Drury D. Stevenson

South Texas College of Law Houston

Wayne Fischer Research Professor

1303 San Jacinto Street

Houston, TX 77002

United States

http://www.stcl.edu

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1.

Bargaining in the Shadow of Big Data

Florida Law Review, Vol. 66, No. 5, 2014
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 14 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2014
Drury D. Stevenson and Nicholas J. Wagoner
South Texas College of Law Houston and South Texas College of Law Alumni
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law, data, analytics, technology, prediction, firm, counsel, courts, judges, machine learning, legal, practice, lawyer, attorney, software, bargaining, litigation, trial, automation, PACER, Coase theorem, black swan, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, future, innovation, Moneyball, legal research

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FCPA Sanctions: Too Big to Debar?

Fordham Law Review, Vol. 80, p. 775
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 18 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2012
Drury D. Stevenson and Nicholas J. Wagoner
South Texas College of Law Houston and South Texas College of Law Alumni
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FCPA, debarment, suspension, government contracts, contractors, BAE, sanctions, foreign governments, bribery, bribes, corruption

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Against Confidentiality

UC Davis Law Review, vol. 48 (2014)
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 14 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2022
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 1,012 (39,053)
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confidentiality, ethics, professionalism, Model Rules, privilege, transparency, transaction costs, secrecy, Coasean, Coase Theorem, externalities, lemons, lawyers, legal practice, client

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Rethinking IOLTA

Missouri Law Review, Vol. 76, p. 455, 2011
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 30 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 07 May 2011
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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IOLTA, Interest On Lawyers Trust Accounts, Crowding, Legal Aid, Poverty Law, Civil Gideon, Pro Bono

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Special Solicitude for State Standing: Massachusetts v. EPA

Penn State Law Review, Vol. 112, p. 1, 2008
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 02 May 2007 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2008
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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special solicitude, standing, attorneys general, federalism, Chevron, greenhouse, global warming, knightian, uncertainty, Justice Stevens, regulation, discretion, administrative agencies

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Standing as Channeling in the Administrative Age

Boston College Law Review, Vol. 53, No. 4, 2012
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 09 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2012
Drury D. Stevenson and Sonny Eckhart
South Texas College of Law Houston and South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 675 (67,642)
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Administrative law, implied delegation, standing, public interest litigation, channeling, citizen suits

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Monopsony Problems with Court-Appointed Counsel

Iowa Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 26 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 28 May 2014
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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monopsony, Gideon, criminal defense, Sixth Amendment, right to counsel, appointed counsel, public defenders, indigent defense

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Costs of Codification

University of Illinois Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 02 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2013
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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legislation, codification, Bentham, interpretation, statutory construction, statutes, regulation, overcriminalization, hyperlexis, legislatures, transaction costs, information costs, rule of recognition

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Entrapment and Terrorism

Boston College Law Review, Vol. 49, p. 125, 2008
Number of pages: 91 Posted: 03 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2008
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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entrapment, terrorism, antiterrorism, undercover, sting, criminal, material support, deterrence, incapacitation

10.

Reverse Bifurcation

University of Cincinnati Law Review, Vol. 75, No. 213, 2006
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 05 Apr 2006 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2011
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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Trials, Bifurcation, Sequential, Severance, legal, liability, damages, procedure, torts

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Toward a New Theory of Notice and Deterrence

Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 26, No. 1, 2004
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 16 May 2006
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 303 (172,942)
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Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, linguistics, language, audience design, Legislation, acoustic separation, constitutional notice, due process, deterrence

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Entrapment by Numbers

Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2005
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 16 May 2006
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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entrapment, deterrence, criminal law, criminal procedure, defenses, undercover, sentencing

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Libertarian Paternalism: The Cocaine Vaccine as a Test Case for the Sunstein/Thaler Model

