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 2020
Nonessential Businesses and Liability Waivers in the Time of COVID-19, Zahra Takhshid
Retrievable Images on Social Media Platforms: A Call for a New Privacy Tort, Zahra Takhshid
The Dodd-Frank Death Knell, Celia R. Taylor
How Online Learning Can Help Address Three Persistent Problems in Legal Education, David I. C. Thomson
Looking Back: A Case Study of Career Interest and Experiential Learning in Law School, David I.C. Thomson and Stephen Daniels
Setting Priorities Fairly in Response to Covid-19: Identifying Overlapping Consensus and Reasonable Disagreement, David Wasserman, Govind C. Persad, and Joseph Millum
Setting Priorities Fairly in Response to Covid-19: Identifying Overlapping Consensus and Reasonable Disagreement, David Wasserman, Govind Persad, and Joseph Millum
Submissions from 2019
Windmills of Your Mind: Understanding the Neurobiology of Emotion, Debra S. Austin
Rights as a Zero-Sum Game, Rebecca Aviel
A Critical Study of the Methodology of Comparative U.S. Tort Law Research, Hassan Badini and Zahra Takhshid
Accounting and Corporate Finance for Lawyers, Stacey L. Bowers
Focusing Patent Litigation, Bernard Chao
Saliency, Anchors & Frames: A Multicomponent Damages Experiment, Bernard Chao
How Evidence of Subsequent Remedial Measures Matters, Bernard Chao and Kylie Santos
Distributed Renewable Energy, K.K. DuVivier
Uniting the Head, Hands, and Heart: How Specialty Externships Can Combat Public Interest Drift, Alexi Freeman and Katherine Steefel
Horizontal Regulatory Coherence Aspects of the TPP, David A. Gantz and Jorge Huerta-Goldman
Saving the Electoral College: Why the National Popular Vote Would Undermine Democracy, Robert M. Hardaway
Extraterritoriality and Proximate Cause after WesternGeco, Timothy R. Holbrook
What Counts as Extraterritorial in Patent Law?, Timothy R. Holbrook
How Science Has Influenced, but Should now Determine, Environmental Policy, Jan G. Laitos
Natural Resources Law, 3d ed., Jan G. Laitos
Fracking the Public Trust, Kevin J. Lynch
Authority Without Identity: Defending Advance Directives via Posthumous Rights Over One's Body, Govind Persad
Considering Quality of Life while Repudiating Disability Injustice: A Pathways Approach to Setting Priorities, Govind Persad
Cost-effectiveness in Animal Health, Govind Persad
Examining Pharmaceutical Exceptionalism: Intellectual Property, Practical Expediency, and Global Health, Govind Persad
Justice and Public Health, Govind Persad
Transparency Trade-offs Priority Setting, Scarcity, and Health Fairness, Govind Persad
Will More Organs Save More Lives? Cost‐effectiveness and the Ethics of Expanding Organ Procurement, Govind Persad
Do Pharmaceutical Patents Generate Unique Global Health Duties?, Govind C. Persad
What Should We Ask About Age-Based Criteria in Healthcare?, Govind C. Persad
Differential Payment to Research Participants in the Same Study: An Ethical Analysis, Govind Persad, Holly Fernandez Lynch, and Emily Largent
Are Medicaid Closed Formularies Unethical?, Leah Rand and Govind Persad
What Am I Really Saying When I Open My Smartphone: A Response to Prof. Kerr, Laurent Sacharoff
Reconsidering the Strength of the Boundary Line, Sarah Schindler
Making Corporations More Human Through Artificial Intelligence, Michael R. Siebecker
Submissions from 2018
Intimate Partner Violence & Men’s Professional Sports: Advancing the Ball, Chelsea Augelli and Tamara L. Kuennen
Positive Legal Education: Flourishing Law Students and Thriving Law Schools, Debra S. Austin
Rule 8.4 and the First Amendment: Distinguishing Between Discrimination and Free Speech, Rebecca Aviel
Drifting Law Students: Public Interest Caught in the Law Firm Pipeline, John Bliss
From Idealists to Hired Guns? An Empirical Analysis of "Public Interest Drift" in Law School, John Bliss
Rethinking the First Year Curriculum, John Bliss
The Law School Laboratory: A Call for Developing the “Third Apprenticeship” Through Experimental Research, John Bliss
Does Cryptocurrency Trading Favor Retail Investors, and if So, for How Long?, Stacey L. Bowers
What is an Initial Coin Offering (ICO)?, Stacey L. Bowers
SHAREHOLDER PROPOSALS AND THE LIMITS OF ENCRYPTED INTERPRETATIONS, J. Robert Brown Jr.
