SMU Dedman Law Leaders in Corporate, Commercial, and Tax Law

SMU Dedman School of Law is home to leading voices in corporate, commercial, and tax law who are shaping conversations nationally and internationally. Their scholarship spans cutting-edge issues in corporate governance, securities law, mergers and acquisitions, blockchain and cryptocurrency, tax law and policy, and the evolving role of AI in business—reinforcing SMU Dedman Law’s reputation as a center of innovative, impactful work in business and tax law.

Faculty Scholarship

Carliss N. Chatman:

The Contract and the Cure: Building a Private Infrastructure for Reparations, in Slavery’s Long Tentacles: Entanglements in Historical and Modern Forms of Slavery (forthcoming 2026) (David W. Bulla, ed.).
Values Primacy & Total Governance Through Activism, Boston College Law Review (forthcoming 2026) (with Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci).
Performing Democracy: Faculty Hiring, DEI Retrenchment, and the Authoritarian Drift of the American University, Boston University Law Review (forthcoming 2026).
Contracted Harm, Wayne Law Review (forthcoming 2026).
1981, 82 Washington & Lee Law Review (forthcoming 2025).
TikTok Family Matters, 49 Seattle University Law Review (forthcoming 2025).
Corporate Human Trafficking, 102 Texas Law Review 1135 (2024).
Uncovering Elon's Data Empire, 53 Stetson Law Review 405 (2024) (with Carla L. Reyes).

Gregory S. Crespi:

"Reverse Divisibility" and "Subsequent Modification": Expanding the Scope of Justified Non-Performance in Multiple Contract Situations, 17 Wake Forest Law Review 92 (2024).
How To Grade Law Students Taking 'Paper Classes' Given Student Access to Artificial Intelligence Programs: The Experience From One Class, 47 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 33 (2024).

Christopher H. Hanna:

A New View of Taxation, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law (forthcoming 2025).
Loper Bright Goes Up to Supreme Court and Implications for Federal Agency Regulations, 77 The Cooperative Accountant 29 (2024).

Grant M. Hayden:

The Problem of Purpose in Corporate Law, 62 Houston Law Review 611 (2025) (with Matthew Bodie).
A Democratic Participation Model for Corporate Governance, 109 Minnesota Law Review 1579 (2025) (with Matthew Bodie).
Corporate Governance for Platform Workers, 99 Chicago-Kent Law Review 75 (2025) (with Matthew Bodie).

Christine Hurt:

Texas, Delaware, and the New Controller Primacy, 67 Arizona Law Review 693 (2025).
The Contractarian Joint Venture, 76 Alabama Law Review 741 (2025) (with Carla L. Reyes).
Socially Acceptable Securities Fraud, 49 Journal of Corporation Law 785 (2024).

Orly Mazur:

Cooperative Federalism and the Digital Tax Impasse, 51 Florida State University Law Review (2024) (with Adam Thimmesch).
Beyond ChatGPT: Transforming Government with Augmented LLMs, 92 Tennessee Law Review 87 (2024) (with Adam Thimmesch).
The Taxation of Robots and Its Global Challenges, in Mobility of Individuals and Workforces (2024) (Svetislav V. Kostić, Andrés Báez Moreno, Vikram Chand, & Mario Tenore, eds.).

Carla L. Reyes:

Global Supply Chain Resilience in Emerging Technologies: A Case Study of Bitcoin Mining, Seattle University Law Review (forthcoming 2026) (with Kish Parella).
Ready Layer One: Functional Regulation for Blockchain Infrastructure, 77 South Carolina Law Review (forthcoming 2026) (with Joseph Cutler).
The Contractarian Joint Venture, 76 Alabama Law Review 741 (2025) (with Christine Hurt).
Enforcing International Law in an Era of Decentralized Entities, Harvard Journal of International Law Forum (2024).
Law's Detrimental Reliance on Intermediaries, 92 George Washington Law Review 1343 (2024).
The Language Landmines of Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrency, in Cambridge Handbook on Law and Policy for NFTs (Nizan Packin, ed., 2024).
Uncovering Elon's Data Empire, 53 Stetson Law Review 405 (2024) (with Carliss N. Chatman).
Foreword: Artificially Intelligent Innovation and Justice, 27 SMU Science & Technology Law Review 3 (2024).

