Faculty Scholarship

Judicial Opinions & Pop Culture (or, are the Star Wars sequels "mediocre and schlocky"), Appellate Advocacy Blog (June 5, 2021)

On Reasonableness, Appellate Advocacy Blog (July 12, 2021)

Digging into the Special Issue of the Journal of Appellate Practice and Process, Appellate Advocacy Blog (Aug. 16, 2021)

Keeping the Peace, Appellate Advocacy Blog (Sep. 13, 2021)

Judicial Selection & A Divided Nation, Appellate Advocacy Blog (Sep. 27, 2021)

(Clean[] Up) Your House, Your Car, Your Life--Not Your Citations, Appellate Advocacy Blog (Oct. 18, 2021)

There is a meme for that...., Appellate Advocacy Blog (Oct. 25, 2021)

"Duty of Fairness and Healing", Appellate Advocacy Blog (Nov. 1, 2021)

Remember to "Talk Nice", Appellate Advocacy Blog (Nov. 29, 2021)

Some Holiday Reading, Appellate Advocacy Blog (Dec. 20, 2021)

New Decade’s Resolutions: One Year Later, 40 (3) ALL-SIS Newsletter 7 (Spring 2021) 

Book Review, Free Speech in the Balance by Alexander Tsesis, 113 (3) L. Lib. J. 366 (2021)

The Utah Online Dispute Resolution Platform: A Usability Evaluation and Report, (2020) (co-author with Stacy Butler, Sarah Mauet, and Mackenzie Pish) 

Book Review, A World Without Email by Cal Newport, 113 L. Library Journal 224 (2021)

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How America Turns Rivals Into Colleagues?, The Regulatory Review (May 18, 2021)

Bibliotecarixs enfrentando la Desinformación y sorteando las dificultades que impone la pandemia de COVID-19, Boletín Académico y de Información, IFLA Section Latin America and the CaribbeanBibliotecarixs enfrentando la Desinformación y sorteando las dificultades que impone la pandemia de COVID-19 IFLA Section Latin America and the Caribbean (Aug 4, 2021), with Barbara Krieger and Juan Andres Fuentes

Book Review, The Originalist Presidency in Practice?, Lawfare Blog, January 2021 (reviewing Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash's "The Living Presidency: An Originalist Argument Against Its Ever-Expanding Powers" (Harvard University Press 2020).

Telehealth and the Future of Long-Term Care, Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School, Bill of Health (April 6, 2021)

Opinion, Marquez Peterson has Chance to Lead Arizona's Energy Future, Ariz. Daily Star (Apr. 28, 2021)

Opinion, ACC's Lea Márquez Peterson Gets a do-over on Arizona Clean Energy, Ariz. Daily Star (May 18, 2021)

Brief for Indian Law and Policy Professors, with Colette Routel, as Amici Curiae Supporting Petitioner, United States of America v. Joshua James Cooley (Jan. 2021)

The Regulatory Erasure of LGBTQ+ Foster Youth, The Regulatory Review (June 22, 2021)

Key Challenges for Automated Traffic Enforcement to Succeed as a Measure of Police Reform, The Appeal (June 7, 2021)

Traffic Enforcement Would Be Safer Without Police. Here’s How It Could Work, Washington Post Online (Apr. 21, 2021)

Disaster Preparedness Manual, (2020) 

Reading American Indian Law: Foundational Principles (2020) (co-editor, with Grant Christensen) & author of Introduction:  Responding to a Changing Field (co-author, with Grant Christensen)

Rewritten Opinion, Michael H. v. Gerald D., in Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Family Law Opinions, 187-214 (Bridget J. Crawford, Kathryn M. Stanchi, & Linda L. Berger, gen. eds., 2020)

Powell’s Legacy-The Bureau of Reclamation and the Contemporary West:  Water Exchanges, in Vision and Place:  John Wesley Powell and Reimagination of the Colorado River Basin (Jason Robison ed.) (2020).

Marriage as Gatekeeper:  The Misguided Reliance on Marital Status for Third-Party Standing, 59 Fam. Ct. Rev. 971 (2020)  

Information Hacking, 2020 Utah L. Rev. 987 (2020)

The Quiet Resignation:  Why Do So Many Female Lawyers Abandon Their Careers?, 10 UC Irvine L. Rev. 799 (2020) (co-author with Tauhidur Rahman)

Eight Futures of the Nondelegation Doctrine, 2020 Wis. L. Rev. 141.

The Dead Hand Revisited, 70 Emory L. J. Online 1 (2020).

Arizona’s Groundwater Management Act at Forty:  Tackling Unfinished Business, 10 Ariz. J. Envtl. L. & Pol'y 187 (2020) (co-author, with Esther Loiseleur & Elise Drilhon).

Climate Federalism in the Time of COVID-19:  Can the States "Save" American Climate Policy?, 47 N. Ky. L. Rev. 115 (2020).

The Impact on the Demise of WTO Dispute Settlement on State-to -State Dispute Settlement under Free Trade Agreements:  The USMCA Example, ___ Society of Int’l Economic Law ___ (2020)

WTO Case Review 2018, 37 Ariz. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 49 (2020) (co-author, with Raj Bhala, et al.).

USMCA Provisions on Intellectual Property, Services, and Digital Trade, Mexico Center, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy (Jan. 17, 2020).

The USMCA:  Updating NAFTA by Drawing on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Mexico Center, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy (Feb. 21, 2020)

The USMCA’s Carryovers from NAFTA, Mexico Center, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy (Mar. 18, 2020)

Canada’s Approaches to Investor State Dispute Settlement:  Addressing Divergencies among CETA, USMCA, CPTPP and the Canada-China FIPA, Transnational-Dispute-Management, Issue 3 (Mar. 2020).

Freer Trade Between the United States and the European Union? (2020) 

Important New Features in the USMCA, Mexico Center, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy (May 5, 2020)

The USMCA's Future in Context, Mexico Center, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy (Jun. 16, 2020)

Feeding the World:  How Changes in Biotech Regulation Can Jump-Start the Second Green Revolution and Diversify the Agricultural Industry, 44 Wm & Mary L. Rev. 327 (2020) (co-author, with John A. Erwin).

Escape the Ordinary: How to Close Out Your Semester with a Challenging "Escape Room" Competition, 33 The Second Draft __ (Spring 2020)

"A Glass of Milk Strengthens a Nation." Law, Development, and China's Dairy Tale, 16 J. Food L. & Pol'y 1 (2020).

Dairy Tales: Global Portraits of Milk and Law,16 J. Food L. & Pol'y 1 (2020) (co-author, with Jessica Eisen and Erum Sattar).

Retraumatized in Court, 62 Ariz. L. Rev. 81 (2020).

Exemplary Law Books of 2019, 10 J.L. 349 (2020) (with Femi Cadmus)