Articles

Law Review Articles:

  • Trial Courts as Constitutional First Responders: A Historical Case Study of the Role of the Franklin County Circuit Court in Kentucky’s Biggest Legal-Political Controversies, 48 N. Ky L. Rev. 95-196 (2021).  
  • Nursery of a Supreme Court Justice: The Library of James Harlan of Kentucky, Father of John Marshall Harlan, 100 LAW LIBRARY J. 639-674 (2008).
  • Blazing Trails in a New Kentucky Wilderness: Early Kentucky Case Law Digests, 93 L. LIBRARY J. 93 (Winter 2001).
  • Kentucky Legal Research on the Internet, 87 KENTUCKY L. J. 971(1997-1998).
  • Preventive Detention: A Comparison of Bail Refusal Practices in the United States, England, Canada and Other Common Law Nations, 8 PACE INT’L L. REV. 399 (Spring 1996).

Bar Journals:

  • Following the Kentucky Supreme Court: A Brief(s) Guide, Louisville Bar Briefs, Feb. 2023.
  • Legal Research for True Crime and Amateur Pundits, Louisville Bar Briefs, Nov. 2022.
  • Legal Research Resources for The New Louisville Lawyer, Louisville Bar Briefs, Aug. 2022.
  • Researching Kentucky’s Changing Constitution, Louisville Bar Briefs, Mar. 2022.
  • Pronouncing the Law, Louisville Bar Briefs, Feb. 2022.
  • First Zoom Now This? Managing the Change in Legal Research Tools from Casemaker to Fastcase, Louisville Bar Briefs, Nov. 2021.
  • After the Pandemic, Do We Really Still Need Law Books? Louisville Bar Briefs, Aug. 2021.
  • Rethinking Electronic Research: A Fresh Look at Casemaker 4, Louisville Bar Briefs, Apr. 2021.
  • Breaking the Rear-View Mirror and Looking Straight Ahead to 2021, Louisville Bar Briefs, Jan. 2021.
  • The Legal History of Thanksgiving, Louisville Bar Briefs, Nov. 2020.
  • Legal Resources for a Continuing Pandemic, Louisville Bar Briefs, Jul. 2020.
  • The COVID-19 Crisis and Lessons from Kentucky’s “Old Court-New Court Controversy,” Louisville Bar Briefs, May 2020.
  • Guilt-Free Google-type Searching: Understanding Algorithmic Search Technology, Louisville Bar Briefs, Apr. 2020.
  • Researching the Legal History of Santa Claus, Louisville Bar Briefs, Dec. 2019.
  • Waking the Dead:  The Nine Lives of the Print Legal Treatise, Louisville Bar Briefs, October 2019.
  • Racing through the Regs: Researching Kentucky Administrative Law, Louisville Bar Briefs, July 2019.
  • Keeping Up with the Neighbors: Tracking Bills and New Laws From Other States, Louisville Bar Briefs,  March 2019.
  • The War(s) on Christmas in the Law Books, Louisville Bar Briefs, December 2018.
  • Kentucky Criminal Law Reform in the Age of Aquarius, Louisville Bar Briefs, September 2018.
  • How a (Sewer) Bill Becomes a (Pension) Law: Kentucky Legislative History in Difficult Times, Louisville Bar Briefs, (July 2018).
  • The New Legislative History: Researching Legislation in Difficult Times, Louisville Bar Briefs, (April 2018).
  • Trading with the Enemy—Wait, Who Is the Enemy These Days Again? Researching Export Regulations and Sanctions Lists, Louisville Bar Briefs, October 2017.
  • Happy Birthday, KRS!, Louisville Bar Briefs, July 2017.
  • Researching Immigration, Asylum, and Refugee Law, Louisville Bar Briefs, April 2017.
  • William Littell: Law Reporter, Statute-Maker, and Legal Satirist, Louisville Bar Briefs, January 2017.
  • Listening to the Laws: Finding the Legislative History of Recent Kentucky Statutes Online, Louisville Bar Briefs, November 2016.
  • Beyond the Pay-Wall: Guiding Law Students to Electronic Resources in Law Libraries, Louisville Bar Briefs, August 2016.
  • It’s All Old News: Using News Databases in the Practice of Law, Louisville Bar Briefs, June 2016.
  • The Laws They Are A-Changing: Watching the 2016 Session of the Kentucky General Assembly, Louisville Bar Briefs, January 2016.
  • You Will NEVER Believe This SHOCKING Trick to REVEAL the History of a Federal Regulation, Louisville Bar Briefs, December 2015.
  • The Law Library: Looking Into the Future, Remembering the Past, Louisville Bar Briefs, August 2015.
  • Homing in on the Home-Rule Rules: Researching Kentucky Municipal and County Law, Louisville Bar Briefs, April 2015.
  • Researching the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Louisville Bar Briefs, November 2014
  • “Hoarders KBA”:  Cleaning Out the Kentucky Bar Association Ethics Committee’s Opinion Closet, Louisville Bar Briefs, July 2014.
