Publications

JAN
22
Publications

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence For Lawyers: I’m Sorry Dave, I’m Afraid I Can’t Do That: Competence, Confidentiality, And Communication

January 2026 by Cliff McKinney | In Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, the spaceship’s onboard computer, HAL, calmly refuses to follow the astronaut’s command wiht the chilling…
JAN
22
Publications

Ethics Of Artificial Intelligence For Lawyers: Shall We Play A Game? The Rise Of Artificial Intelligence And The First Cases

January 2026 by Cliff McKinney | In the 1983 movie WarGames, a young computer hacker accidentally accesses a United States military supercomputer programmed to run nuclear war simulations.…
JAN
22
Publications

The New Power Equation: Small Modular Reactors And the Real Estate Law of America’s Next Energy Frontier

Winter 2026 by J. Cliff McKinney | Over the past two years, I have become increasingly fascinated by artificial intelligence and its inevitable role in every corner of…
SEP
8
Publications

Act 975 Original Jurisdiction In The Court Of Appeals

Summer 2025 by Houston Downes | Act 975 of 2025 grants the Arkansas Court of Appeals exclusive original jurisdiction over all facial challenges under the United States Constitution…
SEP
23
Publications

Pay To Play: The Effect Of The Brine Conservation Act’s Statutory “In-Lieu” Royalty Provision On The Long-Term Economic Viability of Arkansas’s Brine-Lithium Industry

Summer 2024 by Tyler C. Gillespie | In her remarks delivered at the 2023 Energy Council Meeting held on September 15, 2023, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders claimed…
MAY
17
Publications

Preserving Nature: A Guide To Arkansas’s Conservation Use Easements

Spring 2024 by J. Cliff McKinney II | The Natural State has vast natural resources, including an array of state parks, wildlife management areas and refuges, and national…
APR
15
Publications

An Introduction To Digital Assets And A Summary Of The 2022 Amendments To The Uniform Commercial Code

Summer 2024 by David A. Gardner | The rise of digital assets, assets that lack tangibility and exist solely online, created an urgent need for new laws covering…
AUG
25
Publications

AI: A Cautionary Tale For Non-Lawyers

Summer 2023 By S. Katie Calvert | Lately, it can be difficult to find common ground.  Most of us, however, would agree with this: attorneys are expensive. Artificial…
AUG
24
Publications

UCC Amended To Accommodate Digital Commerce

Summer 2023 by David A. Gardner | The Uniform Law Commission and American Law Institute amended the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) in 2022 to accommodate digital asset transfers…
AUG
10
Publications

Roll Call: Report or Face the Consequences – What the Corporate Transparency Act Means for Your Business

August 2023 by Michael B. Crosby and Dalton B. Swindell | The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) will lift the veil over previously undisclosed ownership information of business entities…