Biography

Adam MacLeod is Professor of Law and Katherine A. Ryan Chair for Global, Comparative, and International 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

Prior to joining the St. Mary’s University School of Law, Dayla S. Pepi (J.D. ’98) practiced immigration, family law, estate planning and elder law. She joined St. Mary’s Law 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.

Pepi is Associate Director of Clinical Education, a Clinical Professor of Law and an Englehardt Research Fellow.

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).

Biography

Robert William “Bill” Piatt was born in Santa Fe. He is Hispanic/Native American (Genizaro), Catholic, and fluent in Spanish. Prior to his arrival at St. Mary’s, he had taught at five law schools in the U.S., had engaged in private practice, and had helped to establish indigent criminal defense and civil legal assistance offices. Piatt had also taught in Mexico and Spain, and assisted Native American communities in this country.

His background has led him to continue his work with Indigenous communities, and to participate in religious and cultural ceremonies. Piatt’s writings are the first to discuss the legal rights of non-federally recognized Indians.

His background has also enabled him to expand on incorporating his Catholic faith into his teaching, research and service.

Piatt’s writings, including ten books and dozens of articles, focus on Human Rights. They have received numerous awards and have been cited in hundreds of publications.

His background in broadcasting has assisted him in participating as a commentator on law-related topics in English and in Spanish, on radio and tv.

Piatt served as Dean of St. Mary’s Law School from 1998 to 2007.

• Outstanding Alumni Award, Eastern New Mexico University, 1997
• Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights in North America, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America, 1998, for my book, Black and Brown in America.
• Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights in North America, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America, 1994, for my book, “Language on the Job,”
• Outstanding Academic Book of the Year, 1994, Choice Magazine, for my book, “Language on the Job”
• Outstanding article in the Houston Law Review in 1996, Houston Law Review Alumni Award, for my article, “Toward Domestic Recognition of a Human Right to Language.”

Books

• Slavery in the Southwest: Genizaro Identity, Dignity and the Law (with Moises Gonzales, Carolina Academic Press, 2019)
• Human Trafficking (with Cheryl Taylor Page, Carolina Academic Press, 2016).
• Catholic Legal Perspectives, 3rd Edition (Carolina Academic Press, 2018).
• Black and Brown in America: The Case for Cooperation (New York University Press, 1997). The book was named, “Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights in North America” in 1998 by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America.
• Immigration Law: Cases and Materials (Michie, 1994).
• Language on the Job: Balancing Business Needs and Employee Rights (University of New Mexico Press, 1993). The book was named, “Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights in North America” in 1994 by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America, and was also selected as an Outstanding Academic Book of the Year by Choice Magazine in 1994.
• ¿Only English? Law and Language Policy in the United States. (University of New Mexico Press, Spring, 1990)
• A Layperson’s Guide to New Mexico Law, Center for Business Services, New Mexico State University, 1977.

