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 2020
Distributive Justice and Rural America, Ann M. Eisenberg
Litigation As Parenting, Lisa Martin
Submissions from 2019
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
Marketing Legal Assistance, Elizabeth Chambliss
Marketing Legal Assistance, Elizabeth Chambliss
Nonprofit Governance: Who Should be Watching? A Look at State, Federal and Dual Regulation, Jaclyn A. Cherry
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
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
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
Platform Pleading: Analyzing Employment Disputes in the Technology Sector, 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
Clean Energy Justice: Charting an Emerging Agenda, Shelley Welton and Joel Eisen
Submissions from 2018
Preferencing Educational Choice: The Constitutional Limits, Derek Black
ender, Race & the Inadequate Regulation of Cosmetics, Marie C. Boyd
Serving Up Allergy Labeling: Mitigating Food Allergen Risks in Restaurants, Marie C. Boyd
When Courts Should Ignore Statutory Text, Jesse M. Cross
A Human Capital Theory of Alimony and Tax, Tessa R. Davis
Who Owned the Lucas Lots; What No Property Looks Like on the Beach, Josh Eagle
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
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
Denying Trademark for Scandalous Speech, Ned Snow
Police Body-Worn Cameras, Seth W. Stoughton
Deadly Force Proposal Needs Work, Seth W. Stoughton and Arif Alikhan
Centralized Review of Tax Regulations, Clinton G. Wallace
GRASPING FOR ENERGY DEMOCRACY, Shelley Welton
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
Property Tax Exemption for Charitable Nonprofit Organizations: A Uniform Possibility, Jaclyn A. Cherry
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
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
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
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
Automated Driving and Product Liability, Bryant Walker Smith
How Government Can Promote Automated Driving, Bryant Walker Smith
Discrimination in the Copyright Clause, Ned Snow
Moral Judgments in Trademark Law, Ned Snow
Terry v. Ohio and the (Un)Forgettable Frisk, Seth W. Stoughton
A First Amendment Deference Approach for Reforming Anti-Bullying Laws, Emily Suski
Grid Modernization and Energy Poverty, Shelley Welton
Public Energy, Shelley Welton
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
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
Wealth Inequality and Family Businesses, Benjamin Means
Navigating the Uber Economy, Benjamin Means and Joseph Seiner
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
Free Speech & Disparaging Trademarks, Ned Snow
Submissions from 2015
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
Transplanting the Journal to Academia without Severing the Boots, S. Alan Medlin
Initial Reflections on an Interdisciplinary Approach to Rule of Law Studies, Aparna Polavarapu and Joel Samuels