Vampires, Zombies & Dead Hands: Top Ten Spookiest Law Review Articles
For over fifteen years, we’ve been periodically scaring up those spooky law review articles that bring a little Halloween creepiness to the usually more staid legal literature. 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” field searching (also called segment searching) in the advanced search screen under law reviews for Lexis+ and Westlaw Advantage. Type in the words like “ghost,” “witch” or “mummy” in the title field and pull up only those results with the spooky word in the title.
In the spirit of Halloween fun, we present the spookiest law review articles from the past two years, selected by title alone –
- The Lack of Regulations Will Make You Scream: The Rise of Haunted Houses, 67 B. C. L. Rev. 641 (2026).
- Antitrust, Vampires, and Bloody Acquisitions, 94 Fordham L. Rev. 1649 (2026).
- “The Monster That Ate Jurisprudence”: The Misfire of Civil RICO in Third-Party Payor Recovery, 34 U. Miami Bus. L. Rev. 273 (2026).
- Seeing the Dead: Marks, Meaning and the Haunting of American Trademark Law, 103 Tex. L. Rev. 1499 (2025).
- I Ain’t Afraid of No Ghost…Kitchen! A New Realm of Consumer Protection After the Inform Consumers Act, 19 Brook. J. Corp. Fin. & Com. L. 153 (2024).
- The Zombie of Comi: Should We Finally Kill It Off?, 44 Reg. Litig. 165 (2024).
- Algorithmic Dead Hands: What Is Dead May Never Die, 35 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 83 (2024).
- Ghost-Hunting in AI and the Law, 99 Tul. L. Rev. 121 (2024).
- Who Decides the Dead? Interpreting Washington’s Disposition of Remains Statute, 49 Seattle U. L. Rev. 1397 (2026).
- Authoring While Dead, 59 Ga. L. Rev. 385 (2025).
