HR job title
- Adjunct Professor of Law
- Contact Info
Conklin, Michael Assistant Professor of Business Law, TAMUCT; Lecturer, TAMU School of Law
Positions
- Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University – Central Texas - (Killeen, Texas, United States)
- Lecturer, School of Law, Texas A&M University
My research focus is expansive with over 100 publications and an SSRN ranking as a top 20 legal scholar. I'm known for being a demanding co-author who likes to identify in-demand topics and get manuscripts submitted for review quickly, thus being the only option for journals to consider on the topic. This strategy has worked well for me.
Research Areas
- Artificial intelligence
- Blockchains (Databases)--Law and legislation
- Capital punishment
- Discrimination in employment
- Education
- Environmental law
- Environmental sustainability
- Freedom of speech
- Jurors--Psychology
- Mass media--Law and legislation
- Negotiation
- Pardon
- Plea bargaining
- Universities and colleges--Ratings and rankings
- War reparations
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Overview
Publications
selected publications
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academic article
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Conklin, M.
(2024).
Shine more light on your classroom: A review of Perry Binder's Classroom Lightbulbs for College Professors. Journal of Legal Studies Education.
41(1), 73-75.
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Chain, R. P., & Conklin, M.
(2024).
The Equal Pay Act: Using EEOC v. Verona Area School District in the Classroom. Journal of Legal Studies Education.
41(1), 7-16.
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Conklin, M.
(2024).
Chapter 18: Defenses for Plea Bargaining. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
(2024).
Is Modern Constitutional Law Making Us Unhealthy?. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
(2024).
Shine More Light on Your Classroom: A Review of Perry Binder's Classroom Lightbulbs for College Professors. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Wu, J., Hu, X., & Conklin, M.
(2023).
The relationship between victimization and vaping results from monitoring the future. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice.
74, 100613-100613.
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Foster, II, L. D., & Trautman, L. J.
(2023).
Alternative Dispute Resolution In Brief. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
(2023).
The Case Against Race-Based Quotas in Pharmaceutical Trials. American Journal of Law and Medicine.
49(1), 1-23.
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Conklin, M., & Elzweig, B.
(2023).
A Face Only an Attorney Could Love: Madison Square Gardens Use of Facial Recognition Technology to Ban Lawyers with Pending Litigation. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
(2023).
Boycotts, Race, Rankings, and Howard Law School's Peculiar Position. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
(2023).
Contracts Part 1: Offer, Acceptance, Consideration. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
(2023).
Contracts Part 2: Capacity, Legality, Writings, and Miscellaneous. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
(2023).
Employee or Independent Contractor?. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
(2023).
IS AI FRIEND OR FOE: LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF RAPID ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ADOPTION. 26, 2-14.
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Conklin, M.
(2023).
Introduction to Forms of Business Ownership. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
(2023).
Introduction to Law. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
(2023).
Introduction to Torts. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
(2023).
Introduction to the Law of Secured Transactions. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M., Choupani, R., & Dodu, E.
(2023).
Peculiarity of the Precise Number Effect: Efficacy of Precise Initial Offers on Pawn Stars Negotiations. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
(2023).
Rising Ideological Discrimination in Law School Rankings: Measuring the Conservative Penalty and Liberal Bonus with Updated 2024 Rankings Data. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Chain, R. P., & Conklin, M.
(2023).
The Equal Pay Act: Using EEOC v. Verona Area School District in the Classroom. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
(2023).
Understanding Legal Precedent. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M., & Marzen, C. G.
(2023).
Viewing the Package Half Full: Proposed Legislation to Reduce Environmental Harm from Shrinkflation and Nonfunctional Slack-Fill. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Trautman, L. J., Chambers, R., Conklin, M., Foster, II, L. D., Guevara, A., Guzelian, C. P., ... Saunders, K. M.
(2023).
Why Study Law?. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M., & Singh, S.
(2022).
Triple-blind review as a solution to gender bias in academic publishing, a theoretical approach. Studies in Higher Education.
47(12), 2487-2496.
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Conklin, M., Elzweig, B., & Trautman, L. J.
(2022).
Legal Recourse for Victims of Blockchain and Cyber Breach Attacks
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Conklin, M.
(2022).
Good For the Goose but Not for The Gander: Bidens Promise to Appoint a Black Female to The Supreme Court and Title VII Principles
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Conklin, M.
(2022).
Understanding the 'Underclass': Analysing the role of adjuncts in higher education THE ADJUNCT UNDERCLASS: HOW AMERICA'S COLLEGES BETRAYED THEIR FACULTY, THEIR STUDENTS, AND THEIR MISSION. Higher Education Quarterly.
76(2), 478-482.
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Conklin, M.
(2022).
'Not Scientific in Nature': The Case Against Race-Based Quotas in Pharmaceutical Trials. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M., Pier, C., & Tiger, A.
(2022).
GOOD THINGS COME IN SMALL SEMESTERS: MINI-SESSION CLASSES AS A METHOD FOR SERVING AT-RISK AND MINORITY STUDENTS. 25, 2-27.
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Conklin, M.
(2022).
