Parchment
Facilitating Faculty Scholarship and Research
The Parchment is updated monthly with articles, books, and publications that have been accepted or published, as well as presentations that are scheduled or have been delivered by our College of Law faculty.
October 2025
Paul Finkelman gave the Constitution Day talk at Louisiana State University School of Law on Birthright Citizenship on September 15. He gave a Constitution Day talk on September 17 (via Zoom) for Touro Law School on Long Island in New York State on Baseball, Constitutionalism, and the Rule of Law. On September 22, he gave the Dean's Democracy Series Lecture at Santa Clara University School of Law on birthright citizenship and was also the guest teacher in the school's Sports Law Class, discussing the case of Popov v. Hayashi, which focused on the ownership of Barry Bonds' 73rd Home Run Ball. Professor Finkelman was the lead expert witness in that case, which is currently found in most Property Law casebooks, including the one co-authored by Professor Cavalieri.
Greg Gilchrist is coordinating three speaker events this term. First, on October 7, our own Professor Nathan Goetting will be joined by two Innocence Project lawyers and an exoneree who spent 32 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, to discuss Goetting’s new book, The Supreme Court’s Actual Innocence Problem. On October 23, Professor Alan Rozenshtein from the University of Minnesota will give the Stranahan Lecture, titled The Unitary AI Executive. On November 13, Professor Nasser Hussain from Duke will give a talk entitled Teaching Taboo Subjects.
Candice Kline had two articles published for the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges (NCBJ) in September 2025: Breaking Barriers: Advocating for State AGs in Chapter 11 Proceedings, 44 Am. Bankr. Inst. J. 9 (Sept. 2025) and Summering Issues in Chapter 11: The Future of Nondebtor Releases, Injunctions, and Consent in Bankruptcy Reorganization after Purdue Pharma, Com. L. World (Sept. 2025).
Joseph Slater presented the paper, The Current Crisis in Federal-Sector Labor Relations at the 20th Annual Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment and Labor Law at Seton Hall University Law School on Sept. 20.
Glenys Spence will be presenting at the AALS Section on Race and Private Law Junior Faculty Workshop during the 2026 annual meeting in New Orleans. The title of her paper is Poseidon's Enduring Legacy: Historical Injustices, Deep Seabed Mining, Private Law, and Racial Justice in the Global South. Additionally, she has been invited to speak on May 19, 2026, at the Washington and Lee University School of Law International Business Roundtable. The title of her presentation will be Exploiting the Deep: Incomplete Contracts, Agency Failure, and Corporate Behavior in Deep Seabed Mining. Furthermore, she will participate in the Private Law and Multicultural Identities Conference, hosted by the Section in Italy, which will take place from July 13 to 16, 2026, in Arona, Italy. Professor Spence has also been selected as a member of the 2025-2026 Working Group on International Contracting & Theory of the Firm, which consists of a series of virtual webinars hosted by Washington and Lee University School of Law. Lastly, she published an article titled Combating Maritime Perils in the Global Supply Chain: An Analysis of Force Majeure Clauses and the Doctrine of Commercial Impracticability in the Wake of State-Sponsored Piracy, 15 J. Nat'l Security L. & Pol'y 267 (2025).
Evan Zoldan agreed to publish The Enduring Value of the Right to a Hearing with the Memphis Law Review.
September 2025
Zsea Bowmani's chapter on the climate crisis (presented in 2023 at Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) will be published in the volume Climate Justice: Resisting Marginalisation by Cambridge University Press, available in print and open access September 2025. Bowmani was also part of a law professor amicus brief submitted to the California Court of Appeals, 1st District in the animal rights defense case People v. Hsiung (submitted August 5, 2025).
Candice Kline was a panelist at the Commercial Law League's National Convention on May 15, 2025,
presenting on Chapter 11 developments. Kline has two articles being published for
the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges (NCBJ) in September 2025: Breaking Barriers: Advocating for State AGs in Chapter 11 Proceedings, 44 Am. Bankr. Inst. J. 9 (Sept. 2025) and Simmering Issues in Chapter 11: The Future of Nondebtor Releases, Injunctions, and
Consent in Bankruptcy Reorganization after Purdue Pharma, Com. L. World (Sept. 2025).
