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 2022
Preemption & Gender & Racial (In)Equity: Why State Tort Law Is Needed in the Cosmetic Context, Marie C. Boyd
Understanding Nonprofit and Tax Exempt Organizations 3rd edition, Jaclyn A. Cherry and Nicholas P. Carfardi
Disaggregating Legislative Intent, Jesse M. Cross
Taxing Choices, Tessa R. Davis
How the Legal Framework of Fracking in Appalachia Disserves the Poor, Ann M. Eisenberg
Power and Powerlessness in Local Government: A Response to Professor Swan, Ann M. Eisenberg
Rural Estrangement and the Regulatory State, Ann M. Eisenberg
Entrepreneurial Action in Family-Controlled Companies, Benjamin Means
The Constitutional Right to an Implicit Bias Jury Instruction, Colin Miller
Strategic Use of Alibi Defenses, Colin Miller and Kay L. Levine
Rights to Nowhere: The Idea's Inadequacy in High-Poverty Schools, Claire Raj
Compliance and Development: The Dual Objectives of Use-of-Force Review, Seth W. Stoughton
Policing Suspicion: Qualified Immunity and "Clearly Established" Standards of Proof, Seth W. Stoughton, Kyle McLean, Justin Nix, and Geoffrey P. Alpert
Institutional Betrayals As Sex Discrimination, Emily Suski
The Message: Resisting Cultures of Poverty in Urban America, Etienne C. Toussaint
Developing Police, Madalyn K. Wasilczuk
Unequal Investment: A Regulatory Case Study, Emily R. Winston
Submissions from 2021
Is a Single Bank Supervisor Inevitable Throughout the EU?, Duncan E. Alford
The Operation of Supervisory Colleges in EU Banking Supervision: A Case Study of Soft Law Becoming Hard Law, Duncan E. Alford
Education Law: Equality, Fairness, and Reform, Derek W. Black
Making Federalism Work: Lessons from Health Care to the Green New Deal, Jesse M. Cross and Shelley Welton
Declaring, Exploring, Instructing, and (Wait for It) Joking: Tonal Variation in Majority Opinions, Lisa A. Eichhorn
Approaches to Rural Property Vacancy in Law and Policy, Ann M. Eisenberg
Economic Regulation and Rural America, Ann M. Eisenberg
How the Legal Framework of Fracking in Appalachia Disserves the Poor, Ann M. Eisenberg
Market-Anticipatory Approaches to Rural Property Vacancy, Ann M. Eisenberg
Beyond “Children Are Different”: The Revolution in Juvenile Intake and Sentencing, Josh Gupta-Kagan
Modernizing Capacity Doctrine, Lisa V. Martin
MLB's Decision to Drop Atlanta Highlights the Economic Power Companies Can Wield Over Lawmakers - When They Choose to, Benjamin Means
The Lost Promise of Disability Rights, Claire Raj
Deference is Dead, Long Live Chevron, Nathan D. Richardson
No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know about Domestic Violence Can Kill Us, Eve Ross
South Carolina Practice Materials: A Selective Annotated Bibliography, Eve Ross
Plausible Harassment, Joseph Seiner
The Virtual Workplace: Public Health, Efficiency, and Opportunity, Joseph Seiner
Barring Immoral Speech in Patent and Copyright, Ned Snow
Intellectual Property & Immorality: Against Protecting Harmful Creations of the Mind, Ned Snow
Moral Bars to Intellectual Property: Theory & Apologetics, Ned Snow
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
Black Urban Ecologies and Structural Extermination, Etienne C. Toussaint
Food Access in Crisis: Food Security and COVID-19, Etienne C. Toussaint and Sabine O'Hara
Rethinking Grid Governance for the Climate Change Era, Shelley Welton
The Bounds of Energy Law, 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
Covid 19 Versus Climate Change Impacts: Lesson Learned During the Pandemic, David K. Linnan and Linda Y. Sulistiawat
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
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive, Eve Ross
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools, 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
Fair Use in Sayre v. Moore: A Reply to Oracle, Ned Snow
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
Blackness as Fighting Words, Etienne C. Toussaint
Of American Fragility: Public Rituals, Human Rights, and the End of Invisible Man, Etienne C. Toussaint
Tax Policy and Our Democracy, Clint Wallace
The Troubling Case of the Unlimited Pass-Through Deduction, Clint Wallace
Lessons from Disaster: Assessing the COVID19 Response in Youth Jails & Prisons, Madalyn K. Wasilczuk
Two tragedies occur when youths kill, end up in adult prisons, Madalyn K. Wasilczuk
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