Published on January 13, 2026  

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 Oct. 1-Dec. 31, 2025, and sourced by Westlaw Precision, Lexis+ AI, and HeinOnline.

Jeffrey M. Anderson

Jeffrey M. Anderson, The Principle of Party Presentation, 70 Buff. L. Rev. 1029 (2022).

  • Cited by Timothy M. Harris, The Contracts Clause Can Be Enforced Via Section 1983, Period: The Nonexistent Circuit Court "Split", 78 SMU L. Rev. Forum 106 (2025).

Brannon P. Denning

Brannon P. Denning & Glenn H. Reynolds, Trouble's Bruen: The Lower Courts Respond, 108 Minn. L. Rev. 3187 (2024).

  • Cited by Christian Z. MacDonald, A Blunt Reality: How S 922(g)(3) of the Gun Control Act Violates the Second Amendment Rights of Marijuana Users, 78 SMU L. Rev. Forum 115 (2025).

Brannon P. Denning and Glen H. Reynolds, Trouble's Bruen: The Lower Courts Respond, 108 Minn. L. Rev. 3187 (2024).

  • Cited by Carlos A. Ball, The Roberts Court's Libertarian Constitutionalism, 59 L. Rev. 431 (2025).

Brannon P. Denning & Glenn H. Reynolds, Retconning Heller: Five Takes on New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 65 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 79 (2023).

  • Cited by J. Joel Alicea, Bruen Was Right, 174 Pa. L. Rev. 13 (2025).

Brannon P. Denning, Can Judges Be Uncivilly Obedient?, 60 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1, 14-29 (2018).

  • Cited By Gregory S. Parks & Vivian Bolen, Machine Gun Funk: The Unusual Analysis of “Dangerous and Unusual”, 110 Minn. L. Rev. Headnotes 23 (2025).

Brannon P. Denning & Michael D. Ramsey, American Insurance Association v. Garamendi and Executive Preemption in Foreign Affairs, 46 WM. & MARY L. REV. 825 (2004).

  • Cited by Ashley S. Deeks & Kristen E. Eichensehr, Federalism And The New National Security, 139 Harv. L. Rev. 472 (2025). 

Brannon P. Denning & Glenn H. Reynolds, Lower Court Readings of Lopez, Or What if the Supreme Court Held a Constitutional Revolution and Nobody Came?, 2000 Wis. L. Rev. 369 (2000).

  • Cited by Richard M. Re, To A Conservative Warren Court, 139 L. Rev. 1 (2025).

Brannon P. Denning & Brooks R. Smith, Uneasy Riders: The Case for a Truth-in-Legislation Amendment, 1999 Utah L. Rev. 957 (1999).

  • Cited by Jake Shatzer, Does Georgia's Code Have The Force Of Law? Early Codification Practices And Constitutional Questions, 77 Mercer L. Rev. 53 (2025).

Brannon P. Denning & Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Comfortably Penumbral, 77 B.U. L. Rev. 1089 (1997).

  • Cited By John G. Sprankling, The Right to Acquire Property, 75 Am. U. L. Rev. 209 (2025).

Alyssa A. DiRusso

Alyssa A. DiRusso, Life and Death Matters in Conflict of Laws, 97 Tul. L. Rev. 703 (2023)

  • Cited by Amy Gaisser, Valuing the Voiceless: A Path Forward for Determining Brain Death Without Jeopardizing the Right to Life of Vulnerable Patients in Indiana, 59 Ind. L. Rev. 217 (2025).

Alyssa A. DiRusso, Testacy and Intestacy: The Dynamics of Wills and Demographic Status, 23 Quinnipiac Prob. L.J. 36 (2009).

  • Cited by John Speirs, Code As Counselor: How Robo-Will Platforms Are Productizing Estate Planning Services, 27 N.C. J. L. & Tech. 237 (2025).

Blake Hudson

Blake Hudson, Land Development: A Super-Wicked Environmental Problem, 51 Ariz. St. L.J. 1123 (2019).

  • Cited by Sarah J. Adams, Federal Flood Policy & Maladaptation: A Story Of Collective Forgetting, 34 S. Cal. Interdis. L.J. 1 (2025).

Timothy J. McFarlin

Timothy J. McFarlin, Fixation, Elgar Encyclopedia of Intellectual Property Law (2025).

  • Cited by Edward Lee, Fair Use And The Origin Of AI Training, 63 L. Rev. 105 (2025).

Timothy J. McFarlin, Infringing Uses, Not Works, 76 S.C. L. REV. 103 (2024).

  • Cited by Edward Lee, Fair Use And The Origin Of AI Training, 63 L. Rev. 105 (2025).

William G. Ross

William G. Ross, World War I and the American Constitution (2017).

  • Cited by Daniel B. Rice, Civic Duties and Cultural Change, 113 L. Rev. 1723 (2025). 

William G. Ross, The Honest Hour: The Ethics Of Time-based Billing By Attorneys (1996).

  • Cited by Cited by Jonah E. Perlin, How the Billable Hour can Survive Generative AI, 5 Stetson Bus. L. Rev. 42 (2025).

William G. Ross, Forging New Freedoms: Nativism, Education, And The Constitution, 1917-1927 149 (1994).

  • Cited by Csongor István Nagy, Federal Liberties And Diversity Among The States, 58 Suffolk U. L. Rev. 257 (2025).

William G. Ross, A Judicial Janus: Meyer v. Nebraska in Historical Perspective, 57 Cin. L. Rev. 125 (1988).

  • Cited by Robert S. Chang et. al., "That's Not My Name": The Linguistic Violence of Misnaming Parties in Court Proceedings, 100 Wash. L. Rev. 687 (2025).

Maryam T. Stevenson

Maryam T. Stevenson, Explaining the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Stalemate in Congress, 73 Cath. U. L. Rev. 400 (2024).

  • Cited by Stella Burch Elias, Immigration Federalism in the Second Trump Administration, 61 Idaho L. Rev. 291 (2025).
 
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