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 2023
The Weaponization of Attorney’s Fees in an Age of Constitutional Warfare, Rebecca Aviel and Wiley Kersh
Grandma Got Arrested: Police, Excessive Force, and People with Dementia, Rashmi Goel
Preliminary Injunctions in Public Law: The Merits, Kevin J. Lynch
Submissions from 2022
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
Preventive Law in Corporate Practice, Robert M. Hardaway
Colorado Evidence: Courtroom Manual, Robert M. Hardaway and Glen Weissenberger
Criminalization as a Solution to Abuse, Tamara L. Kuennen
Reviving “Part Two” of the Power and Control Wheel, Tamara L. Kuennen and Jennifer Eyl
COVID-19 Vaccine Refusal and Fair Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources, Govind Persad and Emily A. Largent
The Broken Fourth Amendment Oath, Laurent Sacharoff
Submissions from 2021
Becoming Global Lawyers? A Comparative Study of Civic Professionalism, John Bliss
Privacy Losses as Wrongful Gains, Bernard Chao
Is Green Energy Truly Green?...The Growing Pains of Green Energy, K.K. DuVivier
Preventing Wind Waste, K.K. DuVivier
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
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
Rethinking Environmental Law: Why Environmental Laws Should Conform to the Laws of Nature, Jan G. Laitos
Incorporating Health Equity Into COVID-19 Reopening Plans: Policy Experimentation in California, Emily A. Largent, Govind Persad, Michelle M. Mello, Danielle M. Wenner, Daniel B. Kramer, Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds, and Monica Peek
Against Exclusive Survivalism: Preventing Lost Life and Protecting the Disadvantaged in Resource Allocation, Govind Persad
Allocating Medicine Fairly in an Unfair Pandemic, Govind Persad
Improving the Ethical Review of Health Policy and Systems Research: Some Suggestions, Govind Persad
Prioritizing the Prevention of Early Deaths during Covid-19, Govind Persad
Sustainability, Equal Treatment, and Temporal Neutrality, Govind Persad
Tailoring Public Health Policies, Govind Persad
Ethical Considerations of Offering Benefits to COVID-19 Vaccine Recipients, Govind Persad and Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Public Perspectives on COVID-19 Vaccine Prioritization, Govind Persad, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Samantha Sangenito, Aaron Glickman, Steven Phillips, and Emily A. Largent
Allocating Scarce Life-saving Resources: The Proper Role of Age, Govind Persad and Steven Joffe
Disrupting Frivolous Defenses, Thomas D. Russell
Frivolous Defenses, Thomas D. Russell
The Fight Between Biden and Trump Over Executive Privilege Should Be Decided In Favor of the Sitting President, Laurent Sacharoff
Questions of Citizenship and the Nature of "The Public", Sarah Schindler
The Harms of Liminal Housing Tenure: Installment Land Contracts and Tenancies in Common, Sarah Schindler and Kellen Zale
Categorized Priority Systems: A New Tool for Fairly Allocating Scarce Medical Resources in the Face of Profound Social Inequities, Tayfun Sönmez, Parag A. Pathak, M. Utku Ünver, Govind Persad, Robert D. Truog, and Douglas B. White
What We Do: The Life and Work of the Legal Writing Professor, David I.C. Thomson
Submissions from 2020
Should Pediatric Patients be Prioritized when Rationing Life-saving Treatments during COVID-19 Pandemic, Ryan M. Antiel, Farr A. Curlin, Govind Persad, Douglas B. White, Cathy Zhang, Aaron Glickman, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, and John D. Lantos
Eliminating Categorical Exclusion Criteria in Crisis Standards of Care Frameworks, Catherine L. Auriemma, Ashli M. Molinero, Amy J. Houtrow, Govind Persad, Douglas B. White, and Scott D. Halpern
Can Political Headwinds Against U.S. Offshore Wind Power Help Policy Change Course?, K.K. DuVivier
Siting Wind Turbines, K.K. DuVivier
The Law of Distributed Generation in the United States—Conclusions [including microgrids], K.K. DuVivier
Moat Mentality: Onshore and Offshore Approaches to Wind Waking, K.K. DuVivier and Brendan Mooney
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
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
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
Not All Violence in Relationships is “Domestic Violence", Tamara L. Kuennen
The Law of Toxic Substances and Hazardous Waste, Jan G. Laitos, John S. Applegate, Mary J. Angelo, and Jeffrey M. Gaba
Pioneers of Environmental Law, Jan G. Laitos and John Copeland Nagle
Principles of Natural Resources Law, 2d ed., Jan G. Laitos and Sandra B. Zellmer
US Public Attitudes Toward COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates, Emily A. Largent, Govind Persad, Samantha Sangenito, Aaron Glickman, Connor Boyle, and Ezekiel J. Emanuel
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
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
Respecting Disability Rights — Toward Improved Crisis Standards of Care, Michelle M. Mello, Govind Persad, and Douglas B. White
Choosing Affordable Health Insurance, Govind Persad
Disability Law and the Case for Evidence-based Triage in a Pandemic, Govind Persad
Expensive Patients, Reinsurance, and the Future of Health Care Reform, Govind Persad
A Conceptual Framework for Clearer Ethical Discussions About COVID-19 Response, Govind C. Persad
Advance Directives and Transformative Experience: Resilience in the Face of Change, Govind C. Persad
The Case for Valuing Non-health and Indirect Benefits, Govind Persad and Jessica du Toit
The Ethics of COVID-19 Immunity-based Licenses ("Immunity Passports"), Govind Persad and Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Fairly Prioritizing Groups for Access to COVID-19 Vaccines, Govind Persad, Monica E. Peek, and Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Allocating Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19. Reply, Govind Persad, James Phillips, and Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Criminal Trespass and Computer Crime, Laurent Sacharoff
The Fourth Amendment Inventory as a Check on Digital Searches, Laurent Sacharoff
Pardoning Dogs, Sarah Schindler
Tear It All Down: Highways as Racist Monuments, Sarah Schindler
How the Law Fails Tenants (and Not Just During a Pandemic), Sarah Schindler and Kellen Zale
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 Persad, and Joseph Millum
Submissions from 2019
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
Saving the Electoral College: Why the National Popular Vote Would Undermine Democracy, Robert M. Hardaway
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
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
Submissions from 2018
Intimate Partner Violence & Men’s Professional Sports: Advancing the Ball, Chelsea Augelli and Tamara L. Kuennen
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
Distributed Renewable Energy: Summary and Key Recommendations, K.K. DuVivier
Marijuana Politics: Uncovering the Troublesome History and Social Costs of Criminalization, Robert M. Hardaway
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
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