Biography

David Hague, J.D., is a tenured professor of law and former partner at a national law firm, where he chaired the bankruptcy practice group. He has extensive experience representing clients in bankruptcy and complex litigation.

Hague is also the founder of two successful start-up companies, which has given him expertise in various business structures, including formation, restructuring, governance, and commercial and contractual matters. These skills help him succeed in the classroom and provide students with real-world instruction. He has written extensively on business and bankruptcy issues, including authoring various law review articles, as well as a casebook on business structures and statutory compliance.

Hague received his law degree from the University of Kansas, where he graduated in the top 10% of his class, was managing editor of the Kansas Law Review, and a member of the Order of the Coif. He earned his bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Utah, graduating with highest honors. David is admitted to state and federal courts in Utah and Nevada as well as the Tenth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

• “Rising Star,” Mountain States Super Lawyers
• Order of the Coif
• American Bankruptcy Institute of Excellence Award
• Managing Editor of the Kansas Law Review
• Phi Kappa Phi
• Beta Gamma Sigma
• Golden Key Honor Society

Law Review Articles

• Loopholes for the Affluent Bankrupt, 94.1 St. John’s Law Rev. (Forthcoming 2019).
• Milking the Estate, 121 W. Va. Law Rev. 83 (2019)
• SARE Manipulation: The Hurdles in Single-Asset Real Estate Cases, 67 Cath. U. L. Rev. 280 (2018).
• Fraud on the Court and Abusive Discovery, 16 Nev. Law J. 707 (2016).
• Expanding the Ponzi Scheme Presumption, 64 DePaul L. Rev. 867 (2015).
• Turnover Actions and the “Floating Check” Controversy, 2013 Utah L. Rev. 63 (2013).
• The Ninth Amendment: A Constitutional Challenge to Corporal Punishment in Public Schools. 55 U. Kan. L. Rev. 429 (2007).

Books

• Business Associations: An Online Course for Masters Students, Chad Pomeroy & David Hague (West 2019).
• What Every Guarantor Should Know About the One-Action Rule and Deficiency Actions, THE ENTERPRISE (April 2012).
  Chapter 7 Bankruptcy for Guarantors of Business Debt, UTAH CEO (November 2009).
• Misrepresentations in the Life, Health, and Disability Insurance Application Process, Utah Chapter, AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION (2009). 

Commentaries

• What Every Guarantor Should Know About the One-Action Rule and Deficiency Actions, The Enterprise (April 2012).
• Chapter 7 Bankruptcy for Guarantors of Business Debt, Utah CEO (November 2009).
• Misrepresentations in the Life, Health, and Disability Insurance Application Process, Utah Chapter, American Bar Association (2009).

Presentations

• Speaker, I’m an Article 9 Lawyer, So Why Do I Need to Know Articles 1-8 of the UCC? Business Law Section Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. (September 2019).
• Panelist, New Scholars Corporate Law and Bankruptcy, 2019 Annual Conference, The Southeastern Association of Law Schools (August 2019).
• Panelist, New Scholars Civil Procedure, 2018 Annual Conference, The Southeastern Association of Law Schools (August 2018).
• Presenter, Teaching Secured Transactions: Integrating Ethical/Professionalism Issues, Drafting Assignments, and Learning Outcomes/Assessments, 2016 Annual Conference, The Southeaster Association of Law Schools, Amelia Island, Florida (August 2016).
• Panelist, A New Fulcrum Point for City Survival, 2015 Annual Conference, The Southeastern Association of Law Schools, Boca Raton, Florida (August 2015).
• Panelist, Expanding The Ponzi Scheme Presumption, 2014 Annual Conference, Financial Regulation and Bankruptcy Workshop, The Southeastern Association of Law Schools, Amelia Island, Florida (August 2014).
• Presenter, Defending Against Bankruptcy Avoidance Lawsuits and Purchasing Assets from a Bankruptcy Estate, UBS Financial CPA Seminar, Salt Lake City, UT (June 2012).
• Panelist, Ask the Lawyers: What if the Unexpected Happens? Society of Industrial and Office Realtors, Salt Lake City, UT (April 2012).
• Panelist, Bankruptcy and Foreclosure Issues, Salt Lake Home Builders Association, Salt Lake City, UT (October 2011).
• Panelist, Debtor and Creditor Issues in Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, National Association of Home Builders’ Builder 20 Club #33 Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT (March 2010).

Biography

Robert H. Hu, J.D., LL.M., Ph.D., is a Professor of Law and Director of the Institute on Chinese Law and Business at St. Mary’s University. He joined St. Mary’s University in June 2005 and served as Director of the Sarita Kenedy East Law Library from 2005 to 2021. He left the library director’s position in 2021 and has since been teaching full-time on the law school faculty. A tenured professor of the law school, he currently teaches Advanced Legal Research and Conflict of Laws. For research and writing, he focuses on American and Chinese intellectual property law and legal histories. He is a member of the American Law Institute (ALI), American Bar Association (ABA), and American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). He is a guest professor of two universities in China.

Before his current institution, Hu had worked at four American law schools: The College of William & Mary (1993-1997), Wake Forest University (1997-1999), Gonzaga University (1999-2000) and Texas Tech University (2000-2005).

• American Law Institute (ALI);
• Association of American Law Schools (AALS);
• American Bar Association (ABA);
• American Association of Law Libraries (AALL);
• Chinese and American Forum on Law Libraries and Legal Information (CAFLL);
• Southwestern Association of Law Libraries (SWALL)

Books

• Research Guide to Chinese Patent Law and Practice. 2nd ed. Getzille, NY: William S. Hein & Co., Inc., 2022.
• Research Guide to Chinese Copyright Law. 2nd ed. Buffalo, NY: William S. Hein & Co., Inc., 2016.
• Research Guide to Chinese Trademark Law and Practice. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2009.
• Research Guide to Chinese Patent Law and Practice. Buffalo, NY: William S. Hein & Co., Inc., 2002.
• Guide to China Copyright Law Studies. Buffalo, NY: William S. Hein & Co., Inc., 2000.

Articles in a Periodical

• Reconstruction of the Reasonable Person Standard under Chinese Patent Law.  (co-author).  Marquette Intellectual Property & Innovation Law Review, Vol. 26 (Winter 2022):  11-45.
• Time to Reopen Houston Consulate, San Antonio Express-News (Dec. 6, 2021).
• St. Mary’s University Institute on Chinese Law and Business:  Remarkable Success in the First Ten Years. St. Mary’s Law Journal, Vol 51, No. 4 (2020):  839-901.
• Race for a COVID-19 vaccine patent could hurt the public, San Antonio Express-News (Sep. 30, 2020)
• Arthur C.Y.Yao (1906-2004): A Pioneer Chinese Professor at St. Mary’s University School of Law. St. Mary’s Law Journal, Vol 51, No. 1 (2019): 131-171.
• International Legal Protection of Trademarks in China. Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review 13 (December 2008): 69-121.
• Status and Tenure for Academic Law Librarians: A Survey. Law Library Journal 96 (Winter 2004): 127-165.
• A Resource Guide to Tax Law Careers. Legal Reference Services Quarterly, 22 (2003): 113-138.
• A Guide to Resources on Careers in Foreign and International Law. Law Library Journal 93 (Summer 2001): 479-493.
• ROIs Can Validate Your Library’s Value. AALL Spectrum, 7 (October 2002): 20, 27.
• ‘C’ Is for Communications. AALL Spectrum, 6 (March 2002): 28, 30.
• PR for Academic Libraries: Focus on the Faculty. AALL Spectrum, 6 (February 2002): 28, 32.
• Protection of Intellectual Property in China : A Selected Bibliography. University of Baltimore Intellectual Property Law Journal, 5 (Fall 1996/Spring 1997): 135-148.
• Spirit of innovation moves China forward. San Antonio Express-News (November 2017).

