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Faculty & Staff
Fall 2008
Late August/September
Summer 2008
July/Early August
Professor Susan Ayres gave a lecture on August 7, 2008 at the Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art. The lecture, about the relationship between the novel, BELOVED, and the art of Kara Walker, was part of the museum's summer reading series in conjunction with its current exhibition, "Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love."
Professor Mark Burge and Professor Roger Simon spoke at the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute (LWI) held at Indiana University - Indianapolis during July 14- 17, 2008. Their presentation was entitled "Integration of Statutory-Interpretation Skills into Your Existing Writing and Analysis Curriculum: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives." LWI is the second largest organization of law professors in the United States.
Professor Cynthia Fountaine presented at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) annual conference on July 31, 2008 held in Palm Beach, Florida. Professor Fountaine was a Co-Chair, Panelist, and Discussion Leader for a SEALS panel entitled, "Overview Regarding the Teaching of Professional Responsibility." Her presentation was entitled, "From Orientation to Graduation: Legal Ethics Across the Law School Curriculum, Mexican Curricular Reform Project: Professional Responsibility." Professor Fountaine has also been invited to present "Protecting Diversity of Thought While Encouraging Diversity as Inclusiveness: Exploring Potential Tensions" at the 2009 International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations, which will be held in June 2009 in Riga, Latvia.
Professor Jason Gillmer presented at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) annual conference on August 1, 2008 held in Palm Beach, Florida. Professor Gillmer’s latest article, "Base Wretches and Black Wenches: A Story of Sex and Race, Violence and Compassion, During Slavery Times," was chosen as a "Top Paper" to be presented at SEALS after a national call for papers. This paper was one of three final papers chosen out of more than thirty-five applications. In this paper, which will be published in the Alabama Law Review, Professor Gillmer examines in detail the local and trial records of a nineteenth-century Texas case to tell the story of a white slave master who had a thirty-year relationship with a female slave. Professor Gillmer was also invited to speak at a conference commemorating the abolition of the slave trade 200 years ago. This conference is being held at the University of Toledo College of Law at the end of October, and Professor Gillmer will be presenting a paper entitled, "Shades of Gray: Free Blacks, Poor Whites, and the Politics of Difference in Antebellum Texas." Professor Gillmer has also been invited to present his latest research regarding the history of free blacks in Texas at the Thirteenth Annual LatCrit Conference in Seattle, Washington. Professor Gillmer will participate as part of a LatCrit panel on Race and Slavery: Historical and Contemporary Problems to be held on October 3, 2008. Professor Carla Pratt will also be a presenter on this LatCrit panel.
Professor Michael Green presented at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) annual conference on August 1, 2008 held in Palm Beach, Florida. Professor Green’s topic, "Retaliatory Aspects of Compelling Arbitration," was part of a Labor and Employment Panel regarding The Impact of Retaliation in the Workplace After Burlington v. White. Professor Green has also been appointed as the Co-Chair of the American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section’s Advocacy Committee. Professor Green has been invited to speak at the Thirteenth Annual LatCrit Conference in Seattle, Washington. Professor Green will participate as part of a LatCrit panel on Sex, Race, and Other Identities at the Intersections to be held on October 4, 2008. Professor Green will discuss the topic, "Doubting the Thomases: Is Black on Black Workplace Harassment an Issue of Race or Sex or Both?" During this presentation, Professor Green will explore the intersection of race and sex involved with the high profile sexual harassment cases involving Clarence Thomas and Isiah Thomas. Professor Green also participated on a panel with Dean Frederic White and alumnus, Judge Dan Wilson (97), at the Evidence Summit held in Austin, Texas on August 4, 2008. Professor Green drafted thirty evidence questions and presented them to Texas trial and appellate judges in a "Jeopardy" format at the Evidence Summit which was sponsored by the Texas Center for the Judiciary. Professor Green was also reappointed to the final year of a three year term as a member of the American Bar Association's Legal Opportunity Scholarship Committee.
Professor Maxine Harrington gave a presentation on July 24, 2008 to the Fort Worth Paralegal Association on the topic, "The Debate over "futile" care under the Texas Advance Directives Act."