  • No Money, Mo’ Problems: Researching Federal and State Budgets, Louisville Bar Briefs, April 2014.
  • “The Old Man of the Internet: Thomas.gov and the Promise of Online Legislative Research Fulfilled,” Louisville Bar Briefs, Dec. 2013.
  • Is that a Copier in Your Pocket? Using Your Smartphone for Smarter Legal Research and Practice, Louisville Bar Briefs, September 2013.
  • Books for Litigators and Other Oddities, Louisville Bar Briefs, June 2013.
  • Not Too Taxing: Research Federal Tax Law with Free Resources, Louisville Bar Briefs, March 2013.
  • Fraternal Twins: Legislative History and the History of Legislation, Louisville Bar Briefs, July 2012.
  • Research by the Numbers, Louisville Bar Briefs, April 2012.
  • Looking Forward, Looking Backward, Statutorily Speaking: Seventieth Anniversary of the Kentucky Revised States, Louisville Bar Briefs (January, 2012).
  • Laying Off Brandeis’ Policemen: Budget Cuts and Access to Government Information, Louisville Bar Briefs, October 2011.
  • Toys in the Attic: Finding Superseded and Other Older Kentucky Legal Resources at the University of Louisville Law Library,” Louisville Bar Briefs, July 2011.
  • Playing by Kentucky Rules: Researching the Kentucky Rules of Evidence, Louisville Bar Briefs, October 2010.
  • Supreme Summer Reading, Louisville Bar Briefs, July 2010.
  • Who Makes the Rules Around Here, Anyway?  History of Kentucky Civil Procedure and How to Research It, Louisville Bar Briefs, April 2010.
  • 2009: The Year of Twitter, Louisville Bar Briefs, January 2010.
  • Hunting Ghost Laws:  Updating Kentucky Statutes and Finding New Laws, Louisville Bar Briefs, October 2009.
  • It’s A New Day: Researching Kentucky’s Revised Ethics Rules, Louisville Bar Briefs, August 2009.
  • Researching IP/Technology Law, Louisville Bar Briefs, April 2009.
  • A Monthly Calendar of (Mostly) Legal Websites, Louisville Bar Briefs, January 2009.
  • An American Field Guide to Court-Watching:  Researching Current Activities of the U.S. Supreme Court, Louisville Bar Briefs, October 2008.
  • The Damnedest Summer Reading List: History, Politics and Law in Kentucky, Louisville Bar Briefs, July 2008. 8.
  • Following the Kentucky General Assembly: With Apologies to Niccolo Machiavelli and the ABC Children’s Programming Division, Louisville Bar Briefs, April 2008.
  • Frankfort Franks: Finding the Legislative History of Kentucky Statutes, Louisville Bar Briefs, January 2008.
  • The Grey Ghosts of Legal Literature: Furtive Government Reports and Forgotten CLE Materials, Louisville Bar Briefs, October 2007.
  • You Can Look it Up: The Use of Dictionaries in Interpreting Statutes, Louisville Bar Briefs (July 2007).
  • Who Asked the Attorney General His Opinion? LLouisville Bar Briefs, April 2007.
  • Reading the Mind of Congress: Legislative History Research on the Internet, Louisville Bar Briefs, January 2007.
  • Location, Location, Location: Real Estate Research¸ Louisville Bar Briefs, October 2006.
  • Summer Roundup: Unpublished Opinions, Casemaker, Louisville Bar Briefs, July 2006.
  • History in the Law Library: Using Legal Materials to Explore the Past and Find Lawyers, Felons and Other Scoundrels in Your Family Tree, Louisville Bar Briefs, April 2006.
  • Better Than Government Work: Finding Federal Regulations on the Web, Louisville Bar Briefs, January 2006.
  • 30 Years Ago…Kentuckians Vote to Reform the Judicial System, Louisville Bar Briefs, November 2005.
  • The Big Gobble:  The Consolidation of the Legal Publishing Industry and What It Means For Legal Research, Louisville Bar Briefs, October 2005.
  • Bloggers, Blawgs and Finding Current Law, Louisville Bar Briefs, July 2005.
  • WARNING: STATUTES UNDER CONSTRUCTION: Finding Good Case Law in Old Kentucky Statutes, Louisville Bar Briefs, April 2005.
  • No Free Ride for the Mayor and Other Tales: Researching Kentucky Constitutional Law, Louisville Bar Briefs, January 2005.
  • 150 Years Ago…Kentucky Creates Right to Appeal for Felons, Louisville Bar Briefs, December 2004.
  • How to Avoid Losing your License on the Information Superhighway: Ethical Issues Raised by the Use of the Internet in The Practice of Law, Kentucky Bench and Bar (Spring 1998).

