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 2015
Contractual Freedom and Family Business, Benjamin Means
Transplanting the Journal to Academia without Severing the Boots, S. Alan Medlin
Cloning Miranda: Why Medical Miranda Supports the Pre-Assertion of Criminal Miranda Rights, Colin Miller
Initial Reflections on an Interdisciplinary Approach to Rule of Law Studies, Aparna Polavarapu and Joel Samuels
The Gap Between Rights and Reality: The Intersection of Language, Disability, and Educational Opportunity, Claire Raj
Carbon Taxes and Energy Intensive Trade Exposed Industries: Impacts and Options, Nathan D. Richardson, Carloyn Fischer, and Richard Morgenstern
Heterogeneity of State Shale Gas Regulations, Nathan D. Richardson, Alan Krupnick, and Madeline Gottlieb
The Issue Class, Joseph Seiner
Content-Based Copyright Denial, Ned Snow
Evidentiary Rulings as Police Reform, Seth W. Stoughton
Law Enforcement's "Warrior Problem", Seth W. Stoughton
Better Information Is the Key to Policing Reform, Seth W. Stoughton, Jeff Noble, and Geoffrey P. Alpert
Why Police Need Constructive Criticism, Seth W. Stoughton, Jeff Noble, and Geoffrey P. Alpert
Non-Transmission Alternatives, Shelley Welton
The Mirage of Immigration Reform, Marcia A. Yablon-Zug
Submissions from 2014
Federalizing Education by Waiver?, Derek W. Black
Fisher v. Texas and the Irrelevance of Function in Race Cases, Derek W. Black
The Constitutional Limit of Zero Tolerance in Schools, Derek W. Black
Unequal Protection under the Law: Why FDA Should Use Negotiated Rulemaking to Reform the Regulation of Generic Drugs, Marie C. Boyd
Pink Franklin v. South Carolina: The NAACP’s First Case, W. Lewis Burke
Law School Training for Licensed 'Legal Technicians'? Implications for the Consumer Market, Elizabeth Chambliss
Ubiquitous Privacy, Thomas P. Crocker
National “Harmony”: An Inter-Branch Constitutional Principle and Its Application to Diversity Jurisdiction, Jesse M. Cross
Taxing Modern Families Part I: Mapping the Families of Tax, Tessa R. Davis
Caring and the Law, Jacqueline R. Fox
Death Panels: A Defense of the Independent Payment Advisory Board, Jacqueline R. Fox
In Re Sanders and the Resurrection of Stanley v. Illinois, Josh Gupta-Kagan
Non-Exclusive Adoption and Child Welfare, Josh Gupta-Kagan
'Sophisticated Robots': Balancing Liability, Regulation, and Innovation, F. Patrick Hubbard
The Value of Life: Constitutional Limits on Citizens’ Use of Deadly Force, F. Patrick Hubbard
Reconsidering Dual Consent, Lisa V. Martin
The Contractual Foundation of Family-Business Law, Benjamin Means
The Prudential Third-Party Standing of Family-Owned Corporations, Benjamin Means and Matthew I. Hall
Contents May Have Shifted: Disentangling the Best Evidence Rule from the Rule Against Hearsay, Colin Miller
The Social Medium: Why the Authenticantion Bar Should Be Raised for Social Media Evidence, Colin Miller
Reading between the Blurred Lines of Fisher v. University of Texas, Eboni S. Nelson
Comparing the Clean Air Act and a Carbon Price, Nathan D. Richardson and Arthur Fraas
Hydraulic Fracturing on Federal and Indian Lands: An Analysis of the Bureau of Land Management's Revised Proposed Rule, Nathan D. Richardson, Alan Krupnick, Madeline Gottlieb, and Molly Feiden
Managing the Risks of Shale Gas Development Using Innovative Legal and Regulatory Approaches, Nathan D. Richardson and Sheila Olmstead
Automated Vehicles Are Probably Legal in the United States, Bryant Walker Smith
Proximity-Driven Liability, Bryant Walker Smith
Policing Facts, Seth W. Stoughton
The Incidental Regulation of Policing, Seth W. Stoughton
50 Years After the War on Poverty: An Introduction, Emily Suski
Beyond the Schoolhouse Gates: The Unprecedented Expansion of School Surveillance Authority under Cyberbulling Laws, Emily Suski
US Federal Climate Change Law in Obama’s Second Term, Shelley Welton and Michael Gerrard
The Real Impact of Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl: The Existing Indian Family Doctrine Is Not Affirmed But the Future of ICWA's Placement Preferences Is Jeopardized, Marcia A. Yablon-Zug
Submissions from 2013
International Financial Reforms: Capital Standards, Resolution Regimes and Supervisory Colleges, and their Effect on Emerging Markets, Duncan E. Alford
Charter Schools, Vouchers, and the Public Good, Derek W. Black
Zoning for Apartments: A Study of the Role of Law in the Control of Apartment Houses in New Haven, Connecticut 1912–1932, Marie C. Boyd
