Faculty Publications & Activities

Testimony before U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary regarding Review and Reform: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and Executive Accountability (January 28, 2026). View online.

Aaron L. Nielson. “Why is the Federal Reserve Special—and Just How Special is It?.” (CIVITAS OUTLOOK, January 20, 2026).

Thea Jane Posel. “Holding the Line: Identifying and Confronting Barriers to Effective Capital Voir Dire in Texas.” In 31 Texas Journal on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights, Page 1 (Fall 2025).

Kevin Frazier. Testimony before U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce, at Building an AI-Ready America (January 14, 2026). View online.

Ariel E. Dulitzky. “Provided statement for Texas Standard radio show” (January 7, 2026). View online.

Aaron L. Nielson. “The Chief Justice’s Big Idea.” (CIVITAS OUTLOOK, January 6, 2026).

Aaron L. Nielson. “Article II and the Federal Reserve” at University of Michigan School of Law Conference on the Federal Reserve, Ann Arbor, MI (January 2026).

Mechele Dickerson. The Middle-Class New Deal (University of California Press, Jan. 2026). View online.

Aaron L. Nielson. “The Administrative State at a Crossroads.” (THE REGULATORY REVIEW [interviewed by David Bernstein], 2025).

Aaron L. Nielson. “Just Follow the Law.” (CIVITAS OUTLOOK, December 17, 2025).

Erik Encarnacion. “Section 1981 as Contract Law.” In 111 Virginia Law Review, Page 1605 (December 21, 2025). View online.

Ariel E. Dulitzky. "Discussant: Derecho al cuidado y su corresponsabilidad en tiempos de descuidos" via videoconference (December 4, 2025). View online.

Kevin Frazier. “The Opportunity Floor.” In Working Intelligence (December 2, 2025). View online.

Denise L. Gilman. “Immigration Detention Expansion by Stealth.” In 26 Nevada Law Journal, Page 163 (2025). View online.

Aaron L. Nielson. “U.S. v. Lopez at 30: The Court’s Federalism Revolution Didn’t Happen.” (CIVITAS OUTLOOK, December 1, 2025).

Tara Leigh Grove, Disfavored Supreme Court Precedent in the Lower Federal Courts, 111 Virginia Law Review 1353 (2025) (with Curtis Bradley). View online.

Kevin Frazier. Testimony before U.S. House Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security, U.S. House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure, at Securing Global Communications: An Examination of Foreign Adversary Threats to Subsea Cable Infrastructure (November 20, 2025).

Aaron L. Nielson. “Supreme Court Term Preview: Presidential Power in Two Dimensions.” (CIVITAS OUTLOOK, November 18, 2025).

Jens Christian Dammann, Various Contributions, in: Thomas Pfeiffer, AGB-Recht [The Law of Boilerplate Contracts] (8th ed. 2025).

Ariel E. Dulitzky. “Provided statement for news item” at The Daily Texan (November 6, 2025). View online.