Professor Keith Hirokawa presented at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) annual conference in Palm Beach, Florida as a member of a new scholar panel on July 29, 2008. He presented his paper, "Property Pieces in Compensation Statutes: Law's Eulogy for Oregon's Measure 37."
Professor Neal Newman has been invited to present his paper, "The U.S. Move to International Accounting Standards – A Matter of Cultural Discord – How Do We Reconcile?" at the Northeast People of Color Scholarship Conference to be held at Boston University School of Law in September.
Professor Susan Phillips and her co-author Professor Nancy Johnson (Georgia State) have completed the 10th edition of Legal Research Exercises, Following the Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation. This book of legal research exercises and its accompanying instructor’s manual is published by Thomson West and is used in law school and library school legal research programs throughout the country. This edition marks the 5th edition that Professor Phillips has co-authored the work.
Professor Carla Pratt has been invited by the Fordham Law School’s Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics to present a paper on "The Role of the Black Lawyer in Our Democracy." Professor Pratt will make this presentation in September at Fordham’s Colloquium on The Lawyer’s Role in a Contemporary Democracy. Professor Pratt has also been invited to speak at the Thirteenth Annual LatCrit Conference in Seattle, Washington. Professor Pratt will participate as part of a LatCrit panel on Race and Slavery: Historical and Contemporary Problems to be held on October 3, 2008. Professor Pratt will address the topic, "From Slave to Freedman – Slavery’s Influence on Contemporary Notions of Indianness." Professor Jason Gillmer will also be a presenter on this LatCrit panel. Professor Pratt has also been invited to speak on a panel at the Plenary Session of the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting on January 7, 2009. At that time, Professor Pratt will partner with Dr. Dorothy Evensen (Penn State College of Education) to present "The End of the Pipeline at the Millennium: Using Stories from New African American Attorneys to Inform Theories of Intervention." This project is qualitative in nature and uses the narratives of new African American attorneys to learn how to better construct theories of intervention aimed at helping African Americans navigate the pipeline from birth to the bar.
Professor Malinda Seymore participated in the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) annual conference in Palm Beach, Florida by acting as a mentor of a new scholar from another school. In that capacity, Professor Seymore reviewed and provided input about the new scholar’s draft paper and attended the new scholar’s work-in-progress presentation held on July 30, 2008.
Professor Aric Short recently had his article entitled, "Slaves for Rent: Sexual Harassment in Housing as Involuntary Servitude," published by the Nebraska Law Review. The citation for this article is 86 Nebraska L. Rev. 838 (2008). Professor Short has also been invited to speak to faculty and students in the Religion Department at Texas Christian University on October 6, 2008. His presentation is tentatively entitled, "Exorcisms Gone Bad: Exploring the Line Between Free Exercise and Legal Responsibility."
Professor Roger Simon and Professor Mark Burge spoke at the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute (LWI) held at Indiana University - Indianapolis during July 14- 17, 2008. Their presentation was entitled "Integration of Statutory-Interpretation Skills into Your Existing Writing and Analysis Curriculum: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives." LWI is the second largest organization of law professors in the United States.
Dean Frederic White has been reappointed to a new two-year term as a member of the American Bar Association Committee on Bar Admissions (not to be confused with the American Bar Association Accreditation Committee). Dean White also served as a faculty member at the 2008 Evidence Summit sponsored by the Texas Center for the Judiciary held in Austin, Texas on August 4, 2008. The Summit included trial and appellate judges throughout the state who were challenged to answer certain Evidence topics presented to them in a "Jeopardy" format by Evidence professors from eight of the nine Texas law schools. Professor Michael Green developed the Texas Wesleyan Evidence questions and participated on the panel with Dean White and an alumnus, Judge Dan Wilson (97).
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June
Professor Susan Ayres was asked to be an outside reader for review of a Ph.D. dissertation by Leslie Middleton at Pacifica University on “The Quest for Justice: Archetypes in the Courtroom When Mothers Murder Their Children.” Professor Mark Burge has written a short essay, “Raising a Spectre: Using the Ghost of Law Practice Future to Sell Statutory Analysis Today,” that was recently selected for publication in the Fall 2008 issue of The Second Draft. The essay was derived from his article-in-progress on teaching statutory construction.
