Marc Lane Roark

University of Tulsa College of Law

Professor of Law

3120 E. Fourth Place

Tulsa, OK 74104

United States

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Pretoria

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The Savannah Law School

Professor of Law

516 Drayton Street

Savannah, GA 31401

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Signals

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 10 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2017
Marc Lane Roark and Warren Emerson
University of Tulsa College of Law and Savannah Law School
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Bluebook, Signals, Revival, Writing, Author, Communication, Substance, theory, cathedral, realism, formalism, crit theory, taxonomy, theory, Kerr, Holmes, Hart, Dworkin, masturbation

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Limitation of Sales Warranties as an Alternative to Intellectual Property Rights: An Empirical Analysis of iPhone Warranties' Deterrent Impact on Consumers

Duke Law & Technology Review, Forthcoming, University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2009-02
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 04 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 13 May 2014
Marc Lane Roark
University of Tulsa College of Law
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apple, iphone, warranties, intellectual property, consumers, DMCA, article 2, UCC, uniform commercial code

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Under-Propertied Persons

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 28, No. 1, 2017
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 16 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2017
Marc Lane Roark
University of Tulsa College of Law
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homelessness, public housing, landlord tenant, waste, nuisance, land use, order, zoning, exclusion, privacy, autonomy, community-making, identity, security

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Homelessness at the Cathedral

Missouri Law Review, Vol. 80, No. 1, 2014
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 01 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2014
Marc Lane Roark
University of Tulsa College of Law
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Homeless, Cathedral, Entitlements, Property Rules, Liability Rules, Inalienable, Subjective Identity, Collective Identity, Constitutional, Property, Fourth Amendment, Eighth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, Anti-Camping, Ordinance, Land Use, Hygiene, First Amendment, Due Process, Standing

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Payment Systems, Consumer Tragedy, and Ineffective Remedies

86 St. Johns L. Rev. ___ (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 01 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 08 Mar 2013
Marc Lane Roark
University of Tulsa College of Law
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consumer law, commercial law, banking, secured transactions, payment systems, stored value products, Starbucks, Article 9, consumption gentrification, unsecured aggregate creditor, bankruptcy, CAFA

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Slavery, Property, and Marshall in the Positivist Legal Tradition

Savannah L. Rev., Forthcoming
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 01 Apr 2015
Marc Lane Roark
University of Tulsa College of Law
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John Marshall, Joseph Story, Slavery, Property, Entitlement, The Antelope, The Amistad, International Law, Jim Crow, Transatlantic Slave Trade

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Groping Along Between Things Real and Things Personal: Defining Fixtures in Law and Policy in the UCC

University of Cincinnati Law Review, Forthcoming, U of Cincinnati Public Law Research Paper No. 2008-28
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 15 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 05 Feb 2013
Marc Lane Roark
University of Tulsa College of Law
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Fixtures, Real Property, UCC, Narration, Goods, NCCUSL

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The Constitution as Idea: Defining Describing Deciding in Kelo

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The Constitution as Idea: Defining Describing Deciding in Kelo

California Western Law Review, Vol. 43, No. 363, 2006
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 12 Aug 2006 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2013
Marc Lane Roark
University of Tulsa College of Law
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Kelo, Constitutional Law, Fifth Amendment, Emminent domain, space, place, o'connor

The Constitution as Idea: Defining Describing Deciding in Kelo

California Western Law Review, Vol. 43, Spring 2007
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 30 Aug 2006 Last Revised: 05 Feb 2013
Marc Lane Roark
University of Tulsa College of Law
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Kelo, Constitutional Law, Fifth Amendment, Emminent domain, space, place, O'Connor

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Loneliness and the Law: Solitude, Action, and Power in Law and Literature

Loyola Law Review, New Orleans, Vol. 55, No. 45, 2009
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 16 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 05 Feb 2013
Marc Lane Roark
University of Tulsa College of Law
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idea, place, space, imagination, holmes, emerson, transcendentalism, Auden, Plessy, civil rights cases, Brown v. Board of Education, Yick Wo, Korematsu, James Boyd White, Empire of Force, living speech

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'Opening the Barbarians' Gate' or Watching the Barbarians from the Coliseum: A Requiem on the Nomos of the Louisiana Civil Law

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'Opening the Barbarians' Gate' or Watching the Barbarians from the Coliseum: A Requiem on the Nomos of the Louisiana Civil Law

Louisiana Law Review, Vol. 67, 2007
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 15 Aug 2006 Last Revised: 05 Feb 2013
Marc Lane Roark
University of Tulsa College of Law
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Civil Law, Mixed Jurisdictions, Bijural, Common Law, Robert Cover, Slave Law, Secured Transactions

'Opening the Barbarians' Gate' or Watching the Barbarians from the Coliseum: A Requiem on the Nomos of the Louisiana Civil Law

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 10 Aug 2006
Marc Lane Roark
University of Tulsa College of Law
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Civil Law, Mixed Jurisdictions, Bijural, Common Law, Robert Cover, Slave Law, Secured Transactions

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The Contracts Course Survey

61 J. Legal Ed. 435
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 13 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 05 Feb 2013
Marc Lane Roark
University of Tulsa College of Law
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contracts, legal education, First Year Curriculum

