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Widener University Faculty Authors 2019 - 2020

Delaware Law School

John G. Culhane

John CUlhane

• Culhane, J. G. & Kelly, A. (2020). Simeone v. Simeone, 581 A.2d 162 (Pa. 1980). In R. Rebouché (Ed).  Feminist judgments: Family law opinion. Cambridge University Press.

• Culhane, J. G. (2020). Cohabitation, registration, and reliance: Creating a comprehensive and just system for protecting the interests of couples’ real relationships. Family Court Review, 58(1). 145-156. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/fcre.12460

• Culhane, J. G. (2020, May 8). Trump and McConnell's liability protections are completely unnecessary. Slate. https://tinyurl.com/y27qv437

• Culhane, J. G. (2020, March 27). Liberty University could face liability for failure to shut down for coronavirus, Slate. https://tinyurl.com/tmqp6g2

• Culhane, J. G. (2019, August 28). The little-known legal doctrine making big pharma pay for the opioid crisis. Politico Magazine. https://tinyurl.com/yyqqyc3w

Erin Daly, J.D.

Photo of Erin Daly• Daly, E. (2019). Transitioning toward dignity. In Sarkin, J. (Ed), The global impact and legacy of truth  commissions (pp. 189-210). Intersentia. 

 • Daly, E. & May, J. R. (2019). Exploring environmental justice through the lens of human dignity. Widener   Law Review, 25(2), 177-194. https://tinyurl.com/y5g6sw4l

 • Daly, E. & May, J. R. (2019). Why dignity rights matter? European Human Rights Law Review, 15(2).

 • Daly, E. & May, J. R. (2019) Six trends in global environmental constitutionalism. In J. Sohnle & S. Pierré-   Caps (Eds), Environmental Constitutionalism. Peter Lang.

 • Daly, E. & May, J. R. (2019). Compendium of global environmental constitutionalism: Selected cases and   materials. (2nd Ed.). United Nations Environmental Programme. https://tinyurl.com/y4c58pdd

 • Daly, E. & May, J. R. (Eds.). (2019). Human rights and the environment: Indivisibility. dignity, legality, geography. Edward Elgar Publishing. 

• Daly, E. & May, J. R. (2019). Standards in subnational environmental constitutionalism.  In S. J. Turner, D. L. Shelton, J.  Razzaque, O. McIntyre & J. R. May, Environmental rights: The development of standards (pp. 367-382). Cambridge University Press.

• Daly, E. & May, J. R. (2019). Six trends in global environmental constitutionalism. In J. Sohnle & S. Pierré-Caps (Eds.), Environmental constitutionalism. Peter Lang.

• Kotzé, L. J. & Daly, E. (2019). A cartography of environmental human rights. In E. Lees & L. J. Viñuales (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of comparative environmental law. Oxford University Press.

• May, J. R. & Daly, E. (2019). Brief of law professors as amici curiae in support of plaintiffs in re Juliana v. U.S. (9th Cir. 2019). Widener Law Review, 25(2). 285-302. https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/wlsj25&i=301 

• May, J. R. & Daly, E. (2019). Global climate constitutionalism and justice in the courts. In J. Jaria-Manzano & S. Borràs. (Eds.), Research handbook on global climate constitutionalism (pp. 235-245). Edward Elgar Publishers.

• May J. R. & Daly, E. (2019). Global judicial handbook on environmental constitutionalism. (3rd ed.). United Nations Environment Programme. https://www.unep.org/resources/publication/global-judicial-handbook-environmental-constitutionalism-third-edition 

• May, J. R. & Daly, E. (2019). Human dignity and environmental outcomes in Pakistan. Pakistan Law Review, 10(1). https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/pakislr10&div=6&&collection=journals

Alan Garfield, J.D.

Photo of Alan Garfield• Garfield, A. E. (2020, April 22). Virus is not an excuse for presidents to become despots. The News Journal. A26. https://tinyurl.com/yxrl593f

• Garfield, A. E. (2020, February 7). The senate voted. Now it’s our turn to vote Trump out. The News Journal. A1. https://tinyurl.com/y69asyga

• Garfield, A. E. (2019).  A safe zone or battle zone? Free speech on the campus quad. Delaware Lawyer, 37(4), 20-23. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3641621

• Garfield, A. E. (2019, September 17). Is quality public education guaranteed by the Constitution?The News Journal. A9. https://tinyurl.com/yy854xzc

• Garfield, A. E. (2019, August 13). Gun rights are not unlimited. The News Journal. A9. 
http://0-search.proquest.com.libcat.widener.edu/docview/2272155770?accountid=29103

• Garfield, A. E. (2019, July 16). Can a politician block you on social media? The News Journal. A9. http://0-search.proquest.com.libcat.widener.edu/docview/2258063819?accountid=29103

Bruce Grohsgal, J.D.