Professor Megan Carpenter recently published two of her creative works, an essay titled, “River Rats,” 23(2) Legal Studies Forum 673 (2008) and an excerpted dictionary, “The Lexical Heart: A Dictionary,” 22(1) Legal Studies Forum 137 (2008).
Professor Margarita Coale spoke at the Organization for Women in International Trade Quarterly Meeting held on Thursday, June 19, 2008 in Irving, Texas regarding the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Professor Coale also spoke on the topic of, “The Gathering and Presenting of Evidence,” to the Asian Judicial Institute program held on June 24, 2008.
Professor Frank Elliott presented a CLE program on Wednesday, June 4, 2008, to a group of Assistant Attorney’s General of the State of Texas in Austin. The presentation covered Evidence Rule 103, Offers and Exclusion of Evidence and Protecting the Record for Appeal. On June 23, 2008, Professor Elliott and Adjunct Professor Kay Elliott made a presentation on mediation and other conflict resolution to a group of visitors sponsored by the North Texas Council for International Visitors from Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Zimbabwe. On June 25, 2008, they also gave a presentation on alternative dispute resolution to a group of Mongolian lawyers as part of the law school’s Asian Judicial Institute training.
Professor Michael Green presented a paper, “Identifying and Cultivating a Diverse Pool of Arbitrators: Reviewing the Biases and Ethics Involved Within the Selection Process,” at the 14th National Labor-Management Conference sponsored by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services in Washington, D.C. held on June 9, 2008.
Professor Dennis Kelly spoke about careers in law to students entering grades 7-9 during the Texas Wesleyan Summer Law Camp held from June 17-26, 2008.
Public Services Librarian Stephanie Marshall has recently completed a new publication titled, Advance Directives: A Legal Research Guide, Volume 51 of the Legal Research Guides Series published by William S. Hein Company.
Professor James McGrath spoke about careers in law to students entering grades 7-9 during the Texas Wesleyan Summer Law Camp held from June 17-26, 2008.
Professor Neal Newman spoke about careers in law to students entering grades 7-9 during the Texas Wesleyan Summer Law Camp held from June 17-26, 2008.
Professor Vickie Rainwater was recently acknowledged for her contribution as the editor of the Tarrant County Bar Association Bulletin which was honored as the Best Overall Newsletter by the Texas Bar Association during its annual meeting luncheon held on June 26, 2008 in Houston, Texas.
Professor Roger Simon was recently acknowledged for his contribution as a committee member who reviews and edits articles published in the Tarrant County Bar Association Bulletin which was honored as the Best Overall Newsletter by the Texas Bar Association during its annual meeting luncheon held on June 26, 2008 in Houston, Texas.
Professor Joe Spurlock, the Director of the Asian Judicial Institute, began a two-week program on June 23, 2008 where he hosted a group of Mongolian judges and lawyers who will be trained by Texas Wesleyan law professors on how the Texas legal system works. This training program, “A Study of the Texas Integrated Bar Association, History, Organizations & Operation,” was recently discussed in an article published in the Fort Worth Business Press on June 23, 2008. This story included quotes from Professor Spurlock and it explained how the Texas Bar Foundation had given a grant to the Law School in an amount of $25,000 which was used to support the Asian Judicial Institute which ended on July 6.
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Spring 2008
May
Professor Susan Ayres has been invited to discuss the novel, Beloved, in conjunction with the Fort Worth Modern Art Museum's summer reading program to accompany the up-comiing Kara Walker exhibit. More details about this speaking engagement will appear in the early August faculty highlights. On May 20, 2008, Professor Ayres’ letter to the editor, "Dealing with Abandoned Babies," appeared in the on-line edition of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Professor Wayne Barnes presented "Mechanic's Liens in Texas" as part of the State Bar of Texas Continuing Legal Education seminar on "Collecting Debts and Judgments" held in San Antonio, Texas on May 8, 2008.
Professor Margarita Coale has been invited to speak at the Organization for Women in International Trade Quarterly Meeting to be held on Thursday, June 19, 2008 in Irving, Texas. Professor Coale’s topic will be the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. More details about this speaking engagement will be identified in the June faculty highlights.