Paul Finkelman published Defeating Antisemitism in the World’s First Democratic Republic: The American Revolution
and Jewish Legal and Political Equality (co-authored with Lance J. Sussman), 40 Touro Law Review 121-71 (2025); Save Me Out at the Ball Game: Is Being a Baseball Fan a Contact Sport? Home Run Balls,
Abandoned Property, and Violence in the Stadium, 43 California Real Property Journal 28-34 (2025); Why Trump Evaded the Key Question of His Citizenship Order at the Supreme Court, Slate, July 2, 2025; Listen MAGA: Presidents Rarely Defy the Courts, Washington Monthly, June 23, 2025. Finkelman was the lead named amici in “Brief
for Professors Paul Finkelman, Gabriel J. Chin, and Erika Lee as amici curiae in support of plaintiffs-appellees and affirmance” in Casa Inc., et al. v. Donald
J. Trump, et al.” in United State Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, filed June
4, 2025. He is a named amici in two other briefs to the First Circuit Court of Appeals
and in one brief to the Supreme Court.
Jessica Knouse presented Erasing/Inverting Equal Protection: The Debate over Gender-Affirming Names and Pronouns at the Law & Society Association Annual Meeting held in summer 2025 as part of the
Feminist Legal Theory CRN's programming.
Debbie Machalow’s piece, Terminating Democracy: The Antiabortion Movement's Attempted Subversion of Direct
Democracy draft on SSRN was cited in the Religion Clause Blog in December. The final draft is slated to be published in the Connecticut Public
Interest Law Journal early next year. A shorter, narrow piece (Undemocratic: Antiabortion Politicians' Attacks on Direct Democracy) was accepted by the Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity. She presented her Terminating Democracy research in March at the Eastern Sociological Society's Mini-Conference on Reproduction
(in Boston); in April at the Democracy Works-in-Progress Conference at Michigan State
University College of Law; and in May at the Law & Society Annual Conference (in Chicago).
Machalow presented related work, Miscarriage of Democracy: What Happened in Arkansas, Florida, Nebraska, and South
Dakota to Defeat Abortion-Related Ballot Measures in 2024, at the University of Baltimore Law Review Symposium on States and the Battle to
Secure Reproductive Freedoms Post-Dobbs in March. The related article's publication
is anticipated in January 2026. In March, she also presented a project titled Actively Doing Harm: Restrictive Abortion Laws Make Pregnancy More Dangerous and Increase
Obstacles to Reproductive Care at Touro's Institute for Health Law, Bioethics, and Policy's Annual Symposium. She
also presented similar work to the Toledo Women's Bar Association in March. In May,
she presented her summer project idea (Involuntarily Unsterilized: Needed Changes to the Medicaid Sterilization Consent Process
Post-Dobbs) at the Politics of Reproduction Workshop, the University of Kentucky Developing
Ideas Conference, and the Midwest Legal Scholars Roundtable. She also presented it
at the monthly Reproductive Rights / Reproductive Justice Roundtable in June.
Glenys Spence published Combating Maritime Perils in the Global Supply Chain: An Analysis of Force Majeure
Clauses and the Doctrine of Commercial Impracticability in the Wake of “State-Sponsored
Piracy, 15 J. Nat'l Security L. & Pol'y 267 (2025).
Evan Zoldan presented The Major Questions Doctrine in the States to the Federation of Association of Regulatory Boards in April. He also presented Measuring Judicial Ideology at the Michigan State University Democracy Roundtable in April. In May, he presented The Unitary Interpreter at the inaugural Midwest Legal Scholars Roundtable at Wayne State. In July, he presented The Shifting Regulatory Landscape at the Federation of Association of Regulatory Boards Annual Summit.