Recent Faculty Scholarship Highlights

The Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 Faculty Scholarship e-newsletters highlighted some of the recent publications by UK Rosenberg College of Law faculty. The publications featured in the e-newsletters, as well as a few others, are listed below.

Laken Albrink - Assistant Clinical Professor of Legal Writing

Trauma Informed Legal Advocacy, 13 Wake Forest J. L. & Pol’y 67 (2023).

Promoting Resilience for Children and Families with Adverse Childhood Experiences, 87(4) KBA Bench & Bar Magazine 18 (July/Aug. 2023).

Tiffany D. Atkins - Assistant Professor of Law

Media + Vigilante Violence: The Formula for American Atrocity, 62 U. Louisville L. Rev. 685 (2024).

Richard C. Ausness - Professor of Law

Beneficiaries as Trustees: Here’s the State of Things, 36 Quinnipiac Prob. L.J. 277 (2023).

Opioid Lawsuits: Is There Any End in Sight?, 33 Health Matrix 193 (2023). 

Matthew Boaz - Assistant Professor of Law

The Migration of Abolition Theory, 103 N.C. L. Rev. 385 (2025)

“How to Lose a Green Card,” Lawfare (Mar. 12, 2025)

Constructing the Foreign Threat, UALR L. Rev. (invited symposium) (forthcoming 2025)

Speculative Immigration Policy, 37 Geo. Immigr. L.J. 183 (2023).

Book Review, Welcome the Wretched: In Defense of the “Criminal Alien” (2024).

Zachary Bray - Professor of Law

Precious and Dear to Us is Only This Place: The Transformative Potential of Monumental Remnants, 71 Wash. U. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 1 (2023).

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., Duke University Press, forthcoming 2025).

David Brennen - Professor of Law

The Chilling Effect of SFFA v. UNC/Harvard on Race-Based Affirmation by Tax-Exempt Charities Florida Tax Review, Volume 29, Issue 1, 2025.

Shavonnie R. Carthens – Assistant Professor of Law

Shavonnie R. Carthens, COVID-19 and Access to Healthcare at the Crossing of Race, Poverty, and Rurality, 38 J.L. & Health 145 (2024).

Megan Poole, Shavonnie R. Carthens, et al., Air Justice in Louisville: Why Health Literacy Requires Coalition, 7 Rhetoric of Health & Medicine 4 (2024).

Jim Donovan - Profesor of Law/Library Director

Zero tolerance or strong cultural diversity: The context of female genital surgery. (Forthcoming 2025-26). Emory International Law Review, vol. 40. Co-author: Christiane Canant.

Disciplinary variation in scholarly impact from two article title elements. (Forthcoming 2025-26). Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, vol. 57.

Law is a multilevel cultural universal: The theoretical achievements of Pospisil’s Anthropology of Law. (2024). In Leading Works in Law and Anthropology 28-48 (Larissa Vetters & Alice Margaria, eds., Routledge). Co-author: Tomáš Ledvinka.

The fairness model of legal institutions. (2024). In Research Handbook on Legal Evolution 85-100 (Wojciech Załuski, Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde, & Adam Dyrda, eds., Edward Elgar).

The University of Kentucky. (2023). In Organizational Structures of Academic Law Libraries: Past, Present, and Future 75-88 (Beth Adelman & Jessica de Perio Wittman, eds., AALL Pub. Series No. 87, Hein).

Joshua Douglas - Professor of Law/Acting Associate Dean for Research

History, Tradition, and Voter Registration, 2025 Wisconsin Law Review (forthcoming). 

The Power of the Electorate Under State Constitutions, 76 Florida Law Review 1679 (2024).

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

A Major Wrong on a Private Right of Action Under the Voting Rights Act, 81 Washington and Lee Law Review 1127 (2024) (with Macin Graber).

There Must Be Something in the Water—Or the Bourbon—In Kentucky: Voting Rights in the Bluegrass State, 111 Kentucky Law Journal 581 (2023) (introducing symposium issue).

