Past Issues

Spring 2020

• Andrew Beckerman-Rodau, Patent Eligible Subject Matter: Protecting the Public Domain, 72 Baylor Law Rev. 233 (PDF 402 KB)
• Ryan M. Seidemann, “Colonizing” the Dead: Former Colonial Nations’ Treatment of Indigenous Peoples’ Human Remains, 72 Baylor Law Rev. 271 (PDF 272 KB)
• William W. Clayton, Why Public Investors, Private Funds, and State Law, 72 Baylor Law Rev. 294 (PDF 679 KB)
• Tyler Ray Hannusch, Close the Door Behind You: How the Texas Supreme Court Left the Constitutionality of Section 5.014(b) Open in In re Geomet Recycling, 72 Baylor Law Rev. 355 (PDF 181 KB)
• Aaron J. Horner, How Difficult Is It to Challenge Lines on a Map?: Understanding the Boundaries of Good Faith in Abbott v. Perez, 72 Baylor Law Rev. 370 (PDF 219 KB)
• Juan Antonio Solis, Under (Secondary) Pressure: Scabby the Rat's Future Under § 8(b)(4) of the NLRA, 72 Baylor Law Rev. 390 (PDF 324 KB)

Winter 2020

• Maxine D. Goodman, Courts' Failure to Use Religion Experts to Decide Difficult Fact Questions Concerning Who is a Minister for the Ministerial Exception: A Holy Mess, 72 Baylor Law Rev. 1 (PDF 476 KB)
• Michael T. Fatale, Foreign Commerce Clause Discrimination: Revisiting Kraft after Wayfair, 72 Baylor Law Rev. 47 (PDF 714 KB)
• Angela D. Morrison, Why Protect Unauthorized Workers? Imperfect Proxies, Unaccountable Employers, and Antidiscrimination Law's Failures, 72 Baylor Law Rev. 117 (PDF 466 KB)
• Kylie G. Calabrese, Mandamus Madness in the Fifth Circuit: The Aftermath of In re JPMorgan, 72 Baylor Law Rev. 165 (PDF 251 KB)
• Cody Salgado Chapple, Wallowing in Ambiguity: Attorney's Fee Enhancement, Punitive Damages, and Due Process Under Federal and State Law, 72 Baylor Law Rev. 183 (PDF 315 KB)
• Jackson R. Willingham, Fairness, Transparency, and Accountability: Where are They in the Texas Oil and Gas Condemnation Process?, 72 Baylor Law Rev. 212 (PDF 227 KB)

Fall 2019

• Bethany Grace Gingras, Trying To Make Lemonade Out of Lemon v. Kurtzman: A Discussion On The Appropriate Analysis For Monuments In Light of A New Presumption, 71 BAYLOR LAW REV 703 (PDF 270 KB)
• Doris Del Tosto Brogan, Reviving The Intracorporate Communications No-Publication Rule: A Strategy To Encourage Effective Investigation of Internal Misconduct, 71 BAYLOR LAW REV 621 (PDF 492 KB)
• Natalie M. Banta, Electronic Wills and Digital Assets: Reassessing Formality in the Digital Age, 71 BAYLOR LAW REV 548 (PDF 514 KB)
• Ron Beal, Waiver of Governmental Immunity: Agency Contested Case Proceedings and Its Application To Settlements, BAYLOR LAW REV 605 (PDF 242 KB)
• Stephen Carl, Foster Parent Standing and Intervention in CPS Litigation: The History and The Impact of Texas's 2017 Amendment, 71 BAYLOR LAW REV. 674 (PDF 323 KB)
• Will Nilsson, Patently Unworkable: Fixing Patent Venue In The Wake Of TC Heartland and In Re Cray, 71 BAYLOR LAW REV 731 (PDF 250 KB)