Photo of Bruce Grohsgal• Grohsgal, B. (2020). Must bankruptcy courts apply the punitive gloss of Brunner for the discharge of a student loan? American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, 39(5), 14, 60-61.https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/must-bankruptcy-courts-apply-punitive-gloss/docview/2407575019/se-2?accountid=29103

• Grohsgal, B., & Holmes, E. (2020, February 25). Delaware consumer bankruptcy program: Student loan dischargeability in bankruptcy.

• Grohsgal, B., Mulvihill, J. M., & Crawford, K. M. (2019). Sections 363-364 – Use, sale, or lease of property and obtaining credit. In R. Lieb. (Ed.), Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law. (pp. 487- 548). Thompson Reuters.

• Grohsgal, B., Flasser, G. J., & Earle, K. (2019). Sections 542-543 – Turnover of property of the estate. In R. Lieb (Ed.), Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law. 727-782. Thompson Reuters.

• Sontchi, C. S. & Grohsgal, B. (2019). Should the appointment of a committee of unsecured creditors be made optional in Chapter 11 cases? American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, 38(11), 12-75.

Kenneth Kristl, J.D.

Photo of Kenneth Kristl• Kristl, K. T. (2020). A citizen’s guide to environmental advocacy in Delaware. H Watson LLC.

• Kristl, K. T. (2019). Principles of property law: A casebook for property I. Lulu Press.

• Kristl, K. T. (2019). Principles of property law: A casebook for property II. Lulu Press.

James May

Photo of James May• Daly, E. & May, J. R. (Eds.). (2019). Human rights and the environment: Indivisibility. dignity, legality,  geography. Edward Elgar Publishing. 

• Daly, E. & May, J. R. (2019). Standards in subnational environmental constitutionalism.  In S. J. Turner, D. L. Shelton, J.  Razzaque, O. McIntyre & J. R. May, Environmental rights: The development of standards (pp.  367-382). Cambridge University Press.

• Daly, E. & May, J. R. (2019). Six trends in global environmental constitutionalism. In J. Sohnle & S. Pierré-Caps (Eds.), Environmental constitutionalism. Peter Lang.

• May, J. R. (2020). Environmental rights and wrongs: Implementing environmental constitutionalism. In Nordby, M. G., et. Al. (Ed.), Eivind Smith Festschrift. Marius University of Oslo Press.

 • May, J. R. (2019). The Norwegian constitutional right to a healthy environment in global context," Mellom Jus Og Politikk, Grunnloven, Section 112. Fagbokforlaget.

• May, J. R. & Daly, E. (2019). Brief of law professors as amici curiae in support of plaintiffs in re Juliana v. U.S. (9th Cir. 2019). Widener Law Review, 25(2). 285-302. https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/wlsj25&i=301

• May, J. R., & Dayo, T. (2019).  Dignity and environmental justice in Nigeria: The case of Gbemre v. Shell. Widener Law Review, 25(2), 269-283. https://tinyurl.com/yxbqpeoc

• May, J. R. & Daly, E. (2019). Global climate constitutionalism and justice in the courts. In J. Jaria-Manzano & S. Borràs. (Eds.), Research handbook on global climate constitutionalism (pp. 235-245). Edward Elgar Publishers.

• May J. R. & Daly, E. (2019). Global judicial handbook on environmental constitutionalism. (3rd ed.). United Nations Environment Programme. https://www.unep.org/resources/publication/global-judicial-handbook-environmental-constitutionalism-third-edition

• May, J. R. & Daly, E. (2019). Human dignity and environmental outcomes in Pakistan. Pakistan Law Review, 10(1). https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/pakislr10&i=17

• Turner, S. J., Shelton, D. L., Razzaque, J., McIntyre, O., & May, J. R. (2019).  Environmental rights: The development of standards. Cambridge University Press.
 

Luke Scheuer, J.D.