Dean Cynthia Fountaine has been invited to be a co-chair and a presenter of a panel on the Mexican Curricular Reform Project: Professional Responsibility and she will also act as a discussion leader for this panel at the Southeast Association of Law School (SEALS) meeting to be held in Palm Beach, Florida in late July. More details about this SEALS program and participation by other faculty members in SEALS programs will be identified in the July and early August faculty highlights.
Professor Paul George has been appointed to the recruitment committee for the American Law Institute. Professor George has also recently agreed to a contract with West in which he will produce a series of continuing legal education programs on federal pre-trial practice. These on-line programs will be tailored to address different federal district courts within different states. Professor George has also agreed to present a fall luncheon program to the Dallas Bar Family Law Section on "Interstate and International Issues in Family Law." More details about this presentation will be provided in one of the fall 2008 semester faculty highlights. Professor George was also nominated and has now become a Fellow in the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers where he will be expected to help mentor members of that organization.
Professor Jason Gillmer has been invited to present a paper at the University of Ottawa for a conference celebrating the great Caribbean historian and intellectual, C.L.R. James. Professor Gillmer will be discussing his work on slavery and freedom in Texas, drawing parallels to James’ influential work on the slave revolution in San Domingo. The conference is being held in March of 2009. More details about this presentation will appear in the March 2009 faculty highlights. Professor Gillmer has also been solicited to help coordinate a panel in conjunction with the upcoming exhibit, Kara Walker: My Compliment, My Enemy, My Oppressor, at the Modern Art Museum. The panel will be held in September and is designed to provide context for Walker's much-heralded, yet controversial, work on the African-American experience under slavery. The other panelists include Robert Storr, the Dean of the Yale Art School, and Adrienne Davis, professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. More details about this program will be mentioned in the September faculty highlights.
Professor Michael Green presented a paper, "To Prepare or Not to Prepare Employment Discrimination Witnesses: Ethically, Is That Not the Question?" at the 25th Annual Carl A. Warns Jr. Labor & Employment Law Institute sponsored by the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law on Friday, May 30, 2008. Professor Green has also been invited to speak on a panel at the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Section Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado on September 11, 2008. This panel will discuss ethical fundamentals for labor and employment lawyers. More details about this program will be identified in the September faculty highlights.
Professor James McGrath has accepted an offer by the Nevada Law Journal to publish his work entitled, "Are you a Boy or Girl? Show Me Your Real ID." This article criticizes the unpopular Real ID Act due to its requirement that states include gender on all driver's licenses and official identification cards. The article also examines the scientific, legal, and social components that help expose the false dichotomy involved when attempting to categorize all people by gender or sex.
Professor Huyen Pham was interviewed by several newspapers on immigration and criminal law matters. Her comments appeared in the Dallas Morning News ("Mexican Police Chiefs Flee to U.S. for Safety," May 14, 2008), the Fort Worth Star Telegram ("Dallas DA Says He’ll Lobby for Changes in Law," April 30, 2008), and a Reuters article published by the New York Times ("Polygamists Erred When They Messed with Texas," May 1, 2008).
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April
Professor Jason Gillmer presented his paper, “Base Wretches and Black Wenches: A Story of Sex and Race, Violence and Compassion, During Slavery Times,” to the faculty at Stetson Law School in Gulfport, Fla., on April 3, as part of its faculty colloquium.
Professor Megan Carpenter presented “Bare Justice: A Feminist Reconceptualization of Justice and Its Potential Application to Crimes of Sexual Violence in Post-Genocide Rwanda” at the Creighton International Human Rights Symposium on April 4, 2008. Her paper on the same topic will be published in a special issue of the Creighton Law Review.
Professor Michael Green spoke at the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Section Employment Rights and Responsibilities Midwinter Committee Meeting held in Dana Point, Calif., on April 5, 2008. His panel addressed “Friend or Foe: Ethical Traps Involving In-House Counsel,” and Professor Green spoke on the topic, “Employment Litigation Investigation and the Ethical Dilemmas involving In-House Counsel.”
