Ronald C. Griffin
Publications
Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
"Ghana Journey: Private Investment, Public Funding and Domestic Reform," 6 Florida A & M University Law Review 109 (2010).
"Fair Credit Reporting Act," 34:3 Journal of the Kansas Bar Association 10 (January 2010).
"A Prairie Perspective on Global Warming and Climate Change," 2 International Journal of Private Law 426 (2009). (Read article abstract at publisher's website)
"A Prairie Perspective on Global Warming and Climate Change: The Use of Law, Technology, and Economics to Establish Private Sector Markets to Compliment Kyoto," 17 Southeastern Environmental Law Journal 95 (2008). [1.8 MB PDF]
"Jubilee," 43 Wash. L.J. 353 (2004). [86 KB PDF; requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]
"Equality: A Comparison of Three Countries." 23 U. Dayton L. Rev. 560 (1998).
"Coming to Terms With Equality," 35 Wash. L.J. 431 (1996).
"Equality: Nibbling Around the Edges", 34 Wash. L.J. 460 (1995).
"Contracting in the Americas: Part I", 34 Wash. L.J. 232 (1995).
"Journal Entry: Report of South Africa," 60 J.K.B.A. 7 (1991).
"Employment Discrimination Cases: Something's Blowing in the Wind," 30 Washburn L.J. 458 (1991).
"European Dream Come True: What Will Become of American Business (Boeing) After EEC-92," 18 Northern Ky. L. Rev. 431 (1991).
"United States - Canadian Free Trade Agreement: Canadian Investments and Bankruptcy Jurisdiction", 1990 Ann. Surv. Bankr. L. 179.
"Death of the Family: What's Become of Parents and Children", 22 U. Arkon L. Rev. (1989).
"The Free Trade Agreement: It'll Muddle the Law", 28 Washburn L.J. 205 (1988).
Comment, "Republicanism: How Can Blacks Revive a Constitutional Dream?" 30 How. L.J. 675 (1987).
"Hill's Account: Law School, Legal Education and the Black Law Student," 12 T. Marshall L.J. 507 (1987).
"Broadcast Advertising: What has it done to the Audience," 23 Washburn L.J. 237 (1984).
"The Problem of Black Consumers and Commercials: A Proposed Legislative Solution," 10 Notre Dame U.J. Legis. 135 (1983).
"Standard Form Contracts," 9 N.C. Cent. L.J. 158 (1978).
"Ambrosia: Ways to Make Commercials Life Sustaining," Circuit Rider (1979).
"Admissions: A Time For Change," 20 How. L. Rev. 129 (Spring, 1977).
"Profile System for Equitable Admissions," Learning and the Law (1975).
"A Black Perspective of the Military," Negro History Bulletin (Fall 1973).
"Synopsis of the D.C. Administrative Procedure Act: As Applied to the City and a Selected Agency," 16 How. L. Rev. 67 (1970).
Chapters in Books
"Ghana Journey: Private Investment, Public Funding and Domestic Reform," Private Law: Rights Duties & Conflicts, p. 605-624. (Edited by Sylvia M. Kierkegaard) International Association of International Trade Lawyers, 2010. (ISBN: 978-87-991385-8-6)
"A Prairie Perspective on Global Warming and Climate Change: The Use of Law, Technology and Economics To Establish Private Sector Markets to Complement Kyoto," The Dynamics of Trade: Law and Economics, p. 313-329. (Edited by Sylvia M. Kierkegaard) International Association of International Trade Lawyers, 2008. (ISBN-10: 87-9911385-6-5; ISBN-13: 978-87-991385-6-2)
"NAFTA," Encyclopedia of the Great Plains. University of Nebraska Press (2004).
"Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms," The Oxford Companion to American Law, p. 16-17. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002. (Editor in Chief: Kermit L. Hall)
"The Importance of Reinventing Oscar: Versions of Wilde during the Last 100 Years," The Trials of Oscar Wilde: The Intersection Between Law and Literature, p.57. Rodopi b.v. Holland. 2002. (Edited by Uwe Boker, Richard Corballis and Julie A. Hibbard.)
"The Trials of Oscar Wilde: The Intersection Between Law and Literature" in Processes of Institutionalisation: Case Studies in Law, Prison and Censorship, p.83. Essen: Verl. Die Blaue Eule, 2001.
Published Poems
"Letter and Poems." 2 Litspeak (Magazine of Fiction, Poetry and Visual Arts) University of Dresden (1996).
Book Reviews
"Law Touched Our Hearts: A Generation Remembers," edited by Mildred Wigfall Robinson and Richard J. Bonnie, (Nashville, Tennessee, Vanderbilt University Press, 2009), 32:3 Kansas History 218 (2009).
