Texas A&M University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series Archive

2017

17-01
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll's Will: A Tale of Testamentary Capacity
Stephen R. Alton

17-02
Contextual Healing: What to Do About Scandalous Trademarks and Lanham Act 2(a)
Megan M. Carpenter.

17-03
Trademark Law's De-Evolution: Why Courts Get Trademark Cases Wrong Repeatedly
Glynn S. Lunney, Jr.

17-04
Restoring Hope for Heirs Property Owners: The Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act
Thomas W. Mitchell

17-05
Intellectual Property Negotiations, the BRICS Factor and the Changing North–South Debate
Peter K. Yu

17-06
Global Conflict and Populism in a Post-9/11 World
Sahar F. Aziz

17-07
Comparing Judicial Activism – Can We Say that the US Supreme Court is More Activist than the German Constitutional Court?
Nuno M. Garoupa

17-08
Negotiating While Black
Michael Z. Green

17-09
The Youngest Patent Validity Proceeding: Evaluating Post-Grant Review
Saurabh Vishnubhakat

17-10
Five Decades of Intellectual Property and Global Development
Peter K. Yu

17-11
(De)Liberalizing Judicial Independence in Egypt
Sahar F. Aziz

17-12
Inefficient Efficiency: Crying Over Spilled Water
Vanessa Casado-Pérez

17-13
Predicting Stock Market Prices with Physical Laws
Jack Manhire

17-14
The Copy in Copyright
Peter K. Yu

17-15
Modern Notice Requirements Through the Lens of Eisen and Mullane
Tanya Pierce and Jeanne C. Finegan (independent)

17-16
How May the United States Leverage its FATCA IGA Bilateral Process to Incentivize Good Tax Administrations among the World of Black Hat and Grey Hat Governments? A Carrot & Stick Policy Proposal
William Byrnes

17-17
Judicial Behavior and Devolution at the Privy Council
Nuno M. Garoupa and Sofia Amaral-Garcia (German Institute for Economic Research [DIW Berlin])

17-18
Voter Psychology and the Carbon Tax
Gary Lucas, Jr.

17-19
Unknowable Unknowns of Tax Reform: Wicked Systems, Cloud Seeding, and the Border Adjustment Tax
Jack Manhire

17-20
International Technology Contracts, Restrictive Covenants and the UNCTAD Code
Peter K. Yu

17-21
Evicted: The Socio-Legal Case for the Right to Housing - A Book Review of Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Crown Publishers, New York, 2016)
Lisa T. Alexander

17-​22
Losing the 'War of Ideas': A Critique of Countering Violent Extremism Programs
Sahar F. Aziz

17-23
Measuring Scholarly Impact: A Guide for Law School Administrators and Legal Scholars
Gary Lucas, Jr.

17-24
Invisible Adjudication in the U.S. Courts of Appeals
Fatma E. Marouf, Michael Kagan (UNLV) and Rebecca D. Gill (UNLV)

17-25
Thinking About the Trans-Pacific Partnership (and a Mega-Regional Agreement on Life Support)
​Peter K. Yu

17-26
Military Electoral Authoritarianism in Egypt
Sahar F. Aziz

17-2​7
The Audacity of Protecting Racist Speech under the National Labor Relations Act
Michael Z. Green

17-28
The Public Cost of Private Equity
William J. Magnuson.

17-29
Executive Estoppel, Equitable Enforcement, and Exploited Immigrant Workers
Angela D. Morrison

17-30
Enforcement: A Neglected Child in the Intellectual Property Family
​Peter K. Yu

17-31
Background and Current Status of FATCA
William Byrnes, Robert J. Munro, and Texas A&M University School of Law students

17-32
Judicial Behavior under Austerity: An Empirical Analysis of Behavioral Changes in the Portuguese Constitutional Court, 2002-2016
Nuno M. Garoupa (Texas A&M and Catholic University of Portugal [UCP] - Católica Global School of Law), Susana Coroado (University of Lisbon - Institute of Social Science) and Pedro C. Magalhães (University of Lisbon - Institute of Social Science)

17-33
Can NFL Players Obtain Judicial Review of Arbitration Decisions on the Merits When a Typical Hourly Union Worker Cannot Obtain This Unusual Court Access?
Michael Z. Green and Kyle Carney (independent)

17-34
Fighting Fines & Fees: Borrowing from Consumer Law to Combat Criminal Justice Debt Abuses
Neil L. Sobol

17-35
The More Copyright Laws Change, the More Digital Challenges Stay the Same
Peter K. Yu

17-36
Aquifers Shared between Mexico and the United States: Management Perspectives and Their Transboundary Nature
Gabriel Eckstein and Rosario Sanchez (Texas A&M)

17-37
The Most (and Least) Representative Law Schools for Gender, Race, and Ethnicity
Jack Manhire

17-38
New Legal Realism Volume I: Translating Law-and-Society for Today's Legal Practice
Thomas W. Mitchell, Elizabeth Mertz (Wisconsin and American Bar Foundation), and Stewart Macaulay (Wisconsin)

17-39
Move Along to Where? Property in Service of Democracy (A Tribute to André van der Walt)
Timothy M. Mulvaney and Joseph William Singer (Harvard)

17-40
The Transplant and Transformation of Intellectual Property Laws in China
Peter K. Yu

17--41
Hard Bargaining in Plea Bargaining: When Do Prosecutors Cross the Line?
Cynthia Alkon

17-42
Non-Traditional Trademarks: The Error Costs of Making an Exception the Rule
Glynn S. Lunney, Jr.

