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Joseph F. Rice School of Law

December 2024: Faculty Scholarship & Impact

Media

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy may be exempt from ethics rules as Trump's advisors
USA Today (ft. Bryant Walker Smith)
December 5, 2024

Can a New Reading Lawsuit Finally Answer: What Is Research-Based Curriculum, Anyway?
Education Week (ft. Derek Black)
December 6, 2024

Florence County wants to crack down on panhandling. Is the plan legal?
Post & Courier (ft. Scott Bauries)
December 9, 2024

Software problems are increasingly behind vehicle safety recalls
Detroit Free Press (ft. Bryant Walker Smith)
December 10, 2024

GM's Cruise exit turns focus on challenges of scaling robotaxis
Reuters (ft. Bryant Walker Smith)
December 11, 2024

Trump could kill NHTSA's autonomous driving crash reporting requirement
Car Scoops (ft. Bryant Walker Smith)
December 12, 2024

Exclusive: Trump team wants to scrap car-crash reporting rule that Tesla opposes
Reuters (ft. Bryant Walker Smith)
December 15, 2024


Podcast

New Report Builds a Framework for Civil Justice Innovation
Legal Talk Network (ft. William Hubbard)
December 10, 2024

From Aviation to Autonomous Vehicles: Leveraging the InfoShare Model for AV Safety
PAVECast (ft. Bryant Walker Smith)
December 12, 2024


Presentations

Bryant Walker Smith
Committee Meeting
US Department of Transportation's Transforming Transportation Advisory Committee
December 13, 2024


Scholarship

Tommy Crocker
What is Deeply Rooted in the Constitution?, 50 BYU L. Rev. __ (2024).

Charlie Trumbull (with Todd Buchwald)
Does the Int’l Criminal Court Impose Too Low a Standard of Proof to Arrest a Head of State? | Just Security (December 12, 2024)

Bryant Walker Smith (with Jeffrey Michael and Johnathon Ehsani)
Ideal Enforcement: How Do We Achieve Optimal Enforcement of Traffic Law as Ubiquitous Enforcement Becomes Technologically Conceivable? (December 2024)

This interdisciplinary article uses traffic law as a case study for how automation and private monitoring could drive a dramatic increase in overall enforcement -- and presents principles for an alternative vision of ideal enforcement. 

Clint Wallace (with Shelley Welton)
Luxury, Pigouvian, Sin, Oh My: A Politically Agreeable Carbon Tax, Tax Notes (December 2, 2024)


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