"Vanities, Law and Identity: Some Reflections on Race and Culture in American Life," 51 South Dakota Law Review 407 (2006) (reviewing the books Culture's Vanities: The Paradox of Cultural Diversity in a Globalized World by David Steigerwald; Democracy's Constitution: Claiming the Privileges of American Citizenship. [481 KB PDF]
"A Time to Lose: Representing Kansas in Brown v. Topeka Board of Education," Book Review, 18 J. Cent. Plains 136 (1995).
"The New American Poverty," by Michael Harrington. 26 Washburn L.J. 262-266 (1987).
"Enforcing Antitrust Against Foreign Enterprises," by Cornelis Canenbley. Am. Jur. Int'l L. 77: 189 (1983).
"Wealth and Poverty," by George Gilder. 57 Notre Dame Law. 741-746 (1982).
"Inflation and the Personal Income Tax: An International Perspective," Book Review, 15 Int'l. L. 748 (1981).
Other Publications
"Uniform Commercial Code," Vernon's Kansas Statutes Annotated, Volumes 7-9, Pocket Parts/Supplements (West Publishing Co. / West Group / Thomson/West), 1998-2008.
Continuing Legal Education Publications
Recent Amendments to the Bankruptcy Code, for the Kansas Bar Association. (1995)
"Summary: Secured Transactions Law in Kansas" for the Kansas Bar Association (1993).
Essays
"Brown Revisited," 14 Experience Magazine (Senior Lawyer Division, American Bar Association) 11 (2004)
"Elisha," 42 Washburn Lawyer (online ed.) (2004)
"Brown," 20 The Journal (National Network of Law School Officers) 2 (2003)
"Telecommunications in the Jazz Age." 1 TeleJurist 3 (1993).
Film
Film Consultant, BLACK/WHITE & BROWN: Brown versus the Board of Education of Topeka. KTWU-TV (Public Broadcasting Production) (2004)
Presentations
Panelist, "Stories: Speaking Truth to Power," Our Country, Our World in a Post-Racial Era, Third National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Seton Hall University School of Law, September 9-12, 2010.
Panelist, "Midwest People of Color Retrospective," Paradigms Lost: Outsider Scholarship, Insider Scholarship, and the Economic Crisis, 20th Annual Midwest People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, John Marshall Law School, Chicago Illinois, April 17, 2010.
"Recent Developments in Secured Transactions and Article 2 of the UCC," Washburn University School of Law, Recent Developments in the Law CLE, Topeka, Kansas, June 25, 2009.
"A Prairie Perspective on Global Warming and Climate Change: The Use of Law, Technology and Economics to Establish Private Sector Markets to Complement Kyoto," The Third International Conference on Legal, Security and Privacy Issues in IT, Prague, Czech Republic, September 4, 2008.
"Brown v. Board of Education and the Seattle Case," Education Committee, Topeka Branch, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, September 20, 2007.
"A Chat About National Security," 2007 Statewide "We the People Competition," Kansas Department of Education, Topeka, Kansas, January 30, 2007.
"Open Letter to Meg About York: Lewis and Clark Expedition," Tent of Many Voices, United States Department of Interior-United States National Park Service Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, St. Louis, Missouri, September 23, 2006.
"Citizenship and Political Asylum Issues in Ghana and the United States," Law Faculty, University of Ghana, April 2006.
"Free Speech in Ghana and the United States," Law Faculty, University of Ghana, April 2006.
"Vanities and Democracies Constitution: Katrina's Impact Upon Our Contract Law and Constitutional Law Psyche," Law Faculty, U.C. Davis, Martin Luther King Week, January 26, 2006."
"The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Intersection Between Law and Literature," and "The Importance of Reinventing Oscar Wilde: Versions of Wilde During the Last 100 Years," at the Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany, August 31, 2000.
"Welfare Reform and The Equality Concept in American Law," Lecture delivered at the Technical University, University of Dresden, December 4, 1998.
"Law and Literature," Institute for Anglo and North American Studies, University of Dresden, December 3, 1998.
Lecture, "Community Identity, Diversity, and Economic Development: What's Become of Welfare?" Kansas Endowment for the Humanities, Washburn University, November, 1998.
"Diary of Equality." People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Inc. (Capital University, Columbus, Ohio) (March 1998)
"Diary about Equality in Literature, Law, and End Discourse About Justice." Southern Humanities Council. (Huntingdon College, Montgomery, Ala.) (March 1997)
"Diary About Equality." University of Edinburgh, Scotland; Human Rights Lecture on South Africa, University of Munster, Germany. (1996)
"G.M. Hopkins: A Lawyer's Perspective," G.M. Hopkins International Summer School, Ireland. (1996)
Professional Service
Listed, Who's Who in America 2008.
Representative, Brown Foundation Statewide Summit Conference, Kansas State University, 2007.
Delegate, Global Warming and Climate Change, People's Republic of China, People to People Ambassador Program, 2007.
