Val D. Ricks

Publications

• The Political Commitment of the Supreme Court of Texas to Protecting Controlling Equity Owners
  31 FORDHAM J. CORP. & FIN. L. 101 (2025) · Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law · 2025
• No-Hire Rulings Forget Competition
  74 AM. U. L. REV. (2025) · American University Law Review · 2025
• Misreading Menetti: The Case Does Not Help You Avoid Liability for Your Own Fraud
  53 ST. MARY'S L.J. 205 (2022) · St. Mary's Law Journal · 2022
• Fraud Is Now Legal in Texas (For Some People)
  8 TEX. A & M L. REV. 1 (2020) · Texas A&M Law Review · 2020

• Self-Help in the Break-Up of Informal Partnerships
  12 DEPAUL BUS. & COM. L.J. 259 (2015) · DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal · 2015
• No Power to be Disloyal (or, How Not to Write a Loyalty Opinion)
  6 J. BUS. ENTREPRENEURSHIP & L. (2013) · The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law · 2013

• Possibility of Plain Meaning: Wittgenstein and the Contract Precedents
  56 CLEV. ST. L. REV. 767 (2008) · Cleveland State Law Review · 2008
• The Death of Offers
  79 IND. L.J. (2004) · Indiana Law Journal · 2004
• Contract Law and Christian Conscience
  2003 BYU L. REV. 993 (2003) · BYU Law Review · 2003
• Abortion and Latter-Day Saint Experiences With Children and Law
  1 U. MD. L.J. RACE RELIG. GENDER & CLASS 523 (2001) · University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class · 2001

• In Defense of Mutuality of Obligation: Why "Both Should Be Bound, or Neither"
  78 NEB. L. REV. (1999) · Nebraska Law Review · 1999
• American Mutual Mistake: Half-Civilian Mongrel, Consideration Reincarnate
  58 LA. L. REV. (1998) · Louisiana Law Review · 1998
• The Conversion of Intangible Property: Bursting the Ancient Trover Bottle with New Wine
  1991 BYU L. REV. 1681 (1991) · BYU Law Review · 1991