Biography

Vincent R. Johnson teaches and writes in the areas of torts, professional responsibility, legal malpractice, government ethics, international law, and comparative law.

He was Interim Dean and Charles E. Cantú Distinguished Professor of Law in 2019-2020.

Johnson served as a Fulbright Scholar in Burma, China and Romania and as a law clerk for judges at the New York Court of Appeals and the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago.

As a Supreme Court Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, he assisted Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist with his duties as head of the federal judiciary. Johnson received the Administration of Justice Award from the Supreme Court Fellows Alumni Association at a dinner attended by the current Chief Justice, John Roberts.

Johnson is a prolific scholar. His articles have been cited in more than 210 law reviews, 65 federal and state court decisions, and various treatises. Johnson’s books have been assigned as required reading at more than forty American law schools.

Professor Johnson is an elected member of the American Law Institute. He received the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, a national honor conferred by the Boy Scouts of America. He was made a member of the Order of Art and Culture by the City of Innsbruck, Austria.

Professor Johnson received his J.D. from the University of Notre Dame, an LL.M from Yale University, and an LL.M. from the London School of Economics. He has taught law and lectured in 12 countries.

For work on ethics reform, Professor Johnson received a Presidential Citation, “for truly outstanding service to the legal profession of Texas,” from the president of the State Bar of Texas, June 2021.

• Member, Committee on Disciplinary Rules and Referenda, 2017 to Present (Appointed by the Supreme Court of Texas)
• Member, American Law Institute
• Member, Executive Committee of the Professional Responsibility Section of the Association of American Law Schools, 2019 to 2022
• Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Carolina Academic Press (1995-present)
• Commissioner, Judicial Fellows Commission (1993-99)
• 1997-1999, Chair, Mayor of San Antonio’s Taskforce on Ethics in Government (the work of which led to the adoption of a new ethics code governing the city’s 11,000 officials and employees)
• 1989-2001, Director of the St. Mary’s University Institute on World Legal Problems, a summer program on international and comparative law conducted annually at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Participants included five Justices of the United States Supreme Court, students from 90 American law schools and more than 40 visiting professors from Austria, China, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Russia and the United States.
• San Antonio Bar Foundation
• Texas Bar Foundation
• American Bar Foundation
• State Bar of Texas
• San Antonio Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• Fulbright Association
• Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers

Books

• Legal Malpractice Law: Problems and Prevention (W. Acad. Publ’g ed., 3d ed. 2021) with Susan Saab Fortney.
• Teacher’s Manual for Legal Malpractice Law: Problems and Prevention (W. Acad. Publ’g eds., 3d ed. 2021) with Susan Saab Fortney.
• Legal Ethics, Professional Responsibility and the Legal Profession (West Academic Press 2018) (Hornbook Series, with Sisk et al.)
• Advanced Tort Law:  A Problem Approach, 3d ed. (Carolina Academic Press 2020)
• Studies in American Tort Law, 7th ed. (Carolina Academic Press, 2022), with Liu.
• A Concise Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers (ALI 2007) co-edited with Fortney.
• Mastering Torts, 7th ed. (Carolina Academic Press, 2022). The fifth edition was published in Chinese by China Renmin University Press in 2017.
• Legal Malpractice Law in a Nutshell, 3d ed. (West Acad. Publ’g 2021).
• Teaching Torts, 7th ed. (Carolina Academic Press, 2022), with Liu.

Articles in a Periodical

• Trump’s Lawyer Suspended from Practicing Law, Caixin Media (China) (July 2, 2021).
• Commentary: Abbott’s Order May Lead to Suffering, But Not Liability, San Antonio Express-News (Aug. 8, 2021).
• Commentary: Red Mass Transends Politics as it Opens the Judicial Year, San Antonio Express-News, Oct. 12, 2021, at A11.
• Commentary: Paxton Attacks Basis of Legal System, San Antonio Express-News, Feb. 1, 2022, at A11.
• The End of the Golden Age of American Legal Education: My Year as Interim Dean, 52 U. of Tol. L. Rev. 289 (2021)
• The Informed Consent Doctrine in Legal Malpractice Law, 11 St. Mary’s Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics 362 (2021)
• The Proposed Rules on Advertising and Solicitation, 84 Tex. Bar J. 125 (2021)
• Thomas L. Shaffer, Legal Ethics, and St. Mary’s University, 10 St. Mary’s Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics, xxvii-liii (2020).
• The Importance of Doctor Liability in Medical Malpractice Law: China Versus the United States, 10 St. Mary’s Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics, 2-28 (2020).
• Developing Countries and International Economic Law: The Case of Burma, 23 Currents: Journal of International Economic Law 35-41 (2019).
• The Fiduciary Obligations of Public Officials, 10 St. Mary’s Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics, 298-340 (2019).
• Legal Malpractice Claims: What the Data Indicate, 9 St. Mary’s Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics 138-49 (2018).
• Causation and “Legal Certainty” in Legal Malpractice Law, 8 St. Mary’s Journal on Legal Malpractice and Ethics 374-405 (2018).
• The Limited Duties of Lawyers to Protect the Funds and Property of Nonclients, 8 St. Mary’s Journal on Legal Malpractice and Ethics 58-88 (2017).
• Comparative Defamation Law: England and the United States, 24 University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review 1-97 (2016).
• The English Magna Carta and the Beginning of Modern Legal Thought, 85 Mississippi Law Journal 621-42 (2016).
• Nanotechnology, Environmental Risks, and Regulatory Options, 121 Penn State Law Review 471-503 (2016).
• Legal Malpractice in International Business Transactions, 44 Hofstra Law Review 325-52 (2015)
• The Ancient Magna Carta and the Modern Rule of Law: 1215-2015, 47 St. Mary’s Law Journal 1-62 (2015)
• Governmental Power Versus Individual Liberty, 17 The Scholar: St. Mary’s University Law Review on Race and Social Justice 157-70 (2015)
• International Financial Law: The Case Against Close-out Netting, 22 Boston University International Law Journal 395 (2015).
• The Magna Carta and the Expectation it set for Anglo American-Law, San Antonio Lawyers  (March-April 2015) at 3-12.
• The Great Charter, 78 Texas Bar Journal 266-69 (2015).
• Minimizing the Costs of Patent Trolling, 18 UCLA Journal of Law and Technology, at 1-36 (2014).
• Regional Sales Law in a World of Global Transactions
• The CISG After a Generation
• The Rule of Law in China and the Prosecution of Li Zhuang
• Punitive Damages, Chinese Tort Law, and the American Experience, 9 Frontiers of Law in China (Renmin University, Beijing, China)
• Regional Sales Law in a World of Global Transactions, 1 Chinese Journal of Comparative Law 426 (2013) (Oxford University Press)
• Legal Malpractice in a Changing Profession: The Role of Contract Principles, 61 Cleveland State Law Review 489-528 (2013)
• Rule of Law in China and the Prosecution of Li Zhuang, 1 Chinese Journal of Comparative Law 66-83 (2013) (Oxford University Press) (with Stephen C. Loomis)
• On the Abuse and Limits of Lawyer Discipline, 44 CONNtemplations 53-61 (2012) (Connecticut Law Review)
• Legal Malpractice Liability Related to Foreign Outsourcing of Legal Services, 2 St. Mary’s Journal on Legal Malpractice and Ethics 262-322 (2012) (with Stephen C. Loomis)
• Judge Bernard S. Meyer: First Merit Appointee to the New York Court of Appeals, 75 Albany Law Review 963-1033 (2012)
• The Rule of Law and Enforcement of Chinese Tort Law, 34 Thomas Jefferson Law Review 43-93 (2011)
• Credit Monitoring Damages in Cybersecurity Tort Litigation, 19 George Mason Law Review 113-155 (2011)
• On Race, Gender, and Radical Tort Reform, 17 William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law 591-610 (2011)
• The Vast Domain of the Restatement (Third) of Torts, 1 Wake Forest Law Review Online 29-35 (2011)
• Legal Malpractice Litigation and the Duty to Report Misconduct, 1 St. Mary’s Journal on Legal Malpractice and Ethics 41-113 (2011)
• The Boundary-Line Function of the Economic Loss Rule, 66 Washington & Lee Law Review 523-85 (2009)
• The Unlawful Conduct Defense in Legal Malpractice Law, 77 UMKC Law Review 43-83 (2008)
• Corruption in Education: A Global Legal Challenge, 48 Santa Clara Law Review 1-77 (2008)
• Regulating Lobbyists: Law, Ethics, and Public Policy, 16 Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy 1-61 (2007)
• Standardized Tests, Erroneous Scores, and Tort Liability, 38 Rutgers Law Journal 655-718 (2007)
• Tribute, Rehnquist, Innsbruck, and St. Mary’s University, 38 St. Mary’s Law Journal 1-45 (2006)
• Americans Abroad: International Education Programs and Tort Liability, 32 Journal of College and University Law 309-59 (2006) (peer-reviewed)
• The Tort Duty of Parents to Protect Minor Children, 51 Villanova Law Review 311-36 (2006) (with Claire G. Hargrove)
• Ethics in Government at the Local Level, 36 Seton Hall Law Review 715-779 (2006)
• Book Review: Chinese Law on SARS by Chenglin Liu, 7 Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal 32-36 (2006)
• Cybersecurity, Identity Theft, and the Limits of Tort Liability, 57 South Carolina Law Review 255-311 (2005) (lead article)
• Fighting Epidemics with Information and Laws: The Case of SARS in China, 24 Penn State International Law Review 157-176 (2005) (with Brian T. Bagley)
• Justice Tom C. Clark’s Legacy in the Field of Legal Ethics, 29 Journal of the Legal Profession 33-70 (2005) (University of Alabama)
• Misrepresentation by Lawyers about Credentials or Experience, 57 Oklahoma Law Review 529 (2004) (with Shawn Lovorn)
• Transferred Intent in American Tort Law, 87 Marquette Law Review 903-38 (2004)
• “Absolute and Perfect Candor” to Clients, 34 St. Mary’s Law Journal 737-93 (2003).
• Preface, 1 Chinese Review of Common Law 1-2 (2003) (invited publication; inaugural volume).
• The Ethical Foundations of American Judicial Independence, 29 Fordham Urban Law Review 1007-28 (2002).
• Tort Law in America at the Beginning of the 21st Century, 1 Renmin University of China Law Review 237-64 (2000) (invited publication)
• The Virtues and Limits of Codes in Legal Ethics, 14 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy 25-47 (2000)
• Chinese Law and American Legal Education, 31 St. Mary’s L.J. 1-5 (1999) (symposium preface)
• America’s Preoccupation with Ethics in Government, 30 St. Mary’s L.J. 717-58 (1999).
• The Ethics of Communicating with Putative Class Members, 17 Review of Litigation 497-524 (1998).)
• Ethical Campaigning for the Judiciary, 29 Texas Tech Law Review 811-49 (1998) (University of Texas).