History Journals

  • Constructing Freedom: A Letter by George M. Bibb Concerning the Will of the Rev. Richard Bibb, Sr., 9 UNBOUND: REV. LEGAL HIST. & RARE BOOKS 133 (2016).
  • Peeping under the Judge’s Robes: Preliminary Results of a Reputational Study of Nineteenth Century Kentucky High Court Justices, 8 UNBOUND: REV. LEGAL HIST. & RARE BOOKS 25 (2015).
  • The Outer Limits of Legal Ephemera: Finding Legal History in the Oddest Places, 8 UNBOUND: REV. LEGAL HIST. & RARE BOOKS 45(2015).
  • Circuit Court Judges Listed in the Kentucky Law Reports, 1825-1903, 48 KENTUCKY ANCESTORS 141 (2013).
  • Bibliographica Necronomica: Selections from the Literature of Grimoires, Cursed Books and Unholy Bindings, 5 UNBOUND: REV. LEGAL HIST. & RARE BOOKS 5 (2012).
  • Researching Family and Local History in Digital Collections (with Virginia Mattingly), 47.3 KENTUCKY ANCESTORS (Spring 2012).
  • Judges of the Kentucky Circuit Courts, 1831-1861, KENTUCKY ANCESTORS, Spring 2008, at 151-160.
  • James Hughes: Kentucky’s First Nominative Reporter, LEGAL HISTORY AND RARE BOOKS, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2007.
  • Index to the Necrology in the Annual Proceedings of the Kentucky State Bar Association, 1902-1942, 38 Kentucky Ancestors: Genealogical Quarterly Of The Kentucky Historical Society (Winter 2002) (mailed to subscribers January 2004).
  • Family Law Resources in Law Libraries, 29 Bluegrass Roots: Quarterly Journal of the Kentucky Genealogical Society124 (2003).
  • Using Legal History Resources in Researching Family History, 35 Kentucky Ancestors: Genealogical Quarterly Of The Kentucky Historical Society 140 (2000).
  • My Old Kentucky Tomes: Observations on Building a Kentucky History Collection, Kentucky Libraries, Winter 1995.
  • The Power of an Incompetent Adult to Petition for Divorce Through a Guardian or Next Friend, 33 U. of Louisville J. Fam. L. 349 (1994-95).
  • Looking for Lore in All the Right Places: Sources of History in Kentucky County Court Houses, Kentucky Libraries (Fall 1993).
  • Book Review of Operation Timber: Pages from the Savimbi Dossier, edited by William Minter, 24.3 International Journal of African Historical Studies 626 (Fall 1991).