Spring 2019

• Amy Waller, Trespass To Try Title Action In Texas: Damages And A Conflict In The Texas Property Code, 71 BAYLOR LAW REV. 529 (PDF 241 KB)
• Juan Antonio Solis, Closing The Door On Fraud Plaintiffs: Carduco's Effect On Claims For Fraudulent Inducement In Texas, 71 BAYLOR LAW REV. 493 (PDF 397 KB)
• Mark D. Siegmund, Paving The Way For Secured Lenders: Why Texas Should Follow Delaware's Series LLC Statutes, 71 BAYLOR LAW REV. 466 (PDF 399 KB)
• Leslie Y. Garfield Tenzer, Social Media, Venue, And The Right To A Fair Trial, 71 BAYLOR LAW REV. 421 (PDF 475 KB)
• Richard E.Flint, Fraud, Letters of Credit, And The Uniform Commercial Code: It Is Time To Untether The Independence Principle, 71 BAYLOR LAW REV. 353 (PDF 593 KB)
• James P. George, Forum Clauses At The Margin, 71 BAYLOR LAW REV. 267 (PDF 718 KB)

Winter 2019

• Christine Manolakas, The Tax Law and Policy of Natural Disasters, 71 BAYLOR LAW REV. 6 (PDF 539 KB)
• Daniel P. Pellegrin, Jr, Micro-Brew, Macro-Fees, 71 Baylor Law Rev. 192 (PDF 282 KB)
• Fraley, Wren and Toben, Was Texas Tort Reform Necessary? An Update on the Judges'View of Jury Verdict Accuracy, 71 Baylor Law Rev. 169 (PDF 324 KB)
• Leah Towe, What's Equitable Adopt Got To Do With It? 71 Baylor Law Rev. 241 (PDF 294 KB)
• Lonny Hoffman and Bret Wells, The Exceptions Prove The rule: Recalibrating The Discovery Rule and Equitable Fraud Exceptions to the Legal Injury Rule, 71 Baylor Law Rev. 72 (PDF 805 KB)
• Madeline Tansey, Death of a Salesman, 71 Baylor Law Rev. 214 (PDF 293 KB)

Fall 2018

• Kyle Stone, An Entity By Any Other Name: Texas Adopts The Distinguishable Upon The Records Name Availability Standard, 70 Baylor Law Rev. 945 (PDF 236 KB)
• Kevin Miller, A Faulty Presumption: How Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company v. White Diminishes Tenants' Rights Under The Texas Property Code, Chapter 92, 70 Baylor Law Rev. 918 (PDF 341 KB)
• Brittany Blakey, Ruining Pool Parties: Do Disclaimers of Cross-Conveyance Of Interests In An Oil & Gas Lease's Pooling Provision render A Pooled Unit Invalid Per Se?, 70 Baylor Law Rev. 880 (PDF 370 KB)
• Robert R. Little and Stephen L. Rispoli, The Hearsay Paradox: Declarant-Witnesses' Own Out-Of-Court Statements, 70 Baylor Law Rev. 848 (PDF 386 KB)
• Eric Sirota, Can The First Amendment Save Net Neutrality?, 70 Baylor Law Rev. 788 (PDF 553 KB)
• Lawrence D. Rosenthal, Most-Qualified-Applicant Hiring Policies or Automatic Reassignment For Employees With Disabilities? Still A Conundrum Almost Thirty Years After The Americans With Disabilities Act's Enactment, 70 Baylor Law Rev. 719 (PDF 553 KB)

Spring 2018

• David J. Beck and Alex B. Roberts, Legal Malpractice in Texas, 70 Baylor Law Rev. 217 (PDF 2.3 MB)
• Emeka Duruigbo, Small Tract Owners and Shale Gas Drilling in Texas: Sanctity of Property, Holdout Power or Compulsory Pooling? 70 Baylor Law Rev. 532 (PDF 723 KB)
• Griffin Toronjo Pivateau, J.D. The Prism of Entrepreneurship: Creating a New Lens For Worker Classification, 70 Baylor Law Rev. 596 (PDF 530 KB)
• Jennifer Roan Forgey, Let's Shake On It: Settling With a Municipality When Governmental Immunity Applies, 70 Baylor Law Rev. 638 (PDF 349 KB)
• Chloe Stevens, Raising Constitutional Eyebrows on Private Takings and Due Course of Law: Where Do We Go From Here? 70 Baylor Law Rev. 668 (PDF 266 KB)
• Christina Grey, Remnants of 'Separate, But Equal': What is Wrong with texas Public School Financing? 70 Baylor Law Rev. 689 (PDF 364 KB)

