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 2023
Religion, Discrimination, and the Future of Public Education, Derek W. Black
Federal Bureaucratic Studies, Jesse M. Cross
On the Legal Life-History of Beaches, Josh Eagle
After the Storm: The Vulnerability and Resilience of Locally Owned Business, Susan S. Kuo
Ringling Bros-Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, Inc. v. Ringling Rewritten Opinion, Benjamin Means
A New Test for the New Crime Exception, Colin Miller
The Color of Law Review, Gregory S. Parks and Etienne C. Toussaint
Myth-Busting Restorative Justice: Uncovering the Past and Finding Lessons in Community, Aparna Polavarapu
Employment Discrimination: Procedure, Principles, & Practice, Joseph Seiner
The Two Title IXs, Emily Suski
Green Capitalism: The Case of The Environmental Impact Bond, Etienne C. Toussaint
5th Amendment Rights as Abortion Rights, Madalyn K. Wasilczuk
South Carolina Deaths Behind Bars, 2015-2021, Madalyn K. Wasilczuk
The Clinic as a Site of Grounded Pedagogy, Madalyn K. Wasilczuk
The Racialized Violence of Police Canine Force, Madalyn K. Wasilczuk
Submissions from 2022
Taxation and Law and Political Economy, Jeremy Bearer-Friend, Ari D. Glower, Ariel Jurow Kleiman, and Clinton G. Wallace
Freedom, Democracy, and the Right to Education, Derek W. Black
Preemption & Gender & Racial (In)Equity: Why State Tort Law Is Needed in the Cosmetic Context, Marie C. Boyd
Darnell, Latoya, Brad, and Laurie: Lawyers’ Responses to Email Requests for Representation, Elizabeth S. Chambliss
Understanding Nonprofit and Tax Exempt Organizations 3rd edition, Jaclyn A. Cherry and Nicholas P. Carfardi
Employment Law in a Nutshell, Robert N. Covington and Joseph Seiner
Equal Dignity, Colorblindness, and the Future of Affirmative Action beyond Grutter v. Bollinger, Thomas P. Crocker
The Fourth Amendment and the Problem of Social Cost, Thomas P. Crocker
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
The Dental Health of Rural Elderly People and Its Social Justice Implications, Health in the Hills: Understanding the Impact of Health Care Law in Rural Communities, Jacqueline R. Fox
The Lived Experience of Health Insurance: An Analysis and Proposal for Reform, Jacqueline R. Fox
Climate Change Compliance, Susan S. Kuo and Benjamin Means
Corporate Compliance and Climate Change, Susan S. Kuo and Benjamin Means
Adjudicating Identity, Laura Lane-Steele
Securing Access to Justice for Children, Lisa V. Martin
Entrepreneurial Action in Family-Controlled Companies, Benjamin Means
Solving the "King Lear Problem", Benjamin Means
CREDITORS’ RIGHTS IN PROPERTY SUBJECT TO A BENEFICIARY’S RIGHT OF WITHDRAWAL, S. Alan Medlin and F. Ladson Boyle
Rectifying Wrongful Convictions through the Dormant Grand Jury Clause, Colin Miller
The Constitutional Right to an Implicit Bias Jury Instruction, Colin Miller
Strategic Use of Alibi Defenses, Colin Miller and Kay L. Levine
The Need for Empirical Analysis of Shareholder Oppression Disputes, Douglas Moll and Benjamin Means
Rights to Nowhere: The Idea's Inadequacy in High-Poverty Schools, Claire Raj
Public Accomodations, Public Perceptions, and Workplace Law, Joseph Seiner
Time, Equity, and Sexual Harassment, Joseph Seiner
Initial thoughts on "road safety challenges posed by the use of automated vehicles in traffic tha an international legal instrument could adequately address", Bryant Walker Smith
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
For Every Rat Killed, Etienne C. Toussaint
The Message: Resisting Cultures of Poverty in Urban America, Etienne C. Toussaint
The Miseducation of Public Citizens, Etienne C. Toussaint
Tragedies of the Cultural Commons, Etienne C. Toussaint
Coker v. Georgia, Rewritten Opinion, Madalyn K. Wasilczuk
Developing Police, Madalyn K. Wasilczuk
For Their Own Good: Girls, Sexuality, and State Violence in the Name of Safety, Madalyn K. Wasilczuk
Unequal Investment: A Regulatory Case Study, Emily R. Winston
Divorcing Guns: How Family Law Could Change Parental Gun Ownership and Save Kids' Lives, Marcia A. Yablon-Zug
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
PL on the DL: Domestic Violence Courts’ “Quiet Partnership” with Nonlawyer Advocates, Elizabeth Chambliss
Making Federalism Work: Lessons from Health Care to the Green New Deal, Jesse M. Cross and Shelley Welton
Brief of Amici Curiae Law Professors in Support of Respondent South Carolina Department of Revenue, Amazon Services, LLC v. South Carolina Department of Revenue, No. 2019- 001706 (South Carolina Court of Appeals, Tessa R. Davis and Clinton G. Wallace
From Driverless Dilemmas to More Practical Common-Sense Tests for Automated Vehicles, Julian De Freitas, Andrea Censi, Bryant Walker Smith, Luigi Di Lillo, Sam E. Anthony, and Emilio Frazzoli
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
A Corporate Law Rationale for Reparations, Susan S. Kuo and Benjamin Means
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 End of Comparative Qualified Immunity, Colin Miller
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
Review of POLICING THE OPEN ROAD: HOW CARS TRANSFORMED AMERICAN FREEDOM, Seth W. Stoughton
Subverting Title IX, Emily Suski
Black Urban Ecologies and Structural Extermination, Etienne C. Toussaint
Monuments of American Sorrow, Etienne C. Toussaint
Food Access in Crisis: Food Security and COVID-19, Etienne C. Toussaint and Sabine O'Hara
Democracy Avoidance in Tax Lawmaking, Clint G. Wallace
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