Faculty Scholarship
Faculty Scholarship within the last three (3) years.
SULC defines scholarship to include traditional scholarship in law reviews and legal journals as well as CLE presentations and materials, scholarly endeavors conducted in partnership with legal institutes, legislative drafting, development of legal writing problems and materials, and scholarly book projects. The following list contains scholarship produced by members of our faculty in the last three (3) years. More comprehensive information regarding faculty scholarship is available on the SULC website in the Faculty Directory (https://www.sulc.edu/directory/office/faculty).
Deleso Alford
Textbook contribution
Excerpt of my article Critical Race Feminist Bioethics: Telling Stories in Law School and Medical School in Pursuit of "Cultural Competency", 72 Alb. L. Rev. 961 published in Critical Justice: Systemic Advocacy in Law and Society. West Academic (2021).
Development of virtual chat cultural competency materials for healthcare professionals.
Designed and facilitated teaching modules for an audience consisting of LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport School of Medicine, School of Graduate Studies, and School of Allied Health Professions (2020- present).
Presentations
Speaker, Louisiana Center for Health Equity (LCHE), Maternal Health: HerStory, Racial Concordance and Policy Webinar, “HER-story Matters: Exploring Black Maternal Mortality through the Mothers of Gynecology” (October 27, 2020).
Panelist, American University College of Law and ChangeLab Solutions, Health Justice and Empowering Communities, Virtual (October 2, 2020).
Co-Facilitator, University of Washington Medical Student Session, The Lessons from Tuskegee with University of Washington professors, Georgina D. Campelia, Ph.D., and Edwin G. Lindo, JD, “The Untold Side of the USPHS Syphilis Study at Tuskegee” (December 20, 2020).
Speaker, Podcast, BGT + Michelle Browder, Anarcha, Betsey and Lucy,“Telling the HER-story of Anarcha, Bestey and Lucy” (December 6, 2020).
Speaker, Restorative Justice Center (RJC) Reclaim Justice: Restorative Justice Conference, “Race in America: Truth and Reckoning, Does Restorative Justice offer a framework for America?” Roundtable Discussion (October 12, 2020).
Panelist, American University College of Law and ChangeLab Solutions, Health Justice and Empowering Communities, Virtual (October 2, 2020).
Speaker, University of New Mexico (UNM) OBGYN Department Grand Rounds, Historical Context Matters, Gynecology through the lens of Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy sponsored by The HSC Office for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, in partnership with the UNM Division for Equity & Inclusion and the UNM School of Law (April 26, 2019).
Keynote Luncheon Speaker, University of New Mexico, Enhancing Wellness by Honoring Our Humanity sponsored by The HSC Office for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, in partnership with the UNM Division for Equity & Inclusion and the UNM School of Law (April 26, 2019).
Speaker, University of New Mexico, Diversity Leaders’ Roundtable, sponsored by The HSC Office for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, in partnership with the UNM Division for Equity & Inclusion and the UNM School of Law (April 26, 2019).
Angela A. Allen-Bell
Book
Chapter in Black Women and the Carceral STate: Tell Them We Are Not Monsters
(Erin S. Corbett & Katherine Wheatle eds., Routledge Press) (forthcoming 2022).
Newsletter
Louis A. Berry Institute for Civil Rights & Justice, February 2020 newsletter (Responsible for content creation, all edits and 70 percent of the writing).
Louis A. Berry Institute for Civil Rights & Justice, March 2020 newsletter (Responsible for content creation, all edits and 70 percent of the writing).
Louis A. Berry Institute for Civil Rights & Justice, April 2020 newsletter (Responsible for content creation, all edits and 70 percent of the writing).
Louis A. Berry Institute for Civil Rights & Justice, May 2020 newsletter (Responsible for content creation, all edits and 70 percent of the writing).
Louis A. Berry Institute for Civil Rights & Justice, April 2019 newsletter (Responsible for content creation, all edits and 70 percent of the writing).
