Recent Faculty Publications

Erin R Archerd
Associate Professor of Law

Irrational Thinking and the Law, in Discussions in Dispute Resolution: The Coming of Age (Art Hinshaw, Andrea Kupfer Schneider, & Sara Rudolph Cole, eds., Oxford Univ. Press 2025)

Online Mediation and the Opportunity to Rethink Safety in Mediation, 52 Stetson L. Rev. 307 (2022)

Two Hearts and Brewer/Distributor Conflicts, 52 University of the Pacific Law Review 803 (2021)

I Don’t Know Why You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello, 29 Michigan Dispute Resolution Journal Vol. 2 (2021)

Evaluating Mediation’s Future, 2020 Missouri J. Dispute Res. 31 (2020)

It’s Not the Lawyers We Need to Convince: Commentary on Carrie Menkel-Meadow’s Toward Another View of Legal Negotiation (1984), appearing in Discussions in Dispute Resolution: The Formative Articles (Hinshaw, Schneider, and Cole, eds.) (Oxford Univ. Press 2020)

Catherine Archibald
Professor of Law 

Still Problematic, Even Post-Settlement: Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” Law and the Federal Constitution, 28 Chapman Law Review 1 (2024)

Putin’s Version of History and Claims of Provocation: An International Law Perspective on Russia’s Justifications for the Ukraine War (with Aman L. McLeod), 100 University Detroit Mercy Law Review 501 (2023)

Feminist Perspectives on Bostock v. Clayton County (co-authored with Ann C. McGinley, Nicole Buonocore Porter, Danielle Weatherby, Ryan H. Nelson, and Pamela Wilkins), 53 Connecticut Law Review Online 1 (2020) 

Rewritten Opinion for Etsitty v. Utah Transit Authority (10th Cir. 2007) in Feminist Judgments: Employment Discrimination Opinions Rewritten (Ann McGinley & Nicole Porter eds., Cambridge University Press 2020)

Julia Belian
Associate Professor of Law

How to Save a Shipwreck, 103 U. Det. Mercy L. Rev. 101 (2026) (with Tyler Winowiecki)

ESTATES & TRUSTS: A CONTEXT AND PRACTICE CASEBOOK (Carolina Academic Press, 2023)

Grandmother Law, 99 U. Det. Mercy L. Rev. 253 (2022)

J. Richard Broughton
Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development & Philip J. McElroy Professor of Law

On Fidelity, 77 Syracuse Law Review (forthcoming 2026)

Threats and Political Violence, 26 NEVADA L.J. ___ (forthcoming 2026)

Federal Prosecution in the Shadows of Constitutional Immunity, 113 K.Y. L.J. 794 (2024-2025)

Fentanyl, Narcoterrorism, and National Security Policies, 61 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 831 (2024)

Antisemitic Terrorism, 27 Lewis & Clark Law Review (2024)

Activist Extremist Terrorist Traitor, 96 St. John's Law Review Rev. 295 (2022)

The Second Article and Congressional Self-Defense, 59 Houston Law Review 259 (2021)

Constitutional Discourse and the Rhetoric of Treason, 47 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 303 (2020)

Marie S. Celentino
Director, Immigration Law Clinic & Assistant Professor of Law

In Government We Trust: Judicial Deference to Government Evidence in Removal Proceedings, 78 VAND. L. REV. 375 (2025)

Holly L. Christian
Director, Immigration Law Clinic & Assistant Professor of Law

The Scarlet Letter Plaguing Black Veterans: Racial Disparity and the Pursuit of Restorative Justice for Black Veterans with ‘Bad Paper,’” ___ UCLA L. REV. DISCOURSE __ (forthcoming 2026)

Jessica V. Den Houter
Assistant Professor of Law

Children Are Not Inmates, 86 OHIO ST. L.J. 567 (2025)

Melissa Eckhause
Co-Director, Arts & Entertainment Law Clinic, & Associate Professor of Law 

