Our faculty have practiced law with large firms in major metropolitan cities; with small firms in rural county seats; in legal aid societies; in the Judge Advocates General Corps; and with the United States Department of Justice. They have debated legal issues on national television and in the press, testified before Congress, and argued cases before the United States Supreme Court. This series represents a sampling of their wide-ranging scholarship and scholarly interests.

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Submissions from 2014

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Extraterritoriality and Human Rights: Time for a Change in the U.S. View?, Peter Margulies

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FISC Query Preapproval: Intelligence Burden or Bump in the Road?, Peter Margulies

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Of Relevance and Reform Under Section 215, Peter Margulies

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President Obama’s Immigration Plan: Rewriting the Law, Peter Margulies

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Reply to Steve on al Bahlul, the “Law of War,” and Article III, Peter Margulies

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Sweeping Claims and Casual Legal Analysis in the Latest U.N. Mass Surveillance Report, Peter Margulies

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The Al Bahlul Argument: Article III, Conspiracy, and Precepts of International Law, Peter Margulies

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The PCLOB on Human Rights & 702: Punt or Long Game?, Peter Margulies

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The SSCI Report and Its Critics: Torturing Efficacy, Peter Margulies

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The US and Human Rights: A Federalist Society Debate, Peter Margulies

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Yale Symposium: Unpacking NSA's Global Problem, Peter Margulies

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Al Bahlul and Article III: A Reply to Marty and Steve, Peter Margulies and Peter Margulies

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Where is Home Depot "At Home"?: Daimler v. Bauman and the End of Doing Business Jurisdiction, Tanya Monestier

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Who Rates Prospective Federal Judges for the American Bar Association?, Michael J. Yelnosky

Submissions from 2013

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Immigration Consequences to a Charge of Simple Assault or Battery, Deborah Gonzalez

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Al-Libi and Detention at Sea, Peter Margulies

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A Response to Steve Vladeck and Kevin Jon Heller, Peter Margulies

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Defining, Punishing, and Membership in the Community of Nations: Material Support and Conspiracy Charges in Military Commissions, Peter Margulies

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Desperately Seeking Substance (Not Slogans) in Review Group Report on NSA Surveillance, Peter Margulies

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Final Word on the Bahlul Brief, Peter Margulies

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Judge Pauley’s Opinion in Clapper: Reset Button for Bulk Collection Debate?, Peter Margulies

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Networks in Non-International Armed Conflicts: Crossing Borders and Defining "Organized Armed Group", Peter Margulies

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On Monday's Argument in Al-Bahlul, Peter Margulies

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Protecting Civilians and Risking the Force in COIN: Valor's Vices: Against a State Duty to Risk Forces in Armed Conflict, Peter Margulies

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Sur-Reply to Heller on al Bahlul, Peter Margulies

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The First Circuit and the First Amendment, Peter Margulies

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Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Foreign Judgments, Tanya Monestier

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(Still) A "Real and Substantial" Mess: The Law of Jurisdiction in Canada, Tanya Monestier

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Domestic Violence and the Law: Theory and Practice, Emily J. Sack

Submissions from 2012

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A Fundamental Flaw with UNCITRAL's Approach to Cross-Border Secured Transactions: The Failure to Address Creditor Due Diligence Issues, John J. Chung

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Customary International Law as Explained by Status Instead of Contract, John J. Chung

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Reforming Lawyers into Irrelevance?: Reconciling Crisis and Constraint at the Office of Legal Counsel, Peter Margulies

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Is Canada the New Shangri-La of Global Securities Class Actions?, Tanya Monestier

Submissions from 2011

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Learning How to Learn: Carnegie's Third Apprenticeship, Laurie Barron

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Buckley: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism, Carl T. Bogus

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Church and State in Western Society: Established Church, Cooperation, and Separation, Edward J. Eberle

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Methodology of Comparative Law, Edward J. Eberle

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The Architecture of First Amendment Free Speech, Edward J. Eberle

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The Methodology of Comparative Law, Edward J. Eberle

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Can Popular Constitutionalism Survive the Tea Party Movement?, Jared Goldstein

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The Tea Party's Constitution, Jared Goldstein

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The Tea Party Movement and the Perils of Popular Originalism, Jared A. Goldstein

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Retelling Grand Jury History, Niki Kuckes

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When the Restatement is not a Restatement: The Curious Case of the "Flagrant Trespasser", David Logan

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Advising Terrorism: Material Support, Safe Harbors, and Freedom of Speech, Peter Margulies

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Transnational Class Actions and the Illusory Search for Res Judicata, Tanya Monestier

Submissions from 2010

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Equitable Balancing in the Age of Statutes, Jared Goldstein

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The Costs of Abusing Probationary Sentences: Overincarceration and the Erosion of Due Process, Andrew Horwitz

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Judging Myopia in Hindsight: Bivens Actions, National Security Decisions, and the Rule of Law, Peter Margulies