Rutgers Journal of Law and Urban Policy, Vol. 3, p. 4, 2005
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 17 May 2006
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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drugs, cocaine, vaccine, libertarian paternalism, sunstein, constitutional, treatment, welfare. prisoners, probation, parole

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Revisiting the Original Congressional Debates about the Second Amendment

Missouri Law Review, Vol. 88 Page 455 (2023)
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 18 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 13 Jun 2023
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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originalism, Second Amendment, Congress, history, law, guns, firearms, Quakers, Quaker, Heller, Bruen, militia

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Effect of the National Security Paradigm on Criminal Law

Stanford Law & Policy Review, Vol. 20, p. 129, 2011
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 02 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 07 Jun 2011
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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National security, Fourth Amendment, Fifth Amendment, criminal procedure, criminal law, terrorism, statutory interpretation, deterrence, incapacitation, common law, punishment, retribution, Supreme Court, policing, police

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Privatization of State Administrative Services

Louisiana Law Review, Vol. 68, p. 114, 2008
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 05 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 02 May 2011
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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privatization, delegation, nondelegation, administrative, government, contracts, transaction costs

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Jury Selection and the Coase Theorem

Iowa Law Review, Vol. 97, p. 1645, 2012
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 07 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2013
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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Jury, jurors, peremptory, strike, jury selection, voir dire, Coase, Coase Theorem, Coasian, uncertainty, Batson, jury consultants

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Kelsen's View of the Addressee of the Law: Primary and Secondary Norms

Kelsen in America Interdisciplinary Conference hosted by Valparaiso University School of Law at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, June 27 – 28, 2014.
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 23 Jun 2014
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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Kelsen, audience, addressee, addressed, primary norms, secondary norms, legal theory, positivism

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Privatization of Welfare Services: Delegation by Commercial Contract

Arizona Law Review, Vol. 45, p. 83, 2003
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 17 May 2006
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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welfare reform, public law, administrative law, privatization, nondelegation, delegation, constitutional, due process, poverty, welfare services, government contracts, outsourcing

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The Complex Interplay Between the Controlled Substances Act and the Gun Control Act

18 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 211 (2020)
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 18 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2022
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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Controlled Substances Act, guns, firearms, Second Amendment, drugs, addiction, federal, criminal, Gun Control Act

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To Whom is the Law Addressed?

Yale Law & Policy Review, Vol. 21, 2003
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 16 May 2006
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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law, legal, sociolinguistic, language, law and language, Bentham, Kelsen, statutes, interpretation, notice, construction, audience design, state actors, plain English, autopoeisis, linguistic, postivism, acoustic separation

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Intentional Uncertainty within Jury Systems

George Mason Law Review, 2012
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 01 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2011
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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jury, juries, peremptory, strikes, uncertainty, Taleb, Black Swan, Athens, Athenian, game theory, randomness, Knightian

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Gun Violence as an Obstacle to Educational Equality

50 University of Memphis Law Review 1091 (2021)
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 15 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2022
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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guns, violence, crime, education, inequality, Second Amendment, schools, mass shootings, security

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Smart Guns, the Law, and the Second Amendment

124 Penn State Law Review 691 (2020)
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 15 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2022
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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smart guns, guns, firearms, weapons, technology, Second Amendment, public safety

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A Million Little Takings

UPENN J. Law & Soc. Change, Vol. 14 (2011)
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 30 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2013
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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takings, eminent domain, IOLTA, lawyers, attorneys, pro bono, poverty, legal aid, legal services, crowding

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Operation Choke Point: Myths and Reality

Administrative Law Review, Vol. 75 (forthcoming)
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 21 Dec 2022
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 161 (313,818)

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Operation Choke Point, regulation, FDIC, DOJ, payday loans, guns, gun industry, antiboycott, banks, financial institutions, banking, reputational risk, enforcement, Obama

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Should Addicts Get Welfare?

