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

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

Gregory A. Elinson

• Norm-Breakers, Rights-Makers: Legislative Norms, Democratization, and the Fight For Civil Rights, 26 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol’y (forthcoming 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. forthcoming)
• 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).

Sarah Fox

• The United States of America, in Edward Elgar Handbook On Cities And Climate Change Law (Anél du Plessis & Cathrin Zengerling, eds.) (forthcoming Edward Elgar 2024) (invited contribution)
• Soil Governance and Private Property , __ Utah L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2024)
• Climate Changed Communities, in Adapting to High-Level Warming: Equity, Governance, and Law, Environmental Law Institute (forthcoming 2023) (invited contribution)
• A Research Agenda for Sustainable Land Use Policy and Planning (chapter), in A Research Agenda for Land Use and Planning Law: US and Comparative Perspectives (Sarah Schindler & John Infranca, eds.) (forthcoming Edward Elgar, Elgar Research Agenda Series 2023)
• The Prospect and Perils of Climate Preemption for Public Health, __  N.E. Univ. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2022).
• Adapting to a 4º World , 52 Env't L. Rep. 10211 (with Karrigan Bork et al.) (2022).
• How the Biden Administration Can Empower Local Climate Action, 51 Urb. Law. 203 (2021).
• Why Localizing Climate Federalism Matters (Even) During a Biden Administration, 99 Texas L. Rev. Online 122 (2021).
• Localizing Environmental Federalism, 54 UC Davis L. Rev. 133 (2020).
• Principles of Home Rule for the Twenty-First Century, National League of Cities; Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2020-16; Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3539617 (February 12, 2020) (with Richard Briffault et al.).

Heidi L. Frostestad

• 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 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 (2025 ed.) (Lexis Nexis) (forthcoming 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 (2024-2025 ed.) (Lexis Nexis) (forthcoming 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

• In-Hospital Assertions of Childcare Parentage, __ Wisconsin J. of Law, Gender & Society __ (forthcoming, Fall-Winter 2024).
• Reforming Illinois Paternity/Maternity/Parentage Acknowledgment Laws, 48 S. Ill. L. J. _ (forthcoming 2024).
• Choosing Parentage Laws, ISBA Civ. Prac. and Proc. Section Council Newsl. (forthcoming 2024).
• Federal Court Discover 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). 

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

• Constitutional Firsts: New Hampshire's Constitution-writing Innovations, 1776-1784, 81 Historical New Hampshire (forthcoming 2028).
• The Constraint of History, 46 Harvard J. L. and Pub. Pol'y (forthcoming 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 2023).
• From Soul Food to Father Divine: Black Engagement with Food and the Law [Working Title] (in progress) [Chapter forthcoming with University of Tennessee Press]