Book reviews

• Lawyers, Mistakes, and Moral Growth, 12 St. Mary’s Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics 180 (2021)

Biography

Kauffman has been a civil rights litigator specializing in the education, voting and employment rights of Latinos. For nearly 20 years, Kauffman was the senior litigating attorney for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) in San Antonio.

As a MALDEF attorney, Kauffman was the lead attorney for plaintiffs in the Texas school finance cases, for Latino plaintiffs in the Texas Higher Education System finance and desegregation case and in litigation challenging the state’s use of the TAAS test for graduation from Texas high schools. He has also litigated affirmative action cases, local and state voting rights, employment discrimination cases, immigration and hospital admission policy cases.

After MALDEF, he served as a Senior Legal and Policy Advocate Associate for the Civil Rights Project at Harvard Law School. Subsequently, he served as the Senior Legal Policy Advocate at the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity at the University of California at Berkeley. While there, he wrote about civil rights issues such as voting rights, No Child Left Behind, affirmative action, and public schools’ student assignment systems.

Kauffman was part of a small team of experts involved with passing both the state’s top 10 percent rule for admission to public universities and recent changes to admission and scholarship criteria for public graduate and professional schools.

• Drum Major for Justice Award from the American Association for Affirmative Action (2013).
• Maria A. Berriozabal Visionary Leadership Award from Our Lady of the Lake University (2013).
• Texas Lawyer selection as one of “The 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter-Century,” 2010.
• Lifetime Achievement Award, St. Mary’s Law School Hispanic Law Students Association, 2009.
• Laredo Texas LULAC, Champions of Education Award, 2004.
• Editorial Advisory Committee, Harvard Latino Law Review, 2003 (national award).
• Mary’s School of Law, Sir Thomas More Award, 2003 (national award).
• Boston College, chosen to give Boisi Lecture, “The No Child Left Behind Act, Dropouts and Affirmative Action: What’s the Common Issue?” 2003 (national award).
• American GI Forum Lifetime Achievement Award, 2002.
• Columbia Law School Human Rights Law Review Annual Award for Human Rights, 2002 (national award).
• Edgewood School District Achievement Award, 2002.
• Texas LULAC Service Award, 2002.
• Amistad award Texas State IMAGE, 2000.
• PTA national Lifetime Service Award, Edgewood I.S.D. PTA 2000.
• Board of Advisors, The Scholar: St. Mary’s Law Review on Minority Issues, 1999 (national award).
• Association of Higher Education – Hispanic Caucus selected to give Tomas Rivera lecture at 1997 National AHE Convention (national award).
• Texas State NAACP – Heroes Award, 1996.
• Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities – P. Gus Cardenas National Service to Higher Education Award – 1995 (national award).
• Texas Lawyer, selected one of ten most influential lawyers in Texas for decade 1985-1995.
• Hero for Children Award, Texas State Board of Education, 1994.
• Henry B. Gonzalez Award, Legal Achievement – St. Mary’s Law School Hispanic Alumni, 1994.
• Edgewood Plaintiffs Award – Service to Low-Wealth Districts, 1994.
• San Antonio Chapter, ACLU – John Henry Faulk Liberty Award, 1992.
• Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education – Meritorious Service Award, 1992.
• Association of Higher Education – Hispanic Caucus Lifetime Achievement Award, 1992
• Texas Mexican American Bar Association – Lifetime Achievement Award, 1992.
• Incarnate Word College – “Insigne Verbum” Award, 1992.
• San Antonio Mind Science Foundation, Imagineer Award, 1992.
• McAllen Tripas Club, “Tripero Distinguido,” 1990.
• Texas GI Forum Education Award, 1990.
• Texas Mexican American Bar Association Education Award, 1990.
• Harlandale I.S.D. Education Award, 1989.
• San Antonio Bilingual Education Trendsetter, 1988.
• Texas LULAC “Educacion – La Solucion,” 1988.
• Edgewood I.S.D., “Amigos de Edgewood”, 1987.
• Socorro I.S.D. Educational Achievement Award, 1987.
• Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education, 1986.
• Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans, 1984.

