SSRN Belmont University College of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series

1.

'Made-Whole' Made Fair: A Proposal to Modify Subrogation in Tennessee Tort Actions

1 Belmont Law Review 71 (2014)

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 16 Aug 2014

Accepted Paper Series

John A. Day

Independent

Downloads 314

2.

Defining Religion: The Struggle to Define Religion Under the First Amendment and the Contributions and Insights of Other Disciplines of Study, Including Theology, Psychology, Sociology, the Arts, and Anthropology

North Dakota Law Review, Vol. 83, No. 1, 2007

Number of pages: 101 Posted: 21 Jan 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Jeffrey Omar Usman

Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 181

3.

Good Enough for Government Work: The Interpretation of Positive Constitutional Rights in State Constitutions

Albany Law Review, Vol. 73, p. 1459, 2010

Number of pages: 76 Posted: 14 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 21 May 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Jeffrey Omar Usman

Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 181

4.

The Game is Afoot: Constitutionalizing the Right to Hunt and Fish in the Tennessee Constitution

Tennessee Law Review, Vol. 77, p. 57, 2009

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 16 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 21 May 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Jeffrey Omar Usman

Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 145

5.

In Search of Justice: An Examination of the Appointments of John G. Roberts and Samuel A. Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court and Their Impact on American Jurisprudence

William & Mary Bill of Rights, Vol. 22, No. 3, 2014, Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2014-01

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 16 May 2014 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Alberto Gonzales

Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 108

6.

An Examination of Federal Sentencing Guidelines' Treatment of MDMA ('Ecstasy')

1 Belmont Law Review 267 (2014)

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 17 Aug 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Alyssa C. Hennig

Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 102

7.

Drones: The Power to Kill

George Washington Law Review, Vol. 82, No. 1, 2013, Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2014-03

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 23 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Alberto Gonzales

Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 101

8.

Rife with Latent Power: Exploring the Reach of the IRS to Determine Tax-Exempt Status According to Public Policy Rationale in an Era of Judicial Deference

South Texas Law Review, 56 S. Tex. L. Rev. 117, Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2014-05

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 06 May 2014 Last Revised: 19 Mar 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Amy L. Moore

Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 87

9.

Material Witness Detention in a Post-9/11 World: Mission Creep or Fresh Start?

George Mason Law Review, Vol. 18, No. 1

Number of pages: 76 Posted: 10 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 21 May 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Donald Q. Cochran

Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 75

10.

Finding the Lost Involuntary Public Figure

Utah Law Review, No. 5, p. 951, 2014, Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2561004

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 07 Feb 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Jeffrey Omar Usman

Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 71

11.

Proactive Protection: How the IDEA Can Better Address the Behavioral Problems of Children with Disabilities in Schools

1 Belmont Law Review 311 (2014)

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 17 Aug 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Patrick Ober

Indiana University Bloomington - School of Education

Downloads 62

12.

Defamation and the Government Employee: Redefining Who Constitutes a Public Official

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Vol. 47, No. 1, 2015, Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2692233

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 19 Nov 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Jeffrey Omar Usman

Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 57

13.

Malcolm Gladwell and the Art of Trial Advocacy: Getting the Jury to the Tipping Point

38 Am. J. Trial Advoc. 335 (2014-2015) , Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2016-5

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 30 Sep 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Donald Q. Cochran

Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 57

14.

Waging War Within the Constitution

42 Tex. Tech. L. Rev. 843, Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2014-02

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 12 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2014

Working Paper Series

Alberto Gonzales

Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 54

15.

Social Media and 'Flash Infringement': Live Music Culture and Dying IP Protection

3 Belmont Law Review 1 (2016), Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2017-1, Southwestern Law School Research Paper No. 2017-3

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 17 Feb 2017

Accepted Paper Series

Michael M. Epstein

Southwestern Law School

Downloads 51

16.

Everything Old is New Again: Will Narrow Networks Succeed Where HMOs Failed?

34 Quinnipiac Law Review 299 (2016), Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2016-25

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 15 May 2016 Last Revised: 26 May 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Deborah R. Farringer

Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 49

17.

Twenty Years of Compromise: How the Caps on Damages in the Civil Rights Act of 1991 Codified Sex Discrimination

25 Yale J.L. & Feminism 249 (2014), Belmont University College of Law Research Paper 2014-07

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 06 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Lynn Ridgeway Zehrt

Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 46

18.

Police-Worn Body Cameras: An Antidote to the 'Ferguson Effect'?

