Northern Illinois University
College of Law

Faculty scholarship since 2020

Evan Bernick

Book

• Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit  (2021) (with Randy E. Barnett).

Articles

• “Critical Legal Studies, Again?” “Again and Again!”, 38 Const. Comment. 69 (2024)  (reviewing Louis Michael Seidman, From Parchment To Dust: The Case for Constitutional Skepticism (2021))
• Movement Administrative Procedure, 98 Notre Dame L. Rev. 2177 (2023)
• What is the Object of the Constitutional Oath?, 128 Penn St. L. Rev. 1 (2023) (with Christopher R. Green)
• There Is Something that Our Constitution Just Is, 27 Tex. Rev. L. & Pol. 247 (2023) (with Christopher R. Green)
• Equal Protection Against Policing, 25 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 1154 (2023)
• Jane Crow Constitutionalism, 43 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 300 (2023)
• Fourteenth Amendment Confrontation, 51 Hofstra L. Rev. 1 (2022)
• Vindicating Cassandra: A Comment on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org., Cato Sup. Ct. Rev. (2022)

Gregory A. Elinson

• A Progressive Supreme Court? The Supreme Court and Electoral Politics from Reconstruction to the Present (with Joshua Braver), 66 Ariz. L. Rev. 841 (2024).
• Norm-Breakers, Rights-Makers: Legislative Norms, Democratization, and the Fight For Civil Rights, 26 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol’y (2024).
• Macro-Level Pluralism: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in the Study of Political History (with Ruth Bloch Rubin and Calvin TerBeek), in Oxford Handbook of Methodological Pluralism in Political Science (Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Dino Christenson & Valeria Sinclair-Chapman, eds., 2023)
• Intraparty Conflict and the Separation of Powers, 75 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 1307 (2024).
• The Politics of Deference (with Jonathan Gould), 75 Vand. L. Rev. 475 (2022).
• When a Statute Comes With a User Manual: Reconciling Textualism and Uniform Acts (with Robert H. Sitkoff), 71 Emory L.J. 1073 (2022).

Marc D. Falkoff

• Reflections on Poems from Guantánamo, in Remaking the Exceptional: Tracing Torture, Justice, and Reparations (DePaul Art Museum, 2022).

Heidi L. Frostestad

Book

• International Legal Research in a Global Community (Carolina Academic Press, 2nd edition), forthcoming 2026.

Articles

• Technologically Competent Reprised: Ethical Practice in An AI Age and Considerations for our Courts in a Burgeoning AI Era, 12 Belmont L. Rev. 29 (Spring 2025).
• AI Regulation in a ChatGPT Era: Cross-border Cooperation and Hope in a Sudden Storm, 32 Ind. J. Global Legal Stud. 1 (forthcoming, Fall 2024).
• Designing Data Projects Using Court Records: Lessons from the SCALES OKN Project, including Its Cost, Data, and Development Challenges, Nov.-Dec. 2022, AALL Spectrum at 12 (with Rebecca Fordon, Tom Gaylord & Adam R. Pah).
• Update: A Basic Guide to International Environmental Legal Research, GlobaLex, NYU Hauser Global Law School Program (May/June 2022).
• The Right to Access Legal Information: Progress and Evolving Norms in a Digital Age,  114 L. Libr. J. 261 (2022).
• Global Legal Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility: Where's the Beef?, 46 N.C. J. Int'l L. 111 (2021).

Robert Jones

• Academic Reputation Scores for Law Schools Rise Significantly in 2020 (April 29, 2020). 

Daniel S. McConkie, Jr.

• Promoting and Reforming Kenya’s Customary Justice Systems in Criminal Cases, 38 Emory Int’l L. Rev. _ (forthcoming 2024)
• Restorative Justice as a Democratic Practice, 55 Loyola L. J. _ (forthcoming 2024)
• Criminal Justice Citizenship, 72 Fla. L. Rev. 1023 (2021).
• Plea Bargaining for the People, 104 Marq. L. Rev. 1031 (2020).

Peter Ormerod

• Privacy Law’s Incumbency Problem, 58 UC Davis L. Rev. (forthcoming 2024)
• Privacy Qui Tam, 98 Notre Dame L. Rev. 267 (2022)
• Making Privacy Injuries Concrete, 79 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 101 (2022)
• Privacy Injuries and Article III Concreteness, 48 Fla. State Univ. L. Rev. 133 (2021)

Jeffrey A. Parness

Books

• American Parentage Law (2026 ed.) (Lexis Nexis) (forthcoming 2025).
• American Parentage Law (2025 ed.) (Lexis Nexis) (2024).
• American Parentage Law (2024 ed.) (Lexis Nexis) (2023).
• American Parentage Law (2023 ed.) (Lexis Nexis) (2022).
• American Parentage Law (2022 ed.) (Lexis Nexis) (2021).
• American Parentage Law (2021 ed.) (Lexis Nexis) (2020).
• Illinois Civil Procedure (2025-2026 ed.) (Lexis Nexis) (forthcoming 2025).
• Illinois Civil Procedure (2024-2025 ed.) (Lexis Nexis) (2024).
• Illinois Civil Procedure (2023-2024 ed.) (Lexis Nexis) (2023).
• Illinois Civil Procedure (2022-2023 ed.) (Lexis Nexis) (2022).
• Illinois Civil Procedure (2021-2022 ed.) (Lexis Nexis) (2021).
• Illinois Civil Procedure (2020-2021 ed.) (Lexis Nexis) (2020).