Winter 2018

• Michelle S. Simon, Hogan vs. Gawker II: A Statutory Solution to Fraudulent Joinder, 70 Baylor Law Rev. 1 (PDF 328 KB)
• Michael Xun Liu, Patent Policy Through Administrative Adjudication, 70 Baylor Law Rev. 43 (PDF 373 KB)
• Jennifer L. Robinson and Stephen L. Nelson, The Small but Powerful Voice in American Elections: A Discussion of Voting Rights Litigation on Behalf of American Indians, 70 Baylor Law Rev. 91 (PDF 408 KB)
• Tim Barham, Class Action Water Crisis: Resolving Flint's New Split Over CAFA's Local Controversy Exception, 70 Baylor L. Rev. 149 (PDF 165 KB)
• Kyle Steingreaber, Mandatory and Jurisdictional: Statutory Prerequisites, Article V Jurisdiction, and Judicial Review in the Texas Workers' Comp Scheme, 70 Baylor Law Rev. 171 (PDF 180 KB)
• Lamisa Imam, With Love, Texas Protects Your Text Messages, 70 Baylor L. Rev. 195 (PDF 123 KB)

Fall 2017

• Closing Consumer Bankruptcy's Enforcement Gap, by Kara Bruce (PDF 299 KB)
• In the New Era of Oil and Gas Royalty Accounting: Drafting a Royalty Clause that Actually Says What the Parties Intend It To Mean, by Byron C. Keeling (PDF 443 KB)
• Course Correction- Data Breach As Invasion Of Privacy, by Jordan Elias (PDF 220 KB)
• When Silence is Not Golden: The Stored Communications Act, Gag Orders, and the First Amendment, by Alex Burke (PDF 153 KB)
• "Go with the Flow?" Should Madonna's Vogue Set the New Normal for Sound Recording Copyright Treatment Nationwide?, By Nicole Manley (PDF 242 KB)
• Family Law Frustrations: Addressing Hague Convention Issues in Federal Courts, by Rachel Koehn (PDF 288 KB)

Spring 2017

• Removing the Mark: What is the Appropriate Test for Courts to Apply When Determining Whether Compensation is a Disguised Dividend?, by Dan Hopper (PDF 346 KB)
• Taking Advantage of Laws, Not People: Curbing Language Discrimination Against Texas Consumers, by Erin Lovejoy (PDF 297 KB)
• Updating Vaccine Law: Restructuring Jacobson v. Massachusetts to Create a Safe Harbor for States, by James Muela (PDF 228 KB)
• Instant Replay and Interlocutory Appeals, by Kenneth K. Kilbert (PDF 541 KB)
• Supreme Court Strips States of Their Power Over the WOrld's Second Most Important Technology, by Steven Ferrey (PDF 604 KB)
• Conspiracy: Has Joint and Several Liability Been Supplanted By Proportionate Responsibility?, by Lyndon Bittle (PDF 369 KB)

Winter 2017

• The Briseño Factors: How Literary Guidance Outsteps the Bounds of Atkins in the Post-Hall Landscape, by Hannah Brewer (PDF 286 KB)
• "A Deposition Is Not a Take Home Examination": Resolving the Ambiguity of Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 203.1, by Julie James (PDF 252 KB)
• Will Simon Tam and The Slants Bring an End to the Disparagement Provision Within Section 2(A) of the Lanham Act? One Rock Band's Fight for Free Speech, by Elizabeth Brabb (PDF 245 KB)
• Retooling the Patent-Antitrust Intersection: Insights from Behavioral Economics, by Daryl Lim (PDF 661 KB)
• Patent Post-Grant Review After Alice, by Jonathan Stroud (PDF 1.1 MB)
• Authenticating Digital Evidence, by Hon. Paul W. Grimm, Daniel J. Capra, Gregory P. Joseph (PDF 558 KB)

