Publications & Scholarship

 

Recent Faculty Publications

Books

Rabiat Akande Entangled Domains: Empire, Law and Religion in Northern Nigeria (2023).
Larry Gibson Thurgood Marshall's Orchestra: Mobilizing Civil Rights Activists in the South, 1935-1955 (forthcoming 2025).
Donald Gifford Harper, James & Gray on Torts (Supp. 2024-4) (with Christopher J. Robinette).
Leigh Goodmark Editor, The Criminalization of Violence Against Women: Comparative Perspectives (with Heather Douglas, Kate Fitz-Gibbon, and Sandra Walklate, 2023).[Abstract]
Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism (2023).[Abstract]
Mark Graber Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty: The Forgotten Goals of Constitutional Reform After the Civil War (2023).[Abstract]
Robert Percival Environmental Law: 2023-24 Statutory and Case Supplement (2023).
Matiangai Sirleaf There Are Black People in the Past: Reclaiming Our Time in Human Rights (forthcoming 2026).
Editor, Race and National Security (2023).[Abstract]
Max Stearns Parliamentary America: The Least Radical Means of Radically Repairing Our Broken Democracy (2024).[Abstract]
Rena Steinzor American Apocalypse: The Six Far-Right Groups Waging War on Democracy (2024).[Abstract]
Michael P. Van Alstine International Business Transactions: A Problem-Oriented Coursebook (14th ed. 2024) (with Ralph Folsom, Michael Ramsey & Matthew Schaefer).

Book Chapters

Rabiat Akande Centering the Black Muslimah: Interrogating Gendered, Anti-Black Islamophobia, in Systemic Islamophobia in Canada: A Research Agenda (Anver M. Emon eds., 2023).[Full Text]
Asees Bhasin Business Responses to Dobbs: The Return to a Reproductive Rights Approach, and Suspicions Around Corporate Care, in Health Law as Private Law: Pathology or Pathway? 148 (I. Glenn Cohen et al. eds., 2025).[Full Text]
Jennifer Elisa Chapman Slave Cases and Ingrained Racism in Legal Information Infrastructures, in Antiracist Library and Information Science: Racial Justice and Community (K. Black & B. Nehra eds., 2023).[Full Text]
Martha Ertman Adoption: A Mosaic of Market and Non-Market Elements, in Routledge Handbook of Commodification 321 (Elodie Bertrand & Vida Panitch eds., 2024).[Full Text]
Leigh Goodmark United States v. Maddesyn George: The Consequences of Criminalization for Native Women in the United States, in The Criminalization of Violence Against Women: Comparative Perspectives (Heather Douglas, Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Leigh Goodmark & Sandra Walklate, 2023).
Mark Graber Trump v. Anderson: The Rise and Fall of Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment, in SCOTUS 2024: Major Decisions and Developments of the US Supreme Court (2025).
National Pork Producers Council v. Ross: The Puzzling Constitutional Law and Politics of the Dormant Commerce Clause, in SCOTUS 2023: Major Decisions and Developments of the US Supreme Court 155 (Morgan Marietta & Howard Schweber eds., 2024).
Constitutional Identity, Constitutional Politics, and Constitutional Revolutions, in Deciphering the Genome of Constitutionalism: The Foundations and Future of Constitutional Identity 216 (Ran Hirschl & Yaniv Roznai eds., 2024).
William Moon Global Corporate Charter Competition, in A Research Agenda in Corporate Law 231 (Christopher Bruner & Marc Moore eds., 2024).
Amanda C. Pustilnik The Brain in Court: From Neuroscience "Revolution" to Neurotech Upgrade?, in Research Handbook on Law & Psychology 169 (2024).
Matiangai Sirleaf White Health and International Law, in Race, Racism and International Law (Devon Carbado, Kimberle Crenshaw, Justin Desautels-Stein & Chantal Thomas eds., forthcoming 2025).[Full Text]
Reforming, Transforming, and Radically Imagining National Security, in Race and National Security 251 (Matiangai Sirleaf ed., 2023).
