This series collects the completed works of the University of Tennessee College of Law faculty published in print or electronic formats. View more scholarship at the University of Tennessee College of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series
.Submissions from 2018
Tipper/Tippee Insider Trading as Unlawful Deceptive Conduct: Insider Gifts of Material Nonpublic Information to Strangers, Joan MacLeod Heminway
Constitutional Parenthood, Michael J. Higdon
The Quasi-Parent Conundrum, Michael J. Higdon
Tribute to Professor Jonathan G. Rohr, Michael J. Higdon
Foreword: A Rot in Heaven: A Powerful Investigative Partnership, the Opioid Crisis, Pill Profits, and a Pulitzer Prize, Becky Jacobs
Gendered Lived Experiences in Urban Cape Town: Urban Infrastructure as Equal Opportunity, Social Justice, and Crime Prevention, Becky Jacobs
Silencing Discipline in Legal Education, Lucille Jewel
The Biology of Inequality, Lucille Jewel
What Can Students Teach Each Other, Brian Krumm
The Treatment of Corporations and Partnerships Under the TCJA, Don Leatherman
Retaliation Backlash, Alex B. Long
Valuing Coworker Bonds in Employment Law, Alex B. Long
Access-to-Justice Challenges for Expungement in Tennessee, Joy Radice
The Juvenile Record Myth, Joy Radice
Congressional Control of Presidential Pardons, Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Crime Follies: Overcriminalization, Independent Prosecutors, and the Rule of Law, Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Splitsylvania: State Secession and What to Do About It, Glenn Harlan Reynolds
The Paradoxes of Law Reform Litigation, Dean Rivkin
Tribute to Spenser F. Powell, John Sobieski
Are Prices Just?, Gregory M. Stein
Professors of Real Estate Law: Different Types, Different Needs, Gregory M. Stein
Reverse Exactions, Gregory M. Stein
Here Are All the Reasons It’s a Bad Idea to Let a Few Tech Companies Monopolize Our Data, Maurice Stucke
Should We Be Concerned About Data-opolies?, Maurice Stucke
Potential Legal Issues in Terminating the ASCAP and BMI Decrees, Maurice Stucke and Allen P. Grunes
The Other Costs of Judicial Elections, Penny White
Submissions from 2017
Why Don't Some White Supremacist Groups Pay Taxes?, Eric Franklin Amarante
The Symmetry Principle, Brad Areheart
Tracing the Roots of the Criminalization of Poverty [reviews], Wendy A. Bach
Poor Support/Rich Support: (Re)Viewing the American Social Welfare State, Wendy A. Bach
Rethinking Self-Regulation: Antitrust Perspectives on Bar Governance Activity, Benjamin H. Barton
Chapter 2. The United States of America: Legal Services Regulation in the United States—A Tale of Two Models, Benjamin H. Barton and Deborah L. Rhode
Employer-Mandated Vaccination Policies: Different Employers, New Vaccines, and Hidden Risks, Teri Dobbins Baxter
Marriage on Our Own Terms, Teri Dobbins Baxter
Different Lyrics, Same Song: Watts, Ferguson, and the Stagnating Effect of the Politics of Law and Order, Lonnie T. Brown Jr.
Targeted, Concise Treatments for the American Health Care System, Isaac ("Zack") D. Buck
The Cost of High Prices: Embedding an Ethic of Expense into the Standard of Care, Isaac ("Zack") D. Buck
Pleading Actual Malice in Defamation Actions After Twiqbal: A Circuit Survey, Judy Cornett
COMMITTEE PROPOSAL: SEAALL Diversity and Inclusion Committee, Shamika Dalton
Incorporating Race into Your Legal Research Class, Shamika Dalton
Corporate Purpose and Litigation Risk in Publicly Held U.S. Benefit Corporations, Joan MacLeod Heminway
Financing Social Enterprise: Is the Crowd the Answer?, Joan MacLeod Heminway
Getting Specific about the Policy and Tools of Securities Regulation: A Limited Response to Diversifying to Mitigate Risk: Can Dodd-Frank Section 342 Help Stabilize the Financial Sector?, Joan MacLeod Heminway
Professional Responsibility in an Age of Alternative Entities, Alternative Finance, and Alternative Facts, Joan MacLeod Heminway
Safe Haven Conundrum: The Use of Special Bailments to Keep Pets Out of Violent Households, Joan MacLeod Heminway
Selling Crowdfunded Equity: A New Frontier, Joan MacLeod Heminway
Shareholder Wealth Maximization as a Function of Statutes, Decisional Law, and Organic Documents, Joan MacLeod Heminway
The Legal Regulation of U.S. Crowdfunding: An Organically Evolving Patchwork, Joan MacLeod Heminway
Why Can't We Be Friends? A Business Finance Lawyer's Plaintive Plea to Entrepreneurs, Joan MacLeod Heminway