Legality of Explicit Racial Discrimination in the Distribution of Lifesaving COVID-19 Treatments. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Marzen, C. G., & Conklin, M.
(2022).
Stagflation in American Jurisprudence. 42(1), 1-1.
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Ludlum, M., Conklin, M., & Tiger, A.
(2021).
Group Projects in Higher Education: How Demographic Factors Affect Student Perceptions of Grading, Leadership Roles, Assessment, and Applicability. Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice.
21(1),
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Conklin, M.
(2021).
Good for the Goose but Not for the Gander: Applying Title VII Principles to Supreme Court Appointments. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
(2021).
How Transgender and Non-Binary People are Ignored in the Male-Only Military Draft Debate. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
(2021).
Precise Punishment: Why Precise Punitive Damage Requests Result in Higher Awards Than Round Requests. 179-179.
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Conklin, M.
(2021).
Reducing Mass Incarceration Through Cost Salience: Why Juries Should Be Told the Cost of Incarceration. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
(2021).
The Adjunct Underclass: Analyzing the Role of Adjuncts in Higher Education. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
(2020).
An Uphill Battle for Free Speech Advocates: A Quantitative Analysis of the Effectiveness of Free Speech Rhetoric. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
(2020).
Coronavirus and Mass Incarceration: Why Inmates are Safer in Prison. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
(2020).
Double-Blind Review as a Solution to Gender Inequality in Legal Scholarship. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
(2020).
Flawed Logic for Death Penalty Abolition: An Analysis of Unrequited Innocence in U.S. Capital Cases. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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ludlum, m., Conklin, M., & Tiger, A.
(2020).
Group Projects in Higher Education: How Demographic Factors Affect Student Perceptions of Grading, Leadership Roles, Assessment, and Applicability. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
(2020).
Its Not What It Looks Like: How Claims of Self-Publishing Bias in Legal Scholarship Are Exaggerated. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
(2020).
Learning from Law Professors: An Analysis of What the Best Law Teachers Do. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
(2020).
Life Hangs in the Balance: Weighing Coronavirus Church Closings Against the Religious Freedom and Restoration Act. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
(2020).
Precise Punishment: Why Precise Punitive Damage Requests Result in Higher Awards than Round Requests. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
(2020).
Rethinking Jury Diversity: A Response to Juan R. Snchezs A Plan of Our Own. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
(2020).
Setting the Record Straight on the Death Penalty: A Critical Review of American Roulette. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
(2020).
The Extremes of Rap on Trial: An Analysis of the Movement to Ban Rap Lyrics as Evidence. Indiana Law Journal.
95(5), 50-65.
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Conklin, M.
(2020).
The Reasonable Robot Standard: Bringing Artificial Intelligence Law into the 21st Century. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
(2019).
PAINTING A DECEPTIVE PORTRAIT: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF DEADLY JUSTICE. New Criminal Law Review.
22(2), 223-231.
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Conklin, M.
(2019).
John Roberts: Shedding Light on a Secretive Man. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
(2018).
The Effects of Race and Gender on Attorney Selection. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
'Be a Lot Cooler if You Didnt': Why Judges Should Refrain from Pop Culture References in Judicial Opinions. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
'Officer-Involved Shootings': How the Exonerative Tense of Media Accounts Distorts Reality. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
'The Most Demanding Test Known to Constitutional Law': Do Coronavirus Bans on Church Services Satisfy Religious Freedom Restoration Act Requirements?. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
A Second Bite at the Apple: What Obergefell v. Hodges Should Have Said. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Andrew Koppelman's Proposal: A Lose-Lose Solution for Religious Liberty and Gay Rights. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Anti-Semitism and the Overlooked Benefits of Allowing 'Hate Speech'. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Appellate Inequality Is Not a Virtue: A Response to Brett Parkers Is Death Different to Federal Judges?. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Are Black Crime Statistics Inflated? Age-Adjusted Rates Paint a More Accurate Picture. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Breaking the Stalemate on Supreme Court Term Limits with Delayed Implementation Legislation. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Buck v. Bell: Understanding Its Past, Present, and Future. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Capitol Offense: Is Donald Trump Guilty of Inciting a Riot at the Capitol?. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Marzen, C. G., & Conklin, M.
Coronavirus 'Cures' and the Courts. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Declassified: Unintended Consequences of Racial Classifications. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Dershowitz Misses the Mark on Free Speech: A Review of The Case Against the New Censorship. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Does Voter Fraud Pay? Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patricks $1 Million Voter Fraud Offer. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M., & Malone, J.
Excluding Crypto-Exposed Companies from ESG Funds. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Faculty Perceptions of Online Law Journals. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Fighting Over Worker Classification: A Class Activity About Whether UFC Fighters Are Employees or Independent Contractors and Why It Matters. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Grandstanding or Gotcha: Asking Ketanji Brown Jackson 'Can You Provide a Definition for the Word Woman?'. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Hauntingly Fun Legal Environment of Business Topics for a Halloween-Themed Class. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Howard Law School, Race, and Peer Rankings: The Increasing Correlation Between Racial Salience and Preferential Rankings. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
I Knew It All Along: The Promising Effectiveness of a Pre-Jury Instruction at Mitigating Hindsight Bias. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Marzen, C. G., & Conklin, M.
