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The Spring 2026 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

The Racial Construct of Parental Fitness, 74 UCLA L. Rev. ____ (forthcoming). 

Book Chapter: 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 Press).

John Blevins - Professor of Law

Retaliation by Raised Eyebrow, 60 Ga. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026).

Matthew Boaz - Assistant Professor of Law

The Migration of Abolition Theory, 103 North Carolina Law Review 385 (2025).

Third Country Removals and Counterfeit Due Process in Immigration Enforcement, 101 Tulane Law Review (2026-2027) (forthcoming).

The Political Economy of Mass Deportation, 19 Northeastern University Law Review (2026-2027) (forthcoming).

Narrative Drip and Other Metaphors for Data-Resistant Immigration Enforcement, 47 University of Arkansas Little Rock Law Journal 1 (2025) (invited symposium essay).

The Odyssey of Third Country Removal, St. Louis University Law Journal (forthcoming 2026) (invited symposium essay).

Zachary Bray - Professor of Law

Monument Protection Laws and the Evolving American Monumental Landscape, 29 Ann. Rev. of Poli. Sci. ---- (2026) (forthcoming, with Melynda Price).

In the Shadows of the Looming Oaks: Monumental Lessons from Prophetstown and Tippecanoe, in Who Tells Your Story: On the Construction of Public Memory at Home and Abroad (Sanford Levinson ed., forthcoming Duke University Press, 2026).

David Brennen - Professor of Law

Taxation of Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies Taxed as PartnershipsT, 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, 29 Fla. Tax Rev 1 (2025).

Shavonnie R. Carthens – Assistant Professor of Law

Unwell Water: Regulatory Gaps, Public Health, and Contaminated Private Wells in the Rural Americas, 91 U. Colo. L. Rev (February 2026).

Fortifying the Nexus Among Comprehensive Planning Law, Zoning, and Public Health, 16:3  Wake Forest J.L. & Pol’y (forthcoming May 2026).

Mary Davis - Professor of Law

Products Liability and Safety: Cases and Materials (9th ed. 2026) ( with D. Owen and A. Lemann).

Cory L. Dodds - Visiting Assistant Professor of Law

Legal Deserts Over Time, 78 Maine Law Review (forthcoming 2026).

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).

Joshua A. Douglas - Professor of Law & Associate Dean for Research

The Court v. The Voters: The Troubling Story of How the Supreme Court Has Undermined Voting Rights (Beacon Press 2024, paperback 2025).

One Decade, One Map: State Constitutional Limits on Re-Redistricting, 110 Minnesota Law Review (forthcoming 2026).

Three Truths and a Lie About the Legacy of Bush v. Gore, Florida State University Law Review (forthcoming 2026).

History, Tradition, and Voter Registration, 2025 Wisconsin Law Review 247.

Ilana Friedman - Assistant Professor of Law 

“The Politics of Civilian Oversight of Police,” in Policing and Politics: Power, Accountability, and Democratic Governance. Thomas Mrozla (Ed.)  Routledge. (Forthcoming 2027) 

The Architecture of Police Impunity, 64 American Criminal Law Review (forthcoming 2027).
 
The Paradox of Federal Oversight in Police Misconduct Investigations, 103 Denver Law Review 1 (2025).
 
How Grand Jury Secrecy and Bias Protects and Perpetuates Police Impunity, 103 Oregon Law Review 379 (2025).

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

Please Provide Feedback? How to Effectively Receive and Learn From Feedback About Your Writing, Kentucky Bar Association Bench & Bar Magazine, Nov./Dec. 2025.

D'lorah Hughes - Associate Professor of Law & Director of Legal Clinics and Externships

Criminal Procedure: the Post-Investigative Process, (6th ed. 2025) (with Cohen, Adelman, Abramson, Murphy, & Bender).

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

Preempting Drug Price Reform, 2026 Wis. L. Rev. 53 (2026).

Formulating Public Pharma, 110 Cornell L. Rev. 1369 (2026).

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

Gender Disparity in Social Security, 33 Elder L. J.  1-37 (2025).

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).

When Must Actuarial Assumptions Be Adopted in Computing Withdrawal Liability?, 53 Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 27-32 (Issue No. 4 Jan. 12, 2026).

Michael D. Murray - Professor of Law

GenAI, Damned Lies, and Stochastics: Artificial Evidence and the Intelligence to Confront It (forthcoming, 2026).

Exposing the Risk Surface of Agentic AI in the Practice of Law, 90(3) KBA Bench & Bar ___ (forthcoming, 2026) (essay), https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=6576480.

Real-Time AI Advocacy—Deploying Multimodal Generative and Agentic AI in LitigationR, 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 279 (2026), https://ssrn.com/abstract=5510560.

The Idea of an AI-First University, https://ssrn.com/abstract=6082268 (forthcoming, 2026).

AI Pirated my Art and Birthed Infringing Works, and Other Metaphors that Confound Copyright Law, 58 Akron L. Rev. 317 (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.

Legislating Generative Artificial Intelligence: Can Legislators Put a Box Around Pandora?, (2025), https://ssrn.com/abstract=4893177.

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. 35 (2025), https://ssrn.com/abstract=4564227.

Robert G. Schwemm - Professor Emeritus

Housing Discrimination: Law and Litigation (2026 ed.).

Evictions and Fair Housing Law, 34 J. of Affordable Housing & Community Dev. Law No. 3 (2026) [forthcoming].

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

Congress’s Power of Inquiry in Impeachment, 112 Va. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2026).

White House Inspection, 103 Wash. U. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2026).

"Wilcox v. Trump: The Death Rattle of the Independent Agency?, in SCOTUS 2025: Major Decisions & Developments of the U.S. Supreme Court (Howard Schweber, ed. 2026).

Common Law Executive Privilege(s), 100 Ind. L. J. 923 (2025).

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).