Confronting the Color Line in National Security, in Race and National Security 3 (2023).[Full Text]
Global Health Landscape: The Proliferating Actors Influencing Global Health Governance, in Global Health Law & Policy: Ensuring Justice for a Healthier World 65 (Lawrence O. Gostin & Benjamin Mason Meier eds., Oxford University Press 2023) (with Benjamin Mason Meier).[Full Text]
Jeff Sovern The FAA Should Not Cover Consumer Claims, in The Federal Arbitration Act: Successes, Failures, and a Roadmap for Reform 197 (Richard A. Bales & Jill I. Gross eds., 2024).[Full Text]
Liza Vertinsky Reorienting Patent Policy Towards Responsible AI Design, Research Handbook on the Law of Artificial Intelligence (Woodrow Barfield & Ugo Pagallo eds., forthcoming 2025).[Full Text]

Articles

Rabiat Akande Militarism and Law in Africa: A Governing Paradox, Law and Social Inquiry (2025), doi:10.1017/lsi.2024.53.
Debating Diya: Indirect Rule and the Transformation of Islamic Law in British Colonial Northern Nigeria, Die Welt des Islams (2024), https://doi.org/10.1163/15700607-20240013.[Full Text]
An Imperial History of Race-Religion in International Law, 118 American Journal of International Law 1 (2024).
Insulating the Church: Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church of Canada St. Mary Cathedral v. Aga and the Suppression of Public Law in the Construction of Religious Communities, 108 Supreme Court Law Review 2d (2023) (with Faisal Bhabha).
Kristina J. Alayan Safe Spaces in Dangerous Times, 29 AALL Spectrum, No. 2, at 27 (2024).
Book Bans & The Rise of Censorship in Libraries, 6 Maryland Bar Journal, no. 2 at 94 (2024).
Chaz Arnett Dystopian Dreams, Utopian Nightmares: A.I. & the Permanence of Racism, 112 Georgetown Law Journal 1299 (2024).[Full Text]
No Child Left Confined: Challenging the Digital Convict Lease, 27 Journal of Health Care Law & Policy 39 (2024).[Full Text]
Crowdsourcing Surveillance, 72 UCLA Law Review Discourse 362 (2024).[Full Text]
Black Lives Monitored, 69 UCLA Law Review 1384 (2023).[Full Text]
Asees Bhasin Gutting Grutter: The Effect of the Loss of Affirmative Action on Diversity Among Physicians, 20 Indiana Health Law Review 1 (2023) (with Gregory Curfman).[Full Text]
Andrew Blair-Stanek BLT: Can Large Language Models Handle Basic Legal Text?, Proceedings of the Natural Language Processing Workshop 216 (2024) (with Nils Hozenberger and Benjamin Van Durme).[Full Text]
OpenAI Cribbed Our Tax Example, But Can GPT-4 Really Do Tax?, 180 Tax Notes Federal, Aug. 14, 2023, at 1101 (with Nils Holzenberger & Benjamin Van Durme).[Full Text]
Can GPT-3 Perform Statutory Reasoning?, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Law (2023) (with Nils Holzenberger & Benjamin Van Durme), https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3594536.3595163.[Full Text]
Richard Boldt Interference with the Democratic Process as Public Nuisance, 84 Maryland Law Review 747 (2025) (with Donald Gifford).[Full Text]
Conditional Release and Consent to Treatment, 48 Law & Psychology Review 39 (2024).[Full Text]
When Originalism Failed: Lessons from Tort Law, 51 Florida State University Law Review 1 (2024) (with Donald G. Gifford & Christopher J. Robinette).[Full Text]
Uneasy Alignments: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Mental Health and Legal Systems Entanglements, 27 Journal of Health Care Law & Policy 1 (2024) (with Corey Shdaimah).[Full Text]
Reasoned Judgment, 82 Maryland Law Review Online 104 (2023).[Full Text]
Patricia Campbell Debugging the Trademark Laws: The Lanham Act and Counterfeit Microelectronics, 31 Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal 211 (2023).