Louis A. Berry Institute for Civil Rights & Justice, March 2019 newsletter (Responsible for content creation, all edits and 70 percent of the writing).
Louis A. Berry Institute for Civil Rights & Justice, February 2019 newsletter (Responsible for content creation, all edits and 70 percent of the writing).
Co-authored ABA Criminal Justice Section Resolution and Report as to the use of non-unanimous juries in Louisiana and Oregon (along with Marjorie Esman and Heather Johnson), Feb. 2018. I authored 80% of the report and 100% of the resolution. The resolution passed at the spring 2018 ABA’s Criminal Justice Council Meeting.
Articles
Angela A. Allen-Bell, Making the Case for Voting Yes on Amendment 2 (Non-Unanimous Jury Law) on November 6, Data News Weekly, Oct. 3, 2018.
Angela A. Allen-Bell, La’s Non-Unanimous Jury System: An Assault Upon the Sixth Amendment & An Attack Upon Justice, The Trial Lawyer, Summer 2018.
Adam Crepelle
Articles
Finding Ways to Empower Tribal Oil Production, Wyoming Law Review, Volume 22 (Forthcoming, Winter 2022).
Chapter in Feminist Judgments: Criminal Law, “Commentary on Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe,” (Forthcoming, 2022).
Tribes, Vaccines, and COVID-19: A Look at Tribal Responses to the Pandemic, Fordham Urban Law Journal, Volume XLIX (Forthcoming, Winter 2022).
The Time Trap: Addressing the Stereotypes that Undermine Tribal Sovereignty, Columbia Human Rights Law Review (Forthcoming, Fall 2021).
The Law and Economics of Crime in Indian Country: Why Things are so Bad, The Georgetown Law Journal (Forthcoming, Spring 2022).
Legal Issues in Tribal E-Commerce, American University Business Law Review (Forthcoming, Spring 2022).
The Chronic Uncertainty of American Indian Property Rights, with Ilia Murtazashvili, Eric Alston, and Wilson Law, Journal of Institutional Economics (Winter 2021).
The Per Cap Conundrum: Governance, Culture, and Incentives, Gonzaga Law Review, Vol. 56 (Spring 2021).
How Federal Indian Law Prevents Business Development in Indian Country, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, Vol. 23 (Summer 2021).
COVID-19, Indian Reservations, and Self-Determination, with Ilia Murtazashvili, Mercatus Center, July 20, 2020.
Broken Treaties with Native Americans Not Fixed by Supreme Court Ruling, with Terry Anderson, The Hill, July 16, 2020.
Protecting the Children of Indian Country: A Call to Expand Tribal Court Jurisdiction and Devote More Funding to Indian Child Safety, Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice, Vol. 27 (Spring 2021).
White Tape and Indian Wards: Removing the Federal Bureaucracy to Empower Tribal Economies and Self-Government University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, Vol. 54 (Spring 2021)
Lies, Damn Lies, and Federal Indian Law: The Ethics of Citing Racist Precedent in Contemporary Federal Indian Law New York University Review of Law & Social Change, Vol. 44 (Spring 2021)
Taxes, Theft, and Indian Tribes: Seeking Parity in Tribal-State Taxation, West Virginia Law Review, Vol. 122 (Spring 2020)
Tribal Courts, VAWA, and Supplemental Jurisdiction: Expanding Tribal Court Jurisdiction to Improve Public Safety in Indian Country Montana Law Review, Vol. 81 (Spring, 2020)
Standing Their (Shrinking) Ground: The Isle de Jean Charles Relocation Ignores Realities for Native Residents 64 Parishes (2020)
Tribal Recognition, Consultation, and Lessons from the First Climate Relocation Natural Resources & Environment (Winter 2020)
Louisiana’s Not So Civil Asset Forfeiture Laws Pelican Institute for Public Policy, Policy Brief 2019
Should You Go to Jail if Someone Puts an Undersized Catfish in Your Cooler? Mens Rea in Louisiana, with Greg Glod Pelican Institute for Public Policy, Policy Brief 2019
The Reservation Water Crisis: American Indians and Third World Water Conditions Tulane Environmental Law Journal, Vol. 32 (Summer 2019)
“Colonization by Another Means: How the Federal Recognition Process Has Undermined the United Houma Nation’s Governance Institutions” Chapter in Governing for Indigenous Self-determined Development: An International Perspective (Forthcoming 2020)
Decolonizing Reservation Economies: Returning to Private Enterprise and Trade Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Law, Vol. 12 (2019)
“What’s a ‘Real Indian Tribe’? The Federal Recognition Process” Chapter in The Legal Status of Indigenous Peoples in the Legal Systems of Russia and Foreign Countries (2021)
Shooting Down Oliphant: Self-Defense as an Answer to Crime in Indian Country Lewis & Clark Law Review, Vol. 22.4 (Winter 2019).
