Robert Brown Jr.
Staying in the Delaware Corporate Governance Lane: Fee Shifting Bylaws and a Legislative Reaffirmation of the Rules of the Road, J. Robert Brown Jr.
Brief for Amici Curiae Scholars of the Constitutional Rights of Children in Support of Respondent Edith Windsor Addressing the Merits and Supporting Affirmance, J. Robert Brown Jr., Catherine E. Smith, Kyle C. Velte, Susannah William Pollvogt, and Tanya Washington
Causation and Harm in a Multicomponent World, Bernard Chao
Sustainable Development and Its Discontents, Federico Cheever and John C. Dernbach
An Introduction to Conservation Easements in the United States: A Simple Concept and a Complicated Mosaic of Law, Federico Cheever and Nancy A. McLaughlin
High Value Lies, Ugly Truths, and the First Amendment, Alan K. Chen and Justin F. Marceau
The Superagency Solution, K.K. DuVivier
Wind Power Growing Pains, K.K. DuVivier
Clinical Research: Should Patients Pay to Play?, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Steven Jofe, Christine Grady, David Wendler, and Govind Persad
Immigration Law by Proxy: The Case of Colorado’s Human Smuggling Crime, César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
The Life of Crimmigration Law, César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
Coaxing Culture: India’s Legislative Response to Dowry Deaths, Rashmi Goel
Comparative Perspectives on Gender Violence: Lessons From Efforts Worldwide, Rashmi Goel and Leigh Goodmark
Panel on Problematizing Assumptions about Gender Violence (transcript), Rashmi Goel, Tamara Love, Elizabeth MacDowell, and Adele Morrison
Domestic Violence and the Confrontation Clause: The Case for a Prompt Post-arrest Confrontation Hearing, Robert M. Hardaway
Extrajudicial Executions and Assaults in American Prisons and the Looming Human Rights Crisis, Robert M. Hardaway and Brandi Joffrion
Can You Fight Marijuana Laws with RICO Suits?, Sam Kamin
Is California’s System of Capital Punishment Unconstitutional?, Sam Kamin
The Battle of the Bulge: The Surprising Last Stand Against State Marijuana Legalization, Sam Kamin
The Constitutional Catch-22 of Florida’s Capital Sentencing Scheme, Sam Kamin
The Limits of Marijuana Legalization in the States, Sam kamin
The Work of the Task Force to Implement Amendment 64: A Case Study, Sam kamin
Remember Not to Forget Furman: A Response to Professor Smith, Sam Kamin and Justin F. Marceau
Trademark Laundering, Useless Patents, and Other IP Challenges for the Marijuana Industry, Sam Kamin and Viva Moffat
Public Lawyers and Marijuana Regulation, Sam Kamin and Eli Wald