It's Not About Us: Beyond the Job Market Critique of U.S. Law Schools, Elizabeth Chambliss
Law for All? The First Thing We Do, Let’s Educate the Non-Lawyers, Elizabeth Chambliss
Order, Technology and the Constitutional Meanings of Criminal Procedure, Thomas P. Crocker
Towards a Public Health Legal Structure for Child Welfare, Josh Gupta-Kagan
Where the Judiciary Prosecutes in Front of Itself: Missouri's Unconstitutional Juvenile Court Structure, Josh Gupta-Kagan
Disaster Tradeoffs: The Doubtful Case for Public Necessity, Susan S. Kuo
Non-Market Values in Family Businesses, Benjamin Means
Anchors Away: Why the Anchoring Effect Suggests that Judges Should be Able to Participate in Plea Discussions, Colin Miller
No Explanation Required?: A Reply to Jeffrey Bellin's eHearsay, Colin Miller
Reconciling Indigenous and Women's Rights to Land in Sub-Saharan Africa, Aparna Polavarapu
Cutting Carbon, Take Two: A Brief Guide to Federal Electricity-Sector Climate Policy without Cap-and-Trade, Nathan Richardson and Joshua Linn
Weathering Wal-Mart, Joseph Seiner
The Meaning of Science in the Copyright Clause, Ned Snow
Translating the Values of Clinical Pedagogy across Generations, Emily Suski and Alistair E. Newbern
Regulating Imports into RGGI: Toward a Legal, Workable Solution, Shelley Welton, Michael Gerrard, and Jason Munster
Legal Issues in Integrated, Multi-Pollutant Planning for Energy and Air Quality, Shelley Welton and Shawna Hart
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl: Two-and-a-Half Ways to Destroy Indian Law, Marcia A. Yablon-Zug
Mail Order Feminism, Marcia A. Yablon-Zug
Individualized Education Programs and Special Education Programming for Students with Disabilities in Urban Schools, Mitchell Yell, Terrye Conroy, Antonis Katsiyannis, and Tim Conroy
Submissions from 2012
Reform of the Nigerian Banking System – Assessment of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) and Recent Developments, Duncan E. Alford
Civil Rights, Charter Schools, and Lessons to Be Learned, Derek W. Black
Education's Elusive Future, Storied Past, and the Fundamental Inequity in Between, Derek W. Black
Middle Income Peers as Educational Resources and the Constitutional Right to Equal Access, Derek W. Black
Middle-Income Peers as Educational Resources and the Constitutional Right to Equal Access, Derek W. Black
Inside Voices: Protecting the Student-Critic in Public Schools, Josie F. Brown
Resolving LLC Member Disputes in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Other States that Enacted the Prototype LLC Act, James R. Burkhard
Organizational Alliances by U.S. Schools, Elizabeth Chambliss
Whose Ethics? The Benchmark Problem in Legal Ethics Research, Elizabeth Chambliss
Who Decides on Liberty?, Thomas P. Crocker
“Done In Convention”: The Attestation Clause and the Declaration of Independence, Jesse M. Cross
Reproducing Value: How Tax Law Differentially Values Fertility, Sexuality & Marriage, Tessa R. Davis
Note: Aimed at Protecting Ethnic Groups or Women? A Look at Forced Pregnancy under the Rome Statute, Alyson M. Drake
Complex and Murky Spatial Planning, Josh Eagle
Beyond Law Enforcement: Camreta v. Greene, Child Protection Investigations, and the Need to Reform the Fourth Amendment Special Needs Doctrine, Josh Gupta-Kagan
A New Era for Desegregation, Danielle R. Holley-Walker
Mass Democracy in a Postfactual Market Society: Citizens United and the Role of Corporate Political Speech, F. Patrick Hubbard
“Not only Injurious to Individuals, but Dangerous to the State”: A Theory of Disaster Crime, Susan S. Kuo
Corporate Social Responsibility after Disaster, Susan S. Kuo and Benjamin Means
Securing Civil Protection Orders for Teens When Laws Ignore Teens, Lisa V. Martin
What's Love Got to Do with It: Securing Access to Justice for Teens, Lisa V. Martin
Book Review: The Meaning of the Market Myth, Benjamin Means
Beware of the Diamond Dogs: Why a 'Credentials Alone' Conception of Probable Cause Violates the Compulsory Process Clause, Colin Miller
No Expertise Required: How Washington D.C. Has Erred in Expanding its Expert Testimony Requirement, Colin Miller
The Purpose-Driven Rule: Drew Peterson, Giles v. California, and the Transferred Intent Doctrine of Forfeiture by Wrongdoing, Colin Miller
Mission Dissonance in the TANF Program: Of Work, Self-Sufficiency, Reciprocity, and the Work Participation Rate, Elizabeth G. Patterson
Forest Carbon Economics: What We Know, What We Do Not And Whether It Matters, Nathan Richardson