“Working Well” or Hardly Working? An Empirical Assessment of the Copyright Claims Board After Three Years, 73 Journal of the Copyright Society (forthcoming 2026)

Closed Doors to Justice: How the Copyright Claims Board is Shuttering Out Pro Se Litigants, 43 CARDOZO ARTS & ENT. L.J. 1 (2025)

Copyright Troll in ELGAR ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW (Paul Torremans et al. eds., Edward Elgar Pub’g 2023) (Contributor)

Fighting Image Piracy or Copyright Trolling? An Empirical Study of Photography Copyright Infringement Lawsuits, 86 Albany Law Review 111 (2022)

Tolulope J. Falokun
Assistant Professor of Law

Smart Borders, Hard Questions: AI Decision-Making in Immigration Adjudication and the Case for De Novo Human Re-Evaluation, 19 Elon Law Review (forthcoming 2027)

Intelligent Non-Fungible Tokens (INFTS) and National Security: Navigating the Challenges of Artificial Intelligence and Private International Law, 13 Belmont Law Review 452 (2026)

Blockchain Technology, BRICS Pay Consortium, and the Private International Law Challenges of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), 29 Gonzaga Journal of International Law 114 (2025)

Artificial Intelligence Meets Blockchain Technology: Industry Self-Regulation as a Solution to Jurisdiction and Choice of Law Issues in Intelligent Non-Fungible Token (iNFT) Transactions, (forthcoming 2026)

Beyond Article VIII: A Functional Connection Approach to Jurisdiction Over Space-Based Cyber Incidents, (forthcoming 2026)

The Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Technology in Creative Entrepreneurship: Intelligent Non-Fungible Tokens (iNFTs) and the Need for a Shift in Intellectual Property Law, (forthcoming 2026)

The Digital Society and the Intellectual Property Law Ramifications of the Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs): An Empirical Socio-Legal Analysis, (forthcoming 2026)

Jurisdiction and Choice of Law in Disputes Relating to Cross-Border NFT Transactions- The Case for Uniform Private International Law Rules, 27 VA. J.L. & TECH. 49-99 (2023)

Nigeria (with I. Uju) in Competition in Africa Report 2022 (Baker McKenzie ed., 2022)

Cross-Jurisdiction Privacy Project Nigeria Data Guidance (with I. Ibiyemi, et al.) in Privacy Laws & Digital Advertising: Multi-Jurisdictional Overview and Implications 385-429 (Interactive Advertising Bureau ed., 2021)

Liability for Damage Caused by Artificial Intelligence (with I. Wilson) (2021)

Steven R. Foster
Director, Online JD Program & Associate Professor of Law

The Keystone State Should Forge A New Path To Lawyer Licensure, 8 UNT DALLAS L. REV. ON THE CUSP 47 (2026), (co-authored with Ashley M. London, Nachman N. Gutowski, and Sarah J. Garrison)

Client-Centered Legal Analysis, West Academic (co-authored with Joni Wiredu) (2025)

Breaking the Cycle: Rethinking Bar Exam Scoring and Portability for NextGen Examinees, UNT Dallas Law Review Online (co-authored with Nachman Gutowski) (forthcoming Spring 2025) (policy paper)

Sarah J. Garrison
Assistant Dean, Bar Preparation & Assistant Professor of Law

The Keystone State Should Forge A New Path To Lawyer Licensure, 8 UNT DALLAS L. REV. ON THE CUSP 47 (2026), (with Ashley M. London, Nachman N. Gutowski, Sarah J. Garrison, & Steven Foster)

Beyond NextGen UBE: A Blueprint for Michigan’s Independent Bar Licensing Model (May 14, 2025) (with Nachman N. Gutowski, Steven Foster, and Ashley London) (unpublished manuscript)

Troy L. Harris
Professor of Law

International Construction Arbitration Handbook (Thomson West 2025-2026 ed.) (with John W. Hinchey)