17-43
A Particularly Serious Exception to the Categorical Approach
Fatma E. Marouf

17-44
The Antitrusting of Patentability
Saurabh Vishnubhakat

17-45
A Seamless Global Digital Marketplace of Entertainment Content
Peter K. Yu

17-46
The Structured Writing Group: A Different Writing Center?
Brian N. Larson and Christopher Soper (Minnesota)

17-47
Attorneys' Career Dissatisfaction in the New Normal
Milan Markovic and Gabriele Plickert (Cal State Poly)

17-48
Constitutional Challenges and Regulatory Opportunities for State Climate Policy Innovation
Felix Mormann

17-49
Enemy of the People: Negotiating News at the White House
Carol Pauli

17-50
The Copyright Holdout Problem and New Internet-Based Services
Peter K. Yu and John T. Cross (Louisville - Brandeis School of Law)

17-51
The Hydrocarbons Industry's Challenge to International Investment Law: A Critical Approach
Guillermo Jose Garcia Sanchez

17-52
Free Trade in Electric Power
Felix Mormann and Joel B. Eisen (Richmond)

17-53
Correlative Obligation in Patent Law: The Role of Public Good in Defining the Limits of Patent Exclusivity
Srividhya Ragavan

17-54
A Spatial Critique of Intellectual Property Law and Policy
Peter K. Yu

17-55
Regulating Fintech
William J. Magnuson

17-56
When Should the First Amendment Protect Judges from Their Unethical Speech?
Lynne H. Rambo

17-57
Corporate Deferred Prosecution as Discretionary Injustice
Peter R. Reilly

17-58
Crossfertilizing ISDS with TRIPS
Peter K. Yu

17-59
A Call for Strengthening the Role of Comparative Legal Analysis in the United States
Irene Calboli

17-60
Title IX: The Difficulties in Protecting an Accused's Rights
Gaines West, West, Webb, Allbritton & Gentry
Meg Mary Margaret Penrose, Gaines West (West, Webb, Allbritton & Gentry), and Amy Klam (West, Webb, Allbritton & Gentry)

17-61
Drugs, Drugs Everywhere But Just Not for the Poor
Srividhya Ragavan

17-62
Development Bridge Over Troubled Intellectual Property Water
Peter K. Yu

17-63
To Speak with One Voice: The Political Effects of Centralizing the International Legal Defense of the State
Guillermo Jose Garcia Sanchez

17-64
Making Meaning: Towards a Narrative Theory of Statutory Interpretation and Judicial Justification
Randy Gordon

17-65
A Tale of Three Markets: Comparing the Renewable Energy Experiences of California, Texas, and Germany
Felix Mormann, Dan Reicher (Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance) and Victor M. Hanna (Miami)

17-66
TPP, RCEP and the Crossvergence of Asian Intellectual Property Standards
Peter K. Yu

17-67
A New International Legal Regime for a New Reality in the War Against Drugs
Guillermo Jose Garcia Sanchez

17-68
Rejecting Charity: Why the IRS Denies Tax Exemption to 501(C)(3) Applicants
Terri Lynn Helge

17-69
Clusters and Links in Asian Intellectual Property Law
Peter K. Yu

17-70
When the Chinese Intellectual Property System Hits 35
Peter K. Yu

17-71
The Role of Creative Language in Addressing Political Asymmetries: The Israeli-Arab Water Agreements
Gabriel Eckstein, Itay Fischhendler (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Aaron T. Wolf (Oregon State)

17-72
'CERD-AIN' Reform: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline Through More Thorough Coordination of the Departments of Justice and Education
Lisa A Rich

17-73
Biobanking, Scientific Productions and Human Rights
Peter K. Yu

17-74
The RCEP and Intellectual Property Norm-setting in the Asia-Pacific
Peter K. Yu

17-75
Background and Current Status of FATCA and CRS (Sept. 2017 edition)
William Byrnes

17-76
Alienage Classifications and the Denial of Health Care to Dreamers
Fatma E. Marouf

17-77
Teaching Public Policy Drafting in Law School: One Professor's Approach
Lisa A Rich

17-78
Customizing Fair Use Transplants
Peter K. Yu

17-79
Alternatives to Immigration Detention
Fatma E. Marouf

17-80
The Significance of the Data Exclusivity and Its Impact on Generic Drugs
Srividhya Ragavan

17-81
A Federal Certificate of Rehabilitation Program: Providing Federal Ex-Offenders More Opportunity for Successful Reentry
Lisa A Rich

17-82
TPP, RCEP and the Future of Copyright Normsetting in the Asia-Pacific
Peter K. Yu

17-83
Community Development Law and Economic Justice--Why Law Matters
Lisa T. Alexander, Peter Pitegoff (Maine), Scott L. Cummings (UCLA), Alicia Alvarez (Michigan), Alina S Ball (California - Hastings), Susan D. Bennett, (American University), Patience A. Crowder (Denver), V.B. Dubal (California - Hastings), Sushil Jacob (Tuttle Law Group), Kali N. Murray (Marquette), Lisa R. Pruitt (California - Davis), and Brandon M. Weiss (Missouri)

17-84
A Proposal for a National Tribally Owned Lien Filing System to Support Access to Capital in Indian Country
William H. Henning, Susan M Woodrow (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) and Marek Dubovec (National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade)

17-85
State-Created Immigration Climates and Domestic Migration
Huyen Pham and Van H. Pham (Baylor)

17-86
Data Exclusivity: A Tool to Sustain Market Monopoly
Srividhya Ragavan