Recent Faculty Scholarship Highlights – Fall 2025
The Fall 2025 Faculty Scholarship e-newsletter highlighted recent scholarship by UK Rosenberg College of Law faculty. Below is an extended list of the publications featured in the e-newsletter.
Tiffany D. Atkins - Assistant Professor of Law
Abolishing the American Family Policing System as Transitional and Racial Justice, in Reframing Transitional Justice: Innovations, Boundaries, and Refractions (Mark A. Drumbl & Kirsten J. Fisher eds.) (Routledge, forthcoming December 2025).
John Blevins - Professor of Law
Retaliation by Raised Eyebrow, 60 Ga. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026).
Matthew Boaz - Assistant Professor of Law
Matthew Boaz, The Migration of Abolition Theory, 103 N.C. L. REV. 385 (2025).
Matthew Boaz, Narrative Drip and Other Metaphors for Data-Resistant Immigration Enforcement, 47 UALR L. J. 1 (2025) (invited symposium essay)
Matthew Boaz, Kilmar: An American Immigration Odyssey, __ St. Louis Univ. L.J. __ (forthcoming 2025) (invited symposium essay)
Zachary Bray - Professor of Law
In the Shadows of the Looming Oaks: Monumental Lessons from Prophetstown and Tippecanoe, in Who Tells Your Story: On the Construction of Public Memory (Sanford Levinson ed., forthcoming 2026) (peer-reviewed).
Monument-Protection Laws and the Evolving American Monumental Landscape, 29 Annual Rev. Political Sci. --- (forthcoming 2026) (peer-reviewed) (with Melynda Price).
David Brennen - Professor of Law
TAXATION OF PARTNERSHIPS AND LIMITED LIABILITYCOMPANIES TAXED AS PARTNERSHIPS, 2nd ed. (with Friel, Burke and Jones) (Carolina Academic Press) (forthcoming 2026)
The Chilling Effect of SFFA v. UNC/Harvard on Race-Based Affirmation by Tax-Exempt Charities, (forthcoming in FLA. TAX REV, Volume 29, Issue 1, 2025)
Shavonnie R. Carthens – Assistant Professor of Law
West Virginia v. EPA: Consideration for the Future of EPA Greenhouse Gas Regulation, 17 Ky. J. Equine, Agric. & Nat. Res. L. 1 (2025).
Unwell Water: Regulatory Gaps, Public Health, and Contaminated Private Wells in the Rural Americas (forthcoming 2026 from the Colorado Law Review).
Strengthening the Nexus Between Comprehensive Planning Law and Public Health (forthcoming 2026 from the Wake Forest Journal of Law and Policy)
Mary Davis - Professor of Law
Owen, Davis, and Lemann, Products Liability and Safety: Cases and Materials (9th ed. forthcoming 2026) (including Teachers Manual).
Jim Donovan - Professor of Law & Library Director
Émile Durkheim, In Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Anthropology (Maria Sapignoli, Katrin Seidel, & Eugenia Relaño Pastor, eds., Edward Elgar) (forthcoming 2026).
The Digital in the Library: Finding the Mutually Beneficial Synergy, In Digital Libraries - From Developing Technologies to Privacy Concerns (Shuzhen Zhao, ed., IntechOpen) (forthcoming 2026).
Zero Tolerance or Strong Cultural Diversity: The Hard Case of Female Genital Surgery, 40(2) Emory Int'l L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026) (Co-author: Christiane Canant).
Ilana Friedman - Assistant Professor of Law
Friedman, Ilana. 2025. “The Paradox of Federal Oversight in Police Misconduct Investigations.” Forthcoming in Denver Law Review, Volume 103, Issue 1.
Friedman, Ilana. 2025. “How Grand Jury Secrecy and Bias Protects and Perpetuates Police Impunity.” Oregon Law Review, Volume 103, Issue 1.
Michael Healy - Professor of Law
“Administrative Law” (casebook co-authored with John M. Rogers, Ronald J.
Krotoszynski, Jr., & Kent Barnett) (Wolters Kluwer 6th edition 2025).
“Teacher’s Manual for Administrative Law” (co-authored with John M. Rogers,
Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr., & Kent Barnett) (Wolters Kluwer 6th edition 2025).