Articles in a Periodical

• Supreme Court sets stage for partisan gerrymandering standards, San Antonio Express News, June 30, 2018
• Constitution does not guarantee right to bear an AR-15, San Antonio Express News, April 8, 2018; also in News Taco, April 9, 2018
• Latino Organizations Thrived in San Antonio in 1960s, chapter in “300 Years of San Antonio & Bexar County,” (Trinity University Press 2018)
• Moving from packing and cracking to fairness, San Antonio Express News, October 29, 2017; also in News Taco, https://newstaco.com/2017/11/01/gerrymandering-moving-cracking-packing-fairness/
• Texas must have the courage-and honor-to settle redistricting, San Antonio Express News, May 20, 2017 ; also in News Taco https://newstaco.com/2017/05/22/80036/
• Texas Supreme Court Retreats from Finance Battles, 19 The Scholar: St. Mary’s L. Rev. on Racial & Soc’l Just. 145 (2017)
• Effective Litigation Strategies to Improve State Education and Social Service Systems, 45 J. L. & Educ. 453 (2016)
• Albert Kauffman, The Barriers and Route to Texas School Finance Equity, 1Tex. Educ. Rev. 27 (2013)(Online).
• Tribute, Judge William Wayne Justice: A Life of Human Dignity and Refractory Mules, St. Mary’s Law Journal, 215-230 (2010).
• Introduction to Issue: Education and Minorities in the Modern Era: Working Civil Rights Into Practice, Policy and Procedure, The Scholar: St. Mary’s Law Review on Minority Issues , 101-108 (2010).
• The Texas School Finance Litigation Saga: Great Progress, Then Near Death By A Thousand Cuts, 40 St. Mary’s Law Journal 511-579 (2008).
• Accessibility to Comprehensive Higher Education in Texas, 31 The Social Science Journal 263 (1994) (with Richard Jones)
• Applying Edgewood v. Kirby to Analysis of Fundamental Rights Under the Texas Constitution, 22 St. Mary’s Law Journal 69 (1991) (with Carmen Rumbaut)

Shorter Works in Collections

• Texas School Finance Litigation: Great Progress and Some Regression, in Institute for Educational Equity and Opportunity, A Quality Education for Every Child: Stories from the Lawyers on the Front Lines, pp.109-155 (David Long, et al. ed., 2009).
• A Continuation of an Analysis of School Finance Cases Comparing Adequacy and Equity Theories, Albert H. Kauffman. Rockefeller Foundation. 01/2004. p. 26.
• A Comparison of Equity and Adequacy School Finance Cases and a Consideration of the Current New York and California School Finance Litigation on the Equity and Adequacy Dimensions, Albert H. Kauffman. Rockefeller Foundation. 01/2003. p. 26.
• The Hopwood Case: What It Says and What It Doesn’t, chapter in Affirmative Action’s Testament of Hope: Strategies for a New Era in Higher Education by Mildred Garcia, State University of New York Press (1997).
• Minority Concerns: A Response to TASP, Chapter in From Politics to Policy: A Case Study in Educational Reform, Matthews, Swanson, Kerker, Praeger Press, (New York, NY 1991).No Child Left Behind Act Resource Guide, The Civil Rights Project at Harvard (2004) (with Dan Losen)
• Lead writer and lead researcher on large number of briefs to U.S. Supreme Court, Texas Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and numerous U.S. District Courts on issues of school finance, testing, higher education finance, affirmative action, and voting rights.

Op-Eds

• Commentary: Constitution does not guarantee right to bear an AR-15, McAllen Monitor, April 22, 2018.
• Commentary: Gerrymandering Affect Voter Turnout, McAllen Monitor, November 5, 2017.
• Stand Up, Texas, and Fix Redistricting, San Antonio Express-News, May 21, 2017.
• Courts rightfully stop unconstitutional executive order on immigration, San Antonio Express-News, April 1,2017.
• Texans deserves the full protection of the Voting Rights Act, San Antonio Express-News, Oct. 8, 2016.
• Court missed opportunity to promote diversity, San Antonio Express-News, June 27, 2016.
• Border higher ed gains began with a lawsuit, San Antonio Express-News, May 21, 2016.
• On school funding, the needed next steps will be hard, Houston Chronicle, May 13, 2016.

Presentations

• History of School Finance Issues in Texas, Say Si youth project, San Antonio, June, 2017.
• Reflections of Texas Scholars on Growing up in Texas, American Education Research Association national convention, San Antonio, April 2017.
• Civil and Criminal Procedures, The U.S Legal System and the Mexican Oral Trials Course, St. Mary’s University, August 2016.
• Panel: The Fisher Decision, 7th Annual Texas Higher Education Symposium, Austin, Texas August, 2016.
• United States Legal Systems, Presentation to law students at Universidad Enrique Diaz de Leon, Guadalajara, Jalisco Mexico, March, 2016. (In Spanish)
• School Finance Update to San Antonio Inns of Court, February 2015.
• Phoenix Law School, Phoenix Arizona, presentation to faculty on Wal-Mart case and class actions, Nov. 2011.
• Phoenix Law School, Phoenix Arizona, presentation to students on effects of litigation on societal change, Nov. 2011.
• Texas Tech Law School, presentation to faculty on Wal-Mart case and class actions, Oct. 2011.
• “A Comparison of Fifth Circuit and Texas Class Action Cases—Worse and Worser: No Class Left in Texas” New Scholars Workshop, August 2, 2010, Southeast Association of Law Schools, Palm Beach Florida.
• Hispanic National Bar Association annual convention, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 8, 2010, Latino Education issues.

Biography

St. Mary’s University School of Law Professor Dorie Klein, J.D., writes and teaches in the areas of evidence, criminal law and mental health law. Her recent scholarship includes several law review articles examining the pitfalls of character evidence, as well as several articles exploring ways to reduce the excessive punitiveness of criminal punishments. In 2022 Carolina Academic Press published the second edition of her casebook, Texas Criminal Law. In addition to teaching core courses in evidence and criminal law, Klein has developed upper-level writing seminars that focus on a variety of specialized subjects, including mental health law, the law of self-defense and the operation of appellate courts.

Prior to joining the St. Mary’s law faculty in 2006,  Klein was a visiting assistant professor of law at Florida State University and a judicial clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She received her J.D. degree from Vanderbilt University, where she was an articles editor for the Vanderbilt Law Review. Klein also holds an M.A. degree in clinical psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in biopsychology from Swarthmore College. She worked as a community mental health therapist for several years before attending law school.

• The (Mis)application of Rule 404(b) Heuristics, 72 U. Miami L. Rev. 706 (2018).
• Texas Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (Carolina Academic Press, 2017).
• Exemplary and Exceptional Confusion Under the Federal Rules of Evidence, 46 Hofstra L. Rev. 641 (2017).
• Is Felony Murder the New Depraved Heart Murder? Considering the Appropriate Punishment for Drunken Drivers Who Kill, 67 S.C. L. Rev. 1 (2015).
• The Dignity of the Human Person: Catholic Social Teaching and the Practice of Criminal Punishment, 60 Loy. L. Rev. 1 (2014).
• The Costs of Delay: Incompetent Criminal Defendants, Involuntary Antipsychotic Medications, and the Question of Who Decides, 16 U. Pa. J.L. & Soc. Change 203 (2013).
• When Coercion Lacks Care: Competency to Make Medical Treatment Decisions and Parens Patriae Civil Commitments, 45 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 561 (2012).

Articles in a Periodical

• “Rule of Inclusion” Confusion, 58 San Diego L. Rev. 379 (2021)
• When Coercion Lacks Care: Competency to Make Medical Treatment Decisions and Parens Patriae Civil Commitments, 45 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 561 (2012).
• The Mentally Disordered Criminal Defendant at the Supreme Court: A Decade in Review, 91 Or. L. Rev. 207 (2012).
• Rehabilitating Mental Disorder Evidence After Clark v. Arizona, 60 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 645 (2010).
• Unreasonable: Involuntary Medications, Incompetent Criminal Defendants, and the Fourth Amendment, 46 San Diego L. Rev. 161 (2009).
• Autonomy and Acute Psychosis: When Choices Collide, 15 Va. J. Soc. Pol’y & L. 355 (2008) (review essay of Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness).
• Categorical Exclusions from Capital Punishment: How Many Wrongs Make A Right? 72 Brook. L. Rev. 1211 (2007).
• Curiouser and Curiouser: Involuntary Medications and Incompetent Criminal Defendants After Sell v. United States, 13 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 871 (2005).
• Involuntary Treatment of the Mentally Ill: Autonomy is Asking the Wrong Question, 27 Vt. L. Rev. 649 (2003).
• Beyond Brown v. Board of Education: The Need to Remedy the Achievement Gap, 31 J.L. & Educ. 431 (2002).
• Note, Trial Rights and Psychotropic Drugs, 55 Vand. L. Rev. 165 (2002).

