Top Ten Spookiest Law Review Articles

Since 2008, we’ve been scaring up those spooky law review articles that give us a good Halloween fright. Here’s our ranking of the scariest law review articles from the past two years, chosen by title alone.

Research tip: Find these and other creepy law review articles by using “title” section searching (also called segment searching) in the advanced search for Lexis+ and Westlaw Precision. Type in the spooky word like “ghost,” “witch” or “mummy” in the title field.

Happy Halloween!

1. The Law of Halloween Nightmares: Damages for Caskets Bouncing Down the Highway, Burial Blunders, and More Funeral Frights, 36 Probate & Property 12 (2022).
2. Undead Dicta or Haunted Holdings? A Closer Look at the Zombie Subjective Intent Partnership Formation Cases, 21 U. N. H. L. Rev. 1 (2022).
3. Who Let the Ghouls Out? The History and Tradition Test’s Embrace of Neutrality and Pluralism in Establishment Cases, 51 Pepp. L. Rev. 325 (2024).
4. Zombies Attack Inadvertent Partnerships! – How Undead Precedents Killed by Uniform Statutes Still Roam the Reporters, 57 U. Rich. L. Rev. 381 (2023).
5. You’re Only Mostly Dead: Protecting Your Digital Ghost from Unauthorized Resurrection, 75 Comm. L.J. 273 (2023).
6. The Lochneress Monster: The Evolving Fear of Lochnerism and Its Continued Value for American Jurisprudence, 42 J.L. & Com. 107 (2023).
7. Beating a Dead Corpse, 120 Mich. L. Rev. 1187 (2022).
8. I See Dead Patents: How Bugs in the Patent System Keep Expired Patents Alive, 33 Fordham Intel. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 1 (2022).
9. The Ghost Justice: A Means to Scare the Special Interests Controlling Retention Elections of State Supreme Court Justices, 18 Charleston L. Rev. 71 (2023).
10. Afraid for the Dark: Regulating Light Pollution Under the Clean Water Act, 65 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1533 (2024).