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 2009
Comparative Effectiveness Research and Medicare, Jacqueline R. Fox
Will Health Care Reform Increase Litigation over Denied Claims, Jacqueline R. Fox
Raising the Cut-Off: The Empirical Case for Extending Adoption and Guardianship Subsidies from Age 18 to 21, Josh Gupta-Kagan
Book Review - Hiring and Firing, Rebekah K. Maxwell
A Voice-Based Framework for Evaluating Claims of Minority Shareholder Oppression in the Close Corporation, Benjamin Means
A Voice-Based Framework for Evaluating Claims of Minority Shareholder Oppression in the Close Corporation, Benjamin Means
A Public Privilege, Colin Miller
Examining Costs of Diversity, Eboni S. Nelson
Design Defect Ghosts, David Owen
Figuring Foreseeability, David Owen
Design Defects in Prescription Drugs: Intersections of Law and Science in American Products Liability Law, David G. Owen
Breaking up Doesn't Have to Be So Hard: Default Rules for Partition and Secession, Nathan D. Richardson
The Trouble with Twombly: A Proposed Pleading Standard for Employment Discrimination Cases, Joseph Seiner
Water as a Public Good: The Status of Water Under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Bryant W. Smith
Copytraps, Ned Snow
Deporting Grandma: Why Grandparent Deportation May be the Next Big Immigration Crisis and How to Solve It, Marcia A. Yablon-Zug
Not Very Collegial: Exploring Bans on Illegal Immigrant Admissions to State Colleges and Universities, Marcia A. Yablon-Zug and Danielle R. Holley-Walker
Submissions from 2008
Remembering Bob Oakley, Duncan E. Alford
The Influence of Hong Kong Banking Law on Banking Reform in the PRC, Duncan E. Alford
Framework for the Next Civil Rights Act: What Tort Concepts Reveal about Goals, Results, and Standards, Derek W. Black
The Uncertain Future of School Desegregation and the Importance of Goodwill, Good Sense, and a Misguided Decision, Derek W. Black
Turning Stones of Hope into Boulders of Resistance: The First and Last Task of Social Justice Curriculum, Scholarship, and Practice, Derek W. Black
Notes From a Climate Change Pressure-Cooker: Sub-Federal Attempts at Transformation Meet National Resistance in the USA, Cinnamon P. Carlarne
When Do Facts Persuade? Some Thoughts on the Market for “Empirical Legal Studies”, Elizabeth Chambliss
Torture, with Apologies, Thomas P. Crocker
Overcoming Necessity: Torture and the State of Constitutional Culture, Thomas P. Crocker
The Practical Effects of Delegation: Agencies and the Zoning of Public Land and Seas, Josh Eagle
Ocean Zoning and Spatial Access Privileges: Rewriting the Tragedy of the Regulated Ocean, Josh Eagle, James N. Sanchirico, and Barton H. Thompson Jr.
The Toyota Sidestep Catches On, Lisa A. Eichhorn
Clarity and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: A Lesson from the Style Project, Lisa A. Eichhorn
Reinvigorating the Concept of Benefit: The Failure of Drug Company-Sponsored Research on Human Subjects, Jacqueline R. Fox
Mutual Fund Advisory Fees: New Evidence and a Fair Fiduciary Duty Test, John P. Freeman, Stewart Brown, and Steve Pomerantz
Children, Kin and Court: Designing Third Party Custody Policy to Protect Children, Third Parties and Parents, Josh Gupta-Kagan
Educating at the Crossroads: Parents Involved, No Child Left Behind and School Choice, Danielle R. Holley-Walker
Substantive Due Process Limits on Punitive Damage Awards: "Morals Without Technique"?, F. Patrick Hubbard
Book Review - Climate Change: A Guide to Carbon Law and Practice, Rebekah K. Maxwell
Book Review - The Science of Settlement: Ideas for Negotiators, Rebekah K. Maxwell
Limitations on the Trustee's Power to Adjust, S. Alan Medlin
Ordeal By Innocence: Why There Should Be a Wrongful Incarceration/Execution Exception to Attorney-Client Confidentiality, Colin Miller
The Availability and Viability of Socioeconomic Integration Post-Parents Involved, Eboni S. Nelson
Design Defects, David G. Owen
The Five Elements of Negligence, David G. Owen
Civil Contempt and the Indigent Child Support Obligor: The Silent Return of Debtor's Prison, Elizabeth G. Patterson
Unintended Consequences: Why Congress Should Tread Lightly When Entering the Field of Family Law, Elizabeth G. Patterson