The United States First Climate Relocation: Recognition, Relocation, and Indigenous Rights at the Isle de Jean Charles Belmont Law Review, Vol. 6 (Winter 2019).
Johanna Dennis
Traditional scholarship in law reviews and legal journals
Temperamental or Transient as a Tesseract? Analyzing Process Patent Eligibility Post Alice, 14 FIU L. Rev. 233 (2020).
Just Beyond Reach: A Study On Access To In-State Tuition And Enrollment After Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals, Part I-Individually Reported Hispanic Non-Citizen Enrollment & Part II-Institutionally Reported Hispanic Student And Non-Resident Alien Student Enrollment, 20 J. L. Soc’y, Vol. 1-102 (2020).
Just Beyond Reach: A Study On Access To In-State Tuition And Enrollment After Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals, Part III – Individually Reported Hispanic Non-Citizen Student Persistence, J. L. Soc’y, Vol. 20, No. 103-40 (2020).
CLE presentations, materials & scholarly endeavors
Speaker, Multigenerational Teaching of Legal Writing, 2020 Annual Meeting, American Association of Law Schools Meeting, Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research, Jan. 2-6, 2020, Washington D.C. (with Robert Brain (Loyola (CA)), Brenda Gibson (North Carolina Central), Jan Levine (Duquesne), Sue Liemer (Elon), Drew Simshaw (Gonzaga), Nancy Soonpaa (Texas Tech), Gail Stephenson (SULC), Melissa Weresh (Drake), & Carolyn Williams (Arizona)).
Speaker, “Analyzing Process Patent Eligibility Post-Alice”, FIU Law Review Symposium: ‘Intelligent Entertainment: Algorithmic Generation and Regulation of Creative Works,’ FIU Law School, Nov. 8, 2019, Miami, FL.
“Harnessing DACA-era Tuition Equity Policies: Reporting on a DACA-Era Enrollment Study,” 2019 LatCrit Biennial Conference, Oct. 18, 2019, Atlanta, GA.
Panelist, “Connection with Citations: Connecting Students and Law Professors to a Plurality of Legal Citation Approaches,” 2018 Annual Meeting, Southeastern Association of Law Schools, Aug. 6-9, 2018, Fort Lauderdale, FL (with Heather Baxter (Nova Southeastern), Sue Liemer (Elon), & Rebecca Scharf (UNLV)).
Discussant, “Connecting Through Scholarship,” 2018 Annual Meeting, Southeastern Association of Law Schools, Aug. 6-9, 2018, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Legal Writing Problems and Materials
Developed legal writing problems and curricular materials for the following courses:
- Upper-level appellate advocacy course involving Criminal Procedure - Inventory Search (Fall 2018).
- 1L course involving environmental law & property law contract drafting; federal complaint on basis of First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment; motion to dismiss challenging constitutionality of statute; motion to suppress challenging admissibility of evidence (Spring 2019).
- Upper-level appellate advocacy course involving evidentiary standards and criminal law (Fall 2019).
