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 2012
Playing without Aces: Offset and the Limits of Flexibility under Clean Air Act Climate Policy, Nathan D. Richardson
Tradable Standards for Clean Air Act Carbon Policy, Nathan D. Richardson, Dallas Butraw, and Arthur G. Fraas
Banking on Allowances: The EPA's Mixed Record in Managing Emissions-Market Transitions, Nathan D. Richardson and Arthur G. Fraas
The Full Story of U.S. v. Smith, America’s Most Important Piracy Case, Joel H. Samuels
Plausibility and Disparate Impact, Joseph Seiner
Plausibility Beyond the Complaint, Joseph Seiner
Punitive Damages, Due Process, and Employment Discrimination, Joseph Seiner
Managing Autonomous Transportation Demand, Bryant Walker Smith
Federal Constraints: Possible Constitutional Hurdles to Cross-Border Cap-and-Trade,, Shelley Welton
FERC Order 1000 as a New Tool for Promoting Energy Efficiency and Demand Response, Shelley Welton and Michael Gerrard
Lonely Colonist Seeks Wife: The Forgotten History of America’s First Mail Order Brides, Marcia A. Yablon-Zug
Separation, Deportation, Termination, Marcia A. Yablon-Zug
Submissions from 2011
Voluntary Desegregation, Resegregation, and the Hope for Equal Educational Opportunity, Derek W. Black
Queensland Law Firms Partner with Regulators and Researchers to Improve Firms’ Ethical Culture, Elizabeth Chambliss
Two Questions for Law Schools about the Future Boundaries of the Legal Profession, Elizabeth Chambliss
Book Review: Concepts in Law: Whom Should You Trust? Plans, Pragmatism, and Legality, Thomas P. Crocker
Presidential Power and Constitutional Responsibility, Thomas P. Crocker
A Distaste for War at Walden Pond: Thoreau's The Bean-Field, Theories of Personal Property, and the Mexican-American War, Jesse M. Cross
Lost in Doctrine: Particular Social Group, Child Soldiers and the Failure of U.S. Asylum Law to Protect Exploited Children, Tessa R. Davis
Taking International Law At Its Word and Its Spirit: Re-envisioning Responsibility to Protect as a Binding Principle of International Law, Tessa R. Davis
Notional Generosity: Explaining Charitable Donors' High Willingness to Part with Conservation Easements, Josh Eagle
Law on the Books vs. Law in Action: Under-Enforcement of Morocco’s Reformed 2004 Family Law, the Moudawana, Ann M. Eisenberg
The Epidemic of Children's Dental Diseases: Putting Teeth into the Law, Jacqueline R. Fox
Appearance of the Impropriety, Recusal, and the Segars-Andrews Case, John P. Freeman
Race and Socioeconomic Diversity in American Legal Education: A Response to Richard Sander, Danielle R. Holley-Walker
Searching for Equality: Equal Protection Clause Challenges to Bans on the Admission of Undocumented Immigrant Studies to Public Universities, Danielle R. Holley-Walker
"Do Androids Dream?": Personhood and Intelligent Artifacts, F. Patrick Hubbard
Power to the People: The Takings Clause, Hart's Rule of Recognition, and Populist Law-Making, F. Patrick Hubbard
Engaging the Legal Academy in Disaster Response, Susan Kuo, Davida Finger, Laila Hlass, Anne Hornsby, and Rachel Van Cleave
Preserving Public Peace, Protecting Private Property, Susan S. Kuo
Foreword: A Lens for Law and Entrepreneurship, Benjamin Means
The Vacuity of Wilkes, Benjamin Means
2010: It Was a Very Good Year…To Die--Or Was It?, S. Alan Medlin, F. Ladson Boyle, and Howard M. Zaritsky
Deal or No Deal: Why Courts Should Allow Defendants to Present Evidence That They Rejected Favorable Plea Bargains, Colin Miller
From the Schoolhouse to the Poorhouse: The Credit Card Act's Failure to Adequately Protect Young Consumers, Eboni S. Nelson
Expectations in Tort, David G. Owen
Procuring Meaningful Land Rights for the Women of Rwanda, Aparna Polavarapu
Managing Risk through Liability, Regulation, and Innovation: Organizational Design for Spill Containment in Deepwater Drilling Operations, Nathan D. Richardson, Molly Macauley, Mark A. Cohen, Robert Anderson, and Adam Stern
Seeing the Forests and the Trees: Technological and Regulatory Impediments for Global Carbon Monitoring, Nathan Richardson and Molly K. Macauley
Fair Use as a Matter of Law, Ned Snow
The Forgotten Right of Fair Use, Ned Snow
Modern Police Practices: Arizona v. Gant's Illusory Restriction of Vehicle Searches Incident to Arrest, Seth W. Stoughton
The Case for Tradable Tax Credits, Clint Wallace
Should I Stay or Should I Go: Why Immigrant Reunification Decisions Should Be Based on the Best Interest of the Child, Marcia A. Yablon-Zug
Submissions from 2010
Book Review: Lexicon of Human Rights, Duncan E. Alford
Book Review: Unified Business Laws for Africa: Common Law Perspectives on OHADA, Duncan E. Alford
Nigerian Banking Reform: Recent Actions and Future Prospects, Duncan E. Alford
Supervisory Colleges: The Global Financial Crisis and Improving International Supervisory Coordination, Duncan E. Alford