Arbitration in Early Modern England (work in progress)

ADR for Construction Disputes (2025, LexisNexis/Matthew Bender)

Major Issues in International Construction Law (2025, John Wiley & Sons) (coeditor, with Mauro Rubino-Sammartano)

“From Hunch to Analysis: Risk Management in Tiered Dispute Resolution Processes,” 24 Pepp. Disp. Resol. L.J. 178 (2024)

“Witness Statements in Arbitration,” 103 Mich. B.J. 24 (2024) (co-author with Jerome Rock)

International Construction Arbitration Handbook (originally co-authored with John W, Hinchey in 2008 and updated annually through 2024; 2 vols., Thomson Reuters)

“‘Weak’ legal pluralism and the eighteenth-century English ecclesiastical courts,” 43 J. Legal Hist. 288 (2022)

“United States of America,” in The International Compendium of Construction Contracts (De Gruyter, 2021); contributing author

Contracts for the Cross-Border Lawyer: Canada and the United States (originally published in 2019 and updated in 2020, Blurb)

Karen McDonald Henning
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Professor of Law

The Class of the Discretionary Function Exception and the Intentional Tort Exception in the Federal Torts Claim Act, (in progress)

CRIMINAL PRETRIAL ADVOCACY (4th ed., West 2026) (with Peter J. Henning, Adam Wright & Leonid Feller)

MASTERING CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (4th ed., Carolina Academic Press, forthcoming 2026) (with Ellen Podgor, Jelani Jefferson Exum, & Emily Hughes)

Mastering Criminal Procedure (3d ed. Carolina Press, 2020) (with Ellen Podgor, Peter Henning, Cynthia Jones & Sanjay Chhablani)

Camesha F. Little
Associate Professor of Law

Many Shades of Blue: Gender, Grief, and Well-Being in Legal Education, 106 Boston Law Review (forthcoming 2026)

Grief Literacy as Professional Competency: A Curricular Framework for Legal Education (in progress)

Cultivating the Reflective Lawyer: How Capstone Programs Complete the Learning Cycle (in progress)

The Hunger Games: Food as a Right, Not a Privilege, 9 FIU L. REV. Issue 2 Volume 20 (2025)

Think, Reflect, Refine: Shaping The Modern Lawyer, UDC Law Review 28 U.D.C. L. Rev. (2025)

Emotional Intelligence, Belonging, and Critical Thinking, Raising the Bar Newsletter, Vol. 8 Issue 1, Winter 2025

Keeping Students Motivated for Bar Exam Success, NALP PDQ, January 2022, (Lyssa L. Thaden and Kimberly Wolenberg, co-authors)

Cristina D. Lockwood
Professor of Law 

Rhetoric Over Reality: Examining Ethical Obligations of Confidentiality When Information is Publicly Available, 59 Ind. L. Rev. 97 (2025)

Michigan Legal Research, 5th Edition (Carolina Academic Press 2026)

Legal Ethics, in Michigan Basic Practitioner Handbook, Chapter 22 (ICLE 6th ed. 2026)

Successful Legal Analysis and Writing: The Fundamentals (5th ed., West 2022) (with Christopher D. Soper)

The Presence of Justice: A Call to Expand the Humanitarian Exception in ABA Model Rule of Professional Conduct 1.8(e), 36 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 65 (2022)

Paula J. Manning
Associate Dean for Student Learning and Assessment & Professor of Law

Twenty Years After a Turning Point: Legacies, Lessons, and the Unfinished Business of Institutional Denial and Heads and Hearts, (Michael Hunter Schwartz, co-author) 74 J. of Leg. Educ. (forthcoming 2026)

Rest My Case: Sleep Science Should Inform J.D. Program Structures and Licensure Examinations to Enhance Performance, Equity and Well-Being, (Laura Mott, co-author) 27 Minn. J.L. Sci. & Tech. 1 (2025)

