Recent Faculty Scholarship

Books

• INTERNATIONAL PETROLEUM TRANSACTIONS (Rocky Mtn. Min L. Found. 3d ed. 2010) (co-author of 1st, 2d, & 3d editions).
• INTERNATIONAL PETROLEUM EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION AGREEMENTS (Barrows 2009) (author of two chapters and editor of several).
• HEMINGWAY OIL AND GAS LAW AND TAXATION (4th ed. 2004) (co-author)
• CASES AND MATERIALS ON OIL & GAS LAW (Foundation Press) (co-author)
• WATERS AND WATER RIGHTS (3d ed. 2009) (contributing author)
• INTERNATIONAL PETROLEUM EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION AGREEMENTS (2d ed. 2009 (contributing author)

Articles

• 3D Seismic and Geophysical "Trespass", 35TH KY. MINERAL L. CONF. (2010)
• From Summer of Optimism to Summer of Despair, OGEL J. (OIL, GAS & ENERGY LAW INTELLIGENCE), Sept. 2010, www.ogel.org/article.asp?key=3027 (opens in new window) (with John S. Lowe) (online journal published in United Kingdom).
• Introduction: North Dakota's Energy Landscape [Energy Law Symposium], 85 N.D. L. REV. 715 (2009) (published August 2010).
• Lord Coke, the Restatement, and Modern Subsurface Trespass Law, 57th ANN. INST. ON MIN. L. 22 (2010).
• Subsurface "Trespass": A Man's Subsurface Is Not His Castle, 49 WASHBURN L.J. 247 (2010).
• Subsurface Trespass After Coastal v. Garza, 60 INST. ON OIL & GAS L. & TAX'N 65 (2009).
• Geologic CO2 Sequestration: Who Owns the Pore Space, 9 WYO. L. REV. 97 (2009).

Books Chapters

• The Law of Evidence, in JURISPRUDENCE (Bin Liang & Hong Lu, eds., Renmin Daxue Chubanshen [Renmin Univ. of China Press], forthcoming 2011).

Articles

• OMG! Missing the Teachable Moment and Undermining the Future of the First Amendment -- TISNF!, 60 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 153 (2009).
• The Adversary System Is Dead; Long Live the Adversary System: The Trial Judge As the Great Equalizer in Criminal Trials, 2008 MICH. ST. L. REV. 945.

• Protecting Patient Rights Despite ERISA: Will the Supreme Court Allow the States to Regulate Managed Care?, 74 TULANE L. REV. 951 (2000)
• ERISA: The Savings Clause, Section 502 Implied Preemption, Complete Preemption, and State Law Remedies, 42 SANTA CLARA L. REV. 105 (2001)

• Process Innovation in the Production of Corporate Law, 41 U.C. DAVIS L. REV. 1829 (2008)
• An Economic and Behavioral Analysis of Investment Bankers When Delivering Fairness Opinions, 58 ALA. L. REV. 299 (2006)
• The New York Stock Exchange as State Actor: Rational Actors, Behavioral Insights, and Joint Investigations, 55 AM. UNIV. L. REV. 1 (2006)
• Judicial Discretion and Statutory Interpretation, 57 OKLA. L. REV. 31 (2004)

• The Case for Oral Argument in the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, 61 OKLA. L. REV. 695 (2008) (with Joseph T. Thai).

• CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND THE JUDICIAL PROCESS (4th ed. 2012) (co-author)
• Report Regarding the Implementation of the American Bar Association's Recommendations and Resolutions Concerning the Death Penalty and Calling for a Moratorium on Executions, 4 GEO. J. FIGHTING POVERTY 1 (1996) (co-author)
• Section of Individual Rights & Responsibilities, ABA, Death Without Justice: A Guide for Examining the Administration of the Death Penalty in the United States, 63 OHIO ST. L.J. 487 (2002) (contributing author)

• MAKING AMERICA WORK (2006)
• Using Refundable Tax Credits to Help Low-income Taxpayers: What Do We Know, and What Can We Learn from Other Countries?, 8 EJOURNAL OF TAX RES. 128 (2010) (vol. 8, no. 2), http://www.asb.unsw.edu.au/research/publications/ejournaloftaxresearch/Documents/paper2_v8n2.pdf.
• Michael Joe, Conversations: Prof. Jonathan B. Forman, 129 TAX NOTES 181 (vol. 129, no. 2, issue of Oct. 11, 2010) (interview).
• 2009 Poverty Levels and Federal Tax Thresholds, 124 TAX NOTES 171 (2009) (vol. 124, no. 2, issue of July 13, 2009) [Copyright 2009 Tax Analysts. Reprinted with permission.].
• Poverty, in AGENDA FOR A SUSTAINABLE AMERICA 187 (Envtl. L. Inst., John C. Dernbach ed., 2009) (ch. 13), reprinted in 39 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 10303 (2009).
• Optimal Retirement Age, in 2 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY REVIEW OF EMPLOYEE BENEFITS AND COMPENSATION -- 2008, at 14-1 to 14-36 (Alvin D. Lurie ed., 2008) (ch. 14), reprinted in RETIREMENT 20/20 (Soc'y of Actuaries 2009) (with Yung-Ping [Bing] Chen),
• Should We Replace the Current Pension System with a Universal Pension System?, J. PENSION BENEFITS, Winter 2009, at 48 (vol. 16, no. 2) [Copyright 2009 Aspen Publishers. Reprinted with permission.].

