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 2021
Economic Regulation and Rural America, Ann M. Eisenberg
The Lost Promise of Disability Rights, Claire Raj
The Virtual Workplace: Public Health, Efficiency, and Opportunity, Joseph Seiner
Patent Law: Fundamentals of Doctrine and Policy, Ned Snow and Daniel H. Brean
How the Fourth Amendment Frustrates the Regulation of Police Violence, Seth W. Stoughton
Subverting Title IX, Emily Suski
Rethinking Grid Governance for the Climate Change Era, Shelley Welton
ICWA’s Irony, Marcia A. Yablon-Zug
Submissions from 2020
Schoolhouse Burning: Public Education and the Assault on American Democracy, Derek W. Black
The Uniform Basis Rules and Terminating Interests in Trusts Early, F. Ladson Boyle, Howard M. Zaritsky, and D. Ryan Wallace
Who Feels Entitled to Assert Legal Rights?, Elizabeth S. Chambliss
The Fourth Amendment at Home, Thomas P. Crocker
Legislative History in the Modern Congress, Jesse M. Cross
Rethinking the Conflicts Revolution in Personal Jurisdiction, Jesse M. Cross
The Congressional Bureaucracy, Jesse M. Cross and Abbe Gluck
Distributive Justice and Rural America, Ann M. Eisenberg
American Conflicts of Law: Cases and Materials, Robert L. Felix, Ralph U. Whitten, Richard Henry Seamon, and Jesse M. Cross
South Carolina Civil Procedure, James F. Flanagan, John S. Nicols, Joel Samuels, and Colin Miller
America’s Hidden Foster Care System, Josh Gupta-Kagan
Litigation As Parenting, Lisa Martin
Why States Must Consider Innocence Claims after Guilty Pleas, Colin Miller
Without Land, Without Justice: How Women’s Lack of Land Rights Impedes Access to Justice, Aparna Polavarapu
The Rise and Fall of Clean Air Act Climate Policy, Nathan Richardson
Bar Bytes: Fastcase as a Supplement to Westlaw, Eve Ross
What Gets Libraries Sued: Measuring Librarian Fears against Statistical Realities, Eve Ross and Kristina Schwoebel
Workplace Law, Social Neuroscience, and the Right to be Different, Joseph Seiner
How Reporters Can Evaluate Automated Driving Announcements, Bryant Walker Smith
New Technologies and Old Treaties, Bryant Walker Smith
Immoral Trademarks After Brunetti, Ned Snow
The Regulation of Police Violence, Seth W. Stoughton
Evaluating Police Uses of Force, Seth W. Stoughton, Jeffrey J. Noble, and Geoffrey P. Alpert
How to Actually Fix America’s Police, Seth W. Stoughton, Jeffrey J. Noble, and Geoffrey P. Alpert
Addressing Misconduct Will Require A Change in Police Culture. Is Police Leadership Up To The Challenge?, Seth W. Stoughton and Karen Collins Rice
The Title IX Paradox, Emily Suski
Tax Policy and Our Democracy, Clint Wallace
The Troubling Case of the Unlimited Pass-Through Deduction, Clint Wallace
Decarbonization in Democracy, Shelley Welton
Managerial Fixation and the Limitations of Shareholder Oversight, Emily R. Winston
ICWA Downunder: Exploring the Costs and Benefits of Enacting an Australian Version of the United States' Indian Child Welfare Act, Marcia A. Yablon-Zug
ICWA International: The Benefits and Dangers of Enacting ICWA-Type Legislation in Non-U.S. Jurisdictions, Marcia A. Yablon-Zug
Submissions from 2019
How to Ensure Your Supervisory College Meeting Is an Abysmal Failure, Duncan E. Alford
Breaking the Norm of School Reform, Derek Black
Educational Gerrymandering: Money, Motives, and Constitutional Rights, Derek Black
Equality Opportunity and the Schoolhouse Gate, Derek Black and Michelle Adams
Evidence-Based Lawyer Regulation, Elizabeth Chambliss
Location, Location, Vocation? Toward a Post-Recession Analysis of Law School Choice, Elizabeth Chambliss
Marketing Legal Assistance, Elizabeth Chambliss
Free Appropriate Public Education After Andrew F. v. Douglas County School District (2017), Terrye Conroy and Mitchell Yell
The Staffer's Error Doctrine, Jesse M. Cross
Freezing the Future: Elective Egg Freezing and the Limits of the Medical Expense Deduction, Tessa R. Davis
Ocean and Coastal Resources Law, Josh Eagle and Shi-Ling Hsu