Biography

Liu is a Professor of Law at the St. Mary’s University School of Law. Since joining St. Mary’s in 2007, he has taught Law and Economics, Torts, European Union Law, and Chinese Law. Liu’s research focuses on the interplay between food and drug law and transnational litigation from a comparative perspective.

His scholarly writings appeared in the Stanford Journal of International Law, Cornell International Law Journal, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change, University of Texas Journal of International Law, Mississippi Law Journal, and Washington University Journal of Law and Policy.

Liu is the author of a book entitled Chinese Law on SARS. His recent research on the regulation of organic food certification was cited in the Wall Street Journal.

Liu has taught European Union Law in the University of San Diego’s summer program in London, UK, and the St. Mary’s University summer program in Innsbruck, Austria. He has also taught Chinese Law in the St. Mary’s Institute on Chinese Law and Business at Beihang University in Beijing. He is a recipient of the 2018-2019 St. Mary’s University Alumni Association Distinguished Faculty Award.

Books

• (With Vincent R. Johnson), Studies in American Tort Law, 7th ed. (Carolina Academic Press, 2022)
• (With Vincent R. Johnson), Teaching Torts: A Teacher’s Guide to Studies in American Tort Law, 7th ed. (Carolina Academic Press, 2022)
• Chinese Law in Context, Carolina Academic Press, 2020
• Chinese Law on SARS, Hein, 2004

Articles

• Beyond Compulsory Licensing: Pfizer Shares Its COVID-19 Medicines with the Patent Pool 25 New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy, 1 (2022)
• The World Health Organization: A Weak Defender Against Pandemics, 28 Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law, 174 (2021)
• Confucius and the Chinese Legal Tradition, 28 Michigan State International Law Review 477 (2020)
• Socialized Liability in Chinese Tort Law, 59 Harvard International Law Journal Online 16, (2018)
• Risks Faced by Foreign Lawyers in China, 35 Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law 131, (2018)
• The Development of Chinese Constitutionalism, 48 St. Mary’s Law Journal 199, (2017)
• Escaping Liability via Forum Non Conveniens, 17 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change, 137 (2014)
• Leaving the FDA Behind: Pharmaceutical Outsourcing and Drug Safety, 48 Texas International Law Journal, 1 (2012)
• Is “USDA ORGANIC” a Seal of Deceit? The Pitfalls of USDA Certified Organics Produced in the United States, China and Beyond, 47 Stanford Journal of International Law 333 (2011).
• The Obstacles of Outsourcing Imported Food Safety To China, 43 Cornell Journal of International Law 249, (Lead Article, 2010).
• Profits Above The Law: China’s Melamine Tainted Milk Scandal, 79 Mississippi Law Journal 371, (2009).
• The Chinese Takings Law From A Comparative Perspective, 26 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 301, (2008).
• Informal Rules, Transaction Costs And The Failure Of Chinese Takings Law 29 Hastings International & Comparative Law Review 1 (Lead Article, 2005). (Reprinted in Jose Maria Serna de la Garza,Derecho Comparado Asia-Mexico. Culturas y Sistemas Juridicos Comparados, IIJ-UNAM, 2007)
• Regulating SARS In China: Law As An Antidote? 4 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 81(2005). (Reprinted in Stoltzfus Jost, Readings in Comparative Health Law and Bioethics,Carolina Academic Press, 2007)

Media Highlights

• Not All Organic Food Labels are Created Equal, Forbes, Nov. 11, 2015
• Is ‘organic’ really organic? A deep dive into the dirt, CNBC, Nov. 4, 2015
• Organic-Farming Boom Stretches Certification System, The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 9, 2014
• A Breach of Defense against the Ebola Virus, The Austin American-Statesman, Oct. 3, 2014

Biography

MacLeod is Professor of Law at the St. Mary’s University School of Law. He is a Senior Research Fellow of the Center for Religion, Culture and Democracy, and he lectures in the James Madison Program’s summer seminar on the Moral Foundations of Law at Princeton University. MacLeod has been a fellow at Princeton University and George Mason University, lecturer in the Alabama Judicial College, special Deputy Attorney General of Alabama, and an Auxiliary advisor to active duty and auxiliary commands in the U.S. Coast Guard. Before his academic career, he practiced law in Boston and served as law clerk to Chief Justice Christopher Armstrong and Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Appeals Court and then-Chief Judge Lewis T. Babcock of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado.

MacLeod is the author of four books, dozens of book chapters and scholarly articles, and more than one hundred essays and book reviews. His published writings include Property and Practical Reason (Cambridge University Press 2015), peer-reviewed articles in journals such as the Modern Law Review and Journal of Law & Religion, and law review articles in journals such as the Notre Dame Law Review and Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. He received his B.A. summa cum laude from Gordon College and his J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame.

Books

• With George C. Christie and Patrick H. Martin, Jurisprudence: Text and Readings on the Philosophy of Law (4th ed., West Academic Publishing 2020)
• The Age of Selfies: Reasoning About Right(s) When the Stakes Are Personal (Rowman & Littlefield 2020)
• With Robert L. McFarland, Foundations of Law (Carolina Academic Press 2017)
• Property and Practical Reason (Cambridge University Press 2015)

Book Chapters

• To Caesar (Only) What is Caesar’s, in SOCIAL CONSERVATISM FOR THE COMMON GOOD: A PROTESTANT ENGAGEMENT WITH ROBERT P. GEORGE (Andrew Walker, ed., Crossway 2022)
• The Boundaries of Dominion, in CHRISTIANITY AND PRIVATE LAW (Robert Cochran and Michael Moreland, eds., Routledge 2020)
• The Substantial Burden Test in RLUIPA, in ZONING AND PLANNING LAW HANDBOOK (Patricia E. Salkin, ed., West Publishing 2012)

Academic Articles

• A Workable Common-Law Baseline for Regulatory Takings, __ Journal of Law, Economics, and Policy __ (2025) (symposium issue)
• Foundations of the Right of Charitable Uses, __ Mississippi Law Journal __ (2025) (selected for M.L.J. Peer Review Forum)
• Children and Chairs, Artifacts and Reality, 74 Catholic University Law Review __ (2024) (invited for symposium issue)
• The First Amendment, Discrimination, and Public Accommodations at Common Law, 112 Kentucky Law Journal 209 (2024)
• Why Equity Follows the Law, 13 Laws 3 (2024) (invited lead article for peer-reviewed symposium issue)
• Is, Ought, and the Limited Competence of Experts, Journal of Religion, Culture and Democracy (December 6, 2023) (invited for peer-reviewed symposium issue)
• Vested Patents and Equal Justice, 72 Catholic University Law Review 359 (2023)
• Opus as the Core of Property, 9 Texas A&M Journal of Property Law 637 (2023) (invited for symposium issue)
• The Bare Necessity of Natural Law, 2023 Journal of Christian Legal Thought 13 (2023) (invited)
• What Makes Property Liberal?, 84 Modern Law Review 1427 (2021)
• Cyber Trespass and Property Concepts, 10 IP Theory 4 (2021)
• Group Ownership and the Ends of Legal Artifacts, 13 Faulkner Law Review 1 (2021) (invited lead article in symposium issue)
• Public Rights After Oil States Energy, 95 Notre Dame Law Review 1281 (2020)
• Review of Great Christian Jurists in English History, 34 Journal of Law and Religion 123 (2019)
• Patent Infringement as Trespass, 69 Alabama Law Review 723 (2018)
• Of Brutal Murder and Transcendental Sovereignty: The Meaning of Vested Private Rights, 41 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 253 (2018)
• Metaphysical Right and Practical Obligations, 48 University of Memphis Law Review 431 (2017)
• Tempering Civil Rights Conflicts: Common Law for the Moral Marketplace, 2016 Michigan State Law Review 643
• Strategic and Tactical Totalization in the Totalitarian Epoch, 5 British Journal of American Legal Studies 57 (2016)
• Rights, Privileges, and the Future of Marriage Law, 28 Regent University Law Review 71 (2015) (invited)
• Bridging the Gaps in Property Theory, 77 Modern Law Review 1009 (2014)
• Universities as Constitutional Lawmakers, 17 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law Online 1 (2014)
• Private Rights and Duties, 6 Faulkner Law Review 65 (2014) (invited)
• Identifying Values in Land Use Regulation, 101 Kentucky Law Journal 55 (2012)
• The Mystery of Life in the Laboratory of Democracy: Personal Autonomy in State Law, 59 Cleveland State Law Review 589 (2012)
• Resurrecting the Bogeyman: The Curious Forms of the Substantial Burden Test in RLUIPA, 40 Real Estate Law Journal 115 (2011)
• Empathy’s White Elephant: Responding to the Subprime Mortgage Crisis Without Denigrating the Poor, 9 Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy 283 (2011)
• A Non-Fatal Collision: Where Religious Land Uses and Community Interests Meet, 42 Urban Lawyer 41 (2010)
• A Gift Worth Dying For?: Debating the Volitional Nature of Suicide in Personal Property Law, 45 Idaho Law Review 93 (2008)
• The Search for Moral Neutrality in Same-Sex Marriage Decisions, 23 BYU Journal of Public Law 1 (2008)
• All for One: A Review of Victim-centric Justifications for Criminal Punishment, 13 Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 31 (2008)

