Professor of Law
B.A., 1987, University of Delaware,
J.D., 1991, The Catholic University of America
Professor Flannery joined the law school in 2003. He teaches Decedents’ Estates and Trusts, Family Law, and Sports Law. He recently has been appointed to sit as a Special Judge for the 20th Judicial District of the State of Arkansas. In 2006, he won the Faculty Excellence Award for Research and was featured on National Public Radio as an “Agent of Change.” He has authored three books, two book chapters, and 12 law review articles. He is the author of Decedents’ Estates: Cases and Materials, published in 2006 and co-authored with Raymond C. O’Brien. Professor Flannery writes as an expert commentator for the Trusts and Estates division of Matthew Bender’s LexisNexis Expert Commentaries. While at Catholic University, he was a board member on the Moot Court Association, a staff member on the Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy, and special features editor for the Judicial Notice newspaper. Upon graduation, he worked as an Assistant City Solicitor in Philadelphia. While with the City Solicitor's Office, he represented the Department of Human Services in child dependency litigation and the County Office of Mental Health in mental health law litigation. Professor Flannery also worked in the special litigation division, focusing on prison riot litigation. In 1994, he joined the law firm of Gold-Bikin, Clifford and Young as an associate, where he practiced in the area of domestic relations and divorce litigation. He then joined the law firm of Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen before joining the faculty at the Villanova University School of Law, where he taught for eight years before joining the faculty at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Professor Flannery’s research has been cited by the Supreme Court of New Jersey, the Supreme Court of Texas, the First District Court of Appeal of Florida, the Alabama Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals of Georgia, and the Supreme Court of Iowa. He speaks regularly on various panel symposia and is a member of numerous bar associations and legal organizations.
Professor Flannery’s publications include:
Books
Decedents’ Estates: Cases and Materials (Carolina Academic Press 2006) (with Raymond C. O’Brien);
Decedents’ Estates: Cases and Materials, Teacher’s Manual (Carolina Academic Press 2006) (with Raymond C. O’Brien);
Long-Term Care: Federal, State, and Private Options for the Future (Haworth Press, Inc., New York, 1997) (with Raymond C. O’Brien).
Book Chapters
Affairs of the Heart, in Courting the Yankees: Legal Essays on the Bronx Bombers (Carolina Academic Press 2003) (reprinted in 10 Villanova Sports & Entertainment Law Journal 211 (2003);
The Pennsylvania Bar Institute Family Law Update (1995 - 1996).
Articles
Military Disability Election and the Distribution of Marital Property Upon Divorce, 56 Catholic University of America Law Review 297(2007);
The Use of Hair Analysis to Test Children for Exposure to Methamphetamine, 10 Journal of Medicine and Law 143 (2006) (with Jerry G. Jones, MD, Karen Boyd Worley, Ph.D., Toss Worthington, RNP, & Stanley Rauls);
Is “Bird Nesting” In the Best Interest of Children?, 57 Southern Methodist University Law Review 295 (2004);
Philadelphia, in FROM BLUEPRINT TO BRICKS: A SURVEY OF CURRENT BASEBALL STADIUM FINANCING PROJECTS, 34 Urban Lawyer 381 (2002);
First, Do No Harm: The Use of Covert Video Surveillance to Detect Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy--An Unethical Means of “Preventing” Child Abuse, 32 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 105 (1999);
Mandatory HIV Testing of Professional Boxers: An Unconstitutional Effort to Regulate A Sport That Needs to Be Regulated, 31 University of California, Davis Law Review 409 (1998) (with Raymond C. O’Brien);
Against All Odds: Representing Fathers In Custody Disputes, 31 Trial 44 (August 1995) (reprinted in 9 Minnesota Family Law Journal 49 (1995);
Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy: Broadening the Scope of Child Abuse, 28 University of Richmond Law Review 1175 (1994);
Norplant: The New Scarlet Letter?, 8 Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 201 (1992);
Court-Ordered Prenatal Intervention: The Final Means to the End of Gestational Substance Abuse, 30 Journal of Family Law 519 (1991-1992);
The Pending Gauntlet to Free Exercise: Mandating That Clergy Report Child Abuse, 25 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 1 (1991) (with Raymond C. O’Brien);
E-mail: mxflannery@ualr.edu
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Phone: 501.324.9959
Dedcedents' Estates PowerPoint
Revised: 8/16/2007