Photo of Luke Scheuer• Scheuer, L. M. (2020). The green rush: The public marijuana securities market. Widener Law Review, 26(1), 53-100. https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/wlsj26&div=8&&collection=journals 

• Scheuer, L. M. (2020). Pot, the first amendment, and taxes: The IRS’s denial of 501(C)(6) tax-exempt status to marijuana advocacy groups, Widener Law Review, 26(1), 101-142.
https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/wlsj26&i=112 

Rod Smolla, J.D.

Photo of Rod Smolla • Johnson, N. L., Johnson, D. L., Tweed, P., & Smolla, R. A. (2019). Defamation and invasion of privacy in the internet age. Southwestern Journal of International Law, 25(1), 9-41. 
 https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/sjlta25&i=17 

• Smolla, R. A. (2020). Confessions of a free speech lawyer: Charlottesville and the politics of  hate. Cornell University Press.

• Smolla, R. A., & Banks, W. (2020). Constitutional law: Structure and rights in our federal system. (7th ed.). Carolina Academic Press.

• Smolla, R. A. (2020). Law of defamation (2nd ed.). Thomson Reuters.
 https://store.legal.thomsonreuters.com/law-products/Treatises/Law-of-Defamation-2d/p/100027804 

• Smolla, R. A. (2020). Smolla and Nimmer on freedom of speech. Thomson Reuters.
https://store.legal.thomsonreuters.com/law-products/Treatises/Smolla--Nimmer-on-Freedom-of-    Speech/p/106154355 

• Smolla, R. A. (2020). Rights and liabilities in media content: Internet, broadcast, and print (2nd ed.). Thomson Reuters. 

• Smolla, R. A. (Ed.). (2019). First amendment law handbook. Thomson Reuters.
https://store.legal.thomsonreuters.com/law-products/Treatises/First-Amendment-Law-Handbook-2019-2020-ed/p/106604902

• Smolla, R. A. (2019). The tensions between regulation of the legal profession and protection of the first amendment rights of lawyers and judges: A tribute to Ronald Rotunda. Chapman Law Review, 22(2), 285-300. https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/chlr22&div=24&&collection=journals 

• Smolla, R. A. (2019). “And the truth shall make you free”: Schenck, Abrams, and a hundred years of history. Southern Methodist University Law Review, 72(3), 457-494. https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/smulr72&i=483 

• Smolla, R. A. (2019). The meaning of the “marketplace of ideas” in first amendment law. Communications Law & Policy, 24(4), 437-475.

• Smolla, R. A. (2019). Confessions of A Free Speech Lawyer: Reassessing first amendment law amid a resurgence of white supremacy. Delaware Lawyer, 37(4), 8-15. https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.barjournals/dellwy0037&i=110 

• Smolla, R. A. (2019). Law of lawyer advertising. Thomson Reuters.

Hon. Christopher Sontchi

• Sontchi, C. S. & Grohsgal, B. (2019). Should the appointment of a committee of unsecured creditors be made optional in Chapter 11 cases? American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, 38(11), 12-75.

Geeta Tewari, J.D., M.F.A.

Photo of Geeta Tewari• Davidson, N. M., & Tewari, G. K. (Eds.). (2020). Law and the new urban agenda. Routledge.

• Gabriel, L. R., Pires, M., & Tewari, G. K. (2020). Selected papers from the Fifth Annual  International and Comparative Urban Law Conference.

• Tewari, G. K., DeCourcy, E., Urena, S.  (2019). The ethics of gender narratives for United States corporate boards. New York University Journal of Law & Business, 16(1), 221-256. 
https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/nyujolbu16&div=9&&collection=journals 

• Tewari, G. K. (2019). Formality. Michigan Quarterly Review. 58(4), 724. 
https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/formality/docview/2302375036/se-2?accountid=29103 

 • Tewari, G. K. (2019). Geopolitics. Michigan Quarterly Review. 58(4), 725. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/geopolitics/docview/2302375443/se-2?accountid=29103 
 

India Thusi, J.D., Ph.D.

Photo of India Thusi• Thusi, I. I. (2020). Blue lives & the permanence of racism. Cornell Law Review Online, 105, 14-30.  https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/clro105&i=14

• Thusi, I. I. (2020). On beauty and policing. Northwestern University Law Review, 114(5), 1335-1402. https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/illlr114&i=1365

• Thusi, I. I. (2019). Harm, sex, and consequences. Utah Law Review, 2019(1), 159–214.
https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/utahlr2019&i=167