Recent faculty scholarship

Wayne Law faculty members are widely recognized for their local, national and global impact and using scholarship as an instrument of change. Here we highlight their recent and forthcoming work.

  • Professor Jennifer Bird-Pollan

    Professor Jennifer Bird-Pollan

    • Federal Taxes on Gratuitous Transfers: Law and Planning, Dodge, Gerzog, Crawford, Bird-Pollan, and Haneman, Wolters Kluwer (2023).
    • Taxing the Ivory Tower: Evaluating the Excise Tax on University Endowments, 48 Pepperdine Law Review 101 (2021).
    • Revising the Tax Law: The TCJA and Its Place in the History of Tax Reform, 45 Ohio Northern Law Review 501 (2019).
  • Professor Benjamin Cavataro

    Professor Benjamin L. Cavataro

    • America’s Failed Product Safety Whistleblower Program, Emory L. J. (forthcoming 2025).
    • Regulating Guns as Products, 92 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 87 (2024).
  • Assistant Professor Taleed El-Sabawi

    Assistant Professor Taleed El-Sabawi

    • The “New” Drug War, 110 Virginia Law Review 1103 (2024) (with Jennifer Oliva).
    • Death by Withdrawal, 71 UCLA Law Review 378 (2024).
    • Expansion of the Police Role in Responding to Mental Health Crises Over the Past Fifty Years: Driving factors, Race Inequities and the Need to Rebalance Rules, 86 Law & Contemporary Problems 1 (2023) (with Amy C. Watson).
    • Dying Inside: Litigation Patterns for Deaths in Jail Custody, 29 Journal of Correctional Health Care 4 (2023) (with Shelly Weizmann, Sommer Brown, and Regina LaBelle).
    • Whose Concerns? It’s Time to Adjust the Lens of Research on Police-Involved Overdose Response, 112 American Journal of Public Health 1239 (2022) (with Maya Doe-Simkins & Jennifer J. Carroll).
    • The Discounted Labor of BIPOC Students and Faculty, 12 California Law Review Online 17 (2021).
  • Assistant Professor Danya Reda

    Assistant Professor Danya Reda

    • The Prestige Model: Court Reform in Global Context, 96 St. John’s Law Review (forthcoming 2024).
    • Producing Procedural Inequality, 94 University of Colorado Law Review 899 (2023).
  • Associate Professor of Law Mark Satta

    Associate Professor of Law

    • A Disjunctive Argument Against Conjoining Belief Impermissivism and Credal Impermissivism, 89 Erkenntnis 625 (2024).
    • Commercial Discrimination as Religious Messaging in 303 Creative v. Elenis, 15 Religions 1 (2024).
    • What Was Orwell’s Conception of Free Speech? George Orwell Studies, 61 (2023).
    • Shantay Drag Stays: Anti-Drag Laws Violate the First Amendment, 25 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 95 (2023).
    • Political Partisanship and Sincere Religious Conviction, 47 BYU Law Review 1221 (2022).
  • Professor of Law Jennifer Taub

    Professor of Law

    • Big Dirty Money: The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime (2020), in paperback Big Dirty Money: Making White Collar Criminals Pay (2021).
    • Corporate and White Collar Crime: Cases and Materials (7th ed. 2021) (with Kathleen Brickey).
  • Assistant Professor Nancy Chi Cantalupo

    • The Title IX Movement Against Campus Sexual Violence: How a Civil Rights Law Inspired a Feminist Movement & Vice Versa, in Deborah L. Brake, Martha Chamallas, and Verna L. Williams, Oxford Handbook on Feminist Legal Theory (forthcoming 2021)
    • Title IX Symposium Keynote Speech: Title IX & the Civil Rights Approach to Sexual Harassment in Education, 25 Roger Williams U. L. Rev. 225 (2020)
  • Kirsten Matoy Carlson

    Professor Kirsten Matoy Carlson

    • Rethinking Legislative Advocacy, 80 Md. L. Rev. 960(2021)
    • White Opposition to Native American Sovereignty: Association with “the Casino Indian Stereotype” and Perceived Conflict of Interest, 17 Du Bois Rev. 55 (2020) (with Laurel Davis-Delano, Renee Galliher, Arianne Eason and Stephanie Fryberg)
  • Lance Gable