Materials and problems, University of Minnesota Libraries Civil Procedure opensource textbook (forthcoming 2025)

Why Detroit Mercy Law Chose Criterion Referenced Assessment Over Grading Curves, (Michelle Richards, co-author) Volume 6, issue 3, Raising the Bar, Evidence Based Thinking About the Bar Exam, Access Lex (2023)

How to Train Your Supervisor, 42 Pace L. Rev. (2022) (Kris Franklin co-author)

Gary Maveal
Emeritus Professor of Law

Tracing the Origins of Michigan's American Rule Denying Attorney Fees to Winners in Civil Litigation, Michigan Historical Review, Vol. 51, Number 1, (Spring 2025), pp. 27-75

Discovering Michigan's American Rule: How 19th Century Statutes Broadly Taxing Attorney Fees Shaped Today's Contrary Practice (March 17, 2024)

Aman L. McLeod
Professor of Law

Demolishing the Ivory Tower to Save It: Government Attempts to Impose Ideological “Balance” on Institutions of Higher Education, Why They Will Fail, and How They Damage Education and Scholarship, 27 Journal of Law in Society (forthcoming 2026)

Deporting Dissent: The First Amendment Rights of Nonimmigrants, 55 University of Baltimore Law Review (forthcoming 2026)(with Andrew Moore)

The Wrongly Read Right: Insurrection and the Second Amendment Right to Bear Arms, 129 DICK. L. REV. 971 (2025) (with Jacob M. Jones)

Assessing Economic Damages in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Litigation: The State of Montana, 31(1) Journal of Forensic Economics 85 (2024) (with Terrance Grieb)

The Fourth Amendment and Greeks on Campus: Right of Privacy and Unreasonable Searches and Seizures, in The Law of Fraternities and Sororities (Gregory S. Parks, ed., Carolina Academic Press 2024)

Putin’s Version of History and Claims of Provocation: An International Law Perspective on Russia’s Justifications for the Ukraine War (with Catherine Archibald), 100 University Detroit Mercy Law Review 501 (2023)

Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co.: A Ten-Year Retrospective on its Impact on Law and the Judiciary, 124 W. Va. L. Rev. 67 (2021)

Patrick Meyer
Associate Dean, Library Services & Professor of Law

An Ultraprocessed Food Policy We Can Sink Our Teeth Into (Along With Sensible Food Label Changes), 59 Creighton L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2026)

The Persistent, Solvable Malady of Law Student Multimedia Multitasking, 69 St. Louis U. L.J. 125 (2024)

This Article Contains 400 Calories: A Critique Of, and Call for Expansion To, the Menu Labeling Requirements of Section 4205 of the Affordable Care Act, 56 Ind. L. Rev. 59 (2022)

Andrew F. Moore
Professor of Law

Deporting Dissent: The First Amendment Rights of Nonimmigrants, 55 University of Baltimore Law Review (forthcoming 2026) (with Aman McLeod)

Akunna V. Olumba
Assistant Professor of Law

The Return of Proper Deference: Can Loper-Bright Return Article II Supremacy to Tax Treaties?, 56 U. MEM. L. REV. __ (forthcoming 2026)

Hail Mary: Can Cryptocurrency Save the Marijuana Industry’s Lost Deductions (forthcoming)

Deborah Paruch
Professor of Law 

Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work Product Doctrine in Michigan (2d ed., ICLE 2022) (with Fatima M. Bolyea)

Solitary Confinement of Juveniles: It is a Cruel and Unusual Punishment, 25 Idaho Law Review (2021)

Michelle L. Richards
Professor of Law 

Before the Memory Fades: Evaluating a National Quarantine Strategy As Part of a Modernized Public Health Response to the Next Pandemic, 34 Health Matrix 181 (2024)