Brief of Professors at Law and Business Schools As Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondents, Leidos, Inc., fka SAIC, Inc., Petitioners, v. Indiana Public Retirement System, Indiana State Teachers’ Retirement Fund, and Indiana Public Employees’ Retirement Fund, Respondents, No. 16-581 (S. Ct. Sept. 7, 2017), Joan MacLeod Heminway, J. Robert Brown, James D. Cox, and Lyman P.Q. Johnson
Polygamous Marriage, Monogamous Divorce, Michael J. Higdon
State Misdemeanant, Federal Felon: Adolescent Sexual Offenders and the INA, Michael J. Higdon
Gendered Lived Experiences in Urban Cape Town: Urban Infrastructure as Equal Opportunity, Social Justice, and Crime Prevention, Becky Jacobs
Mexico's Energy Regime Reforms: Rescission Risk, Mitigation, and Dispute Resolution, Becky Jacobs
Title IX’s Field of (Unrealistic?) Dreams: If You Build It, Will They Come?, Becky Jacobs
Neurorhetoric, Race, and the Law: Toxic Neural Pathways and Healing Alternatives, Lucille Jewel
Old-School Rhetoric and New-School Cognitive Science: The Enduring Power of Logocentric Categories, Lucille Jewel
Fostering Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Shark Tank Shouldn't be the Model, Brian Krumm
Tennessee's for Profit Benefit Corporation Act: Will More Regulation Achieve the Desired Results, Brian Krumm
A Taxonomy And Evaluation Of Successor Liability (Revisited), George Kuney
To Avoid the IEDs, Mind the Ethical Touchstones, George Kuney
Easing Regulatory Bottlenecks with Collaborative Rulemaking, Michelle M. Kwon
Timekeeping and Wage Theft in the 21st Century, Alex B. Long
Memorial: William J. (Bill) Beintema (1944-2015), Sibyl D. Marshall and Scott Childs
Diminishing the Bill of Rights: Barron v. Baltimore and the Foundations of American Liberty, William Mercer
Judicial Dissolution of LLCs and the Bankruptcy Code, Thomas E. Plank
Security Interests in Deposit Accounts, Securities Accounts and Commodity Accounts: Correcting Article 9's Confusion of Contract and Property, Thomas E. Plank
The Reintegrative State, Joy Radice
Permissible Negligence and Campaigns to Suppress Rights, Glenn Harlan Reynolds
We, the People - Whoever That Is [reviews], Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Attorney Negligence and Negligent Spoliation: The Need For New Tools to Prompt Attorney Competence in Preservation, Paula Schaefer
The Sticks in the Chinese Property Rights Bundle, Gregory M. Stein
What Will China Do When Land Use Rights Begin to Expire, Gregory M. Stein
2016-2017 Oxford Business Law Blog Round-Up: Most Read Opinion Pieces, Maurice Stucke
Promoting an Ethical Organizational Culture, Maurice Stucke
Tacit Collusion on Steriods - The Tale on Online Price Transparency, Advanced Monitoring and Collusion, Maurice Stucke
The Rule of Law in the Technological Age Challenges and Opportunities for the EU Collected Papers, Maurice Stucke
Artificial Intelligence & Collusion: When Computers Inhibit Competition, Maurice Stucke and Ariel Ezrachi
Emerging Antitrust Threats and Enforcement Actions in the Online World, Maurice Stucke and Ariel Ezrachi
How Digital Assistants Can Harm our Economy, Privacy, and Democracy, Maurice Stucke and Ariel Ezrachi
Looking Up in the Data-Driven Economy, Maurice Stucke and Ariel Ezrachi
Two Artificial Neural Networks Meet in an Online Hub and Change the Future (Of Competition, Market Dynamics and Society), Maurice Stucke and Ariel Ezrachi
Data-opolies, Maurice Stucke and Allen P. Grunes
Forging the Path Forward: Critical Conversations from Title IX: History, Legacy, and Controversy, Valorie K. Vojdik
Submissions from 2016
A More Charitable Charity: Administrative Necessity Provides an Opportunity to Promote Altruism in Charities, Eric Franklin Amarante
A Rational Approach to Business Entity Choice, Eric Franklin Amarante
Nudging Entrepreneurs into Noncompliance: Why Does Nevada Have so Many Benefit Corporations? [Blog Post], Eric Franklin Amarante
Tennessee Workers: Dying for a Job, Fran Ansley
Accommodating Pregnancy, Brad Areheart
Looking Intersectionally and Seeing Structural Bias [reviews], Wendy A. Bach
A Comparison between the American Markets for Medical and Legal Services, Benjamin H. Barton
Four Big Pictures Trends to Watch in a Roiling Market, Benjamin H. Barton
Some Early Thoughts on Liability Standards for Online Providers of Legal Services, Benjamin H. Barton
Leading the Future: Symposium on Professional Leadership Education: Foreword, Douglas A. Blaze
Training Leaders the Very Best Way We Can, Douglas A. Blaze and George Lewis
Experiencing Experiential Education: A Faculty-Student Perspective on the University of Tennessee College of Law's Adventure in Access to Justice Author, Robert C. Blitt