SWLAW Blog | Faculty Scholarship Spotlight
April 21, 2026
2025-26 Faculty Summer Research Projects
Each year, Southwestern welcomes faculty to apply for a summer research grant to support a scholarly project "that is original and substantial in both content and length." Below is a list of grant-supported legal articles, essays, and book chapters that were either published in the last year or recently received a publication commitment.
- Luke A. Boso, Right-Wing Grievance and Queer Speech, 57 Seton Hall Law Review ___ (forthcoming 2026)
- Beth Caldwell & Davida Finger, Responding to the Post-Disaster Needs of Children’s Education: Lessons from the United States, in The International Handbook of Child Protection: Laws, Rights, Policies and Practices (Asha Bajpai, David Tushaus, Suzanne M. Kissock, & Ajay K. Pandey, eds., forthcoming 2026)
- Beth Caldwell, Evidence of Prison Gang Status in Parole Decision-Making, in ______ (Kim Richardson, Stuti Kokkalera, and Richard Bierschbach, eds., forthcoming 2026)
- Meera E. Deo, Resisting Overcompliance, 94 UMKC Law Review 715 (2026)
- Meera E. Deo & Jacquelyn Petzold, Belonging in Intersectional Communities, ___ British Journal of Sociology of Education ___ (forthcoming 2026)
- Michael Epstein, Constitutional Stress Tests: Executive Power, Unaccountable Speech, and the Rule of Law in the United States, in The Crisis of the Rule of Law (Valentina Faggiani & Francisco Javier Garrido Carrillo, eds., forthcoming 2026)
- Andrea Freeman, The Roots of Credit Inequality, 49 Seattle University Law Review 25 (2025)
- Andrew Gilden, Sexy Workers, in Research Handbook on Gender, Sexuality and Law (2d Ed., forthcoming 2026)
- Richard Jolly, Overruling Batson, 112 Cornell Law Review ___ (forthcoming 2026)
- Hila Keren, Constitutional Opportunism, 104 Denver Law Review ___ (forthcoming 2026)
- Janet Nalbandyan & Carolyn Young Larmore, Research and Writing for Practice, in Learning from Practice: A Text for Experiential Legal Education (4th Ed., forthcoming 2026)
- Orly Ravid, Truth on Trial: Media Malpractice in Israel/Gaza Coverage, 41 Touro Law Review ___ (forthcoming 2026)
- Byron G. Stier, Judicial Review of Individual Punitive Damages Awards in Light of Aggregate Punitive Damages, 93 Tennessee Law Review 51 (forthcoming 2026)
- Byron G. Stier, Applying Steve Jobs’s Insights on Innovation, Leadership, and Technology Toward an Apple-Inspired Law School, 38 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, & Public Policy 217 (2024)
- John Tehranian, The Law of Sacred Texts: Copyright’s Derivative Rights Doctrine & Semiotic Disobedience in the Age of AI, 28 Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law ___ (forthcoming 2026)
- Tracy Turner, Founding Mothers: The Nineteenth Amendment’s Proper Place in Originalist Due Process Analysis, 33 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law ___ (forthcoming 2026)