Articles
THE UNETHICAL AND THE CRIMINAL, The Advocate (2009)
Imagine a world in which everyone is at risk of prosecution but blissfully unaware of...
Personhood and the Right to Privacy in Texas, South Texas Law Review (2007)
This study analyzes the right to privacy and personhood, as it exists under the civil...
Arbitration in the Ancient Greek World, Alternative Resolutions (2006)
Contemporary dispute resolution professionals tend to think of mediation and arbitration as modern phenomena, evidence...
Coverage for Ensuing Water Damage under Texas Property Insurance Policies, South Texas Law Review (2005)
Contributions to Books
Commentary on the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct Governing the Duties between Lawyer and Client, Texas Lawyers' Professional Ethics (2007)
This chapter, written with Dean Emeritus John F. Sutton, Jr., describes and explains the requirements...
Unpublished Papers
Legal Ethics, Christian Wisdom, and the Love of the Good (2008)
This article argues that the moral teaching contained within early Christian wisdom literature that has...
Stayton, Gaines, and the Capitol Court 1882-1900 (book chapter) (2008)
This chapter was commissioned by the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society for its multi-volume work...
CANONOLOGY:REDEFINING CANON LAW FROM AN EASTERN PERSPECTIVE (2007)
This article seeks to characterize the dominant schools of thought among the contemporary canon law...
IDEOLOGICAL HISTORY AND THE SECESSION RHETORIC OF TEXAS POLITICIANS (2007)
This article deals with an episode in the ideological history of Texas. It analyzes the...
ST. NIKODIMOS, THE RUDDER, THE KOLLYVADES, AND THE RELIGIOUS COMPONENT OF REVOLUTONARY GREEK NATIONALISM: SELF-DEFINITION BY REFERENCE TO “THE OTHER” (2006)
Historically, τό Πηδάλιον (The Rudder) of St. Nikodimos has been the primary canon law book...
The Theban Prelude to Alexander’s Greatness (2005)
The history of Greece during the early fourth century B.C.E. is often overlooked as a...
Presentations
IN THE ARENA: THE TEXAS SUPREME COURT’S STEADY REIN ON RAILROADS AND BIG BUSINESS, 1880 – 1900, Texas State Historical Association Annual Convention (2008)
Like the pre-Lochner United States Supreme Court, the late nineteenth century Texas Supreme Court did...
JUDGES AS POLITICAL ORATORS: THE 1860 SECESSION DEBATE BETWEEN TEXAS SUPREME COURT JUSTICES O.M. ROBERTS AND JAMES H. BELL, Texas State Historical Association Annual Convention (2005)
This article deals with an episode in the ideological history of Texas. It analyzes the...