- Upper-level transactional drafting course involving legal drafting of agreements in biotech research and AI (Spring 2020).
- Upper-level appellate advocacy course involving federal law and employment discrimination statutes (Spring 2020).
Robert Furnier
Articles
John Pierre & Robert Furnier, The SULC Urban Law, Technology, & Research Academy Initiative, 50 U. Tol. L. Rev. 315 (2019).
Phebe Huderson-Poydras
The Price of Justice: Money, Morals, and Ethical Reform in the Law, 113 LAW LIBR. J. 55 (2021). [Book Review]
Voices across the Spectrum: How Law Libraries Can Help Tell the Black Lives Matter Movement's Story, 25 AALL Spectrum 41 (2020).
Russell Jones
Book
Louisiana Evidence: Problems, Cases and Materials (supplemented yearly).
Articles
Stop and Frisk: Its Effect on African American Communities: A Tale of Three Cities University of Dayton Law Review, Summer, 2020, 45 U. Dayton L. Rev. 357
Terry v. Ohio: It’s Failure, Immoral Progeny, and Racial Profiling, 54 Idaho Law Review, November 2, 2018
Presentations
Objections, and Other Trial Strategies Annual Continuing Legal Education Workshop, Louisiana Attorney General Office, Criminal Division, September 2020.
Other Crimes Evidence: Louisiana Code of Evidence Article 404(B)(1), Annual Continuing Legal Education Workshop, Louisiana Attorney General Office, Criminal Division, September 2019.
Virginia Listach
Virginia Listach, Sheral C. Kellar, Caroline Minor & Amy Duncan, Limited Scope Representation: A Practical Guide for Attorneys (LSBA June 2021).
Katherine Macfarlane
Article and Essays
Using Health Justice to Dismantle Workplace Ableism, Bill of Health Blog, Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School (forthcoming 2021).
Disability Without Documentation, 90 Fordham L. Rev. (forthcoming 2021).
Procedural Animus, 71 Ala. L. Rev. 1185 (2020).
Foreseeable Police Shootings, 119 Colum. L. Rev. F. 283 (2019).
The New Jim Crow’s Equal Protection Potential, 27 Wm. & Mary Bill of Rts. J. 61 (2018).
Accelerated Civil Rights Settlements in the Shadow of Section 1983, 2018 Utah L. Rev. 639 (2018), reprinted in NLG Civil Rights Litigation & Attorneys Fees Handbook (2018).
Posner Tackles the Pro Se Problem: A Book Review of Reforming the Federal Judiciary, 83 Mo. L. Rev. 113 (2018).
Los Angeles v. Mendez: Proximate Cause Promise for Police Shooting Victims, 118 Colum. L. Rev. F. (2018).
Terry v. Ohio at 50, 54 Idaho L. Rev. 279 (2018) (symposium introduction).
Book Chapters
Prisoner Procedure in A Critical Guide to Civil Procedure (NYU Press, forthcoming 2021).
Rewritten Opinion of Kulko v. Superior Court in Feminist Family Law Judgments (Cambridge Univ. Press 2020).
CLE
Idaho Trial Lawyers Association Annual Meeting, Sun Valley, ID, “Proposed Bill Threatens to Curtail ADA Title III Claims,” June 22, 2018.
Federal Bar Association of Idaho, Boise, ID, “The History of the Fourteenth Amendment,” May 23, 2018.
Okechukwu Oko
Books
Destiny in the Balance: Civil-Military Relations in Nigeria Edwin Mellen Press (forthcoming 2022).
Legal Education in a Changing Nigeria Goldline and Jacobs Publishing (forthcoming 2022).
Destiny’s Forge: Military Professionalism in Africa (under submission).
Articles and Presentation
Legal Education Reform in Africa: Time to Revisit the Two-tier Legal Education System University of Miami International & Comparative Law Review (forthcoming, Fall 2021).