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.

Brian L. Frye - Professor of Law

Should Using an AI Text Generator to Produce Academic Writing Be Plagiarism?, 33 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 946 (2023).

A Legal Scholarship Jubilee, 1 Northwestern L. J. des Refusés 61 (2024).

The Hidden Cost of University Patents, 21 Berkeley Bus. L. J. 203 (2024) (with C.J. Ryan & W. Michael Schuster).

Melissa N. Henke - Professor of Law/Director of Legal Research & Writing

Persuasion Through Citation: Four Ways to Enhance Your Legal Arguments with Proper Legal Citations, 87(6) KBA Bench & Bar Magazine 34 (Nov./Dec. 2023).

Alan Kluegel – Assistant Professor of Law

Networking Among The Human Capitalists: The Organizational Dynamics of Change and Power in the Large Corporate Law Firm, 59 U. Richmond L. Rev. 499 (2025).

Douglas Michael – Professor of Law

Confronting the Duty to Capitalize in Veil-Piercing, forthcoming in Volume 93, Issue 4 of the University of Cincinnati Law Review.

Kathryn L. Moore - Professor of Law

The New Frontier in Plan Fee Litigation:  Health Plan Fees, 2024 NYU Review of Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation 6-2 – 6-34

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)

Arbitration of ERISA Statutory Claims, in New York Review of Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation (David Pratt ed., New York: Matthew Bender, 2023).

The Evolution of Litigation of Health Insurance Claims Involving Mental Health, 23(7) Bender’s Lab. & Emp. Bull. 1 (New York: Matthew Bender) (with Mark D. DeBofsky) July 1, 2023.

Michael D. Murray - Associate Professor of Law

AI Pirated my Art and Birthed Infringing Works, and Other Metaphors that Confound Copyright Law, 58 Akron L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming, 2025), http://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. ___ (forthcoming, 2025), http://ssrn.com/abstract=4981531

Artificial Intelligence for Learning the Law: Generative AI for Academic Support in Law Schools and Universities, 8 Tex. J. L. & Tech. ___ (forthcoming, 2025), http://ssrn.com/abstract=4564227

Art, Blockchain Technology, and NFTs, in the Encyclopedia of Art and Cultural Heritage Law (Elgar Pub., forthcoming 2025)

Tools Do Not Create: Human Authorship in the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence, 15 Case W. Res. J.L. Tech. & Internet 76 (2024).

Artificial Intelligence and the Practice of Law Part 1: Lawyers Must be Professional and Responsible Supervisors of AI, 87(6) KBA Bench & Bar Magazine 36 (Nov./Dec. 2023).

Artificial Intelligence and the Practice of Law Part 2: Working With Your New AI Staff Attorney, 88(2) KBA Bench & Bar Magazine 40 (March/April 2024).

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. No. 4 (2025).

Housing Discrimination: Law and Litigation (2024 ed.).

Reflections on Arlington Heights: Fifty Years of Exclusionary Zoning Litigation and Beyond, 57 UIC L. Rev.389 (2024).

Jonathan Shaub – Associate Professor of Law

Common Law Executive Privilege(s), 100 Indiana Law Journal ___ (forthcoming 2025)

White House Inspection, 103 Washington University Law Review ___ (forthcoming 2026)

Interbranch Equity, 25 U. Penn. J. Const. L. 780 (2023).

Ramsi Woodcock - Professor of Law

“After Antitrust” Phenomenal World, January 30, 2025.

The Fourth Estate’s Estate, 26 U. Pa. J. Bus. L. 863 (2024).

Saving the News, in Media and Society After Technological Disruption (Kyle Langvardt et al., eds. Cambridge Univ. Press 2024).

Why All Antitrust Claims are Refusal to Deal Claims and What that Means for Policy, CPI Antitrust Chron., September 27, 2024.