Essays and Reviews

MacLeod has written more than one hundred essays and book reviews for a variety of audiences. The following list is representative.

• How Law Lost Its Way, Touchstone Magazine (September 2024)
• Rights, Duties, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 75, Law & Liberty (November 16, 2023)
• Still Alive and Well, Law & Liberty (October 3, 2023)
• Fictions and Lies in a Lawless Age, Public Discourse (February 20, 2022) (reviewing Stephen D. Smith, Fictions, Lies and the Authority of Law)
• The Problem-Solving Framers, Law & Liberty (October 6, 2021) (reviewing Donald Drakeman, The Hollow Core of Constitutional Theory)
• With Andrew Koppelman, Between the Trenches of the Culture Wars, But Not With Ill Will: An Exchange, Public Discourse (January 7, 2021)
• Making Cyber Criminals Walk the Constitutional Plank, Law & Liberty (November 23, 2020)
• Natural Law for a Lawless People, Public Discourse (September 10, 2020) (reviewing Kody Cooper, Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law)
• Bagehot and the Causes of Our Crisis, Online Library of Liberty (January 3, 2020) (lead essay in symposium on The English Constitution) (invited)
• Sovereignty and the Rule of Law (January 28, 2020)
• Bagehot as Aristotle (January 30, 2020)
• Review of GREAT CHRISTIAN JURISTS IN ENGLISH HISTORY, 34 Journal of Law and Religion 123 (2019) (invited)
• Piracy, Protests, and the Problem of China, Public Discourse (October 28, 2019)
• Toward a Productive Discussion About Immigration, Public Discourse (September 4, 2019)
• A Case of Stolen Jurisprudence in Kansas, Public Discourse (June 12, 2019)
• Ordered Liberty and the Demands of Law, Law & Liberty (April 1, 2019) (reviewing BRIAN MCCALL, THE ARCHITECTURE OF LAW) (invited)
• Legislatures Cannot Abolish Marriage, Public Discourse (November 20, 2018)
• Where Do Our Rights Come From? An Evaluation of American Patent Law, Starting Points Journal (October 22, 2018)
• How Legislatures Can Combat the Problem of Judicial Supremacy and Protect Human Rights, Public Discourse (September 24, 2018) (reviewing Webber et al, LEGISLATED RIGHTS: SECURING HUMAN RIGHTS THROUGH LEGISLATION)
• Racism, the Legacy Museum, and the Costs of Self-Deception, Public Discourse (August 1, 2018)
• The Human Element in Property, The American Project (April 2, 2018)
• Review of INSIDE THE MIND OF THOMAS MORE: THE WITNESS OF HIS WRITINGS, 11 Journal of Faith & the Academy 112 (2018)
• Our Universal and Particular Constitution, Public Discourse (October 4, 2018)
• The Thousands-Year Old Constitution, Public Discourse (October 2, 2018)
• Equal Property Rights for All, Including Christian Wedding Cake Bakers, Public Discourse (November 30, 2017)
• The Impoverishment of Law and the Loss of Ordered Liberty, Public Discourse (November 6, 2017) (Part 2 of a review ofJohn Corvino, Ryan T. Anderson, and Sherif Girgis, DEBATING RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND DISCRIMINATION)
• Debating Liberty, Public Discourse (November 5, 2017) (Part 1 of a review of John Corvino, Ryan T. Anderson, and Sherif Girgis, DEBATING RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND DISCRIMINATION)
• Law Schools Guard Entry Into the Profession and Should Teach Virtue, James G. Martin Center (July 26, 2017)
• Kuyper and Pope Leo as Christian Thinkers, Public Discourse (May 12, 2017)
• Legal Fictions Matter: A Reply to S. Adam Seagrave, Public Discourse (February 7, 2017)
• (Natural) Law Matters, Public Discourse (February 2, 2017) (A review of Richard Helmholz, NATURAL LAW IN COURT)
• That Time I Turned a Routine Traffic Ticket Into the Constitutional Trial of the Century, Public Discourse (January 13, 2017)
• (Natural) Law Matters, Public Discourse (February 2, 2017) (A review of Richard Helmholz, Natural Law in Court)
• That Time I Turned a Routine Traffic Ticket Into the Constitutional Trial of the Century, Ars Technica (January 20, 2017)
• The Third Amendment: A Neglected Measure for a Skeptical Age, Washington Times Special Bill of Rights Anniversary Edition (December 15, 2016)
• Banking on the Margins or the Core of Human Flourishing?, Public Discourse (December 7, 2016)
• The Double Mommy Trap, Public Discourse (October 31, 2016)
• Texas Lawmen and the Lawless Court, Public Discourse (July 7, 2016)
• The Right to Be Differently Excellent, Public Discourse (May 5, 2016)
• Federal Courts, Government Agencies, and Bathroom Policy, Public Discourse (April 25, 2016)
• What’s Wrong With Rights?, Public Discourse (April 21, 2016)
• State Supreme Court: SCOTUS Majority is ‘Illegitimate Opinion’ (But Still Law?), New Boston Post (March 4, 2016)
• A Catechesis for the Tolerant, Public Discourse (February 9, 2016)
• Injuring the Health of the Legal Profession, New Boston Post (January 21, 2016)
• ISIS’s War on Civilization is Motivated by Law, New Boston Post (November 17, 2015)
• Assisted Suicide and the Corruption of Lawyers, New Boston Post (November 16, 2015)
• Marriage is For Children, Respectful Conversation (November 13, 2015)
• Birth Certificates, Fatherhood, and Same-Sex Marriage: Sotomayor v. Sotomayor, Public Discourse (November 5, 2015)
• With Robert McFarland, Did the Supreme Court Take Tennessee Courts Out of the Marriage Business?, Public Discourse (September 24, 2015)
• The Ambiguous Quest for Marriage Equality, Public Discourse (June 25, 2015)
• There is a Fundamental Right to Marriage, and We Must Preserve It, Public Discourse (June 16, 2015)
• Modest Conscience Protections in Louisiana Elicit Hysteria, Public Discourse (May 13, 2015)
• Religious Freedom and Sexual Identity: A Proposal for Peace, Public Discourse (May 8, 2015)
• The Common Law: Ginsburg Gets It Wrong, Library of Law and Liberty (May 4, 2015)
• Yes, Tyranny is a Fitting Word, Public Discourse (March 31, 2015)
• Judicial Tyranny UnMoored, Public Discourse (March 30, 2015)
• Judging What?: A Review of Robert Katzmann, Judging Statutes, Library of Law and Liberty (March 2015)
• The Hidden Costs of Legalized Suicide, Public Discourse (October 27, 2014)
• C.S. Lewis’ Meditation in a Toolshed and the Inviolability of Life, Canon & Culture (August 27, 2014)
• Gordon College and Pluralism in Higher Education, Public Discourse (July 30, 2014)
• How to Support Religious Liberty, Canon & Culture (July 18, 2014)
• Have Christian Colleges Lost Their Way?, Canon & Culture (June 9, 2014)
• What’s at Stake at the Bakery: How Property Rights Got Sexy, Public Discourse (March 4, 2014)
• Who’s Afraid of Legislative Intent?: A Review of RICHARD EKINS, THE NATURE OF LEGISLATIVE INTENT, Library of Law and Liberty (February 2014)
• No Interest in Fathers, Public Discourse (January 14, 2014)
• What Will Become of Equal Protection for Women?, Public Discourse (September 13, 2013)
• Principled Entitlement Reform: Private Ordering Needs Room to Grow, Public Discourse (August 8, 2013)
• A Moral Foundation for Entitlement Reform, Public Discourse (August 7, 2013)
• Euphemisms: The Modus Operandi of Death Rights Advocates, Public Discourse (June 20, 2013)
• Marriage, Religious Liberty, and the Ban Myth, Public Discourse (April 2, 2013)
• Property Viewed From the Inside, Public Discourse (March 22, 2013)
• Property and the Regulatory State at the Supreme Court, Public Discourse (March 21, 2013)
• With Andrew Beckwith, Sky Fall: Gender Ideology Comes to the Schoolhouse, Public Discourse (March 1, 2013)
• At and Along: A Review of THE LAW AND ETHICS OF MEDICINE by John Keown, 34 ADELAIDE LAW REVIEW 211 (2013)
• Review of WHAT IS MARRIAGE: MAN AND WOMAN—A DEFENSE, Journal of Faith and the Academy (2013)
• Law’s Logic at the End of Life, Public Discourse (January 15, 2013)
• At and Along: A Review of The Law and Ethics of Medicine by John Keown, 34 Adelaide Law Review 211 (2013)
• Economic Justice and the Internal Point of View, 17 Journal Jurisprudence 11 (2013)
• Moral Neutrality, Marriage, and the Supreme Court, Public Discourse (December 10, 2012)
• The Right to Do Good, Public Discourse (October 16, 2012)
• Judging Human Worth, Public Discourse (May 9, 2012)
• Rediscovering Property, Public Discourse (April 19, 2012)
• Marriage Decisions and the Importance of Judicial Reason, Public Discourse (March 5, 2012)
• Social Justice, Institutions, and Communities, Public Discourse (January 27, 2012)
• Purpose, Palliative Care, and Respect for Human Life, Public Discourse (January 11, 2012)
• Private Property and Human Flourishing, Public Discourse (October 25, 2011)
• Assisted Suicide: The Forgotten Front in the Fight for Life, Public Discourse (September 14, 2011)
• Review of JEAN PORTER, MINISTERS OF THE LAW, 4 Journal of Faith and the Academy 68 (2011)
• The (Contingent) Value of Autonomy and the Reflexivity of (Some) Basic Goods, 5 Journal Jurisprudence 11 (2010)
• The Law as Bard: Extolling a Culture’s Virtues, Exposing Its Vices, and Telling Its Story, 1 Journal Jurisprudence 11 (2008)
• The Groningen Protocol: Legalized Infanticide in the Netherlands and Why it Should Not be Adopted in the United States, 10 Michigan State Journal of Medicine & Law 557 (2006)

