IMPACTFUL SCHOLARSHIP. DISCIPLINED FACULTY. PRINCIPLED LEADERS.
Villanova Law is home to innovative and outstanding faculty who are dedicated to both education and legal scholarship. Learn more about their work.
FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP HIGHLIGHTS, 2021-2024
At Villanova Law, our dedicated faculty members are as committed to impactful scholarship as they are to providing a rigorous legal education for our students. The following faculty members have published in the primary journals of the top 50 law schools from 2021-2024, with more forthcoming publications in the next year.
Todd Aagaard
Professor of Law
Featured publications
- 24/7 Clean Energy. University of Colorado Law Review (2023)
- Compensating Regulatory Losers. University of Illinois Law Review (forthcoming in 2025)
Brenner Fissell
Professor of Law
Featured publications
- Against Criminal Law Localism. Maryland Law Review (2022)
- Rightsizing Local Legislatures. Utah Law Review (2023)
- Police-made Law. Minnesota Law Review (2024)
- The Military's Constitutional Role. North Carolina Law Review (forthcoming in 2024/25)
Jennifer O’Hare
Professor of Law
Featured publications
- Don't Forget the "G" in ESG: The SEC and Corporate Governance Disclosure. Arizona Law Review (2022)
- Corporate Governance Guidelines: How to Improve Disclosure and Promote Better Corporate Governance in Public Companies. Florida State University Law Review (2022)
- Continuing Education for Directors of Public Companies. Florida State University Law Review (2024)
Alvin Padilla-Babilonia
Assistant Professor of Law
Featured publications
- Sovereignty and Dependence in the American Empire: Native Nations, Territories, and Overseas Colonies. Duke Law Journal (2024)
- The Imposition of Constitutional Rights. Michigan Law Review (forthcoming in 2025)
Teressa Ravenell
Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development and Professor of Law
Featured publications
- Unidentified Government Officials. Texas Law Review (2022)
- Policing Symmetry. North Carolina Law Review (2021)
Itay Ravid
Associate Professor of Law and Reuschlein Emerging Scholar
Featured publications
- Judging by the Cover: On the Relationship Between Media Coverage on Crime and Harshness in Sentencing. Southern California Law Review (2021)
- Progressive Algorithms. UC Irvine Law Review (2023 with A. Haim)
- The Future of Roe and the Gender Pay-Gap: An Empirical Assessment. Indiana Law Journal, (2023 with J. Zandberg)
Michael Risch
Vice Dean and Professor of Law
Featured publications
- Procedural Posture and Social Choice. Minnesota Law Review (2023)
- Worse Than Human? Arizona State Law Journal (2021 with D. Bambauer)
- Canceling Appellate Precedent. Florida Law Review (2024 with L. Tucker)
Ana Santos Rutschman
Professor of Law
Featured publications
- Promoting Vaccine Innovation. Ohio State Law Journal (2022 with M. Eyal-Cohen)
- Protecting Sub-Patentable Innovation: The Case for Codified Liability Rules. UC Davis Law Review (2024 with J. Reichman)
- A Theory of Genetic Dimensions in the Law. Indiana Law Journal (2024 with L. Vertinsky and Y. Heled)
Chaim Saiman
Professor of Law and Chair in Jewish Law
Featured publications
- The Law Wants to be Formal. Notre Dame Law Review (2021)
- Is Insurance a Just Contract or Just a Contract? Maryland Law Review (2024)
Emily Stolzenberg
Associate Professor of Law and Reuschlein Emerging Scholar
Featured publications
- Properties of Intimacy. Maryland Law Review (2021)
- Nonconsensual Family Obligations. BYU Law Review (2022)
- Tribes, States, and Sovereigns' Interest in Children. North Carolina Law Review (2024)