Articles in a Periodical

• “Respecting the Identity and Dignity of All Indigenous Americans,” 6 Howard Human & Civil Rights Law Review 83 (2021).
• Commentary: Breyer’s Legacy One to Commend, San Antonio Express-News (Feb. 6, 2022).
• Law Schools Harm Genizaros and Other Indigenous People By Misunderstanding ABA Policy (with Moises Gonzales and Katja Wolf), 49 N.M.L. Rev. 236 (2019).
• Working toward a Fiesta of peace, Santa Fe New Mexican, Commentary, (July 29, 2018).
• Entrada: Slavery, Religion and Reconciliation, 13 Intercultural Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 1 (Fall 2018)
• State Bar Efforts to Deny Accreditation to Faith-Based CLE Ethics Programs Sponsored by Religiously-Affiliated Law Schools, 29 Regent U. L. Rev. 293 (2016-2017).
• Opting out in the Name of God: Will Lawyers be Compelled to Handle Same-Sex Divorces?, 79 Albany L.R. 683 (2016)
• If the Pope is Infallible, Why Does He Need Lawyers? 43 Cap U. L.R. 555 (2015)
• Prudence, Common Sense Best Tools to Stop Ebola, San Antonio Express-News, Op-Ed (November 9, 2014).
• The Future of Legal Education, Texas Lawyer (three-part series, 2013).
• Border Wars & The New Texas Navy: International Treaties, Waterways, and State Sovereignty After Arizona v. U.S. (with Rachel Ambler) 15 Scholar 535, n.3, 2013).
• Reinventing the Wheel: Constructing Ethical Approaches to State Indigent Legal Defense Systems, St. Mary’s L. J. Legal Mal. & Ethics 372 (2012).
• Catholicism and Constitutional Law: More than Privacy in the Penumbras, 7 Vill. J. Cath. Soc. Thought 337 (2010).
• Gender Segregation in the Public Schools: Opportunity, Inequality, or Both?, 11 Scholar 561 (2009).
• Loose Lips Sink Attorney/Client Ships: Unintended Technological disclosure of Confidential Communications (with Dr. Paula deWitte), 39 St. Mary’s Law Journal 781 (2008).
• A Glass Half Full: A Rational/Radical Approach to Immigration Reform, 13 Nexus 3 (2008).
• New Legal Rights in the Legal System of the United States of America (with Professor Roberto Rosas), 23 Juris Tantum 19, Universidad Anahuac, Mexico (2008).
• Immigration Reform from the Outside In, 10 The Scholar: St. Mary’s Law Review on Minority Issues 269 (2008).
• Los Nuevos Derechos en el Sistema Jurídico de Estados Unidos (with Roberto Rosas), 20 Juris Tantum 16, Universidad Anáhuac, México (2005).
• México y los Estados Unidos: Idioma Común, Futuro Común, 9-10 Derecho y Cultura Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2003).
• One View to Add to the Many, 34 TOL. L. REV. 143, 144 (2002).
• Training Lawyers for a Global Economy, Renmin University of China, (Mandarin and English), (2000).
• Appellate Law in the New Millennium: Bridging Theoretical Foundations with Practical Application, 31 St. Mary’s Law Journal 987, (1999).
• Of Pigeonholes and Prospective Jurors, 14 Chicano-Latino L. Rev. 61 (1994).
• Attorney as Interpreter: A Return to Babble, 20 N.M. L. Rev. 1 (1990) (lead article).
• Born as Second-Class Citizens in the USA: Children of Undocumented Parents, 63 Notre Dame L. Rev. 35 (1988).
• Toward Domestic Recognition of a Human Right to Language, 23 Hous. L. Rev. 885 (1986). Recipient of the Houston Law Review Alumni award as the outstanding article published in the Houston Law Review in 1996.
• Spanish on the Job: Business Needs and Employee Rights, published in La Voz del Llano, Kansas Advisory Committee on Hispanic Affairs, Vol. 5, No. 4 (July, 1986).
• Awaiting the Rebirth (paper presented to 1986 Minority Law Teacher’s Conference, Houston).
• Equal Access to Law (School), published in The Alliance, Kansas State University, May 1985. Discusses theoretical considerations regarding attracting women and minority students to law school.
• Linguistic Diversity on the Airwaves: Spanish-Language Broadcasting and the FCC, 2 La Raza L.J. 101 (1984) (lead article).
• Orgullo Hispano en El Maratón de Nueva York, El Hispano, Albuquerque, New Mexico, November 5, 1982.
• Hasta Luego, Papá, Salsa Literary Magazine, Espanola, New Mexico, 8/2/90. A “cuento” (short story).

Chapters in Books

• “Catholic Perspectives on Family Law”, in Through a Clear Lens: American Law From a Catholic Perspective (Scarecrow Press, a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Group, Inc., 2015).
• “Attorney As Interpreter”, in The Latino Condition: A Critical Reader (Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, eds. N.Y.U. Press 1998, and in the second ed., 2011).
• “The Confusing State of Minority Language Rights”, in Language Loyalties: A Source Book on the Official English Controversy (James Crawford, ed., U. of Chicago Press 1992)

Biography

After graduating from Brigham Young University law school in 2001, Chad Pomeroy, J.D., practiced law for a decade as an associate attorney and as a partner for multiple firms in Utah. He primarily practiced transactional law, with an emphasis on real estate and other property issues.

He has taught at St. Mary’s since 2011. A full professor, he holds the James N. Castleberry, Jr. Chair of Oil and Gas Law. He teaches a variety of business and property-focused classes, including Oil and Gas, Mortgages, Property and Business Associations.

Articles in a Periodical

• The Real Doctrine & Covenants, 65 Drake L. Rev. 101 (2017)
• Well Enough Alone: Liability for Wrongful Foreclosures, 68 Ala. L. Rev. 943 (2017)
• Our Court Masters, 94 Neb. L. Rev. 401 (2015)
• All Your Air Right are Belong to Us, 13 Nw. J.L. & Tech. 277 (2015).
• The Shape of Property, 44 Seton Hall L. Rev. 797 (2014).
• Think Twice: Charging Orders and Creditor Property Rights, 102 Ky. L.J. 705 (2014).
• Why is Property So Hard?, 65 Rutgers L. Rev. 505 (2013).
• A Theoretical Case for Standardized Vesting Documents, 38 Ohio N.U. L. Rev. 957 (2012).
• Ending Surprise Liens on Real Property, 11 Nev. L.J. 139 (2010).
• Preslar v. Commissioner: Debt-Discharge Income and its Rationale, 2000 B.Y.U. L. Rev. 1677 (2000).

Presentations

• Well Enough Alone, University of Alabama (September 2016)
• All Your Air Right are Belong to Us, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (March 30, 2015)
• Think Twice: Charging Orders and Creditor Property Rights, Southeastern Area Law Schools Annual Conference, Palm Beach, Florida (August 8, 2013)
• A Theoretical Case for Standardized Vesting Documents, JRCLS Law Professor Conference, Washington D.C. (January 4, 2012)
• Ending Surprise Liens on Real Property, University of New Mexico School of Law (November 22, 2010)
• Ending Surprise Liens on Real Property, Hamline University School of Law (November 30, 2010)