Symposium Introduction - The Law Librarian's Role in the Scholarly Enterprise, Duncan E. Alford
Accounting for Historical Forces in the Effort to Align Law with Science, Derek W. Black
Cultural Norms and Race Discrimination Standards: A Case Study in How the Two Diverge, Derek W. Black
The Congressional Failure to Enforce Equal Protection through the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Derek W. Black
Unlocking the Power of State Constitutions with Equal Protection: The First Step Toward Education as a Federally Protected Right, Derek W. Black
Construing Wills and Trust During the Estate Tax Hiatus in 2010, F. Ladson Boyle and S. Alan Medlin
The Political Fourth Amendment, Thomas P. Crocker
Keeping the Welcome Mat Rolled-Up: Social Justice Theorists' Failure to Embrace Adverse Possession as a Redistributive Tool, Tessa R. Davis
Public Fisheries, Josh Eagle and Amanda Kuker
A Sense of Disentitlement: Frame-Shifting and Metaphor in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, Lisa A. Eichhorn
The Hidden Role of Cost: Medicare Decisions, Transparency and Public Trust, Jacqueline R. Fox
Filling the Due Process Donut Hole: Abuse and Neglect Cases between Disposition and Permanency, Josh Gupta-Kagan
Taxing Structured Settlements, Brant J. Hellwig and Gregg D. Polsky
After Unitary Status: Examining Voluntary Integration Strategies for Southern School Districts, Danielle R. Holley-Walker
EMPOWERMENT, INNOVATION, AND SERVICE: LAW SCHOOL PROGRAMS PROVIDE ACCESS TO JUSTICE AND INSTILL A COMMITMENT TO SERVE, Lisa V. Martin, Dale Margolin, Steve Berenson, Karen Pearlman, and Maryann Zavez
A Contractual Approach to Shareholder Oppression Law, Benjamin Means
Construing Wills and Trusts During the Estate Tax Hiatus in 2010, S. Alan Medlin and F. Ladson Boyle
Disputatio: "Creeping Legalism" as a Declension Myth, Dennis R. Nolan
Bending Nature, Bending Law, David Owen
Aggravating Punitive Damages, David G. Owen
Dangers in Prescription Drugs: Filling a Private Law Gap in the Healthcare Debate, David G. Owen
Epstein's Razor, David G. Owen
Products Liability Law in America and Europe, David G. Owen
Greenhouse Gas Regulation under the Clean Air Act: Does Chevron Set the EPA Free, Nathan D. Richardson
International Greenhouse Gas Offsets under the Clean Air Act, Nathan D. Richardson
Greenhouse Gas Regulation under the Clean Air Act: Structure, Effects, and Implications of a Knowable Pathway, Nathan D. Richardson, Arthur G. Fraas, and Dallas Butraw
When is an Alternative Forum Available - Rethinking the Forum Non Conveniens Analysis, Joel Samuels
How Piracy Has Shaped the Relationship Between American Law and International Law, Joel H. Samuels
When Is an Alternative Forum Available? Rethinking the Forum Non Conveniens Analysis, Joel H. Samuels
Comprehensive Planning, Dominant-Use-Zones, and User Rights: a New Era in Ocean Governance, James N. Sanchirico, Josh Eagle, Steve Palumbi, and Barton H. Thompson Jr.
After Iqbal, Joseph Seiner
Pleading Disability, Joseph Seiner
Does Ricci Herald a New Disparate Impact?, Joseph Seiner and Benjamin N. Gutman
Judges Playing Jury: Constitutional Conflicts in Deciding Fair Use on Summary Judgment, Ned Snow
Proving Fair Use: Burden of Proof as Burden of Speech, Ned Snow
Indian Law: Dangerous Gamble: Child Support, Casino Dividends, and the Fate of the Indian Family, Marcia A. Yablon-Zug
Submissions from 2009
Creating Intentional Grantor Trusts, Steven R. Akers, Jonathan G. Blattmachr, and F. Ladson Boyle
Book Review: Index to Legal Citations and Abbreviations, 3rd ed., Duncan E. Alford
Book Review: Protection of Foreign Investment in Context: Nigeria's Investment Laws, Treaties, and Petroleum Agreements, Duncan E. Alford
The Development of the Skills Curriculum in Law Schools: Lessons for Directors of Academic Law Libraries, Duncan E. Alford
The Use of Colleges of Regulators Under European Union Banking Law, Duncan E. Alford
Fall Break is Only a “Click” Away: Using an Audience Response System to Merge a Pre-Break Legal Research and Legal Writing Review, Jan M. Baker and Terrye Conroy
In Defense of Voluntary Desegregation: All Things Are Not Equal, Derek W. Black
The Spirit of the Legal Academy – For Three Years Or for Life?: Some Personal Observations, Robert T. Bockman
Developmental Due Process: Waging a Constitutional Campaign to Align School Discipline with Developmental Knowledge, Josie F. Brown
Risky Business: The Ups and Downs of Mixing Economics, Security and Climate Change, Cinnamon P. Carlarne
New Sources of Managerial Authority in Large Law Firms, Elizabeth Chambliss
From Privacy to Liberty: The Fourth Amendment after Lawrence, Thomas P. Crocker
We Have a "Purpose" Requirement If We Can Keep It, James F. Flanagan