Articles

• Generative AI: Need for New Written Illinois Laws?, 113 Ill. B.J. __ (forthcoming 2025).
• Inherent Federal Court Sanctions for Extraterritorial Civil Litigation Conduct, 95 Miss. L. J. __ (forthcoming 2025).
• Regaining Childcare Liberties for Natural Parents, 64 Duq. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2026).
• At Birth Childcare Parentage in Assisted Reproduction Births, 101 Ind. L. J. Supplement __ (forthcoming 2025).
• Enhancing Law Review Impact, 78 SMU L. Rev. F. 1 (2025).
• Alternative Paths to Bar Admission in Illinois?, 47 DuPage Cnty. Bar Ass'n Brief 12 (Jan./Feb. 2025). 
• Nonadoptive Second Parent Choices After Birth, 72 Drake L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2025).
• Illinois bar exam should add state-specific test supplement, Chi. Daily L. Bull. (July 16, 2024).
• State Law Tests and Apprenticeships With the New Uniform Bar Exam? 58 Creighton L. Rev. 1 (2024).
• Illinois Bar Exam Testing: Change is Coming, 36 DCBA Brief 6 (May/June 2024).
• Evaporating Natural Parent Childcare Liberties Under New Parentage Laws, 77 Arkansas L. Rev. 643 (2025).
• In-Hospital Assertions of Childcare Parentage, 39 Wisconsin J. of Law, Gender & Society 155 (2024). 
• Reforming Illinois Paternity/Maternity/Parentage Acknowledgment Laws, 48 S. Ill. L. J. 417 (2024).
• Choosing Parentage Laws, 70 ISBA Civil Practice and Procedure Section Council Newsletter (May 2024).
• Federal Court Discovery for Foreign Court Proceedings, ISBA Fed. Cts. Section Council Newsl. (forthcoming 2024).
• New Mothers Know Best? Second Parent Choices at Birth, 48 S. Ill. Univ. L. Rev. 1 (2023).
• UBE 2.0, 6 Raising the Bar 4 (Access Lex Institute, Spring 2023).
• FRCP 11 Sanctions for Bad Discovery Advocacies, 54 N. M. L. Rev. 213 (2024) (with Alexandria N. Short).
• Binding Nonsignatories to Forum Selection Clauses, ISBA Fed. Civ. Prac. Section Newsl. (Dec. 2022).
• Civil Procedure and the New Bar Exam, 4 Univ. of Colorado L. Rev. Online Forum 11 (2022).
• Dobbs and Unenumerated Parental Custody Rights and Interests , 14 ConLaw Now 117 (2023).
• Expanding State Parent Registry Laws, 101 Nebraska L. Rev. 684 (2023). 
• Presuit Lawyer Information Duties Relevant to Civil Litigation, 105 Marquette L. Rev. 921 (2022), reprinted in 71 Def. L. J No. 4, at 109-151 (Nov. 2022).
• American Constitutions and Artificial Insemination Births, 13 ConLaw Now 125 (2022). 
• Irrationalities in Legal Parentage: Gender Identity and Beyond, 51 Univ. of Baltimore L. Rev. 353 (2022).
• Abortion and Safe Haven Laws, 3 Univ. of Colorado L. Rev. Forum 11 (2022). 
• DIY Artificial Insemination: The Not-So-Great Gatsby, 55 Creighton L. Rev. 465 (2022). 
• Who Is A Parent? Intrastate and Interstate Differences, 34 J. of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers 455 (2022).
• Choosing Parentage Laws in Multistate Conduct Cases, 35 J. of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers 669 (2023). 
• The Roberts Court and Lost ESI, 51  Stetson L. Rev. 335 (2022). 
• State Spoliation Claims in Federal District Courts, 71 Cath. U. L. Rev 1 (2022).
• Presuit Civil Protective Orders on Discovery,  38 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 455 (2022). 
• Innocent Losses of Constitutional Rights, 39 Quinnipiac L. Rev 275 (2021). 
• Nongendered Childcare Parentage, 56 Gonzaga L. Rev 465 (2020/21). 
• Illinois Childcare Parentage Law (R)Evolution,  51 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 911 (2020). 
• Unconstitutional Parenthood, 104 Marquette L. Rev. 183 (2020). 
• The Constitutional Limits on Custodial and Support Parentage by Consent, 56 Idaho L. Rev. 421 (2020).

Laurel A. Rigertas

• Demonstrating Civility: A Law School Learning Outcome, 112 Ky. L. J. __ (forthcoming 2024). 

Matthew Timko

• Applying Universal Design in the Legal Academy, 114 L. Libr. J. 343 (2022). 
• The Tangled Web: Teaching the Meaning of Legal Citations in the Online Age, AALL Publication Series No. 86 (Hein, Michael Chiorazzi ed., 2022).

Lorianne Updike Toler

• (Un)Free Citizens, Colum. J. Race and L. (forthcoming).
• Constitution-Writing Rules, Int'l J. Const. L. (forthcoming).
• Constitutional Firsts: New Hampshire's Constitution-writing Innovations, 1776-1784, 81 Historical New Hampshire (forthcoming 2028).
• Un-fathering Executive Removal, 57 Connecticut Law Review (forthcoming 2025).
• The Constraint of History, 46 Harvard J. L. and Pub. Pol'y 457 (2023) (with Robert Capodilupo).
• In the Room Where the Constitution Happens, 25 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 1418 (2023).
• The Missing Indian Affairs Clause, 88 U. Chicago L. Rev. 413 (2021).

Telia Williams

• Sola Scriptura or the Magisterium: Two Contrasting Views of Constitutional Hermeneutics __ J. of L. and Pub. Pol'y __ (forthcoming).
• From Soul Food to Father Divine: Black Engagement with Food and the Law [Working Title] (in progress) [Chapter forthcoming with University of Tennessee Press]