Revisiting the Two-tier system of legal education in Africa, Presentation at the Harvard Law School Center on Legal Profession, December 7, 2020.
John Pierre
Articles
John Pierre & Robert Furnier, The SULC Urban Law, Technology, & Research Academy Initiative, 50 U. Tol. L. Rev. 315 (2019).
Regina Ramsey
Legal Writing Materials
Co-authored Legal Analysis & Writing Teaching Manual for Legal Analysis & Writing I (Fall 2020) and Legal Analysis & Writing II (Spring 2021).
Willmai Rivera-Perez
Valdes, Bender, And Hills, Critical Justice: Systemic Advocacy in Law and Society, Willmai Rivera-Perez and Juan C. García-Ellín, Flexible accumulation: Transformations of the legal profession and legal education in the United States 695 (excerpt republish), (West Academic, 2021)
Marc Roark
Squatting and the State (with Lorna Fox O’Mahony) (Forthcoming Cambridge University Press) (Manuscript submitted August 2021) (2022).
American Squatter (Forthcoming) (currently in solicitation cycle – Current offer Albany Law Review).
Secured Transactions Laws and Economic Development on American Indian Reservations, 111 AEA Papers and Proceedings 1 (2021) (with Dippel, Feir, & Leonard).
Scaling Commercial Law in Indian Country, 8 Texas A&M Law Review 81 (2020).
When Disability Law meets Private Land Use Regulations: Understanding Emerging Constraints on Private Land Use Controls, 67 La. Bar J. 180 (2019).
Unpacking Adverse Possession and Ownership as ‘Crude Legal Functionalisms,’: Starecheski on The Lower East Side Squatters: Book Review of Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City by Amy Starecheski CITIES: Fordham Urban Law Journal (2020).
Law, Literature, and Identity, Hedgehogs and Foxes Journal of the American Bar Association (2019).
Greg Sergienko
Bar Success Program Profiles, Raising the Bar, Fall 2019, at 4 (invited submission) (vol. 2, issue 4).
May 23, 2019, After Academic Probation: A Dialogue. Presentation at the Association of Academic Support Educators, Seattle Washington. The presentation illustrated the importance of doing statistical analysis to determine whether academic support made a difference, the importance of early identification of those who needed academic support, and some ways of improving the identification of those who need support.
October 20, 2018, Forced Pooling, Fracking, and Takings. Presentation at the First Annual ABA SEER Law Professors Workshop, San Diego California. The presentation was of my work in progress, which argued that precedents holding that the extraction of oil was not a taking could not extend to fracking and that the regime of forced pooling in many states was both inefficient and unfairly coercive.
Gina Signorelli
Article
Immigration Waivers and the Psychological Effects on Family Members Throughout Their Loved One’s Legalization Process, 46 S.U.L. Rev., 195 (2019).
CLE Presentation
Becoming Fierce in the Practice of Law: Personal Wellness (November 6, 2020).
Kenya Smith
Climbing Back into the Conundrum Cauldron: Revisiting the SMLLC Pro Se Prohibition, 23 U. Pa. J. Bus. L. ___ (forthcoming 2021).
Purposeful Ambiguity: A Case for Greater Clarity in State Law Treatment of the Nonprofit Limited Liability Company (as viewed through permitted purpose provisions), 95 Tul. L. Rev 601 (2021).
Hobby Lobby’s Conflated Corporate Tax Exemption and Its Impact on IRC Section 501(c)(3), 71 Rutgers L. Rev. 135 (2018).
Jessica Sparks
Legal Writing Materials
Co-authored Legal Analysis & Writing Teaching Manual for Legal Analysis & Writing I (Fall 2020) and Legal Analysis & Writing II (Spring 2021).
Developed Legal Writing Problems, which includes hypothetical, grading guide, applicable law and cases for Legal Analysis & Writing I (Fall 2020, Fall 2021) and Legal Analysis & Writing II (Spring 2021).
