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Joseph F. Rice School of Law

April 2023: Faculty Scholarship & Impact

Amicus Briefs

Lisa Martin
Taylor v. Taylor
Brief amicus curiae of USC School of Law's Domestic Violence Clinic (faculty and students), SC Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, and Sistercare
April 12, 2023


Article Reviews 

Michelle Layser, Weekly SSRN Tax Article Review And Roundup: Layser Reviews Revisiting The Tax Treatment Of Alimony By Davis, Soled & Soled, TaxProf Blog (March 31, 2023) (reviewing Tessa Davis and Amy & Jay Soled, Revisiting the Tax Treatment of Alimony, 72 Kansas Law Review_ (2023), Rutgers Law School Research Paper)).


Blog Posts

Bryant Walker Smith
An Academic Vision for AI Ethics
Stanford Law's Center for Internet & Society
April 3, 2023

Bryant Walker Smith
DALL-E Does Palsgraf
Stanford Law's Center for Internet & Society
April 3, 2023

Madalyn Wasilczuk
5th Amendment Rights as Abortion Rights
Harvard Law Review Blog
April 11, 2023


Media

SC Asks Spartanburg to Build a Bigger Jail. But will it fix overcrowding?
Post & Courier (feat. Madalyn Wasilczuk)
April 2, 2023

Family of 18-year-old mom who was killed by school officer will get $13 million
LA Times (feat. Seth Stoughton)
April 4, 2023

Central State Hospital policy states prone restraints are prohibited
NBC12 (feat. Seth Stoughton)
April 6, 2023

Tough EPA tailpipe emissions proposal generates debate
News Nation (feat. Bryant Walker Smith)
April 13, 2023

GOP Lawmakers Tout Choice as a Way Out of Failing Schools
Education Week (feat. Derek Black)
April 18, 2023

Lawmakers, witnesses debate merits of private school choice
K-12 Dive (feat. Derek Black)
April 19, 2023

Musk counts on full self-driving as next Tesla profit driver 
Reuters (feat. Bryant Walker Smith)
April 20, 2023

US jury set to decide test case in Tesla Autopilot crash
Reuters (feat. Bryant Walker Smith)
April 21, 2023

'A smack on the wrist': Kim Potter released after 16 months in prison for killing Daunte Wright
Yahoo News (feat. Seth Stoughton)
April 24, 2023

San Bernardino Police Involved In Fatal Shooting Of Fleeing Man Both Have Histories Of Alleged Excessive Force
LAist.com (feat. Seth Stoughton)
April 25, 2023

Hartford’s budget delusion: More police spending will reduce crime
CT Mirror (feat. Seth Stoughton)
April 25, 2023

OPINION: Police shootings: Why there’s so often a fusillade of bullets
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (feat. Seth Stoughton)
April 26, 2023


Presentations 

Etienne Toussaint
Essential Work Presentation
American University Washington College of Law, Faculty Scholarship Colloquium
April 4, 2023

Eve Ross, Amy Milligan, Seth Stoughton & Bryant Walker Smith
Benefits & Risks of ChatGPT and Other Generative AI Technologies
LegalTech Seminar Series
April 4, 2023

Kevin Brown
Virtual Presentation
Critical Race Theory & Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Education in Public Schools (sponsored by the University of Miami Law School and its Social Justice Law Review)
April 4, 2023

Kevin Brown (with Annapurna Waughray, Professor of Human Rights Law, Manchester Law School)
Caste in the diaspora: Challenges to the Recognition of Caste Discrimination in American and UK Equality Law (Virtual)
Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference 2023
April 5, 2023

Seth Stoughton
Masterclass Presentation
Ridge View High School Career Day
April 5, 2023

Etienne Toussaint
Essential Work Presentation
The George Washington University Law School, Faculty Scholarship Colloquium
April 5, 2023

Bryant Walker Smith
Panel Presentation - 2023 Global Symposium on Mobility Innovation
Mcity and University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
April 5, 2023

Kevin Brown
Critical Race Theory & Democracy
The Democratic Women of Mecklenburg County Monthly Meeting
April 12, 2023

Kevin Brown
The Historical Connection of Caste on the Indian Subcontinent to US Federal Anti-Discrimination Law (Keynote Address)

Dalit Rights and Dignity: Past, Present, and Future Conference (sponsored by Wake Forest University)
April 13, 2023

Bryant Walker Smith
Target Practice: Tech Under Fire
Hofstra University's Perry Weitz Mass Tort Institute
April 14, 2023

Seth Stoughton
How Do We Reform the Law in Light of What We Know? 
2023 California Law Review Symposium - Section 1983 and Police Use of Force: Building a Civil Justice Framework
April 14, 2023

Kevin Brown
The Historical Connection of Caste on the Indian Subcontinent to US Federal Anti-Discrimination Law
CLE Zoom Webinar on Caste Discrimination (sponsored by the International Women’s Rights and Diversity Committees of the Women Bar Association of the State of New York)
April 17, 2023

Kevin Brown
Virtual Presentation
Caste Discrimination and U.S. Law zoom roundtable discussion (sponsored by the South Asia Committee of the American Association of Law Schools)
April 20, 2023

Etienne Toussaint
Furtive Blackness & The Afterlives of Slavery (Panel Discussant)
Mitchell Hamline Law Review
April 28, 2023.

Madalyn Wasilczuk
Leveraging Empirical Analysis in Advocacy and Scholarship
AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education
April 29, 2023

Madalyn Wasilczuk
Bellows Scholars Program Report on Projects
AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education
April 30, 2023


Scholarship

Etienne Toussaint
The Color of Law Review, 103 Boston University Law Review 181 (2023) (with Gregory S. Parks)

This Article argues that law review’s diversity problem must be viewed in the broader context of sociopolitical efforts to eradicate racial injustice in the United States and reform legal education. 

Tessa Davis
Revisiting the Tax Treatment of Alimony, 72 Kansas Law Review_ (2023), Rutgers Law School Research Paper (with Amy & Jay Soled)

As part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, Congress upended the tax treatment of alimony, making it neither deductible for the payer nor includable by the recipient. The legislative history regarding the need for this reform is virtually nonexistent. To fill this important gap, this article offers rationales for this legislative initiative. It then argues that this change appropriately places the tax responsibility on the payer and, by doing so, enhances tax compliance while easing administrative tax reporting burdens.

Kevin Brown
Critical Race Theory Explained by One of the Original Participants, 98 New York University Law Review Online 91 – 132 (2023). 

In this Essay, one of the participants of the original CRT workshop held in Madison, Wisconsin in the summer of 1989 provides a historical account of what CRT is and what it sought to accomplish. 


Testimonies

Seth Stoughton
Expert Testimony
State v. Chauvin, --- N.W.2d ---, 2023 WL 2960366 (Minn. App.)
April 17, 2023

Derek Black
School Choice: Expanding Educational Freedom for All
Congressional Committee on Education and the Workforce: Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education
April 18, 2023


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