Professor Neal Newman presented his current work-in-progress, “The U.S. Move to International Accounting Standards – A Matter of Cultural Discord – How do we Reconcile?” at the Southeast/Southwest People of Color Conference. In his paper, Professor Newman argued that a shift in United States corporate culture and paradigms must occur before converting successfully to the more principle based standards commensurate with International Financial Reporting Standards. The conference was hosted by North Carolina Central University School of Law on April 11, 2008.
Professor Michael Green has been invited to speak at the 25th Annual Carl A. Warns Jr. Labor & Employment Law Institute at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law on Friday, May 30, 2008 where he will present on “Ethical Issues in Interviewing and Preparing Witnesses for Employment Litigation." Professor Green also has been invited to speak at the 14th National Labor-Management Conference sponsored by the 14th Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service in Washington, D.C., June 9-11. Professor Green will be speaking on the topic, “Identifying and Cultivating a Diverse Pool of Arbitrators.”
Professor Keith Hirokawa has accepted an offer to publish his work entitled, “Property Pieces in Compensation Statutes: Law's Eulogy to Oregon's Measure 37.” Professor Hirokawa's article examines the tensions between property and property rights rhetoric. His article will be published in Issue 4 of Volume 38 of Environmental Law, one of the premier legal journals focusing on environmental issues.
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March
Professor Maxine Harrington's article, "The Ever-Expanding Health Care Conscience Clause: The Quest for Immunity in the Struggle Between Professional Duties and Moral Beliefs," was published by the Florida State University Law Review. Professor Harrington's article explores the tension between the legal duties of health care providers and their right to refuse care on grounds of conscience.
Professor Huyen Pham was an invited panelist at the March symposium sponsored by the Tulsa Journal of Comparative and International Law, "What about Federalism? States' Rights and the New State Immigration Laws." Her talk was entitled, "Analyzing the 'Success' of Local Immigration Laws."
Professor Maxine Harrington completed a Beazley Visiting Professorship in Health Law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. While there, she presented, "The Thin Flat Line: Are Organs Being Removed From Donors Who are not Legally Dead?" to faculty and student forums and lectured to several health law classes.
Professor Michael Green has been asked to be on the Executive Board of the Labor and Employment Relations Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section. It is a three-year appointment starting in 2008.
Professor Megan Carpenter has been asked to speak at the prestigious International Trademark Association's Leadership Meeting in November 2008. Her talk will address recent trademark cases that have been decided under the European Convention on Human Rights, posing the question of whether there is a human rights component to trademark law (and a trademark component to human rights law).
Professor Keith Hirokawa presented “Moving into the Second Generation of Green Building Laws” to the Texas Bar Association and other land use professionals at the 12th Annual Land Use Conference, hosted by University of Texas. Professor Hirokawa presented an assessment of green building's successes and failures in introducing new technologies and perspective into the construction process, and provided analysis of the likely direction of local government efforts to reduce the ecological footprint of building practices.
Professor Susan Ayres and Professor James McGrath both spoke at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, held on March 28-29, 2008, in Berkeley, Calif. In her paper “[Not-So] Safe Havens?,” Professor Ayres examined the rhetorics surrounding legalized abandonment, abortion, and neonaticide, and also re-evaluated the profile of neonaticidal mothers in order to argue that, while Safe Havens will not prevent all neonaticides, they are an important piece of the strategy for prevention. Professor McGrath, in his paper, “Are You a Boy or a Girl?,” examined and critiqued categorization of sex as a binary in the law from a historical perspective and in light of recent scientific developments.
Professor Huyen Pham spoke at a plenary panel of the Cambio de Colores Conference, Latinos in Missouri: Uniting Cultures in Columbia, Missouri, sponsored by the University of Missouri. Her panel was entitled, “Local Enforcement of Immigration Laws: The Implications for Missouri.”
Professor Michael Green spoke at the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Section Joint Midwinter Meeting of its Equal Employment Opportunity and Ethics & Professional Responsibility Committees held in Tucson, Ariz., March 28-29, 2008. His first panel presentation was on “Preparing Witnesses Ethically and Effectively” and he spoke on the topic, “To Prepare or Not To Prepare Witnesses During a Deposition: Ethically, is that not the Question or Is it balancing the Duty to the Client with the Duty to the Tribunal and Others to Be Truthful?” On the second panel, “Ethical Traps Involving In-House Counsel,” he spoke on the topic, “Ethical Employment Investigations Involving In-House Counsel.”