Lost Profits in a Multicomponent World, Bernard Chao
Why Courts Fail to Protect Privacy: Race, Age, Bias, and Technology, Bernard Chao, Catherine Durso, Ian Farrell, and Christopher Robertson
The New Settlement Tools, Bernard Chao, Christopher Robertson, and David Yokum
The Intractability of Qualified Immunity, Alan K. Chen
Developing a Taxonomy of Lies Under the First Amendment, Alan K. Chen and Justin Marceau
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
Distributed Renewable Energy: Summary and Key Recommendations, K.K. DuVivier
From Premodern Christianity to the Postmodern Jury, Ian Farrell
The Fallacy of Choice: The Destructive Effect of School Vouchers on Students with Disabilities, Ian Farrell and Cheslea Marx
Positive Disruption: Addressing Race in a Time of Social Change Through a Team-taught, Reflection-based, Outward looking Law School Seminar, Alexi Freeman and Lindsey Webb
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
Patent Prior Art and Possession, Timothy R. Holbrook
Positive Institutions: Organizations, Laws, and Policies, Peter H. Huang, Anne M. Brafford, Debra S. Austin, and Martha Knudson
Jeff Sessions’s New Pot Policy: What Happens Now?, Sam Kamin
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics About Marijuana Legalization, Sam Kamin
Maybe This Time Is Different, Sam Kamin
“You’ve Always Had the Power.” Marijuana, Federalism, and Separation of Powers, Sam Kamin
A Rosetta Stone for Causation, Martin J. Katz
Making Sense of Causation in Mixed Movies Cases, Martin J. Katz
The Paralysis Paradox and the Untapped Role of Science in Solving “Big” “Environmental Problems, Jan G. Laitos and Christopher Ainscough
Regulation of Toxic Substances and Hazardous Waste, 3d ed., Jan G. Laitos, John S. Applegate, Jeffrey M. Gaba, and Noah M. Sachs
Against Women’s Sports, Nancy Leong
Costs and Consequences of Wake Effects Arising from Uncoordinated Wind Energy Development, J.K. Lundquist, K.K. DuVivier, D. Kaffine, and J.M. Tomaszewski
A Fracking Mess: Just Compensation for Regulatory Takings of Oil and Gas Property Rights, Kevin J. Lynch
Distributive Justice and the Relief of Household Debt, Govind Persad
Downward Mobility and Rawlsian Justice, Govind Persad
Evaluating the Legality of Age-based Criteria in Health Care: From Nondiscrimination and Discretion to Distributive Justice, Govind Persad
Paying Patients: Legal and Ethical Dimensions, Govind Persad
On Litigating Constitutional Challenges to the Federal Supermax: Improving Conditions and Shining a Light, Laura L. Rovner
Do Bots Have First Amendment Rights?, Laurent Sacharoff
Russia Gave Bots a Bad Name. Here’s Why We Need Them More Than Ever, Laurent Sacharoff
Unlocking the Fifth Amendment: Passwords and Encrypted Devices, Laurent Sacharoff
Food Federalism: States, Local Governments, and the Fight for Food Sovereignty, Sarah Schindler
The "Publicization" of Private Space, Sarah Schindler
President Trump, The New Chicago School, and the Future of Environmental Law and Scholarship, Sarah Schindler and Jason Czarnezki
Administrative Law: A Casebook, Bernard Schwartz, Roberto L. Corrada, J. Robert Brown, and Jessica L. West
Corporate Compliance and Criminality: Does the Common Law Promote Culpable Blindness?, Michael R. Siebecker and Andrew W. Brandes
If You Build It, They Will Come: What Students Say About Experiential Learning, David I.C. Thomson and Stephen Daniels
Slave Narratives and the Sentencing Court, Lindsey Webb
Submissions from 2017
Substance Misuse in the Legal Profession at the Law School Wellness Project at Stanford Law School, Debra S. Austin
Food for Thought: The Neuroscience of Nutrition to Fuel Cognitive Performance, Debra S. Austin
Mindfulness for Lawyers: Decrease your Stress and Improve your Performance, Debra S. Austin
The Path to Lawyer Well-Being: Practical Recommendations for Positive Change, Debra S. Austin
Divided Selves: Professional Role Distancing among Law Students and New Lawyers in a Period of Market Crisis, John Bliss
An Open Letter to Jay Clayton, Trump’s New Wall Street Cop, J Robert Brown Jr
Corporate Governance, Shareholder Proposals, and Engagement Between Managers and Owners, J Robert Brown Jr
The Regulation of Corporate Disclosure, J Robert Brown Jr
Time is Money: An Empirical Assessment of Non-economic Damages Arguments, John Campbell, Bernard Chao, and Christopher Robertson
Testing the White Hat Effect in Patent Litigation, Bernard Chao and Roderick O’Dorisio