Published on April 14, 2026  
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The scholarship of Samford University Cumberland School of Law faculty members is frequently cited in numerous legal disciplines. The following is a list of faculty authored works cited from Jan. 1-March 31, 2026, and sourced by Westlaw Precision, Lexis+ AI, and HeinOnline. 

LaJuana Davis

LaJuana Davis, Reconsidering Remedies for Ensuring Competent Representation in Removal Proceedings, 58 Drake Law Review 123 (2009).

  • Cited by Vanessa Merton, Betrayal of Trust, Restoration of Hope: How to Enforce the Law and Transform the Lives of Immigrants Ripped Off and Damaged by Bad Lawyers and Scammer Notarios, 99 St. John's Law Review 379 (2025).

Brannon P. Denning

Calvin B. Massey & Brannon P. Denning, American Constitutional Law: Powers And Liberties (7th ed. 2023).

  • Cited by Benjamin H. Barton, The 107 Longest Supreme Court Cases, 104 North Carolina Law Review 433 (2026).
  • Cited by Isaac Z. Rizkallah, More Than Mere Semantics: Why Virginia Cannot Force Preferred-Pronoun Mandates on Public School Teachers Under Virginia's Religious Freedom Restoration Act, 20 Liberty University Law Review 253 (2025).

Brannon P. Denning, The Dormant Commerce Clause Wins One: Five Takes on Wynne and Direct Marketing Association, 100 Minnesota Law Review Headnotes 103 (2016).

  • Cited by Michael T. Fatale, State Tax Discrimination And Internal Consistency, 29 Florida Tax Review 271 (2025).

Brannon P. Denning & Norman R. Williams, Wynne: Lose or Draw?, 67 Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc 245 (2014).

  • Cited by Michael T. Fatale, State Tax Discrimination And Internal Consistency, 29 Florida Tax Review. 271 (2025).

Brannon P. Denning & Michael B. Kent, Jr., Anti-Anti-Evasion in Constitutional Law, 41 Florida State University Law Review 397 (2014).

  • Cited by Allan Erbsen, Constitutional Limits on the President's Authority to Adjourn Congress, 2026 U. Illinois Law Review 153 (2026).

Brannon P. Denning & Norman R. Williams, The “New Protectionism” and the American Common Market, 85 Notre Dame Law Review 247 (2009).

  • Cited by Michael T. Fatale, State Tax Discrimination And Internal Consistency, 29 Florida Tax Review 271 (2025).

Brannon P. Denning, Reconstructing the Dormant Commerce Clause Doctrine, 50 William & Mary Law Review 417 (2008).

  • Cited by Benjamin H. Barton, The 107 Longest Supreme Court Cases, 104 North Carolina Law Review 433 (2026).
  • Cited by Sam Kalen, Pork Producers, Product Bans, and Petering Out Dormant Commerce Clause Extraterritoriality Inquiries, 59 Akron Law Review 117 (2026).
  • Cited by Michael T. Fatale, State Tax Discrimination and Internal Consistency, 29 Florida Tax Review 271 (2025).

Brannon P. Denning & Michael D. Ramsey, American Insurance Association v. Garamendi and Executive Preemption in Foreign Affairs, 46 William & Mary Law Review 825 (2004).

  • Cited by Ashley S. Deeks & Kristen E. Eichensehr, Federalism and the New National Security, 139 Harvard Law Review 472 (2025).
  • Mast v. A.A., No. 240707, 2026 WL 388809 (Va. Feb. 12, 2026).

Brannon P. Denning, Confederation-Era Discrimination Against Interstate Commerce and the Legitimacy of the Dormant Commerce Clause Doctrine, 94 Kentucky Law Review 37 (2006).

  • Cited by Sam Kalen, Pork Producers, Product Bans, and Petering Out Dormant Commerce Clause Extraterritoriality Inquiries, 59 Akron Law Review 117 (2026).

Chinelo Diké-Minor

Chinelo Diké-Minor, The Untold Story of the United States' Anti-Kickback Laws, 20 Rutgers Journal of Law & Public Policy 103 (2023).

  • Cited by Yasameen Joulaee, Developing Anti-kickback Compliance Guidance At The Intersection Of ““sponsored” And “genetic Testing” Programs, 40 Berkeley Tech Law Journal 957 (2025).

Alyssa A. DiRusso

Alyssa A. DiRusso & Emily Price, Fetal Personhood and Inheritance by Unborn Children, 50 American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Law Journal 279 (2025).

  • Cited by Julia Koert, Paula Moore, Prof. William P. LaPiana, Jake W. Villanueva, and Shannon Weber, Keeping Current Probate, 40 Probate & Property 28 (2026). 

Jill E. Evans

Jill E. Evans, Challenging the Racism in Environmental Racism: Redefining the Concept of Intent, 40 Arizona Law Review 1219 (1998).

  • Cited by Jackson Springer, Litigating Unconscious Racism After Clary: Lessons From the Subconscious Copying Doctrine, 73 UCLA Law Review Discovery 118 (2026).

Blake Hudson

Blake Hudson, Structural Environmental Constitutionalism, 21 Widener Law Review 201 (2015).

  • Cited by Karina Zakarian, A Soldierly March Towards Freedom: Treading Through the Great Climate War on the Arms of Amendments and Fiduciary Duty, 70 Villanova Law Review 845 (2025).

Emily Price

Alyssa A. DiRusso & Emily Price, Fetal Personhood and Inheritance by Unborn Children, 50 American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Law Journal 279 (2025).

  • Cited by Julia Koert, Paula Moore, Prof. William P. LaPiana, Jake W. Villanueva, and Shannon Weber, Keeping Current Probate, 40 Probate & Property 28 (2026). 

Tracy M. Roberts

Tracey M. Roberts, W(h)ither Regulation? Hither to the Tax System, 43 Pace Environmental Law Review 182 (2025).

  • Cited by Bridgget J. Crawford, Seven Ways of Looking at the Climate Crisis, 43 Pace Environmental Law Review 1 (2025).

Roberta F. Mann & Tracey M. Roberts, The Long and Winding Road: The Inflation Reduction Act's Energy and Environmental Tax Credits, 78 National Tax Journal 223 (2025).

  • Cited by Genevieve Tokic, Environmental Tax Incentives: Lessons from the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (So Far), 43 Pace Environmental Law Review 57 (2025).

William G. Ross

William G. Ross, The Questioning of Lower Federal Court Nominees at Senate Confirmation Hearings, 10 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 119 (2001).

  • Cited by Susan Yorke, The Curious Case of the Missing Canons, 77 Stanford Law Review 1011 (2025).

William G. Ross, Forging New Freedoms: Nativism, Education, And The Constitution, 1917-1927 (1994).

  • Cited by Csongor István Nagy, Federal Liberties and Diversity Among the States, 58 Suffolk University Law Review 257 (2025).

William G. Ross, A Judicial Janus: Meyer v. Nebraska in Historical Perspective, 57 Cinncinatti Law Review 125 (1988).

  • Cited by William J. Aceves, Whose Children?, 103 Washington University Law Review 477 (2025).

David M. Smolin

David M. Smolin, Child Laundering As Exploitation: Applying Anti-Trafficking Norms to Intercountry Adoption Under the Coming Hauge Regime, 32 Vermont Law Review 1 (2007).

  • Cited by Miracle Surrogacy, LLC v. Monello-Fuentes, No. 25-cv-21575, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 20086 (S.D. Fla. Jan. 30, 2026).
 
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