Missouri Law Review, Vol. 82, No. 2, p. 299 (2017), Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2017-26

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 14 Jun 2017

Accepted Paper Series

Alberto Gonzales and Donald Q. Cochran

Belmont University - College of Law and Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 45

19.

The Future of eDiscovery in Tennessee

1 Belmont Law Review 181 (2014)

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 17 Aug 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Roe Frazer and Marc Jenkins

Cicadya, LLC and Cicadya, LLC

Downloads 45

20.

Resolving the Great Divide in Pregnancy Discrimination

Nashville Bar Journal, July 2014, Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2014-06

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 12 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Lynn Ridgeway Zehrt

Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 43

21.

Free Conscience in Decline: The Insignificance of the Free Exercise Clause and the Role of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in the Wake of Hobby Lobby

2 Belmont Law Review 185 (2015), Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2015-18

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 02 Apr 2016

Accepted Paper Series

John Fahner

Inscoe & Fahner, PLLC

Downloads 36

22.

Medicaid Expansion by Any Other Name: Exploring the Feasibility of Expanded Access to Care in the Wake of NFIB v. Sebelius

1 Belmont Law Review 119 (2014)

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 16 Aug 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Michele Johnson and Kristin Ware

Tennessee Justice Center and Tennessee Justice Center

Downloads 35

23.

When Enough Isn't Enough: Qualitative and Quantitative Assessments of Adequate Education in State Constitutions by State Supreme Courts

University of Toledo Law Review, 41 U. Tol. L. Rev. 545 (Spring 2010)

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 07 May 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Amy L. Moore

Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 35

24.

First Zipcar, Now Uber: Legal and Policy Issues Facing the Expanding ‘Shared Mobility’ Sector in U.S. Cities

Belmont Law Review, Vol. 4, p. 109 (2017), Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2017-20

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 03 Jun 2017

Accepted Paper Series

Joseph P. Schwieterman and Mollie Pelon

DePaul University and DePaul University

Downloads 34

25.

Legislating Autism Coverage: The Conservative Insurance Mandate

2 Belmont Law Review 59 (2015) , Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2015-11

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 30 Mar 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Lorri Shealy Unumb

George Washington University - Law School

Downloads 34

26.

Series LLCs Part 2 - Current Status, Multi-State Issues and Potential Uniform Limited Liability Company Protected Series Act

Taxes - The Tax Magazine, Vol. 95, 27, 2017, Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2017-14

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 31 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2017

Accepted Paper Series

J. Leigh Griffith and Alberto Gonzales

Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP and Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 34

27.

Whose Rights Should Prevail? Toward a Child-Centric Approach to Revocation of Birthparent Consent in Domestic Infant Adoption

1 Belmont Law Review 343 (2014)

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 17 Aug 2014

Accepted Paper Series

David Thibodeaux

Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 33

28.

Reality Over Ideology: A Practical View of Special Needs Voucher Programs

Capital University Law Review, Vol. 42, No. 1, 2014

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 18 Aug 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Elizabeth Usman

Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 32

29.

An Immigration Crisis in a Nation of Immigrants: Why Amending the Fourteenth Amendment Won't Solve Our Problems

Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 96, p. 1859, 2012

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 07 Mar 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Alberto Gonzales

Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 31

30.

For Patients and Profits: Ethical Astuteness and the Business of Dialysis

2 Belmont Law Review 37 (2015), Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2015-10, Kelley School of Business Research Paper No. 16-36

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 29 Mar 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Joshua E. Perry

Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Business Law

Downloads 31

31.

Salvaging General Jurisdiction: Satisfying Daimler and Proposing a New Framework

3 Belmont Law Review 187 (2016), Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2017-10

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 22 Feb 2017

Accepted Paper Series

B. Travis Brown

Government of the State of Tennessee - Office of the Attorney General

Downloads 31

32.

What Might Have Been: 25 Years of Robert Bork on the United States Supreme Court

1 Belmont Law Review 221 (2014)

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 17 Aug 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Benjamin Pieter Pomerance

Independent

Downloads 31

33.

Advising the President: The Growing Scope of Executive Power to Protect America

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 38, No. 2, 2015, Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2016-1

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 28 Sep 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Alberto Gonzales

Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 30

34.

Gestational Surrogacy Contracts in Tennessee: Freedom of Contract Concerns & Feminist Principles in the Balance

2 Belmont Law Review 269 (2015), Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2015-19

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 02 Apr 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Jennifer S White

Tennessee School Board Association

Downloads 30

35.