Information Leaking and the United States Supreme Court. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Is the Tax Code Racist? A Critique of Dorothy Browns The Whiteness of Wealth. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M., & Wu, J.
Justice by Algorithm: Are Artificial Intelligence Risk Assessment Tools Biased Against Minorities?. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Lacking Evidence: A Response to Jeffrey Bellins The Evidence Rules That Convict the Innocent. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M., Elzweig, B., & Trautman, L. J.
Legal Liability of a 51%, Goldfinger Cryptocurrency Attack. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Legality of Explicit Racial Discrimination in the Distribution of Lifesaving COVID-19 Treatments. Indiana health law review.
19(2), 315-328.
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Conklin, M.
Legality of Racial Discrimination in the Distribution of Lifesaving COVID-19 Treatments. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Letterhead Bias and Blind Review: An Analysis of Prevalence and Mitigation Efforts. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Making the Case for the Other Side: How Brub and Ruths Anti-Academic Freedom Advocacy Demonstrates the Importance of Protections. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
No Quick Fix: An Analysis of the Challenges Law Schools Face. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
No, the Firing Squad is Not Better Than Lethal Injection: A Response to Stephanie Morans A Modest Proposal. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Blount, J. R., & Conklin, M.
Non-Human Stakeholders: Testing the Boundaries of Stakeholder Theory. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Online Law Journals as Legal Scholarship: A Survey of Faculty Perceptions. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Pepsis Harrier Jet Commercial: A Class Activity Covering Contract Formation and More. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Please Allow Myself to Pardon . . . Myself: The Constitutionality of a Presidential Self-Pardon. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Political Ideology and Law School Rankings: Measuring the Conservative Penalty and Liberal Bonus. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M., & Malone, J.
Putting Cryptocurrency in Its Place: The Case for Why ESG Funds Should Exclude Cryptocurrency Investments. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Putting it in Neutral: How the Sequence, Severity, and Sincerity of Information Presentation Affects Student Opinions. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Racial Preferences in COVID-19 Vaccination: Legal and Practical Implications. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Rage Against the Voting Machine: Dominions Defamation Lawsuit Against Sidney Powell. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Reducing Mass Incarceration Through Cost Salience: Why Juries Should Be Told the Cost of Incarceration. 5(1),
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Conklin, M.
Rising Ideological Discrimination in Law School Rankings: Measuring the Conservative Penalty and Liberal Bonus with Updated 2024 Rankings Data. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Running up Against the Civil Rights Act: Does Joe Bidens Promise of a Female Running Mate Violate Title VII?. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Marzen, C. G., & Conklin, M.
Stagflation in American Jurisprudence. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M., & Tiger, A.
Student Gender Bias in College Class Selection. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Subsidizing the Unvaccinated: Considering the Legality and Practicality of Vaccine Mandates for Those on Public Assistance. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M., & Daniel, J.
Taxes and Athletic Performance: Why NBA Players Perform Better in Low-Tax States. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
The Amendability Paradox: Could an Unamendable Amendment Be Amended?. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
The Big Problem with the Small Penis Rule: Why It Does Not Limit Defamation Liability. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
The Curious Case of Howard Law Schools Peer Ranking. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
The Long Shortlist: Women Considered for the Supreme Court. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
The Longer They Are, the More Citations They Receive: How Impact Factor Punishes Concise Scholarship. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
The Overlooked Benefits of 'Hate Speech': Not Just the Lesser of Two Evils. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
The Real Cost of Fake News: Smartmatics $2.7 Billion Defamation Lawsuit Against Fox News. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
The Right-to-Repair: Advocacy and Jurisprudence. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Unlocking the Beauty from Within Title VII: Arguing for An Expansive Interpretation of Title VII to Protect Against Attractiveness Discrimination. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Unnecessary, Counterproductive, and Unjust: The Case Against Hate Crime Legislation. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Victim or The Deceased: Why Kyle Rittenhouses Verdict Could Depend on the Distinction. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Viewing Sports as Legal Systems: A Review of The Jurisprudence of Sport. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Weight Discrimination Protections in New York City Illustrate Need for Federal Attractiveness Discrimination Protections. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Whats Bad for the Goose is Bad for the Gander: Censorship Is Harmful Whether Done by the Government or Private Industry. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
When 'Literally' Literally Means 'Figuratively': One America News Network v. Rachel Maddow. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: A Critical Analysis of Judge Rakoffs Book. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Conklin, M.
(2024).
Shine more light on your classroom: A review of Perry Binder's Classroom Lightbulbs for College Professors. Journal of Legal Studies Education.
41(1), 73-75.
Background
education and training
- Cert. in International Business Law, University of London - (London, United Kingdom) 2010
- J.D., Washburn University - (Topeka, Kansas, United States) 2007
- M.B.A., Oklahoma City University - (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States) 2004
Contact
first name
- Michael
has last name
- Conklin
Other
- mconklin@tamu.edu