Melissa N. Henke - Professor of Law & Director of Legal Research & Writing
Melissa Henke, Please Provide Feedback? - How To Effectively Receive And Learn From Feedback About Your Writing, Kentucky Bar Association Bench & Bar Magazine, Nov/Dec 2025.
Alan Kluegel - Associate Professor of Law
Networking Among The Human Capitalists: The Organizational Dynamics of Change and Power in the Large Corporate Law Firm, 59 U. Rich. L. Rev. 499-550 (2025)
Shweta Kumar - Assistant Professor of Law
Formulating Public Pharma, 110 Cornell L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025), available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4993865.
Preempting Drug Price Reform, Wis. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026), available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5418435.
Douglas Michael - Professor of Law
Confronting the Duty to Capitalize in Veil-Piercing, 93 Univ. of Cincinnati Law Rev. 1034 (2025)
Kathryn L. Moore - Professor of Law
Exploring the Unique Character of Huquqúqu’llah: Insights from a Comparison with U.S. Tax Laws, in Seeking Global Justice: Bahá’í Visions for Legal Reform 80-109 (Brian L. Lepard, ed., George Ronald 2025)
What Pleading Standard Applies to an ERISA Prohibited Transaction Claim under 29 U.S.C. § 1106(a)(1)(C)?, 52 Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 40-45 (Issue No. 4 Jan. 10, 2025)
Gender Disparity in Social Security, 33 Elder L. J. 1 (2025)
Michael D. Murray - Professor of Law
Real-Time AI Advocacy—Deploying Multimodal Generative and Agentic AI in Litigation, 76 Syracuse L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming, 2026), https://ssrn.com/abstract=5417696
AI Training is Fair Use: The Beginning of the End of the Copyright Assault on Gen AI, 17 Case W. Reserve J.L. Tech. & Internet ___ (forthcoming, 2026), https://ssrn.com/abstract=5395242
Algorithmic Ethics in an Era of Agentic AI Advocacy - An Analysis of AI's Impact on the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, 16 St. Mary's J. Legal Mal. & Ethics ___ (forthcoming, 2026), https://ssrn.com/abstract=5510560
AI Pirated my Art and Birthed Infringing Works, and Other Metaphors that Confound Copyright Law, 58 Akron L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming, 2025),https://ssrn.com/abstract=5116714
Deceptive Exploitation: Deepfakes, the Rights of Publicity and Privacy, and Trademark Law, 65 IDEA: L. Rev. Franklin Pierce Center for Intell. Prop. 124 (2025), https://ssrn.com/abstract=4981531
Visual Legal Rhetoric in the Age of Generative AI and Deepfakes: Renaissance or Dark Ages?, 28 SMU Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 199 (2025),https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=4883390
Artificial Intelligence for Learning the Law: Generative AI for Academic Support in Law Schools and Universities, 8 Tex. J. L. & Tech. ___ (2025), https://ssrn.com/abstract=4564227
Robert G. Schwemm - Professor Emeritus
Housing Discrimination: Law and Litigation (2025 ed.).
Gilead: Municipal Liability for Punitive Damages Under the Fair Housing Act, 57 Conn. L. Rev. 1053 (2025).
Jonathan Shaub - Associate Professor of Law
Common Law Executive Privilege(s), 100 Ind. L. J. 923 (2025)
White House Inspection, 103 Wash. U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026)
"Wilcox v. Trump: The Death Rattle of the Independent Agency?" in Howard Schwerber (ed.), SCOTUS 2025: Major Decisions and Developments of the U.S. Supreme Court (forthcoming 2026)
Richard Underwood - Professor Emeritus
Richard Underwood, Springtime For Sophie (2025), true crime/legal history.
Ramsi Woodcock - Professor of Law
The Progressive Case against Antimonopolism, in Toward an Inframarginal Revolution: Redistributing the Gains from Trade (Ramsi Woodcock, ed. Cambridge Univ. Press 2025).
Introduction to Inframarginalism, in Toward an Inframarginal Revolution: Redistributing the Gains from Trade (Ramsi Woodcock, ed. Cambridge Univ. Press 2025).
The Case against Surge Pricing, 76 U.C. L.J. 821 (2025).