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Law's Detour: Justice Displaced in the Bush Administration, Peter Margulies

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The Ivory Tower at Ground Zero: Conflict and Convergence in Legal Education's Responses to Terrorism, Peter Margulies

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Personal Jurisdiction over Non-Resident Class Members: Have We Gone Down the Wrong Road?, Tanya Monestier

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Judicial Selection in Rhode Island: Assessing the Experience with Merit Selection: Response, Emily J. Sack

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The Impact of Merit Selection on the Characteristics of Rhode Island Judges, Michael J. Yelnosky

Submissions from 2009

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From Feudal Land Contracts to Financial Derivatives: The Treatment of Status Through Specific Relief, John J. Chung

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Money as Simulacrum: The Legal Nature and Reality of Money, John J. Chung

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The Method and Role of Comparative Law, Edward J. Eberle

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Aliens in the Garden, Jared A. Goldstein

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The State of Rule 3.8: Prosecutorial Ethics Reform Since Ethics 2000, Niki Kuckes

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Lawyers' Independence and Collective Illegality in Government and Corporate Misconduct, Terrorism, and Organized Crime, Peter Margulies

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The Detainees' Dilemma: The Virtues and Vices of Advocacy Strategies in the War on Terror, Peter Margulies

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What is Specific about Specific Restitution, Colleen P. Murphy

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Complexity and Aggregation in Choice of Law: An Introduction to the Landscape, Louise Ellen Teitz

Submissions from 2008

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Gun Control and America's Cities: Public Policy and Politics, Carl Bogus

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Heller and Insurrectionism, Carl Bogus

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Introduction: Genuine Tort Reform, Carl Bogus

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Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code and Its Implicit Assumptions Regarding the Foreign Exchange Market, John J. Chung

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Promissory Estoppel and the Protection of Interpersonal Trust, John J. Chung

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Equality in Germany and the United States, Edward J. Eberle

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German Equal Protection: Substantive Review of Economic Measures, Edward J. Eberle

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The German Idea of Freedom, Edward J. Eberle

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Prosecutors' New Ethical Duty Relating to Wrongful Convictions, Niki Kuckes

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The Clear and Present Internet: Terrorism, Cyberspace, and the First Amendment, Peter Margulies

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True Believers at Law: National Security Agendas, the Regulation of Lawyers, and the Separation of Powers, Peter Margulies

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Introduction: The Emerging Power of Context over Conventional Wisdom in Scholarship on Law and Terrorism, Peter S. Margulies and Laura Corbin

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Recognition and Enforcement: the Story of Hilton: from Gloves to Globalization, Louise Ellen Teitz

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Roger Williams University School of Law Mediation Clinic, Bristol, Rhode Island, USA, Gail I. Winson

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The Future of Federal Sentencing Policy: Learning Lessons from Republican Judicial Appointees in the Guidelines Era, David M. Zlotnick

Submissions from 2007

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Rescuing Burke, Carl Bogus

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The Retrogressive Flaw of Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code: A Lesson from Maritime Law, John J. Chung

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Art as Speech, Edward J. Eberle

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Comparative Law, Edward J. Eberle

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Absentee Landlords, Rent Control, and Healthy Gentrification: A Policy Proposal to Deconcentrate the Poor in Urban America, Jorge O. Elorza

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Habeas Without Rights, Jared A. Goldstein

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The Perils of Glasnost, David Logan

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When to Push the Envelope: Legal Ethics, the Rule of Law, and National Security Strategy, Peter Margulies

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When to Push the Envelope: Legal Ethics, the Rule of Law, and National Security Strategy Legal Issues Surrounding Guantanamo Bay, Peter Margulies

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Reliability and the Interests of Justice: Interpreting the Military Commissions Act of 2006 to Deter Coercive Interrogations, Peter S. Margulies and Laura Corbin

Submissions from 2006

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The New Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code: a Step Toward Erosion of National Sovereignty, John J. Chung

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Religion in the Classroom in Germany and the United States, Edward J. Eberle

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Law and Poetry, Edward J. Eberle and Bernhard Grossfeld

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Fugitive Slaves and Ship-jumping Sailors: The Enforcement and Survival of Coerced Labor, Jonathan M. Gutoff

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Police Prosecution in Rhode Island: The Unauthorized Practice of Law, Andrew Horwitz and John R. Grasso

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Civil Due Process, Criminal Due Process, Niki Kuckes

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The Democratic Prosecutor: Explaining the Constitutional Function of the Federal Grand Jury, Niki Kuckes

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Beyond Absolutism: Legal Institutions in the War on Terror, Peter Margulies

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The Military Commissions Act, Coerced Confessions, and the Role of the Courts, Peter Margulies

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Money as a "Specific" Remedy, Colleen P. Murphy

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Statutory Caps and Judicial Review of Damages, Colleen P. Murphy

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Symposium on Sentencing Rhetoric: Competing Narratives in the Post-Booker Era, David M. Zlotnick