The McGeorge School of Law faculty publish cutting-edge scholarship that addresses core issues of our systems and practices of government. Their research informs their teaching and helps train future generations of lawyers to be exceptional legal practitioners. 

Statutory Interpretation

In recent articles, Distinguished Professor Brian Slocum, working with other leading scholars, tests the accuracy of long-standing principles of legal interpretation through empirical studies and linguistic theory. The Michigan Law Review published his article The Meaning of Sex: Dynamic Words, Novel Applications, and Original Public Meaning, while the Columbia Law Review published his article Statutory Interpretation from the Outside. His article Progressive Textualism is in press with the Georgetown Law Journal while his article Ordinary Meaning and Ordinary People is in press with the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

Policing and Criminal Justice

Assistant Professor Nadia Banteka seeks to advance police accountability in her articles Police Ignorance and (Un)Reasonable Fourth Amendment Exclusion recently published in the Vanderbilt Law Review and Police Brutality as Torture forthcoming in the UCLA Law Review.

In The Victims’ Rights Movement: What It Gets Right and What It Gets Wrong, in press with New York University Press, Distinguished Professor Michael Vitello flags the limitations of the victims' rights movement.

Zoning

Professor John Sprankling’s article, The Constitutional Right to “Establish a Home," published in the George Washington Law Review, provides a new method to challenge exclusionary zoning.

Cybersecurity

Professor Michael Mireles looks at a rapidly evolving and increasingly critical field in his published treatise, Cybersecurity Law published by West Academic.

Industry Regulation

Professor Daniel Croxall looks at the Constitution and state regulation of business in his articles Arming Goliath: Independent Craft Beer Is in Jeopardy at the Intersection of a First Amendment Circuit Split, the Twenty-First Amendment, and the Erosion of Tied-House Laws published in the Florida State Law Review and Delirium of Disorder: Tension Between the Dormant Commerce Clause and the Twenty-First Amendment Stunts Independent Craft Brewery Growth just published in the Penn State Law Review.

Preserving Democracy

In her U.S. national report on Freedom of Speech and Regulation of Fake News, published in the American Journal of Comparative Law, Professor Leslie Gielow Jacobs addresses the tension of combating misinformation while preserving free speech.

Distinguished Professor Franklin Gevurtz provides a nuanced exploration of the threat that powerful corporations pose to democracy in his article The Complex Dualisms of Corporations and Democracy published in the Northeastern University Law Review.

Distinguished Professor Michael Vitello's article, Trump’s Legacy: The Long-term Risks to American Democracy, was published in the Lewis and Clark Law Review.

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