Jennifer Elisa Chapman Teaching Critical Use of Legal Research Technology, 28 Legal Writing 123 (2024).[Full Text]
Karen Czapanskiy Lead and Landlords, 10 Belmont Law Review 284 (2023).[Full Text]
Peter G. Danchin Situating Sovereignty: Judge Donoghue's Lone Dissent in the Chagos Advisory Opinion, 38 Temple International and Comparative Law Journal 79 (2024).[Full Text]
Deborah Thompson Eisenberg What Matters to Employment Attorneys When Considering Online or In-Person Mediation?, 41 Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation 151 (2023) (with Donna Shestowsky & Robert Niccolini).[Full Text]
ChatGPT Goes to School: Now What?, Maryland Bar Journal (July 27, 2023).
Martha Ertman Videos, Powerpoints & Other Teaching Materials as Catalysts for Professional Identity Formation, 20 University of St. Thomas Law Journal 922 (2024).
The New Private Law Thirty Years After, 100 Denver Law Review 533 (2023).
Contract as a Tool of Systemic Racism & (Maybe) Reparations, Jotwell, June 28, 2023 (reviewing Marissa Jackson Sow, Whiteness as Contract, 78 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1803 (2022)).[Full Text]
Donald Gifford Interference with the Democratic Process as Public Nuisance, 84 Maryland Law Review 747 (2025) (with Richard Boldt).[Full Text]
When Originalism Failed: Lessons from Tort Law, 51 Florida State University Law Review 1 (2024) (with Richard C. Boldt & Christopher J. Robinette).[Full Text]
Daniel Goldberg Reimagining a U.S. Corporate Tax Increase as a Supplemental Subtraction VAT, 26 Florida Tax Review 369 (2023).[Full Text]
Leigh Goodmark "Stop Giving Us What You Think We Need. Come to Us and Ask Us What We Need": Justice Perceptions Among Survivors of Domestic Abuse, Violence Against Women, July 23, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012241265361 (with Gillian M. Pinchevsky & Susan L. Miller).
Book Review, Recovering Identity: Criminalized Women's Fight for Dignity and Freedom, by Cesraéa Rumpf, Gender & Society (2024), https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432241230936.
Discretion and Credibility, Dignity and Mercy: The Case of PT, a Criminalized Survivor, 38 Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society 53 (2023) (with Lila Meadows).
Why Centering the Family Court System Won't Decrease Criminalization of Intimate Partner Violence--And Why That's a Problem, 30 Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law 56 (2023).
Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism, 17 Law Journal for Social Justice 54 (2023).
Mark Graber Originalism as Novelty and Originalism as Authentic: Trump v. Anderson v. the Reconstruction's Fourteenth Amendment, 42 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 41 (2025).
Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment: Insurrection, 33 William & Mary Bill of Rights Law Journal 1 (2025).[Full Text]
Strolling Down Memory Lane, Touring an Historical Restoration, and the Constitution of December 11, 1865, 33 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 591 (2024).
Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment: Is Trump's Innocence Irrelevant?, 84 Maryland Law Review 1 (2024).[Full Text]
Separation Anxieties: A Comment on Weil's Penalties for the Violation of Separation, 18 Law & Ethics of Human Rights 21 (2024).
Constitutions as Constraints, 83 Maryland Law Review 1059 (2024).[Full Text]
Foreword: The Lincoln-Douglas(s) Debates and the Problem of Constitutional Evil, 83 Maryland Law Review 190 (2023).[Full Text]
Justice Robert Jackson's Catechisms, 82 Maryland Law Review Online 115 (2023).[Full Text]
Book Review, 110 Journal of American History 155 (2023) (reviewing Brett Gary, Dirty Works: Obscenity on Trial in America's First Sexual Revolution (2021)).