• Law Library Consortia: Facilitating Collaboration in a Changing World, TRENDS L. LIBR. MGMT. & TECH., vol. 21, no. 1 (forthcoming 2011).
• Legal Citations: An Interview with Professor Darin K. Fox, 81 OKLA. B.J. 415 (2010).
• Google Book Search Litigation: Implications for Libraries and Universities, UNIV. OF OKLA. LIBRARIES, http://libraries.ou.edu/media/launcher.aspx?file=2010-03-googlebookssearchproject.m4a (Part 1), http://libraries.ou.edu/media/launcher.aspx?file=2010-03-litigationandfairuse.m4a (Part 2), http://libraries.ou.edu/media/launcher.aspx?file=2010-03-settlementandimplications-ed.m4a (Part 3) (Mar. 2010) (Podcast - Librarian Sarah Robbins interviewing Darin K. Fox).
• STATE DOCUMENTS BIBLIOGRAPHY - OKLAHOMA: A GUIDE TO LEGAL RESEARCH IN OKLAHOMA (Buffalo, NY: W.S. Hein, 2009).
• What is Web 2.0?, Members' Briefing, AALL SPECTRUM, July 2009, at 2.

Books

• FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE: RULES AND COMMENTARY (West Publ'g, 2011 ed.).
• Volume 11 of MOORE'S FEDERAL PRACTICE (Summary Judgment) (LexisNexis Publ'g) (3rd ed. 2011).

Articles

• Judicial Case Management: Caught in the Crossfire, 60 DUKE L.J. 669 (2010).
• Oklahoma's New E-Discovery Rules, 81 OKLA. B.J. 2427 (2010).
• Must, Should, Shall, 43 AKRON L. REV. 1141 (2010).
• The Other Side of the CAFA Effect: An Empirical Analysis of Class Action Activity in the Oklahoma State Courts, 58 KANSAS L. REV. 809 (2010).
• A Bull's-Eye View of Cooperation in Discovery, 10 SEDONA CONF. J. 363 (Fall 2009 Supp.).
• Some Thoughts on the Lawyer's E-volving Duties in Discovery, 36 N. KY. L. REV. 521 (2009).
• Justness! Speed! Inexpense! An Introduction to The Revolution of 1938 Revisited: The Role and Future of the Federal Rules , 61 OKLA. L. REV. 257 (2008).

• The Timely Demise of the Fourth Amendment Third Party Doctrine (opens in new window), 96 IOWA L. REV. BULL. 39 (2011).
• "Move On" Orders as Fourth Amendment Seizures (opens in new window), 2008 B.Y.U. L. REV. 1.
• Beyond the (Current) Fourth Amendment: Protecting Third-Party Information, Third Parties, and the Rest of Us Too (opens in new window), 34 PEPPERDINE L. REV. 975 (2007).
• Learning from All Fifty States: How to Apply the Fourth Amendment and Its State Analogs to Protect Third Party Information from Unreasonable Search (opens in new window), 55 CATHOLIC UNIV. L. REV. 373 (2006).
• Nothing New Under the Sun? A Technologically Rational Doctrine of Fourth Amendment Search (opens in new window), 56 MERCER L. REV. 507 (2005).

• FARM PRODUCTS FINANCING AND FILING SERVICE (1990) (with J. Thomas Hardin)

• ADVANCED TORTS: CASES AND MATERIALS (1997) (with Osborne M. Reynolds, Jr.)
• COMMON LAW IN SOUTHERN AFRICA: CONFLICT OF LAWS AND TORTS PRECEDENTS (1990)

Books

• Global Continental Shifts to New Governance Paradigm in Lawyer Regulation and Consumer Protection: Riding the Wave, in ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON LAWYERS AND LEGAL ETHICS: REIMAGINING THE PROFESSION 11 (Francesca Bartlett, Reid Mortensen & Kieran Tranter eds., Routledge Press 2011).
• Book Chapter: The Unearthed Facts of Peevyhouse v. Garland Coal & Mining Co., in CONTRACTS STORIES (Douglas G. Baird ed., Foundation Press 2007).