    Professor Lance Gable

    • COVID-19 Policy Playbook: Legal Recommendations for a Safer, More Equitable Future, Boston: Public Health Law Watch (2021) (with Scott Burris, Sarah de Guia, Donna E. Levin, Wendy E. Parmet and Nicolas P. Terry)
    • Preemption and Privatization in the Opioid Epidemic, 13 Northeastern Univ. L. Rev. 297 (2021)
    • The Legal Responses to COVID-19: Legal Pathways to a More Effective and Equitable Response, 27 J. Pub. Health Management & Practice S72 (2021) (with Scott Burris, Sarah De Guia, Donna E. Levin, Wendy E. Parmet, Nicolas P. Terry)
    • Assessing Legal Responses to COVID-19, Boston: Public Health Law Watch (2020) (with Scott Burris, Sarah de Guia, Donna E. Levin, Wendy E. Parmet, Nicolas P. Terry)
    • Legal and Ethical Implications of Wastewater Sars-CoV-2 Monitoring for COVID-19 Surveillance, 7 J.L. and the Biosci. (2020) (with Natalie Ram and Jeffrey Ram)
    • Teaching the Future: Legal Epidemiology as a Model of Transdisciplinary Education, 26 J. Pub. Health Management & Practice 96 (Supp. 2, March/April 2020)
    • Advancing Legal Epidemiology to Prevent Chronic and Non-Communicable Disease: An Introduction, 26 J. Pub. Health Management & Practice 1 (Supp. 2, March/April 2020)(with Betsy L. Thompson and Lindsay Cloud)
    • Advancing the Right to Health: Eleanor Kinney’s Seminal Contributions to the Development and Implementation of Human Rights for Public Health, 17 Ind. Health L. Rev. 21 (2020) (with Benjamin Mason Meier)
  • Christopher Lund

    Professor Christopher Lund

    • Sex Offenders and the Free Exercise of Religion, 96 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1025 (2021)
    • Reconsidering Thornton v. Caldor, 97 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1687 (2020) (symposium)
  • William Ortman

    Associate Professor William Ortman

    • The Informed Jury, 75 Vand. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2021) (with Daniel Epps)
    • Confrontation in the Age of Plea Bargaining, 121 Colum. L. Rev. 451 (2021)
    • The Defender General, 168 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1469 (2020) (with Daniel Epps)
    • When Plea Bargaining Became Normal, 100 B.U. L. Rev. 1435 (2020) (Selected for Stanford/Harvard/Yale Junior Faculty Forum)
    • Second-Best Criminal Justice, 96 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1061 (2019)
  • Brad R. Roth

    Professor Brad R. Roth

    • Advancing Peaceful Settlement and Democratization: The Doubtful Usefulness of International Electoral Norms, in Marc Weller, Mark Retter, Jake Rylatt & Andrea Varga, eds., International Law and Peace Settlements (Cambridge University Press, 2021), pp. 333–55.
    • Legitimacy in the International Order: The Continuing Relevance of Sovereign States, Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law 11 (2021), 60–90.
    • Gregory H. Fox & Brad R. Roth, Democracy and International Law: A (Re-)Introduction, in Fox & Roth, eds., Democracy and International Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020), xii–lix.
    • Brad R. Roth, “Bilateral Recognition of States” in in Gëzim Visoka, John Doyle & Edward Newman, eds., The Routledge Handbook of State Recognition (Routledge, 2019), pp. 191–205.
    • Valerie Epps, John Cerone & Brad R. Roth, eds., International Law, 6th ed. (Carolina Academic Press, 2019)
    • Brad R. Roth, “Human Rights and Transitional Justice: Taiwan’s Adoption of the ICCPR and the Redress of 228 and Martial-Law-Era Injustices,” in Jerome A. Cohen, William P. Alford & Chang-fa Lo, eds., Taiwan and International Human Rights – A Story of Transformation, pp. 51–66.
  • Associate Professor Eric Zacks

    Associate Professor Eric Zacks

    • Contract Consentability: Autonomy Threats, Benefits, and Framing, 66 Loy. L. Rev.
      103 (2020)
    • Yesterday I Was Lying: Creeping Preclusion of Reciprocal Fee Awards in Residential Foreclosure Litigation, 93 St. John's L. Rev. (2020) (with Dustin A. Zacks)
  • Steven Winter