Partisan Supremacy in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 12 American Political Thought 222 (2023).
David Gray Is Google a State Agent?, 27 Stanford Technology Law Review 206 (2024).
Mercy in Context, 102 Texas Law Review 1615 (2024).
The Fourth Amendment State Agency Requirement: Some Doubts, 109 Iowa Law Review 1487 (2024).[Full Text]
Leslie Meltzer Henry Opportunities to Advance Maternal Immunization Research, 44 Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal S16 (2025) (with Anna Mastroianni).
Blurring Boundaries: A Proposed Research Agenda for Ethical, Legal, Social, and Historical Studies at the Intersection of Infectious and Genetic Disease, 52 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 443 (2024) (with others).
Ethical Research When Abortion Access Is Legally Restricted, 380 Science 1224 (2023) (with others).
Challenges in Obtaining the Informed Perspectives of Stakeholders Regarding HIV Molecular Epidemiology, Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (Feb. 21, 2023), 10.1097/QAI.0000000000003179 (with others).
Diane Hoffmann Fecal Micriobiota Transplantation: A Tale of Two Regulatory Pathways, 17 Gut Microbes 2493901 (2025) (with others).
FAIRS - A Framework for Evaluating the Inclusion of Sex in Clinical Algorithms, New England Journal of Medicine, January 8, 2025, DOI: 10.1056/NEJMms2411331 (with others).
Charity Scott - A Masterful Teacher, 52 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 224 (2024).
The DTC Microbiome Testing Industry Needs More Regulation, 383 Science 1176 (2024) (with others).
Clinical Algorithms, Antidiscrimination Laws, and Medical Device Regulation, JAMA, Jan. 5, 2023, doi:10.1001/jama.2022.23870 (with Katherine E. Goodman & Daniel J. Morgan).
Allocating Scarce Medical Resources During a Public Health Emergency: Can We Consider Sex?, 22 Houston Journal of Health Law & Policy 175 (2023) (with Katherine E. Goodman).[Full Text]
Kathleen Hoke Improving Identification of Gig Workers in National Health and Behavior Surveys, New Solutions (2024), https://doi.org/10.1177/10482911241269313 (with others).
Quince Hopkins Using Restorative Justice to Respond to and Prevent Sexual Harm: A Qualitative Study of Formal Practice in Six Countries, Journal of Interpersonal Violence (2024), https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605241285877 (with others).
Zanada Joyner Deconstructing the Mentor/Mentee Relationship, 28 AALL Spectrum, Jan./Feb. 2024, at 16 (with Sarah Rodgers-Miller).[Full Text]
Seema Kakade Defining Environmental Justice Communities, ABA Trends, Mar. 2023, at 9.
Environmental Evidence, 94 University of Colorado Law Review 757 (2023).[Full Text]
Guha Krishnamurthi The Virtues of Optional Legislation, 56 Arizona State Law Journal 1635 (2025) (with Jacob Bronsther).[Full Text]
Will Bruen Kill Cops?, 93 Fordham Law Review Online 11 (2024) (with Peter Salib).[Full Text]
Justice on Yachts: A Value-over-Replacement Theory, 97 Southern California Law Review Postscript 26 (2024) (with Peter Salib).[Full Text]
A Wolf in Sheep's Attire: How Consent Enfeebles Our Fourth Amendment, 85 Ohio State Law Journal 33 (2024) (with Stephen E. Henderson).[Full Text]
Against the Recidivist Premium, 98 Tulane Law Review 411 (2024).[Full Text]
Interpreting Textualist Slogans, 109 Iowa Law Review Online 15 (2023).