Articles and Creative Work

• Bar Associations, Self-Regulation and Consumer Protection: Whither Thou Goest?, 2008 JNL. PROF. LAW. 53 (commissioned by American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility, Centennial of the Canons of Professional Ethics).
• Movie: The Ballad of Willie and Lucille (32 minute version for law school classes, © 2008).
• Lawyering in the 21st Century: A Capstone Course on the Law and Ethics of Lawyering 51 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. 1291 (2007).
• English Reforms to Judicial Selection: Comparative Lessons for American States? 34 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 387 (2007).
• Access Makes All the Difference, 78 OKLA. B.J. 1032 (2007) (co-authored with Kade McClure) (issue of Apr. 14, 2007).

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• Money, Money Everywhere but Not a Drop to Secure: A Proposal for Amending the Perfection Rules for Security Interests in Money and Deposit Accounts, 74 TENN. L. REV. 669 (2007).
• Quas Primas and the Economic Ordering of Society for the Social Reign of Christ the King: A Third Perspective on the Bainbridge/Sargent Law and Economics Debate, 47 J. CATHOLIC LEGAL STUD. 369 (2008).
• Unprofitable Lending: Modern Credit Regulation and the Lost Theory of Usury, 30 CARDOZO L. REV. 549 (2008).
• Learning from Our History: Evaluating the Modern Housing Finance Market in Light of Ancient Principles of Justice, 60 S.C. L. REV. 707 (2009).
• It's Just Secured Credit: A Natural Law Case in Support of Some Forms of Secured Credit, 43 IND. L. REV. 7 (2010).
• The Architecture of Law: Building Law on a Solid Foundation--The Eternal and Natural Laws, 10 VERA LEX (n.s.) 47 (2010).
• Exploring the Foundations of Law's Empire: A Review of Exploring Law's Empire, The Jurisprudence of Ronald Dworkin, 4 J. L. PHIL. & CULTURE 1195 (2009).
• Consulting the Architect when Problems Arise: The Divine Law 9 Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy 103 (2011)
• The Corporation as Imperfect Society 36 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law 509 (2011)
• The Church and the Usurers: Unprofitable Lending for the Modern Economy (forthcoming under review by several book publishers)

Articles

• Deference and Dialogue in Administrative Law, 111 COLUM. L. REV. (forthcoming Dec. 2011).
• Super Deference, the Science Obsession, and Judicial Review as Translation of Agency Science, 109 MICH. L. REV. 733 (2011).
• Scientific Avoidance: Toward More Principled Judicial Review of Legislative Science, 84 IND. L.J. 239 (2009).

Books

• PROPERTY: CASES AND STATUTES (Carolina Academic Press, 2d ed., 2009) (with Roger Bernhardt and Patrick Randolph, Jr.).
• Volumes 1-2 of TITLE INSURANCE LAW (Thomson West Publ'g, 2009 Supp.).
• TITLE INSURANCE LAW (West Publ'g, 2010 Supp.).
• Volumes 1-4 of PATTON & PALOMAR ON LAND TITLES (3d ed., Thomson West Publ'g 2003, 2009 Supp.).
• PATTON & PALOMAR ON LAND TITLES (West Publ'g, 2010 Supp.).
• 2010 TITLE EXAMINATION STANDARDS HANDBOOK (Oklahoma Bar Association Real Property Law Section).

Articles

• The 2006 Title Insurance Policies: What New Coverage Do They Provide? 42 REAL PROP., PROB. & TRUST L.J. 1 (Spring 2007).

Papers Presented

• Is There a Role for Insurance in a Title Registration System?, at Conference of the Ministry of Justice & Law Reforms and Ministry of Lands & Land Development of Sri Lanka on Registration of Title to Property, Oct. 30, 2009.
• A Lender's Guide to Obtaining Title Insurance Benefits, at American College of Mortgage Attorneys Annual Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona, Oct. 1 - 3, 2009.
• Professor's Corner, American College of Real Estate Lawyers Conference, Wash. D.C., Oct. 2009.
• Professor's Corner, American College of Real Estate Lawyers Conference, Puerto Rico, March 2009.
• Panelist, Building Market Institutions: Property Rights, Business Formalization and Economic Development, at Mercatus Center of George Mason University Law School, Wash. D.C., Feb.2-5, 2009.
• Developments in Title Insurance, at American College of Mortgage Attorneys Annual Conference, Aspen, Colorado, Oct. 2007.
• Presented paper at Colorado Bar Association Real Estate Section's 25th Annual Symposium, Steamboat Springs, CO, July, 2007.

