The University of South Carolina School of Law has more than 50 full-time faculty members, including clinical and visiting professors, and approximately 25 adjunct professors who teach advanced courses and trial advocacy. Our law faculty is committed to excellence in teaching and research, and includes many who are nationally prominent in their respective areas of expertise. Among the faculty are authors of leading casebooks, treatises, and law review articles.
Submissions from 2018
The Legal Framework for Evidence-Based Policing in the United States, Seth W. Stoughton
Deadly Force Proposal Needs Work, Seth W. Stoughton and Arif Alikhan
The Privacy of the Public School, Emily Suski
The Privacy of the Public School, Emily Suski
The New Gospel of Wealth: On Social Impact Bonds and the Privatization of Public Good, Etienne C. Toussaint
Centralized Review of Tax Regulations, Clinton G. Wallace
Applying the death penalty to drug dealers is never ‘appropriate’. It violates international law, Madalyn K. Wasilczuk
Electricity Markets and the Social Project of Decarbonization, Shelley Welton
Electricity Markets and the Social Project of Decarbonization, Shelley Welton
GRASPING FOR ENERGY DEMOCRACY, Shelley Welton
Will FERC Uphold State Support for Clean Energy?, Shelley Welton and Danny Cullenward
Benefit Corporations and the Separation of Benefit and Control, Emily R. Winston
Submissions from 2017
Abandoning the Federal Role in Education, Derek Black
Averting Educational Crisis: Funding Cuts, Teacher Shortages, and the Dwindling Commitment to Public Education, Derek Black
Cricket Soup: A Critical Examination of the Regulation of Insects as Food, Marie C. Boyd
All for Civil Rights: African American Lawyers in South Carolina, W. Lewis Burke
Employment Law in a Nutshell, Robert N. Covington and Joseph Seiner
Constitutive Visions: Sovereignty, Necessity, and Saramago’s Blindness, Thomas P. Crocker
Free Speech and Terrorist Speech: An Essay on Dangerous Ideas, Thomas P. Crocker
Tax and Social Context: Legal Fictions and Tax, Tessa R. Davis
The Tax-Immigration Nexus, Tessa R. Davis
Alienation and Reconciliation in Social-Ecological Systems, Ann M. Eisenberg
Do Sagebrush Rebels Have a Colorable Claim? The Space between Parochialism and Exclusion in Federal Lands Management, Ann M. Eisenberg
Removal of Women and African-Americans in Jury Selection in South Carolina Capital Cases, 1997- 2012, Ann M. Eisenberg
If Its Walks like Systematic Exclusion and Quacks like Systematic Exclusion: Follow-up on Removal of Women and African-Americans in Jury Selection in South Carolina Capital Cases, 1997-2014, Ann M. Eisenberg, Amelia Courtney Hritz, Caisa Elizabeth Royer, and John H. Blume
Healthism, Insurance, and Intersectionality, Jacqueline Fox
Zika and the Failure to Act Under the Police Power, Jacqueline Fox
A Tactical Fourth Amendment, Brandon L. Garrett and Seth W. Stoughton
Finally Time for Realistic and Determinate Standards in Family Court, Josh Gupta-Kagan
Finally Time for Realistic and Determinate Standards in Family Court, Josh Gupta-Kagan
The School to Prison Pipeline's Legal Architecture: Lessons from the Spring Valley Incident and its Aftermath, Josh Gupta-Kagan
The Strange Life of Stanley v. Illinois: A Case Study in Parent Representation and Law Reform, Josh Gupta-Kagan
The Standard of Proof in the Substantiation of Child Abuse and Neglect, Josh Gupta-Kagan, Nicholas E. Kahn, and Mary Eschelbach Hansen
The Standard of Proof in the Substantiation of Child Abuse and Neglect, Josh Gupta-Kagan, Nicholas Kahn, and Mary Eschelbach Hansen
Assessing the Viability of Race-Neutral Alternatives in Law School Admissions, Eboni S. Nelson
Turner in the Trenches: A Study of How Turner v. Rogers Affected Child Support Contempt Proceedings, Elizabeth Patterson
Endrew F.'s Unintended Consequences, Claire Raj and Emily Suski
The Elephant in the Room or the Elephant in the Mousehole? The Legal Risks (and promise) of Climate Policy Under §115 of the Clean Air Act, Nathan Richardson
Risks and Mitigation Options for On-site Storage of Wastewater from Shale Gas and Tight Oil Development, Nathan D. Richardson, Yusuke Kuwayama, Skyler Roeshot, Alan Krupnick, and Jan Mares
Risks and Mitigation Options for On-site Storage of Wastewater from Shale Gas and Tight Oil Development, Nathan D. Richardson, Yusuke Kuwayama, Skyler Roeshot, Alan Krupnick, and Jan Mares
Tailoring Class Actions to the On-Demand Economy, Joseph Seiner
Automated Driving and Product Liability, Bryant Walker Smith
How Government Can Promote Automated Driving, Bryant Walker Smith