Christina M. Sautter:

The Shareholder Democracy Lie, 78 Florida Law Review (forthcoming 2026) (with Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci and Daniel J.H. Greenwood).
Compliance for Stakeholders and Reputation, in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Compliance Law (James Fanto, ed.) (forthcoming 2025) (with Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci).
Democratization of the Private Markets?, 26 Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law 67 (2025) (with Colleen Baker).
Corporate Governance Through Social Media, 75 Florida Law Review Forum 89 (2024).

Marc I. Steinberg:

Unflexed Muscle: SEC Enforcement and Officer SOX 302 Certifications, 80 University of Miami Law Review 1 (forthcoming 2025) (with A.B. Steinberg).
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Enforcement Based on Deficient Disclosure — Practices, Policies, and Insights, 50 Journal of Corporation Law 943 (2025).
USA Insider Trading Law: Its Unacceptable Framework and a Proposed Solution, in Research Handbook on Insider Trading (Stephen M. Bainbridge, ed., 2025).
Undue Limitations in the Section 10(b) Purchaser-Seller Requirement, 99 Tulane Law Review 1 (2024) (with Antonio R. Partida).

Andrea Tosato:

Regulating Stablecoins: Comparing MiCAR and the GENIUS Act, Notre Dame Law Review Reflection (forthcoming 2026) (with Christopher K. Odinet).
Digital Assets and the Property Question, 78 Florida Law Review (forthcoming 2026) (with Christopher Odinet).
Tokenized Real Estate: The Law and Tech of Digital Deeds, Ohio State Law Journal Online (forthcoming 2026) (with Christopher K. Odinet).
Bankrupt Crypto Organizations, 104 North Carolina Law Review (forthcoming 2026) (with Kara J. Bruce and Christopher K. Odinet).
Access to Medicines and Pharmaceutical Patents: Fulfilling the Promise of TRIPS Article 31bis, 91 Fordham Law Review (forthcoming 2025) (with Ezinne Igbokwe).
Debt Tokens, 173 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1103 (2025) (with Diane Lourdes Dick and Christopher K. Odinet).

New Books by Faculty

Mark I. Steinberg

Corporate Director and Officer Liability (Oxford University Press 2025).

Andrea Tosato:

Digital Commercial Law (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2026).

In the Spotlight: Faculty Accolades and Expertise in the National Media

Carliss N. Chatman

Invited to write a quarterly column for Bloomberg Law on corporate governance, contract law, race, and economic justice.

Carla L. Reyes

Study Committee on Ownership, Collection, Use, Retention, and Release of Data on Elementary and Secondary Students by Education Technology Companies, Similar Vendors, and Transferees (September 26, 2025).

Andrea Tosato

Elected as a member of the American Law Institute (October 2025).
Elected a member of the Drafting Committee for the Working Group developing the Unidroit Principles on Verified Carbon Credits (June 2024).

Business Law Honors

A+

Received an A+ ranking by National Jurist’s Pre-Law Magazine’s Top Schools for Business Law and IP Law (Spring 2025).

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Received an A+ ranking by National Jurist Magazine as a Top Law School for Business Law (October 2025).

Rowling Center for Business Law & Leadership

Hosted Open For Business: The Evolving Texas Corporate Governance and Securities Regulation Landscape. Vice Chancellor Sam Glasscock and 13 other distinguished speakers were part of a three-panel series on the evolving Texas corporate governance and securities regulation landscape (February 2025).

Hosted the annual Corporate Counsel Symposium featuring panel discussions and speakers addressing timely legal issues that affect in-house counsel and the companies they advise (October 2025).

Corporate Counsel Externship Program, now in its 12th year, is an innovative academic initiative that pairs a corporate counsel course with externships in more than 120 corporate legal departments across the Dallas–Fort Worth area.

Learn more about the Rowling Center’s activities in the 2025 annual report, The Rowling Record.

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