Brooklyn Law Review, Vol. 68, 2002
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 16 May 2006
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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SSI, SSDI, social welfare, drugs, alcohol, addiction, substance abuse, medicaid, medicare, social insurance, moral hazard, adverse selection, welfare reform

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The Gun Industry and the New Anti-Boycott Laws

Florida Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 23 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 23 Apr 2023
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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anti-boycott, boycott, banks, financial institutions, municipal bond underwriting, firearms, guns, Second Amendment, Texas, government contracts

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Judicial Deference to Legislatures in Constitutional Analysis

North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 90, p. 2083, 2012
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 23 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2013
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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Separation of Powers, Fourth Amendment, Schneckloth, Bustamonte, Consent, Search, Police, Vehicles, Criminal Procedure, Legislature, Kentucky v. King

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Revisiting Gun Control and Tort Liability

54 Indiana Law Review 365 (2021)
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 29 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2022
Drury D. Stevenson and Jenna Shorter
South Texas College of Law Houston and Horrigan Goehrs Edwards & Culp, LLP
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Firearms, guns, Second Amendment, torts, liability, PLCAA, violence

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In Defense of Felon-in-Possession Laws

43 Cardozo Law Review 1573 (2022)
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 02 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2022
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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Second Amendment, guns, firearms, felons, felon-in-possession, disqualification, disarmament, federal, criminal

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Going Gunless

86 Brooklyn Law Review 179 (2020)
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 17 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2022
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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guns, 2A, Second Amendment, firearms, signaling, social movements, norms, nonviolence, certification, registration, NICS

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Litigating the Bump Stock Ban

Kansas Law Review, Vol. 70, No. 243, 2021
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 29 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2022
Drury D. Stevenson and Mia Romano
South Texas College of Law Houston and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Firearms, guns, Second Amendment, bump stocks, ATF, BATFE, Chevron, regulation, Guedes

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Entrapment and the Problem of Deterring Police Misconduct

Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 37, No. 67, 2004
Number of pages: 100 Posted: 29 Sep 2013
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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entrapment, deterrence, police, due process, predisposition, objective test, sting operations, undercover, overreaching, victimless crimes, affirmative defense

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Workplace Violence, Firearm Prohibitions, and the New Gun Rights

University of San Francisco Law Review, Vol. 55, 2021
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 29 Mar 2021
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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guns, Second Amendment, violence, assault, employment, workplace, rights, firearms

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Two Thought Experiments on Immigration Reform

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 27 Nov 2010
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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Immigration, Migration, Remittances, Money Transfer, Western Union, Moneygram, Reform, Taxation, Regulation, Money Supply

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William Rotch and Second Amendment History

University of Detroit Mercy Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 19 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 23 Jan 2023
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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Quakers, Society of Friends, Second Amendment, Firearms, Congress, Framers

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Ethical Issues with Lawyers Openly Carrying Firearms

10 St. Mary’s Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics 290 (2020)
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 21 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2022
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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Legal Ethics, Professional Responsibility, MRPC, lawyers, attorneys, open carry, guns, firearms, Second Amendment, ABA

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The Urgent Need for Legal Scholarship on Firearm Policy

67 Buffalo L. Rev. 1449 (2019)
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 07 May 2019 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2022
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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guns, firearms, Dickey, funding, research, legal academy, Second Amendment

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A Note on the Pace of Creation and Copyright Protection

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 29 Sep 2013
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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copyright, innovation, creativity, IDPA

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Book Review: Forensic Linguistics

Colorado Law Review, Vol. 77, p. 257, 2006
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 16 May 2006
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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forensic, linguistics, language, law, jury instructions, court transcripts, audience design, statutory construction, sociolinguistics

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Review Essay: Radicals in Robes

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 25 May 2006
Drury D. Stevenson
South Texas College of Law Houston
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Sunstein, minimalism, Scalia, jurisprudence, Frank Knight, uncertainty, Ellsberg, nondelegation doctrine, gun control, fundamentalism, incrementalism