Books

• DISPARATE DEVELOPMENT AND DESPERATE TIMES: STORY OF PATENTS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (on contract, Oxford University Press).

Books

• CONQUEST BY LAW (Oxford Univ. Press 2005).

• IMMIGRATION LAW: A PRIMER (Federal Judicial Center 2009).
• RECOVERING SELF-EVIDENT TRUTHS: CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVES ON AMERICAN LAW (2007) (co-editor)
• LAW SCHOOL LEGENDS ON AUDIO CD: IMMIGRATION LAW (Thomson 2008).
• Immigration and the Bishops, FIRST THINGS, Feb. 2008.
• The Ethics of Immigration: An Exchange, FIRST THINGS, May 2008.
• More on the Ethics of Immigration, FIRST THINGS, June/July 2008.
• State Immigration Laws and the Question of Religious Freedom 15 TULSA J. COMP. & INT'L L. 165 (2008).

• SHAREHOLDERS' RIGHTS: JURISDICTIONAL COMPARISONS (1st ed. 2011) (co-author of one chapter)

• A Review of the Year in Family Law: Working Toward More Uniformity in Laws Relating to Families, 44 FAM. L.Q. 469 (2011) (with Linda D. Elrod).
• OKLAHOMA FAMILY LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (Imprimatur Press, 2009-2010 ed.).
• OKLAHOMA FAMILY LAW: THE HANDBOOK (Imprimatur Press, 2009-2010 ed.).
• OKLAHOMA FAMILY LAW: STATUTES AND RULES ANNOTATED (Imprimatur Press, 2009-2010 ed.).
• A Review of the Year in Family Law: Federalization and Nationalization Continue, 43 FAM. L.Q. 713 (2009) (with Linda D. Elrod).
• International Legal Developments in Review: Family Law, 43 INT'L LAW. 489 (2009) (with Brad Lechman-Su).
• The Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance, in FAMILY FINANCES 243 (Bea Verschraegen ed., Jan Sramek Verlag Press, Austria, 2009).

• CRIMINAL JUSTICE FOR THE UNITED STATES POSTAL INSPECTOR (with R.E.L. Richardson)

• Several national casebooks in Environmental Law and Remedies and law review articles in the Harvard Environmental Law Review, Tulane, Missouri, William & Mary Environmental Law Review, and Journal on Legal Education, among others.

• Lincoln at 200: On Lincoln's Statesmanship, Dred Scott and Constitutional Evil, 61 OKLA. L. REV. 785 (2009).
• The Dean Takes His Stand: Julien Monnet's 1912 Harvard Law Review Article Denouncing Oklahoma's Discriminatory Grandfather Clause, 62 OKLA. L. REV. 427 (2010).
• Judicial Independence, N.C. STATE BAR J., Winter 2009, at 16.

• THE SUPREME COURT SOURCEBOOK (Aspen, forthcoming) (with Richard Seamon, Andrew Siegel, and Kathryn Watts) (coursebook on Supreme Court theory, process, practice, and simulation).
• Review of John Paul Stevens: An Independent Life, 13 J. ILL. HIST. 156 (2010), available at http://www.barnhartbooks.com/uploads/JPS_Thai_book_reviewt.pdf.
• My Boss, Justice Stevens, N.Y. TIMES, Apr. 9, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/opinion/11stevens.html?pagewanted=all (opens in new window) (with Susan Estrich, Eduardo M. Penalver, Jeffrey L. Fisher, Cliff Sloan, and Deborah N. Pearlstein).
• A Justice of the Greatest Generation, WASH. POST, Apr. 9, 2010, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/09/AR2010040903719.html (opens in new window) (with Eduardo Penalver and Andrew Siegel).
• The Case for Oral Argument in the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, 61 OKLA. L. REV. 695 (2008) (with Andrew M. Coats)
• Is Data Mining Ever a Search Under Justice Stevens's Fourth Amendment (opens in new window), 74 FORDHAM L. REV. 1731 (2006)
• Constitutionally Excluded Confessions: Applying America's Lessons to a Democratic Iraq (opens in new window), 58 OKLA. L. REV. 37 (2005)
• The Law Clerk Who Wrote Rasul v. Bush: John Paul Stevens's Influence from World War II to the War on Terror (opens in new window), 92 VA. L. REV. 501 (2006)
• A Wild Pitch on Eavesdropping (opens in new window), BOSTON GLOBE, Aug. 2, 2006, at A9
• Did Justice Stevens Change? (opens in new window), SCOTUSBLOG (Apr. 29, 2010, 4:04 p.m.), reprinted in SALON.COM, Apr. 30, 2010, http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/feature/2010/04/30/stevens_supreme_court_open2010 (opens in new window)