Representative Presentations

• Classical Legal Solutions to the Problems of the Information Age, Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Budapest, Hungary (December 1, 2022)
• The Jury in the Age of Public Rights, LSU Law Center and Eric Voegelin Institute, Louisiana State University (January 22, 2019)
• Jus Gentium as the Solution to Transnational Phobias, Sallux ECPM Foundation, Brussels, Belgium (December 2, 2018)
• Fundamental Rights, IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Munich, Germany (November 29, 2018)
• Trespass and Intention, Boston University School of Law, Property Works in Progress workshop (October 19, 2018)
• IP as a Property Doctrine, Center for Innovation, Intellectual Property and Competition, National Law University, Delhi India (March 22, 2018)
• Self-governance and Intellectual Property, Conference on Voluntary Governance, Michigan State University, James Madison College (December 2, 2017)
• Property and Charity, Queen’s University, Ontario, Visiting Speaker Series lecture (March 2, 2015)
• What Marriage (Still) Is, Suffolk University School of Law, American Constitution Society, Suffolk Law School chapter (October 16, 2012)
• RLUIPA and Federalism, panelist at Association for Law, Property and Society annual conference (March 4, 2011)

Representative Appearances in New Media

• Interviewed in Gérard Mordillat documentary, Le Monde et sa Propriété, ARTE TV Europe (2022)
• With Becky Dummermuth, A Test in Virginia of the Right to Remain Silent, Washington Post (June 10, 2022)
• Justice Thomas at 30: Principle Over Precedent, National Review Online (October 22, 2021)
• With Ryan T. Anderson, Clarence Thomas is Right About Big Tech, National Review Online (April 19, 2021)
• Executive Power in a Pandemic, The Birmingham News (April 24, 2020)
• Interviewed on Fox & Friends, Fox News Channel, to discuss educating young law students (November 29, 2017)
• Neil Gorsuch, The Scholar and the Man, Washington Times (March 28, 2017)

Biography

Professor Mather joined the St. Mary’s faculty in 1985, after practicing law in a civil practice firm in Illinois and studying for her LLM degree. She teaches and writes in the areas of Property, Family Law and Wills and Trusts. She also taught Population Law and Policy several times for the St. Mary’s Institute on World Legal Problems in Innsbruck Austria and has served as co-director of the Institute. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Texas and the University of Illinois.

She served as the Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs at the law school from 1999 – 2002 and 2006 to 2016. In her capacity as Associate Dean she worked with students and faculty on assessment, curriculum development, student disability services, academic standards, and student academic issues.
She currently sits on the Texas Lawyer’s Assistance Program Committee for the State Bar of Texas and the Board of Trustees for the Texas Center for Legal Ethics.

• Appointed as the Chair Texas Lawyers’ Assistance Program Committee, 2018 to 2021
• Appointed to the Board of Trustees for the Texas Center for Legal Ethics, 2018 to 2020
• Appointed to the State Bar of Texas’s Texas Lawyers’ Assistance Program Committee, 2015-2020
• Phi Delta Phi Outstanding Professor Award, 1988-89, (shared award); 1993-94
• St. Mary’s University Alumni Association Distinguished Faculty Award, 2010-11
• Taught as a visiting professor at the University of Illinois and the University of Texas
• Taught in the St. Mary’s Institute on World Legal Problems, Innsbruck, Austria

Book Chapters

• “Testamentary Transfers,” for Thompson on Real Property (Michie, 1994).
• “Planned Unit Developments” and “Subdivision Controls” for The American Law of Real Property (Matthew Bender, 1991).
• “Adult Entertainment Zoning,” for Rohan, Zoning and Land Use Controls (Matthew Bender, 1990).

Essays and Articles

• Population Law and Policy: From Control and Contraception to Equity and Equality, 50 St. Mary’s L.J. (2019)
• Evolution and Revolution in Family Law, 25 ST. MARY’S L.J. 405 (1993).
• No Harm, No Foul Pornography (Violent and Otherwise), 14 UALR L.J. 455 (1992).
• Review Essay, A Scary Tale:  Battered Women Who Kill Their Abusers, 18 OHIO N.U.L. REV. 601 (1992).
• The Magic Circle: Inclusion of Adopted Children in Testamentary Class Gifts, 31 S. TEX. L.J. 223 (1990).
• The Skeleton in the Closet: The Battered Woman Syndrome, Self-Defense, and Expert Testimony, 39 MERCER L. REV. 545 (1988).
• The Antitrust Implications of Municipal Land Use Planning, 33 WAYNE L. REV. 965 (1987).

