Current Law Faculty Publications
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This digital collection is a compilation of the scholarship of the current Creighton University School of Law faculty while they have been affiliated with the School of Law. Full text is provided when available. Publications of former faculty, including A Century of Creighton University School of Law Faculty Publications, 1904-2004 and former faculty who have left the School of Law or retired since 2004 are also available in the Creighton Digital Repository.
Recent Submissions
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Ukraine Symposium - Destructive counter-mobility operations and the law of war
Decades of experience have greatly improved familiarity with, if not always fidelity to, law of war rules applicable to attacks on enemy forces. Less well appreciated is the law of war regime applicable to other acts of ... -
International business contracting: Theory and practice
International Business Contracting is designed to teach business and law students how international business contracts are structured and drafted. After several introductory chapters on international business, legal issues, ... -
Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court and “Corporate Tag Jurisdiction” in the Pennoyer era
In its seventh personal jurisdiction decision since 2011, the Supreme Court in Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eight Judicial District Court ruled for the plaintiff and found jurisdiction, after six straight victories for ... -
Siege law
Images of the million or more persons who have fled toward neighboring States highlight the tragic humanitarian impact of the ongoing armed conflict between Ukraine and Russia. However, a worse fate could await those unable ... -
Ukraine Symposium – A war crimes primer on the Ukraine-Russia conflict
This post examines select war crimes recognized in international law that may be relevant to the conflict in Ukraine. We focus on offenses adopted as grave breaches under the Geneva Conventions system, since both Russia ... -
Ukraine's legal counterattack
Beyond its endurance on the battlefield, Ukraine has launched a legal counterattack against Russia in the courts. The normally slow-moving, process-heavy gears of international justice are now moving at relative lightspeed ... -
Public health law and ethics
Despite its explicit focus on justice and population level change, the field of public health ethics is relatively new. At its core, public health ethics is about practical decision-making, often when the law is unclear. ... -
Ethical issues
Critical care nurses need a robust understanding of professional nursing ethics and ethical principles and the ability to use a decision-making model to guide nursing actions. This chapter provides an overview of ethical ... -
Brief of amici curiae professors of health law and policy in support of petitioner
Prescribing controlled substances for the benefit of patients is an everyday and essential practice for physicians and other authorized prescribing practitioners. Despite dominant public narratives about the harms of ... -
Advancing a public health-promoting national opioid policy
The U.S. drug policy regime’s defining quality is its persistent adherence to the same approaches in the face of overwhelming evidence that they are unsuccessful, including supply-side tactics, fear mongering, and ... -
Consultation report: Cohorting COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients in a comfort-only care unit
Pandemics such as that caused by COVID-19 can lead to a surge in demand for health care services, including palliative and end-of-life care. Some people who become seriously ill will have advance directives in place that ... -
Pain, complexity, and opioids
This week several groups called for the resignation of FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg in a letter to HHS secretary Sylvia Burwell. Why? Because of the agency’s stance on opioid drugs, as reflected in their statement, ... -
The opiod crisis: Understanding the complexities, acknowledging the challenges, and exploring possible solutions
On September 25, 2018, AHLA hosted a convener session at American University's Washington College of Law in Washington, DC to address the national crisis of opioid-related harm. Twenty experts from around the country ... -
Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine & the role of international law
The United States’ leadership of Western opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is the correct response. No question. The entire international system of States is based upon Westphalian notions of sovereign equality, ... -
Are Molotov cocktails lawful weapons?
A frequent feature of violent riots and revolts, the Molotov cocktail has reappeared in reports of Ukraine’s preparations to resist the ongoing Russian invasion. Although undoubtedly symbolic of resolve to resist using all ...
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