Distinguished Commentary - Why Detroit Mercy Law Chose Criterion-Referenced Assessment Over Grading Curves, 6(3) RAISING THE BAR. EVIDENCE-BASED THINKING ABOUT THE BAR EXAM 3 (Summer 2023) (with Paula Manning)

Relying on the Unreliable? COVID-19 Claims Can’t Proceed Without a Proper Standard of Care, Bill of Health – Blog Symposia of The Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law School (October 19, 2022)   

Going Viral:  Discouraging the Premature Use of Civil Liability Strategies as a Response to COVID-19, 19 U.N.H. Law. Rev. 69 (2021)

Pills, Public Nuisance, and Parens Patriae: Questioning the Procedural Posture of the Opioid Litigation, 54 Richmond L. Rev. 405 (January 2020)

Sarah Sallen
Director, Litigation Practice Clinic & Assistant Professor of Law

Stigma Based Credentials: Reentry, Record-Based Exclusion, and the Rights of Permatemps, 63 San Diego Law Review (forthcoming 2026)

Development of a Referral Pathway to Address Health-Harming Legal Needs at a Federally Qualified Health Center, (co-authored with Bulatovic, Marija, & Reising, Virginia), 124 AJN, AM. J. NURS. 54 (2024).

Nicholas J. Schroeck
Dean, School of Law & Professor of Law

Multi-directional communication between decision-makers and environmental health researchers: A qualitative inquiry, 23(3) J. ENVTL. HAZARDS: HUM. & POL’Y DIMENSIONS 225 (2023) (with Carrie Leach et al.)

The Exacerbating Role of Technological and Connectivity Challenges on Older Detroiters’ Health in a Pandemic, 13 SEATTLE J. TECH., ENVTL. & INNOVATION L. 1 (2023) (with Carrie Leach)

Engaged communication of environmental health science: Processes and outcomes of urban academic-community partnerships, 21(1) APPLIED ENVTL. EDUC. & COMMO. 7 (2021) (with Carrie Leach et al.)

The Flint Water Crisis, Drinking Water Regulations and Gaps in Lead, Copper, and Legionella Protections, 97 U. DET. MERCY L. REV. 509 (2020)

Elizabeth Sherowski
Associate Professor of Law 

Legal Argumentation: Reasoning & Writing About the Law, Co-author (6 chapters); CALI E-Langdell Press (2025)

Gen Z Meets NextGen: Using Generation Z Pedagogy to Prepare Students for the NextGen Bar Exam, 101 U. Det. Mercy L. Rev. 333 (2024)

An Inclusive Model for New Lawyer Licensing, 51 Capital University Law Review, 51 Cap. U. L. Rev. 77 (2023)

Measuring Impact: A Supportive and Inclusive Definition of Legal Writing Scholarship, 2 Proceedings: The Online Journal of Legal Writing Conference Presentations 22 (2021)

Book Review, Narrative and Metaphor in the Law, 17 Legal Communication & Rhetoric: Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors 183 (2020)

A New Way to Teach Secondary Source Research: Source Discovery, 28 Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing 32-35 (2020)

Andrele Brutus St. Val
Associate Professor of Law

Control Without Protection: Gender, Misclassification, and the Hidden Labor Law of Occupational Licensing (manuscript in preparation; expected submission Spring 2027)

A Hybrid Framework for Regulatory Misclassification (research in progress)

An Empirical Study on the Effectiveness of LIFT’s Belonging Intervention (empirical study in development)

Amplifying Voices, Shaping the Future: JLWI at Thirty(-Five), 30 Legal Writing __ (forthcoming 2026)

Teacher’s Manual to Legal Writing: A Contemporary Approach (3d ed. 2026) (co-author)

Distance Learning: New Tech, Old Problem, 32 Geo. J. on Poverty L. & Pol’y 59 (2024)

Professional Identity Formation Through Exploring Academic, Professional, and Personal Well-Being, 20 U. St. Thomas L.J. 766 (2024)