The Constitutionality of Prohibiting Caste Discrimination, University of Chicago Law Review Online (July 13, 2023), https://lawreview.uchicago.edu/constitutionality-prohibiting-caste-discrimination[Full Text]
Qualified Immunity as Gun Control 99 Notre Dame Law Review Reflection 93 (2023) (with Peter Salib).[Full Text]
Are S.B. 8's Fines Criminal?, 101 Texas Law Review Online 141 (2023).[Full Text]
Equity and COVID-19 Treatment Allocation: A Questionable Criterion, Bioethics (2023), DOI: 10.1111/bioe.13132 (with Eric Vogelstein).
The Goose and the Gander: How Conservative Antidiscrimination Rulings Will Save Affirmative Action on Campus, 102 Texas Law Review 123 (2023) (with Peter N. Salib).[Full Text]
Sarah Lorr Set Up to Fail: Disabled Parents in the Family Regulation System, 77 Oklahoma Law Review 185 (2024).
Disabling Families, 76 Stanford Law Review 1255 (2024).[Full Text]
Kerri McGowan Lowrey Leveling the Playing Field: Opportunities for School Recess to Promote Wellness and Reduce Disparities in Elementary School Children, American Journal of Health Promotion (2025), doi:10.1177/08901171251319847 (with others).
Christopher Mathis Higher Education Redress Statutes: A Preliminary Analysis of States' Reparations in Higher Education, 94 University of Colorado Law Review 387 (2023).
Higher Education Redress Statutes: A Critical Analysis of States' Reparation in Higher Education, 79 Washington & Lee Law Review 1829 (2023).
Michael Millemann Challenging Overincarceration: The Roles of Law School Clinics Working in Partnership--A Symposium, 23 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender & Class 135 (2023).[Full Text]
Paula Monopoli The Nineteenth Amendment and Dobbs, 15 ConLawNOW 227 (2024).[Full Text]
Pushing Boundaries, Balkinization, May 3, 2023, reprinted in 59 New England Law Review 25 (2024).[Full Text]
Remembering the Origins of Modern Legal Education, 85 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 305 (2023).[Full Text]
Situating Dobbs, 14 ConLawNOW 45 (2023).[Full Text]
William Moon Transnational Corporate Law Litigation, 74 Duke Law Journal 901 (2025).[Full Text]
Book Review, Beyond Profit Motives, 122 Michigan Law Review 1059 (2024).[Full Text]
The Brussels Effect and the Extraterritoriality of Delaware Corporate Law, 35 European Business Law Review 367 (2024).
Jon Mueller 40 Years of Chesapeake Bay Restoration: Where We Failed and How to Change Course, 54 Environmental Law Reporter 10470 (2024).[Full Text]
Aadhithi Padmanabhan Abandoning Deportation Adjudication, Stanford Law Review (forthcoming 2025).
Robert Percival Book Review, Private Governance Comes of Age: Vandenbergh, Light & Salzman's Private Environmental Governance, 77 Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc 197 (2024).
Natalie Ram Polygenic Scoring and the Criminal Legal System, 38 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 577 (2024).
Act on a Mandate to Protect Research Subjects' Privacy, 386 Science 1096 (2024) (with Leslie E. Wolf).
Certificates of Confidentiality: Privileging Research Data, 11 Journal of Law & the Biosciences 1 (2024) (with Leslie E. Wolf, Jorge Contreras & Laura M. Beskow).[Full Text]
Certificates of Confidentiality and Mandatory Reporting, JAMA Pediatrics, May 6, 2024, doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.0900 (with Leslie E. Wolf & Elizabeth J. Letourneau).
Constitutional Confidentiality, 80 Washington & Lee Law Review 1349 (2023) (with Jorge L. Contreras, Laura M. Beskow & Leslie E. Wolf).[Full Text]
Generating Genuine Data Protection, Jotwell (July 25, 2023) (reviewing Carleen M. Zubrzycki, The Abortion Interoperability Trap, 132 Yale L.J.F. 197 (2022)).