Condominium Arrangements in International Practice: Reviving an Abandoned Concept of Boundary Dispute Resolution, Joel H. Samuels
The Failure of Punitive Damages in Employment Discrimination Cases: A Call for Change, Joseph Seiner
From the States Up: Building a National Renewable Energy Policy, Shelley Welton
Lessons Learned: Transferring the European Union's Experiences with Energy Efficiency Policy to China, Shelley Welton
Gone But Not Forgotten: The Strange Afterlife of the Jay Treaty's Indian Free Passage Right, Marcia A. Yablon-Zug
Submissions from 2007
Mandarin Chinese: An Annotated Bibliography of Self-Study Materials, Duncan E. Alford
Treaties Submitted to the United States Senate: Legislative History, 1989-2004, Duncan E. Alford
Displacing Dissent: The Role of Place in First Amendment Jurisprudence, Thomas P. Crocker
Envisioning the Constitution, Thomas P. Crocker
A Window into the Regulated Commons: The Takings Clause, Investment Security, and Sustainability, Josh Eagle
The Mutual Fund Distribution Fee Mess, John P. Freeman
In Prosecutors We Trust: UK Lessons for Illinois Disclosure, Susan S. Kuo
Blogs: The Next Generation, David Lehmann
Library Technology Upgrade: Using Web 2.0 Applications, David Lehmann
A Copyright Conundrum: Protecting Email Privacy, Ned Snow
Submissions from 2006
The Lamfalussy Process and EU Bank Regulation: Another Step on the Road to Pan-European Bank Regulation?, Duncan E. Alford
The Contradiction Between Equal Protection's Meaning and Its Legal Substance: How Deliberate Indifference Can Cure It, Derek W. Black
Killing, Cheating, Legislating, and Lying: A History of Voting Rights in South Carolina after the Civil War, W. Lewis Burke
The Professionalization of Law Firm In-House Counsel, Elizabeth Chambliss
The Professionalization of Law Firm In-House Counsel, Elizabeth Chambliss
The Voting Rights Act of 1965: A Selected Annotated Bibliography, Terrye Conroy
Regional Ocean Governance: The Perils of Multiple-Use Management and the Promise of Agency Diversity, Josh Eagle
The Nature and Impact of the Tort Reform Movement, F. Patrick Hubbard
Domestic Violence in Ghana: The Open Secret, Lisa V. Martin, Nancy Cantalupo, Kay Pak, and Sue Shin
Cognitive Biases and Heuristics in Tort Litigation: A Proposal to Limit Their Effects Without Changing the World, John E. Montgomery
Child Marriage and Guardianship in Tanzania: Robbing Girls of their Childhood and Infantilizing Women, Aparna Polavarapu
Disentangling Disparate Impact and Disparate Treatment: Adapting the Canadian Approach, Joseph Seiner
Understanding the Unrest of France’s Younger Workers: The Price of American Ambivalence, Joseph Seiner
The Prohibition Hangover: Why We Are Still Feeling the Effects of Prohibition, Marcia A. Yablon-Zug
Submissions from 2005
Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision: An Enforceable International Financial Standard?, Duncan E. Alford
European Union Legal Materials: An Infrequent User's Guide, Duncan E. Alford
The Rehnquist Court: Nineteen Years of Tax Decisions, F. Ladson Boyle
THE NIRVANA FALLACY IN LAW FIRM REGULATION DEBATE, Elizabeth Chambliss
Medicare Should, but Cannot, Consider Cost: Legal Impediments to Sound Policy, Jacqueline R. Fox
Official Indiscretions: Considering Sex Bargains with Government Informants, Susan S. Kuo
Applicants Laid Bare: The Privacy Economics of University Application Files, Martin McWilliams
Information Shields in Tort Law, David Owen
Proof of Product Defect, David G. Owen
Special Defenses in Products Liability Law, David G. Owen
The Constitutional Failing of the Anticybersquatting Act, Ned Snow
Why Annie Gets to Keep Her Gun: An Analysis of Firearm Exemptions in Bankruptcy Proceedings, Marcia A. Yablon-Zug
Submissions from 2004
The Chevron Two-Step and the Toyota Sidestep: Dancing Around the EEOC's Disability Regulations under the ADA, Lisa A. Eichhorn
The Ethics of Using Judges to Conceal Wrongdoing, John P. Freeman
Instruct the Jury: Crane's Serious Difficulty Requirement & Due Process, Kenneth Gaines
Reappraising T.L.O.'s Special Needs Doctrine in an Era of School-Law Enforcement Entanglement, Josh Gupta-Kagan