Developed Lawyering Process Problems, which includes hypotheticals, grading guides, applicable law and cases for Lawyering Process I (Fall 2019, Fall 2020, and Fall 2021) and Lawyering Process II (Spring 2020 and Spring 2021).
Gail Stephenson
Publications
The Unsung Heroes of the Desegregation of American Law Schools, 49 J.L. & Educ. ___ (2022).
Were It Not for Tulsa, 57 Tulsa L. Rev. ___ (2021).
The Desegregation of Louisiana’s Law Schools: A Slow and Tortuous 23 Years, 69 La. B.J. ___ (2021).
Back to Basics: Louisiana Notarial Practice, Baton Rouge Law. 22 (Nov./Dec. 2020).
Desegregation of Louisiana’s Public Law Schools, Baton Rouge Law. 18 (Sept./Oct. 2020).
Custom as a Source of Law in Louisiana, 79 La. L. Rev. 1045 (2019).
Giving Old Glory Its Due, Baton Rouge Law. 18 (May/June 2019).
Good Fences Make Good Neighbors (But Only if the HOA Approves), Baton Rouge Law. 8 (Jan./Feb. 2019).
“Gail’s Grammar,” column in The Baton Rouge Lawyer, bi-monthly publication of the Baton Rouge Bar Association.
Presentations
Were It Not for Tulsa: How the Tulsa Race Massacre’s Influence on Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher Affected the Desegregation of Higher Education, Symposium Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, OK, May 21, 2021.
Louisiana Lawyers as Notaries: A Primer, Continuing Legal Education presentation via Zoom for the Baton Rouge Bar Association, Oct. 6, 2020.
Advising Law Reviews and Journals (panel discussion), SEALS Annual Meeting, Ft. Lauderdale, FL (via Zoom), August 3, 2020.
The Multi-Generational Teaching of Legal Writing (panel discussion), AALS Annual Meeting: Pillars of Democracy: Law, Representation, & Knowledge, Washington, D.C., Jan. 6, 2020.
Lessons from No Child Left Behind: Should We Be Teaching to the Test?, LWI One-Day Workshop, Charleston, SC, December 6, 2019.
From Gleam to Maturity: The Developmental Stages of the Legal Writing Program (panel discussion), ALWD Biennial Conference: A Time of Transformative Leadership Teaching & Learning, Boston, MA, May 2019.
Legal Writing Materials
Prepared the materials for Advanced Legal Analysis & Writing for Fall and Spring semesters 2019 through 2021, including Litigation Drafting Manual (textbook), which is updated every semester; client file; defense attorney’s file; motion for summary judgment materials; reasons for judgment; and appellate record.
Ryan Stoa
Book
Craft Weed: Family Farming and the Future of the Marijuana Industry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Press, 2018.
Law Review Articles
Equity in Cannabis Agriculture, 101 Boston University Law Review 1135 (2021).
The Coastline Paradox, 72 Rutgers University Law Review 101 (2020).
Regulated Entities’ Adaptation to Regulatory Change and Uncertainty: A Case Study of the Clean Power Plan, 47 Hofstra Law Review 863 (2019).
Law Review Essays
Coastline Non-Conformism, 42 University of Hawai’i Law Review 149 (2020).
Prentice White
Book
Louisiana Business Organizations: Cases & Materials, (textbook published through Esquire Books, (Spring 2021).
Articles
The Judge Made Me Do It: Evaluating How Judicial Participation in Plea Negotiations May Contribute to Wrongful Convictions. 54 Willamette L. Rev. 137 (Spring 2018).
It’s All YOUR Fault! Examining the Defendant’s Use of Ineffective Assistance of Counsel as a Means of Getting a ‘Second Bite at the Apple.’” 122 Dickinson L. Rev. 649 (Spring 2018).
William J. Wilson
Disciplinary Guidelines For Applicants and Licensees with Criminal Histories: The Need for Uniformity, JOURNAL OF NURSING REGULATION, 49, 49-60 (2017).