Familial Searches, The Fourth Amendment, and Genomic Control, 96 Southern California Law Review Postscript 1 (2023) (with Jacob S. Sherkow & Carl A. Gunter).[Full Text]
The Ethics of Human Sequences in Environmental Samples, Nature Ecology & Evolution, May 15, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02072-2.
Ethical and Legal Wastewater Surveillance, 379 Science 652 (2023) (with William Shuster, Lance Gable & Jeffrey L. Ram).[Full Text]
Daniel Rauch Defamation as Democracy Tort, 172 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1453 (2024).[Full Text]
Omavi Shukur Punishing Involuntary Resistance, 113 Georgetown Law Journal 1 (2024).[Full Text]
The Criminalization of Black Resistance to Capture and Policing, 103 Boston University Law Review 1 (2023).[Full Text]
Maneka Sinha The Automated Fourth Amendment, 73 Emory Law Journal 589 (2024).[Full Text]
The Dangers of Automated Gunshot Detection, 5 Journal of Law & Innovation 63 (2023).
Matiangai Sirleaf Reflections on Decolonial Imperatives in Global Health Law, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (2025).
Palestine as a Litmus Test for Transitional Justice, 18 International Journal of Transitional Justice 162 (2024).[Full Text]
Reflecting on Race, Racism, and Transitional Justice, 18 International Journal of Transitional Justice 1 (2024) (with Tendayi Achiume).[Full Text]
Rendering Whiteness Visible, 117 American Journal of International Law 484 (2023).[Full Text]
Decolonization of Global Health Law: Lessons from International Environmental Law, 51 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 450 (2023) (with Alexandra Phelan).[Full Text]
White Health as Global Health, 117 AJIL Unbound 88 (2023).[Full Text]
Jeff Sovern Is Discrimination Unfair?, 41 Georgia State University Law Review 631 (2025).[Full Text]
Who Teaches Consumer Law?, 28 Journal of Consumer & Commercial Law, no. 1, 2025, at 2.[Full Text]
Not-so-Smartphone Disclosures, 76 Arkansas Law Review 437 (2023) (with Nahal Heydari).[Full Text]
Max Stearns Response to Josep M. Colomer's Review of Parliamentary America: The Least Radical Means of Radically Repairing Our Democracy, 22 Perspectives on Politics 1319 (2024).
Book Review,Constitutional Polarization: A Critical Review of the U.S. Political System, 22 Perspectives on Politics 1315 (2024).
Kamala Harris's Ironic D/democratic Coronation and Genuine Electoral Reform, 84 Maryland Law Review Online 24 (2024).[Full Text]
Precedent, Reliance, and Morality at the End of Roe v. Wade, 82 Maryland Law Review Online 108 (2023).[Full Text]
Tanya Thomas Let Them Make Pie! Rethinking Career Progression in Librarianship: The Benefits of Utilizing the Lattice Model for Career Growth, 29 AALL Spectrum, No. 3, at 12. (2025)
Donald Tobin The Taxing Question of Income: Historical Insights on the Meaning of "Income" May Preserve the Income Tax, 84 Maryland Law Review Online 1 (2024) (with Ellen P. Aprill).[Full Text]
Liza Vertinsky Theory of Genetic Dimensions in the Law, Polygenic Risk Scores, and Reproductive Decision-Making, 38 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 527 (2024) (with Yaniv Heled).
A Theory of Genetic Dimensions in the Law, 99 Indiana Law Journal 1341 (2024) (with Yaniv Heled & Ana Santos Rutschman).[Full Text]
The More Things Change: In Memory of Dmitry Karshtedt, 21 Northwestern Journal of Technology & Intellectual Property 299 (2024).[Full Text]
Tiffany Yang Public Profiteering of Prison Labor, 101 North Carolina Law Review 313 (2023).[Full Text]
The Prison Pleading Trap, 64 Boston College Law Review 1145 (2023).[Full Text]