Just Transitions, Ann M. Eisenberg
Equitable Health Savings Accounts, Samuel Estreicher and Clinton G. Wallace
Bar Bytes: Phishing Update - A Whale of a Tale, Aaron Glenn
Reevaluating School Searches Following School-to-Prison Pipeline Reforms, Josh Gupta-Kagan
No Right to Counsel, No Access Without: The Poor Child's Unconstitutional Catch-22, Lisa V. Martin
The Value of Insider Control, Benjamin Means
The Right to Evidence of Innocence Before Pleading Guilty, Colin Miller
Coerced Choice: School Vouchers and Students with Disabilities, Claire Raj
The Promise and Peril of Using Disability Law as a Tool for School Reform, Claire Raj
Bar Bytes: Social Media Benefits, Risks, and Best Practices, Eve Ross
Data-Driven Law: Data Analytics and the New Legal Services, Eve Ross
The Legacy of Colonialism on the Rule of Law in Sub Saharan Africa, Joel Samuels
The Rule of Law Collaborative: A Center for Practical, Interdisciplinary Research, and Engagement on Pressing Rule of Law Issues Around the World, Joel H. Samuels
A Fresh Look at the Workplace Rules for Franchisors, Joseph Seiner
Employment Discrimination: Procedure, Principles, and Practice, Joseph Seiner
Harassment, Technology, and the Modern Worker, Joseph Seiner
Platform Pleading: Analyzing Employment Disputes in the Technology Sector, Joseph Seiner
The Discrimination Presumption, Joseph Seiner
It's Not the Robot's Fault! Russian and American Perspectives on Responsibility for Robot Harms, Bryant Walker Smith and Andrey Neznamov
Who Decides Fair Use -- Judge or Jury?, Ned Snow
The School Civil Rights Vacuum, Emily Suski
The Quiet Undoing: How Regional Electricity Market Reforms Threaten Clean Energy Goals, Shelley Welton and Danny Cullenward
Clean Energy Justice: Charting an Emerging Agenda, Shelley Welton and Joel Eisen
Submissions from 2018
Preferencing Educational Choice: The Constitutional Limits, Derek Black
The Constitutional Compromise to Guarantee Education, Derek W. Black
Gender, Race & the Inadequate Regulation of Cosmetics, Marie C. Boyd
Serving Up Allergy Labeling: Mitigating Food Allergen Risks in Restaurants, Marie C. Boyd
CONSTITUTIONS, RULE FOLLOWING, AND THE CRISIS OF CONSTRAINT, Thomas P. Crocker and Michael P. Hodges
When Courts Should Ignore Statutory Text, Jesse M. Cross
A Human Capital Theory of Alimony and Tax, Tessa R. Davis
Are Beach Boundaries Enforceable? Real-Time Locational Uncertainty and the Right to Exclude, Josh Eagle
Are Beach Boundaries Enforceable? Real-Time Locational Uncertainty and the Right to Exclude, Josh Eagle
Who Owned the Lucas Lots; What No Property Looks Like on the Beach, Josh Eagle
Rural Blight, Ann M. Eisenberg
The Private Insurance Market: Not Very Big and Not Insuring Much, Either, Jacqueline R. Fox
Rethinking Family Court Prosecutors: Elected and Agency Prosecutors and Prosecutorial Discretion in Juvenile Delinquency and Child Protection Cases, Josh Gupta-Kagan
The Intersection between Young Adult Sentencing and Mass Incarceration, Josh Gupta-Kagan
A Modern Union for the Modern Economy, Jeffrey M. Hirsch and Joseph Seiner
Crashworthiness: The Collision of Sellers' Responsibility for Product Safety with Comparative Fault, F. Patrick Hubbard and Evan Sobocinski
Restraining Forced Marriage, Lisa Martin
Plea Agreements as Constitutional Contracts, Colin Miller
Reciprocal Immunity, Colin Miller
Work Expectations and the Able-Bodied Adult: Myths and Realities in Food Stamp Reform, Elizabeth Patterson
Global Carceral Feminism and Domestic Violence: What the West Can Learn from Reconciliation in Uganda, Aparna Polavarapu
Disability, Discipline, and Illusory Student Rights, Claire S. Raj
Social License to Regulate: Consumer-Producer Collusion and Related Policy Risks for Consumer-Facing Regulation, Nathan D. Richardson
Bar Bytes: Books Help Lawyers Learn Technology, Eve Ross
A Modern Approach to Pay Disparities in the Workplace, Joseph Seiner
Denying Trademark for Scandalous Speech, Ned Snow