    Distinguished Professor Steven Winter

    • Bridges of Law, Ideology, and Commitment, 37 Touro L. Rev. (forthcoming 2022)
    • ‘Who’ or ‘what’ is the rule of law?, Phil. & Soc. Crit. (June 29, 2021), https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01914537211021148
    • Does Justice Have a Syntax?, 69 J. Legal Ed. 200 (2021)
    • Keeping Faith with Nomos, 35 Touro L. Rev. 345 (2020)
  • Julia Qin

    Professor Julia Qin

    • WTO Reform: Multilateral Control over Unilateral Retaliation - Lessons from the US-China Trade War, 12(2) Trade, L. & Dev. 456 (2020)
    • Forced Technology Transfer and the US-China Trade War: Implications for International Economic Law, Special issue, 22 J. Int'l Econ. L. 743 (2019)
    • Market Benchmarks and Government Monopoly: The Case of Land and Natural Resources under Global Subsidies Regulation, 40 U. Pa. J. Int'l L. 575 (2019)
  • Tony Dillof

    Professor Anthony Dillof

    • Objective Punishment, 89 U. Cin. L. Rev. 628 (2021)
  • Anne Choike

    Assistant Professor (Clinical) Anne Choike

    • Feminist Judgements: Rewritten Corporate Law, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2021) (with Usha Rodrigues and Kelli Alces Williams)
    • A New Urban Front for Shareholder Primacy, 9 Mich. Bus. & Entrepreneurial L. Rev. 79 (2019)
  • Gregory Fox

    Professor Gregory Fox

    • State Consent within the Jus ad Bellum, 3 Max Planck Trialogues on the Law of Peace and War, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2020) (Anne Peters and Christian Marxsen, eds.)
  • Katherine White

    Professor Katherine White

    • Intellectual Property Litigation: Pretrial Practice, Wolters Kluwer (2019) (with Eric Dobrusin)
  • Laura Bartell

    Professor Laura Bartell

    • Bankruptcy and the Deceased Debtor: Rule 1016 in Practice, 94 Am. Bankr. L.J. 523 (2020)
    • Tax Foreclosures as Fraudulent Transfers – Are Auctions Really Necessary?, 93 Am. Bankr. L.J. 681 (2019)
    • Section 707(b) Standing for Parties in Interest - Who Cares, 93 Am. Bankr. L.J. 241 (2019)
    • Stern Claims and Article III Adjudication - The Bankruptcy Judge Knows Best, 35 Emory Bankr. Dev. J. 13 (2019)
  • Noah Hall

    Professor Noah Hall

    • The Boundary Waters Treaty, the International Joint Commission, and the Evolution of Transboundary Environmental Law and Governance, chapter in The First Century of the International Joint Commission, University of Calgary Press (2020) (with Dan Tarlock and Marcia Valiante) (Murray Clamen and Daniel Macfarlane, eds.)
    • Waters of the State, 59 Nat. Resources J. 59 (2019) (with Joseph Regalia)
  • Jon Weinberg

    Professor Jon Weinberg

    • United States v. Wong Kim Ark, in Feminist Judgments: Immigration Law (forthcoming)
    • Know Everything That Can Be Known about Everybody: The Birth of the Credit Report, 63 Vill. L. Rev. 431 (2018)
  • Professor Paul Dubinsky

    Professor Paul Dubinsky

    • Private Law Treaties and Federalism: Can the United States Lead, 54 Tex. Int'l L. J. 39 (2018)
  • David Moss

    Associate Professor (Clinical) David Moss

    • A Study of the Relationship between Law School Coursework and Bar Exam Outcomes, 68 J. Legal Ed (2019) (with Robert Kuehn)
  • Dean Richard Bierschbach

    • The Administrative Law of the Eighth (and Sixth) Amendment, in The Eighth Amendment and Its Future in a New Age of Punishment (William Berry & Meghan Ryan eds., Cambridge University Press 2020)
    • Equality in Multidoor Criminal Justice, 23 New Crim. L. Rev. 60 (2020)
  • Distinguished Service Professor John Mogk

    • Addressing Opioid Dependence: Overcoming Legal, Regulatory, and Financial Barriers to Multidisciplinary Buprenorphine-Focused Medication assisted treatment for Opioid Use Disorder, 23 Quinnipiac Health L.J., 247 (2019) (with Albert Asciutto)