No Right at All: Putting Consular Notification in Its Rightful Place after Medellin

Florida Law Review, Forthcoming, Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2014-04

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 06 May 2014 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2017

Accepted Paper Series

Alberto Gonzales and Amy L. Moore

Belmont University - College of Law and Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 30

36.

A Special Delivery: Litigating Pregnancy Accommodation Claims after the Supreme Court’s Decision in Young v. United Parcel Service, Inc.

68 Rutgers University Law Review 683 (2016), Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2015-24

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 07 Apr 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Lynn Ridgeway Zehrt

Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 28

37.

I Am My Brother's Keeper: How the Crossroads of Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property and Entertainment Can Be Used to Affect Social Justice

(Elgar Law and Entrepreneurship) Intellectual Property, Entrepreneurship and Social Justice - From Swords to Ploughshares Edited by Lateef Mtima, Forthcoming , Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2566880

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 20 Feb 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Loren Evans Mulraine

Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 28

38.

Modern Legal History 2015: The Road to Obergefell

3 Belmont Law Review 165 (2016) , Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2017-9

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 22 Feb 2017

Accepted Paper Series

Abby Rubenfeld, Regina Lambert and Jeffrey Omar Usman

Tennessee Bar Association, Independent and Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 28

39.

Tennessee's Unique Religious Protections in Employment: Do They Mean What They Say?

1 Belmont Law Review 1 (2014)

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 27 Aug 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Waverly Crenshaw Jr. and Brian A. Pierce

Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP and Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP

Downloads 26

40.

Fair Play Fair Pay: The Need for A Terrestrial Public Performance Right and General Copyright Reform

3 Belmont Law Review 71 (2016), Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2017-4

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 17 Feb 2017

Accepted Paper Series

Loren Evans Mulraine

Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 25

41.

Local, State, and Federal Responses to Stalking: Are Anti-Stalking Laws Effective?

22 Wm. & Mary J. Women & L. 333 (2016), Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2016-2

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 30 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Tracey Carter

Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 25

42.

Judicial Selection In Tennessee: Deciding 'The Decider" '

1 Belmont Law Review 143 (2014)

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 16 Aug 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Margaret L. Behm and Candi Henry

Dodson Parker Behm & Capparella, PC and Dodson Parker Behm & Capparella, PC

Downloads 24

43.

Our Patent System and Health Care Information Technology: Valuable Incentive or Impediment to Innovation?

2 Belmont Law Review 93 (2015), Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2015-13

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 30 Mar 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Gary Montle, Ryan Levy and Margaret Rowland

Patterson Intellectual Property Law PC, Patterson Intellectual Property Law PC and Patterson Intellectual Property Law PC

Downloads 23

44.

Challenges of Multi-State Series and Framework for Judicial Analysis

University of Iowa Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 42, p. 101, 2017, Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2017-13

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 04 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2017

Accepted Paper Series

Alberto Gonzales and J. Leigh Griffith

Belmont University - College of Law and Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP

Downloads 21

45.

Ghosts of Alabama:The Prosecution of Bobby Frank Cherry for the Bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

12 Mich. J. Race & L. 1 (2006-2007) , Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2015-5

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 30 Sep 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Donald Q. Cochran

Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 21

46.

Aesthetic Nondiscrimination & Fair Use

3 Belmont Law Review 29 (2016), Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2-2017

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 17 Feb 2017

Accepted Paper Series

Brian L. Frye

University of Kentucky - College of Law

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 20

47.

From Youth Sports to Collegiate Athletics to Professional Leagues: Is There Really 'Informed Consent' by Athletes regarding Sports-Related Concussions?

84 University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review 331 (2015), Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2016-3

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 30 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Tracey Carter

Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 20

48.

The Meaning of the Constitution and the Selection of Judges

Faulkner Law Review, Vol. 8, p. 175 (2016), Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2017-27

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 29 Jun 2017

Accepted Paper Series

Harold See

Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 19

49.

Keeping Our Eyes on the Prize: Examining Minnesota as a Means for Assuring Achievement of the 'Triple Aim' Under the ACA

38 Hamline L. Rev. 177 , Belmont University College of Law Research Paper No. 2015-1

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 06 Aug 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Deborah R. Farringer

Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 17

50.

Lost in the Maze of Appeals: The Eleventh Circuit's Review of Decisions by the Board of Immigration Appeals

Southwestern Law Review, 38 Sw. L. Rev. 419 (2009)

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 07 May 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Amy L. Moore

Belmont University - College of Law

Downloads 17

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