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Human Impact Statements

Washburn Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 10 Apr 2015
Marc Lane Roark
University of Tulsa College of Law
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NEPA, Environmental, Housing, Homeless, Low-Income, Gentrification, urban development, zoning, highest best use

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Comparative Property Law and the Pandemic: Vulnerability Theory and Resilient Property in an Age of Crises

Louisiana Law Review, Vol. 82, No. 3, 2022
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 26 Jul 2022
Marc Lane Roark and Lorna Fox
University of Tulsa College of Law and University of Essex - School of Law
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Housing, Eviction, Property, Scale, Resiliency, Vulnerability Theory, Resilient Property Theory, Pandemic, COVID19, Moratorium, scale, state

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Disease War and Waste: A Consideration of External Factors on the Trade Fixtures Doctrine between 1350-1803

41 Cumberland L. Rev. 1
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 25 May 2011 Last Revised: 05 Feb 2013
Marc Lane Roark
University of Tulsa College of Law
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All in the Family: The Apocalyptic Legal Tradition as Crit Theory

University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review, Vol. 75, Winter 2006
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 09 Aug 2006 Last Revised: 05 Feb 2013
Marc Lane Roark
University of Tulsa College of Law
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Falwell, Critical Legal Studies, Regent, Liberty, Religion

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Retelling English Sovereignty

British J. Am. Legal Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 21 Mar 2015
Marc Lane Roark
University of Tulsa College of Law
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Scaling Commercial Law in Indian Country

Texas A&M Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 21 Sep 2020
Marc Lane Roark
University of Tulsa College of Law
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Indian Tribes, Secured Transactions, MTSTA, Article 9, UCC, Filing Systems, Commercial Law, ULC, Uniform Law, Scale, Institutional Thickness, Legal Geography, Localism, Formal Associations, Organic Relationships, Economic Development, NAFI’s

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On Proper[ty] Apologies and Resilience Gaps

11 Journal of Race, Gender, & Ethnicity 135, 2022
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 11 Feb 2023
Marc Lane Roark
University of Tulsa College of Law
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Resilience, Memory, Scale, Property, Reparations, Land Reform, Apartheid, Markets, State, Institution, Private Property

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1 - States, Narratives, and Norms

Squatting and the State: Resilient Property in an Age of Crisis (Cambridge University Press 2022) https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/squatting-and-the-state/states-narratives-and-norms/A06EC92E95CA425A6DD1527E6059145C
Posted: 07 Mar 2023
Marc Lane Roark and Lorna Fox
University of Tulsa College of Law and University of Essex - School of Law

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property, nomos, squatting, speculation, colonialism, apartheid, sovereignty, entrepreneurialism, scale, transformative constitutionalism, USA, Spain, England, Ireland, South Africa, Pandectism, Liberalism, globalism, neoliberalism, Native Americans, indigenous persons, Federalism

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Squatting, Scale and the State

Squatting and the State: Resilient Property in an Age of Crisis (Cambridge University Press 2022) https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/squatting-and-the-state/8D3FC8E3F55E569CA3001BC1BA8FCBDA
Posted: 07 Mar 2023
Marc Lane Roark and Lorna Fox
University of Tulsa College of Law and University of Essex - School of Law

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squatting, wicked problem, scale, state, vulnerability, South Africa, England, London, Spain, Ireland, United States, housing, crisis, Homeless, frames, private property, political discourse, possession, ownership, upscaling, downscaling, localizing, territory, doctrinalism, pragmatism

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Squatting and the State: Resilient Property in an Age of Crisis

Squatting and the State: Resilient Property in an Age of Crisis (Cambridge University Press 2022)
Posted: 07 Mar 2023
Lorna Fox and Marc Lane Roark
University of Essex - School of Law and University of Tulsa College of Law

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Squatting, Homelessness, Property, Property Theory, Scale, Vulnerability Theory, Resilience, Sustainability, Urban Geography, The State, Hierarchical scale, Nomos

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Housing Trusts and Resilient Cities: Hierarchy, Resources, and Resilience

Chapter in RECONCEIVING EQUALITY AND FREEDOM: VULNERABILITY, DEPENDENCY, AND THE RESPONSIVE STATE (Edward Elgar Publishing 2023)
Posted: 07 Mar 2023
Marc Lane Roark
University of Tulsa College of Law

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Housing, Housing Trusts, Taxation, Affordable Housing, Homelessness, public housing, city finance, tax increment financing, land use, zoning

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Property as an Asset of Resilience: Rethinking Ownership, Communities and Exclusion through the Register of Resilience

International Journal for the Semiotics of the Law
Posted: 11 Feb 2023
Marc Lane Roark and Lorna Fox
University of Tulsa College of Law and University of Essex - School of Law

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Vulnerability, Resilience, Scale, Discourse, Property, Signs, Ownership, Capabilities, Resources, Hierarchy, Private Property, Neighborhoods, Exclusion, Sharing, outsiders,

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Louisiana Colonial Slave Law - Revolution, Property and Race

Posted: 12 Aug 2006 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2014
Marc Lane Roark
University of Tulsa College of Law

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Louisiana, slavery, revolution, tushnet, marxist, sentiment, property, history