Speeches and Presentations

• Moderator, SEALS 2015, panel on Gender Issues in Law Schools
• Discussant, SEALS 2014, panels on Wills and Trusts, Property issues and Bar Admissions practices, Moderator, panel on land use issues
• Lecture on Takings Jurisprudence, St. Mary’s Homecoming CLE program, 2005.
• Lecture on Vested Property Rights for Developers in Texas to local Homeowner’s Association, Fall 2004.
• Lecture on Preparation for and the Practice of Law, PREP program,
• St. Mary’s University, Summers 2002-04.
• Lecture on Domestic Partnership Legislation for the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identification Issues Section of the state Bar of Texas, Summer 2000.
• Mini Bar-Review on Property Issues for St. Mary’s Students, Spring 1999.
• Adolescent Pregnancy Program, presentations in various high schools on Legal Issues Affecting Pregnant and Parenting Teens, Fall 1996, 1998.
• Training Session on Wills for Participants in the Wills Clinic for low-income elderly in San Antonio, Fall 1997, co-sponsored by St. Mary’s University School of Law, the Women’s Law Association, and the Bexar County Women’s Bar Association.
• Moderator, debate on U.S. military policy regarding gays and lesbians in the military, Fall 1997, St. Mary’s University School of Law
• Lecture, Universidad de Estodios de Posgrado en Derecho, for the Diplomado en Derecho Anglosajon Program in Mexico City. Lecture on U.S. Property Law, July 1997.
• Panel Discussion, St. Mary’s University, Spring 1996, “Legal Implications of Same-Sex Marriages.”
• San Antonio Legal Secretaries Association, Fall 1993, “A Summary of Texas Family Law.”
• Bexar County Women’s Political Caucus, Fall 1992, “Changing Times: Women in the Legal Profession.”
• St. Mary’s University Family Life Center, Spring 1992, “Some Key Legal Issues for the Family Counselor.”
• Seminar on Intellectual Property for Artists, Spring 1991, “Trademark, Copyright and Moral Rights for Artists.”

Teaching Materials

• Population Law and Policy (for Innsbruck program as needed).
• Human Rights and Population Law and Policy (for Innsbruck program as needed).

Biography

Patricia Moore, J.D., teaches Civil Procedure, Evidence, Federal Courts and other courses related to litigation. She joins St. Mary’s University School of Law as a Professor of Law in the Fall 2023 semester.

Moore has taught at four other law schools. She was a Professor of Law at St. Thomas University College of Law (Florida) and at Oklahoma City University School of Law. She also served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for several years at both of those institutions. Finally, Moore has been a visiting professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law and at Stetson University College of Law.

Moore has testified before the United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary and the Oklahoma State Legislature on class actions. Her scholarship includes empirical and doctrinal work and focuses on how access to justice may be affected by procedural rules, the demographics of the federal courts, and the politicized nature of both. Her articles have been published in the University of Illinois Law Review, American University Law Review, Tennessee Law Review and many other leading journals.

Prior to teaching, Moore was a partner in the Chicago office of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal (now part of Dentons), practicing in civil litigation. She is a member of the Bar in Oklahoma (active) and Illinois (inactive).

Books

• The First Year of the 2015 Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: Refinement, Not Revolution, American Association for Justice (2017).
• Oklahoma Trial Practice (Thomson West, 2d ed. 1999) (with John Morris and Daniel Morgan).

Law Review Articles

• Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins: The Illusory “No-Injury” Class Reaches the Supreme Court, 2 ST. THOMAS JOURNAL OF COMPLEX LITIGATION 1 (2015).
• The Anti-Plaintiff Pending Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Pro-Defendant Composition of the Federal Rulemaking Committees, 83 U. CIN. L. REV. 1083 (2015).
• The Civil Caseload of the Federal District Courts, 2015 U. ILL. L. REV. 1177.
• Confronting the Myth of “State Court Class Action Abuses” Through an Understanding of Heuristics and a Plea for More Statistics, 82 UMKC L. REV. 133 (2013). ,
• An Updated Quantitative Study of Iqbal’s Impact on 12(b)(6) Motions, 46 U. RICHMOND L. REV. 603 (2012).
• Active Learning and Law School Performance (with Todd Sullivan), 3 JOURNAL OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH, No. 2, 67 (2011).
• The Tao of Pleading: Do Twombly and Iqbal Matter Empirically?, 59 AMERICAN U. L. REV. 553 (2010).
• The Effect of “Tort Reform” on Tort Case Filings, 43 VALPARAISO U. L. REV. 559 (2009).
• Are Women More Ethical Lawyers? An Empirical Study, 31 FLORIDA STATE U. L. REV. 785 (2004) (with Kevin Simmons).
• Interstate Establishment, Enforcement, and Modification of Child Support Orders, 25 OKLAHOMA CITY U. L. REV. 511 (2000).
• Critical Applications and Proposals for Improvement of the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act and the Federal Full Faith and Credit for Child Support Orders Act, 71 ST. JOHN’S L. REV. 1 (1997).
• See No Evil? The Role of the Directed Trustee under ERISA, 64 TENNESSEE L. REV. 1 (1996).

Presentations

• Invited testimony, Hearing on “The State of Class Actions Ten Years after the Class Action Fairness Act,” Before the Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, United States House of Representatives, February 27, 2015.
  Invited testimony, Oklahoma State Legislature, Proposed “Tort Reform” legislation, including class actions (2004).Invited panelist, The Roberts Court and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, Civil Procedure Section, San Francisco (Jan. 5, 2017).
  Invited panelist, Who Will Write Your Rules? Your State Court or the Federal Judiciary?, National Civil Justice Institute, 24th Annual Judges Forum, Los Angeles (July 23, 2016).
  Invited panelist, Workshop on Public Access to Federal Court Data (“What We Should Be Able to Do with Federal Court Data But Can’t”), University of Pennsylvania Law School (October 8-9, 2015).

Media Highlights

• Quoted in Joe Palazzolo and Jess Bravin, Businesses Win Lawsuit Curbs With New Rules, WALL ST. JOURNAL (March 22, 2016).
• Quoted in Rebecca Wilhelm, Civil Rule Changes Could Affect Environmental Litigation, BLOOMBERG BNA (January 19, 2016).
• Quoted in Colleen Wright, Parkland Families Want To Sue Gun Companies But Could Face Financial Ruin If They Do, MIAMI HERALD (May 24, 2018).

Biography

Prior to joining St. Mary’s, Pepi practiced immigration, family law, estate planning and elder law. She joined St. Mary’s in 2000 and continues to supervise second- and third-year law students as they represent low-income clients with family law and probate matters. Pepi teaches the corollary course required of all Civil Justice Clinic students.

She also teaches practice skills courses in the areas of depositions, probating estates and divorce. She has published work in the area of legal ethics and lectured nationally and internationally on the issues facing survivors of domestic violence.

Pepi is a leader in the legal community through her membership and service in myriad bar associations. She is a past President of the Bexar County Women’s Bar Association/Foundation and the Mexican American Bar Association of San Antonio.

• San Antonio Women’s Chamber of Commerce Constellation of Stars Comet Award, Nov. 2014
• St. Mary’s University Alice Wright Franzke Feminist Award, March 2014
• Bexar County Women’s Bar Foundation Belva Lockwood Outstanding Young Lawyer Award, Oct. 2000

Articles in a Periodical

Dayla S. Pepi and Donna D. Bloom,Take the Money or Run: The Risky Business of Acting As Both Your Client’s Lawyer and Bail Bondsman, 37 St. Mary’s L.J. 933 (2006).