Simmons Law faculty are shaping legal discourse through scholarship that matters.
We are pleased to share a selection of their recent publications.

Building Cross-Cultural Trial Advocacy Skills Through Structured Mentoring and Co-Mentoring: A Case Study with Global Implications, 76 SYRACUSE LAW REVIEW__ (forthcoming 2026).

MILITARY CRIMES AND DEFENSES (with Victor Hansen, Charles H. Rose III, and David A. Schlueter) (4th ed. 2025).

What a Wonderful World This Would Be: A Hybrid-Team Proposal for Advocacy Competitions, 11 STETSON JOURNAL OF ADVOCACY AND THE LAW 341 (2024).

Supreme Selection (with Renee Knake Jefferson), 63 SAN DIEGO LAW REVIEW__ (forthcoming 2026).

Dirty Laundry - A Review of Supreme Bias: Gender and Race in U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings (with Renee Knake Jefferson), 59 U.C. DAVIS LAW REVIEW ONLINE 12 (2025).

Prison Rape: An Endless Epidemic? (with Kathleen M. Darcy), 55 UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS LAW REVIEW 1 (2024).

Sanctuary Standoff: Constitutional Fault Lines in Immigration Enforcement, 70 ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY LAW JOURNAL__ (forthcoming 2026).

INTERNATIONAL LAW: A CONTEMPORARY APPROACH (with Mark E. Wojcik) (West Academic 2025).

Elevating First Generation Law Students through Undergraduate Legal Programs (with Dianna Murphy and Laken Gilbert), in FOSTERING FIRST GENERATION SUCCESS AND INCLUSION: GUIDE FOR LAW SCHOOLS (Brittany L. Raposa ed., 2025).

Leveraging Technology and Law School Pro Se Clinics to Enhance Rural Access to the Courts (with Marilyn Trefz), 69 SOUTH DAKOTA LAW REVIEW 637 (2024).

The Underserved Meet the Unprepared: Teaching Medical Students About Disability, 29 (4) QUINNIPIAC HEALTH LAW JOURNAL__ (forthcoming 2026).

Exploitation and Disarmament: How the West Limits Africa’s Right to Use Defensive Force, 56 SOUTHWESTERN LAW REVIEW__ (forthcoming 2026).

Environmental Racism in America: Minority Communities as Dumping Grounds for Environmental Waste (with Patricia A. Broussard), 49 SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY LAW JOURNAL 199 (2025).

Securities Law in Japan, in INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL MARKETS AND SECURITIES REGULATION (Harold Bloomenthal and Samuel Wolff eds. 2025).

Litigation in the U.S.: the Law of Personal Jurisdiction, 57 (4) 1 RYUKOKU LAW REVIEW (2025).

Doctrine, Data, and the Death of DuPont: An Empirical Analysis of Trademark Confusion at the TTAB, 36 FORDHAM INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT__ (forthcoming 2026).

From Feedback Loops to Feedback Literacy: Using the Feedback Literate Professor’s Toolkit to Maximize Students’ Academic and Professional Success, 56 ST. MARY’S LAW JOURNAL 861 (2025).

“Find the Mistakes and Fix Them”:  Evaluative Judgment and Self-Feedback, the Skills the NextGen Bar Exam and New ABA Standard 314 Really Require for Success, 4 THE JOURNAL OF LAW TEACHING & LEARNING__ (forthcoming 2026-27).

A Gateway Right Under Strain: Inclusive Education for Ukrainian Refugee Children with Disabilities in Poland, 50 SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY LAW JOURNAL__ (forthcoming 2026). 

WORK OF THE FAMILY LAWYER (with Robert E. Oliphant, Nancy Ver Steegh, & Andrew Schepard) (6th ed. forthcoming 2027).

CLICK AND LEARN: A GUIDE TO CIVIL PROCEDURE (with Susan Gilles & Cynthia M. Ho) (2026 update).

Tribal Legal Research and Its Challenges in the Age of AI (with Shania L. Kee), in HANDBOOK OF TRENDS AND INNOVATIONS CONCERNING LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH (Barbara Jane Holland ed., 2025).

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