Fall 2016

• Against the Rule of Judges, by Judge Thomas M. Reavley, Ryan S. Killian (PDF 314 KB)
• The Aftermath of Indiana v. Edwards Re-Evaluating the Standard of Competency Needed for Pro Se Representation, by Todd A. Berger (PDF 481 KB)
• Not So Friendly to Frenville The Split Among Courts Regarding Accrual of Claims in Bankruptcy, by Theresa J. Pulley Radwan (PDF 418 KB)
• The Evolving Legacy of EEA v. Day: Toward an Effective State Water Plan, by Marvin M. Jones and C. Brantley Jones (PDF 367 KB)
• Ubi Jus Ibi Remedium: The Gap in Texas Courts' Protection of Mineral Owners Against Unpermitted Seismic Exploration Without Physical Entry by Davis Mosmeyer, (PDF 243 KB)
• Unclaimed Life Insurance Proceeds and the Duty to Search: Who Is the True Beneficiary?, by Alyca Riley (PDF 274 KB)
• Am I Welcome Here? Getting Into Federal Court to Confirm or Vacate an Arbitration Award, by Kyle S. Beckrich (PDF 225 KB)

Spring 2016

• Collective Corporate Knowledge and the Federal False Claims Act, by Sam F. Halabi (PDF 620 KB)
• Strategic Shareholder and Member Voting Agreements Under Texas Business Entity Law, by Val Ricks (PDF 566 KB)
• The Practitioner's Guide to Properly Taking and Defending Depositions Under the Texas Discovery Rules, by Robert K. Wise and Kennon L. Wooten (PDF 1.7 MB)
• Whose Harm Is It Anyway?--The Feasibility of Direct Claims by Minority Shareholders Following Cash-Out Mergers in Texas Corporations, by JP Haskins (PDF 362 KB)
• The False Claims Act: A Circuit Split Based Upon the Interpretation of "Based Upon", by Timothy P. Ribelin (PDF 294 KB)
• Texas Courts Should Reduce a Plaintiff's Responsibility Before Applying the Noneconomic Damage Cap, by Monica Litle (PDF 252 KB)

Winter 2016

• Allocation Wells, Unauthorized Pooling, and the Lessor's Remedies, by Brett Wells (PDF 526 KB)
• The Value of a Standard Versus the Value of Standardization, by J. Gregory Sidak (PDF 465 KB)
• Resolving the Quandary of Conflicting, Mandatory-Venue Statutes in Texas, by James E. Wren & Cody L. Hill (PDF 766 KB)
• Navigating the Legal Quagmire of Offering a Will for Probate After the Statutory Four-Year Period, by Taylor Whitlow (PDF 146 KB)
• Innocence of Cindy Lee Garcia: Why a Copyright Claim was the Wrong Choice for Legal Relief, by Ahtoosa Amini (PDF 156 KB)
• Out of "Control" Johnathan Jordan (PDF 206 KB)

Fall 2015

• Drug Design Liability: Farewell to Comment K, Henderson and Twerski, 67 Baylor L. Rev. 521 (PDF 293 KB)
• A Brief Response to "Drug Design Liability," Schwartz and Unni - 67 Baylor L. Rev. 559 (PDF 80 KB)
• The Accidental Abstention Doctrine by R.S. Radford and Jennifer Fry Thompson, 67 Baylor L. Rev. 567 (PDF 406 KB)
• Discovery Sharing in Texas: Litigant Confidentiality v. Litigation Costs, Dustin B. Benham, 67 Baylor L. Rev. 622 (PDF 485 KB)
• Take a Second-Look at Liquidated Damages in Texas (Regardless of What the Texas Supreme Court Says), Trey Qualls, 67 Baylor L. Rev. 666 (PDF 331 KB)
• Risky Business: How an Employee's Awareness of a Risk Can Destroy an Employer's Duty in Non-Subscriber Litigation, Danielle Taylor, 67 Baylor L. Rev. 699 (PDF 260 KB)
• CTS v. Waldburger: A Trend Toward Strict Construction of CERCLA? Matthew Coolbaugh, 67 Baylor L. Rev. 721 (PDF 204 KB)

