Recent Articles
Slavery and the Postbellum University: The Case of SMU
By Lolita Buckner Inniss & Skyler Arbuckle Abstract People who practiced slavery across the United States, or engaged in slavery-related practices, were often the same civically-minded social, legal, and economic leaders who founded the nation’s first colleges and...
How Analogizing Socio-Legal Responses to Organ Transplantation Can Further the Legalization of Reproductive Genetic Innovation
By Myrisha S. Lewis Abstract The Nobel Foundation emphasized the significance of genetic innovation to society, science, and medicine by awarding the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to “the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors.” This Article focuses on “reproductive genetic...
Achieving Privacy
By Anupam Chander, Meaza Abraham, Sandeep Chandy, Yuan Fang, Dayoung Park & Isabel Yu Abstract Is privacy a luxury for the rich? Remarkably, there is a dearth of literature evaluating whether data privacy is too costly for companies to implement or too expensive...
Recent Student Work
Tweet, Post, Share. . .Get Haled into Court? Calder Minimum Contacts Analysis in Social Media Defamation Cases
By Ellen Smith Yost Abstract Modern communication has been transformed by ubiquitous social media platforms and near-universal connectivity. Any individual, from any location, can now publish speech to thousands or potentially millions of readers, viewers, or...
Off on a Technicality: The Proper Remedy for Improper Venue
By Christopher Thomson Abstract Since its introduction to the public discourse, lawyers have admonished the pejorative phrase, “off on a technicality”—and rightfully so. However, the phrase may rightfully find application to the law’s present treatment of criminal...
Imposing Identity: Why States Should Restrict Infant Intersex Surgery
By Laura Sundin Abstract Babies born with sex characteristics that do not “fit typical binary notions of male or female” are as common as babies born with red hair. These newborns may have one of many types of internal or external abnormalities, coined “intersex”...
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SMU Law Review Articles
In addition to recent articles, our digital repository also includes over 3,700 SMU Law Review articles published since 1947.
SMU Law Review Forum
In addition to the print journal, the SMU Law Review has launched an online journal, the SMU Law Review Forum, for timely articles and responses to print scholarship.
Corporate Counsel Symposium
The 29th Annual Corporate Counsel Symposium is tentatively scheduled for Fall 2021. The one-day symposium features panel discussions addressing timely legal issues relevant to both in-house and outside counsel.
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