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February
Professor Huyen Pham's article, "The Private Enforcement of Immigration Laws," was published by the Georgetown Law Journal. In this article, Professor Pham argues that private enforcement laws (requiring private parties like landlords and employers to check immigration status before granting a private benefit) have not been effective in reducing illegal immigration. Drawing on our 20 year experience with federal employer sanctions, she suggests that the laws instead will result in substantial discrimination against those who look or sound foreign.
Professor Huyen Pham was also invited to speak at the University at Buffalo Law School on Feb. 22, as part of the Immigration Crucible Spring Speaker Series there. She presented her paper, "When Immigration Borders Move: the Implications for Citizenship, Membership, and Community."
Professor Susan Ayres presented her paper at William & Mary School of Law on Feb. 23, for the annual symposium organized by the Journal of Women and the Law. The paper was entitled, "Kairos and Safe Havens: The Timing and Calamity of Unwanted Birth." The paper examined the effectiveness of laws allowing legalized abandonment of newborns and discussed customs and laws in the United States and other countries. It also analyzed the problem of abandonment using the rhetoric of kairos, or right-timing.
Professor Maxine Harrington was a panelist on "Bioethics," sponsored by the Fort Worth Life Sciences Coalition.
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January
Professor James McGrath's article, “Overcharging the Uninsured in Hospitals: Shifting a Greater Share of Uncompensated Medical Care Costs to the Federal Government,” was published at 26 Quinnipiac Law Review 173 (2007). This article explores the hidden federal subsidies for medically treating the uninsured, questions the legitimacy of hospital pricing schemes, and adds support to the existing literature advocating a single payer health care system in the United States.
Professor Megan Carpenter's article, “Bare Justice: A Feminist Reconceptualization of Justice and Its Potential Application to Crimes of Sexual Violence in Post-Genocide Rwanda” was accepted by the Creighton Law Review and she has been invited to present it at the Symposium on Human Rights in April. In addition, Professor Carpenter received two offers of publication for her creative works from the Legal Studies Forum. One is called “The Lexical Heart” and is an excerpted dictionary. The other is called “River Rats” and is an essay.
Professor Michael Green presented “What Hurricane Katrina Should Have Taught Employers About Using Expedited ADR to Address Employment Matters in a Crisis,” at the Labor Employment Relations Association 60th Annual Meeting held in New Orleans, La. on Jan. 5, 2008. The overall theme of the conference was “Rebuilding America in a Changing Global Context” and Professor Green participated on a panel regarding Workers’ Rights in the Aftermath of a Disaster. Professor Green’s talk focused on labor and employment matters, including employee retirement and salary benefits, safety, relocation, worker’s compensation, employee counseling and other concerns that may arise when a crisis occurs. Professor Green asserted that employers and employees can be better prepared to deal with these issues by developing expedited ADR procedures that spring into action at the time of a crisis and involve all interested stakeholders including government and community participants in developing quick and effective resolutions.
Professor Jason Gillmer’s article, “Base Wretches and Black Wenches: A Story of Sex and Race, Violence and Compassion, During Slavery Times,” was selected as one of the top three papers in the Southeastern Association of Law Schools’ 2008 Call for Papers competition. Professor Gillmer will receive an award honoring his achievement at a special luncheon during the SEALS conference in August, where he will also present his paper.
Professor Susan Ayres’ article, “Who Is to Shame? Narratives of Neonaticide,” was published in 14 William & Mary Journal of Women in the Law 55 (2007). In her article, Professor Ayres considers why attitudes and laws about newborn child murder, or neonaticide, have not evolved in America as they did elsewhere. She points out that, like in 17th-century England, we still view cases of neonaticide with shame, disgust, and anxiety about teen sexuality and motherhood. Drawing on literary sources as much as the law, Professor Ayres argues that our social and legal responses will not change until we make an effort to understand the causes of neonaticide and to deal with its complexities.
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