Spring 2015

• Texas Turns a Corner: Resolving Shareholder Disputes in Closely Held Businesses After Ritchie v. Rupe by Lyndon Bittle and Kelli Hinson (PDF 668 KB)
• Rule 23(f): On the Way to Achieving Laudable Goals, Despite Multiple Interpretations by Tanner Frankin (PDF 316 KB)
• Security Deposit Reform: To Prove Protection for Those Who Protect Us by Stephen L. Harmel, Jr. (PDF 235 KB)
• Cured but Unemployed by Claire Neill (PDF 287 KB)
• Did Texas Get It Wrong? by Megan A. Nelson (PDF 198 KB)
• DISH Network vs. The Entertainment Industry: How the "AutoHop" Litigation Has Chilled Technological Advancement by Katie Wolters (PDF 313 KB)

Winter 2015

• A Refusal to Change Despite All the Evidence, by Ben Evans (PDF 217 KB)
• Correcting a False Step: Rethinking Overhead for The "Actual Expenses" Affirmative Defense to the Texas Construction Trust Fund Act, by Wayne R. Barnes (PDF 469 KB)
• Disputing the Boundary of the Declaratory Judgments Act, by Philip Thomas Segura (PDF 225 KB)
• Predictability in the Law, Prized Yet Not Promoted: A Study in Judicial Priorities, by Kem Thompson Frost (PDF 2.1 MB)
• The Effectiveness of Water Recycling Efforts by the Texas Railroad Commission, by Lauren Jaynes (PDF 264 KB)
• The Unconstitutional Use of Restraints in Removal Proceedings, by Fatma E. Marouf (PDF 648 KB)

Fall 2014

• Edwards Aquifer Authority v. Day and Bragg - Predictions on Their Effects for Regulatory Takings Claims for Groundwater Used in Oil & Gas Operations, by Christopher S. Kulander (PDF 525 KB)
• To File (Again) or Not to File (Again): The Post-Morgan Circuit Split Over the Duty to File an Amended or Second EEOC Charge for Claims of Post-charge Employer Retaliation, by Lawrence D. Rosenthal (PDF 612 KB)
• Bad Tax Shelters - Accountability or the Lack Thereof: Ten Years of Tax Malpractice, by Jacob L. Todres (PDF 1.0 MB)
• What's In a Claim?: Utilizing the Bankruptcy Conduct and Pre-Petition Relationship Tests to Evaluate Existing Claims Against a Terminated Filing Entity, by Aimee Raimer (PDF 254 KB)
• Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: Post-Contract-Formation Fraud, by Oliver Thoma (PDF 315 KB)
• When Legal Fiction Met Common Sense: How the Court in Morrison v. Campbell Said What Everyone Was Thinking, by Jeremy Walter (PDF 280 KB)

Spring 2014

• Controlling Students and Teachers: The Increasing Constriction of Constitutional Rights in Public, by Amanda Harmon Cooley (PDF 454 KB)
• The Misuse of History: Conspiracy and the Guantanamo Military Commissions, by David Glazier (PDF 654 KB)
• The Unconstitutionality of the Close the Contractor Fraud Loophole Act of 2008, by Cliff Holmes (PDF 187 KB)
• Public Policy Considerations Concerning Insurance Bad Faith and Residual Market Mechanisms, by Chad G. Marzen (PDF 289 KB)
• No Medical Insurance? Hey That's Good for Plaintiffs: A Defendant's Analysis of Haygood v. Escabedo, by Seth Burt (PDF 293 KB)
• Should I Stay or Should I Go? A Practitioner's Guide to the Fifth Circuit's Specific and Unequivocal Retention Standard Under Bankruptcy Code 11 U.S.C. § 1123, by John W. Busch (PDF 259 KB)

Winter 2014

• Penn Central and its Reluctant Muftis, by Steven J. Eagle (PDF 605 KB)
• Minimal Relevance: Non-Disabled Replacement Evidence in ADA Discrimination Cases, by Craig Robert Senn (PDF 566 KB)
• Specialty Courts, Ex Parte Communications, and the Need to Revise the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct, by Brian D. Shannon (PDF 427 KB)
• A Need for Clarity: Assisted Reproduction and Embryo Adoption in Texas, by Michael D. Ellis (PDF 268 KB)
• Miranda: Efficacy, the "Question First, Warn Later" Approach, and Special Populations, by Adam Herron (PDF 292 KB)
• In re Villarreal: A Possible Ray of Light for Creditors in Texas?, by Kathryn Gotcher Michaelis (PDF 244 KB)