Fostering Resilience and Engagement in Law Students, Holloran Center Professional Identity Implementation Blog (with A. Sinsheimer, O. Fotuhi & C. Willet)

Survey Says—How to Engage Law Students in the Online Learning Environment, 70 J. Legal Educ. 297 (2021)

Christos D. Strubakos
Assistant Professor of Law

From Gödel to Brains: Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and the Art of Legal Reasoning. 103 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review. (forthcoming 2026)

A Comparative Study of Constitutions: History, Typology, Interprtation Methods (forthcoming) (with Antonio Rossini)

The Theater of Neutrality: Anonymous Juries, the Presumption of Innocence, and the Psychology of Judgment, 64 WASHBURN L.J. ___ (forthcoming 2026)

Legal Persuasion: Insights from Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience, 102 U. DET. MERCY. L. REV. 345 (2025)

Developmental Neurobiology and Miller v. Alabama: To What Extent Do juvenile Brains Change?, 73 CLEV. ST. L. REV. 403 (2025)

Christopher R. Trudeau
Associate Professor of Law

Behavioral Drafting: Defining a Field Hiding in Plain Sight, 74 CLEV. ST. L. REV. 1043 (2026)

From Reform to Reality: Assessing the Impact of The Revised Common Rule on Informed Consent Forms, 29 J. of Health Care L. & Pol’y 29 (2026)

An interprofessional medical malpractice mock trial: event evolution and assessment of efficacy, 20 Int’l J. Healthcare Simulation 1 (2023) (with Karen J. Dickinson, Wendy L. Ward, Robert Minarcin, Kathryn K. Neill)

Learning from the Past: A Retrospective Analysis of Informed Consent Forms on ClinicalTrials.gov Before the Revised Common Rule, 46 Law & Psychcol. Rev. 189 (2021-2022)

Facilitators, Barriers, and Recommendations Related to the Informed Consent of Marshallese in a Randomized Controlled Trial, 15(2) J. of Clinical Ethics 75 (2020) (with Rachel s. Purvis et al.)

Health Literacy’s Impact on Health Law & Policy, in Health Literacy In Clinical Practice And Public
Health: New Initiatives And Lessons Learned At The Intersection With Other Disciplines (Rob Logan & Elliott Siegel eds., IOS Press 2020)

Amy Vaughan-Thomas
Director, Academic Support and Bar Preparation, Online JD Program &
Assistant Professor of Law

"The Glannon Guide: Business Associations", Co-author with Carly Sassi, Aspen Publishing (forthcoming Summer 2026)

Fostering First Gen Success  & Inclusion: A Guide For Law Schools – Chapter 1, “Speaking from Experience: Profiling the First Gen Perspective to Foster Inclusion in Legal Education.”, Carolina Press (forthcoming Winter 2025)

New Era, Same Avenues for Abuse: The Stop Campus Hazing Act’s failure to confront the NCAA (Work in Progress)

When the Wheels on the Bus Fall Off: How Long-Term Learning Deficits will Shape Legal Education, Co-authored with Professor Rebecca Flanagan (Work in Progress)

Editor and blogger, The Law School Academic Support Blog (Fall 2025)

Cara Cunningham Warren
Professor of Law

Regression: The Degradation of Environmental Protections and the Constitutional Order from Within, in Observatorio del ciclo del agua 2024/ Water Cycle Observatory 2024 (Atelier 2025)

Urban Water in the United States: Impacts of Infrastructure, Environmental Injustice, and Cooperative Federalism, in Observatorio del ciclo del agua 2023/ Water Cycle Observatory 2023 (Thomson Reuters Aranzadi 2024)

International Law in Context (Carolina Academic Press, 2023)

Cultivating the International Criminal Court’s Legitimacy and Use of Constructivism to Prepare for Head-of-State Aggression Prosecutions, in The Past, Present, and Future of the International Criminal Court (International Nuremberg Principles Academy 2021)