The Trolley and the Pinto: Cost-Benefit Analysis in Automated Driving and Other Cyber-Physical Systems, Bryant Walker Smith
Discrimination in the Copyright Clause, Ned Snow
Intellectual Property: A Survey of the Law, Ned Snow
Moral Judgments in Trademark Law, Ned Snow
Moonlighting: The Private Employment of Off-Duty Officers, Seth W. Stoughton
Terry v. Ohio and the (Un)Forgettable Frisk, Seth W. Stoughton
The Blurred Blue Line: Reform in an Era of Public & Private Policing, Seth W. Stoughton
A Tactical Fourth Amendment, Seth W. Stoughton and Brandon Garrett
A First Amendment Deference Approach for Reforming Anti-Bullying Laws, Emily Suski
Congressional Control of Tax Rulemaking, Clint Wallace
Clean Electrification, Shelley Welton
Grid Modernization and Energy Poverty, Shelley Welton
Public Energy, Shelley Welton
Make Immigration Great Again: How Morales-Santana Could Signal the End of Sexist Immigration Law and Provide a Way to Fight the Travel Ban, Marcia A. Yablon-Zug
Traditional Problems: Gay Marriage and the Backlash against Indian Sovereignty, Marcia A. Yablon-Zug
Your Money or Your Life: Indian Parents and Child Support Modifications, Marcia A. Yablon-Zug
Your Money or Your Life: Indian Parents and Child Support Modifications, Marcia A. Yablon-Zug
Submissions from 2016
Reforming School Discipline, Derek Black
Taking Teacher Quality Seriously, Derek W. Black
The Constitutional Challenge to Teacher Tenure, Derek W. Black
Introduction: What We Know and Need to Know About the State of 'Access to Justice' Research, Elizabeth Chambliss, Renee N. Knake, and Robert L. Nelson
Nothing Could Be Finer? The Role of Agency General Counsel in North and South Carolina, Elizabeth Chambliss and Dana Remus
What Would Scalia Do?, Thomas P. Crocker
Climate Change and the Confluence of Natural and Human History: A Lawyer’s Perspective, Josh Eagle
Taking the Oceanfront Lot, Josh Eagle
Old Habits: Sister Bernadette and the Potential Revival of Sentence Diagramming in Written Legal Advocacy, Lisa A. Eichhorn
Addressing Rural Blight: Lessons from West Virginia and WV LEAP, Ann M. Eisenberg
Land Shark at the Door? Why and How States Should Regulate Landmen, Ann M. Eisenberg
Treading Well beyond the Ecological to Account for Socioecological Systems and Human Rights in Climate Adaptation Law, Ann M. Eisenberg
Reforming Healthcare Reform, Jacqueline Fox
Child Protection Law as an Independent Variable, Josh Gupta-Kagan
Child Protection Law as an Independent Variable, Josh Gupta-Kagan
Stanley v. Illinois’ Untold Story, Josh Gupta-Kagan
Putting a Carbon Price on Federal Coal: Legal and Economic Issues, Alan Krupnick, Joel Darmstadter, Nathan D. Richardson, and Katrina McLaughlin
Bridging the Justice Gap in Family Law: Repurposing Federal IV-D Funding to Expand Community-Based Legal and Social Services for Parents, Lisa V. Martin and Stacy Brustin
Wealth Inequality and Family Businesses, Benjamin Means
Collective Coercion, Benjamin Means and Susan S. Kuo
Navigating the Uber Economy, Benjamin Means and Joseph Seiner
Sovereign Impunity: Why Double Jeopardy Should Apply in Puerto Rico, Colin Miller
Expanding Standing to Develop Democracy: Third Party Public Interest Standing as a Tool for Emerging Democracies, Aparna Polavarapu
The Misidentification of Children with Disabilities: A harm with no foul, Claire Raj
Keeping Big Cases from Making Bad Law: The Resurgent "Major Questions" Doctrine, Nathan D. Richardson
Commonality and the Constitution: Applying Wal-Mart to State Court Cases, Joseph Seiner
Controlling Humans and Machines, Bryant Walker Smith
Free Speech & Disparaging Trademarks, Ned Snow
Principled Policing: Warrior Cops and Guardian Officers, Seth W. Stoughton
Incarceration to Incorporation: Economic Empowerment for Returning Citizens through Social Impact Bonds, Etienne C. Toussaint
The Mail-Order Brides of Jamestown, Virginia, Marcia A. Yablon-Zug
Why Same-Sex Marriage Bans Risk Native American Sovereignty, Marcia A. Yablon-Zug
Submissions from 2015
Resolving LLC Member Disputes in North Carolina, James R. Burkhard
Dystopian Constitutionalism, Thomas P. Crocker
Mapping the Families of the Internal Revenue Code, Tessa R. Davis
When Does Flexibility Matter in Environmental Law?, Josh Eagle
Beyond Science and Hysteria: Reality and Perceptions of Environmental Justice Concerns Surrounding Marcellus and Utica Shale Gas Development, Ann M. Eisenberg
The New Permanency, Josh Gupta-Kagan
Stock Market Law and the Accuracy of Public Companies’ Stock Prices, Kevin Haeberle
Paved with Good Intentions: Unintended Consequences of Federal Proposals to Integrate Child Support and Parenting Time, Lisa V. Martin and Stacy Brustin