Criminal Law, Evidence, Constitutional Law, Race & the Law, and Legal Jurisprudence.

The intersection of Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Race & the Law, Death Penalty, and Legal Jurisprudence.

Juandalynn Taylor, Readjusting the Objective Observer’s Racial Justice Lens (In progress).
Juandalynn Taylor, Reversing Course: How Criminal Defense’s Mitigation Strategies Harm Defendants and Communities of Color Rather Than Help (In progress).

Juandalynn Taylor & Brian Richardson, Sexual Harassment at the Intersection of Race and Gender: A Theoretical Model of the Sexual Harassment Experiences of Women of Color, 73 W.J. COMMC’N. 248 (2009). Awarded by Western Journal of Communication in 2020 as One of Three Most Important Articles on Race in the field of Communication Studies in the past 20 years. (Study supported by University of North Texas Research Initiation Grant).

Juandalynn Taylor, Obama’s Place in History: Developing a Case for an Understanding of Black Political Rhetoric, NEWSL. FOR THE POL. COMMC’N. DIV. OF INT’L & AM. POL. SCI. ASS’N., Spring 2009, at 2.

Juandalynn Taylor & Brian Richardson, Powerlessness, Resistance, and the Understood ‘They’: Sexual Harassment at the Intersection of Race and Gender, INTERCULTURAL & INT’L COMMC’N. ANN. 68 (2006). (Study supported by University of North Texas Research Initiation Grant).

Juandalynn Taylor, Renee Espinoza, Federico Subervi-Valez, & Marc Bindel, Spanish-Language Daily Newspapers and Presidential Elections, in THE MASS MEDIA AND LATINO POLITICS: STUDIES OF US MEDIA CONTENT, CAMPAIGN STRATEGIES AND SURVEY RESEARCH 1984-2004 87-130 (Federico Subervi-Valez ed., Routledge 2004).

Juandalynn Taylor, Behind Door Number One, Two, or Three: A Rhetorical Analysis of Cuban and Haitian Citizenship Status (August 2000) (Ph.D. dissertation available digitally at University of Texas at Austin Library).

Juandalynn Taylor, African American or Black?: An Exploratory Field Study of Ethnic Identity and Communication Satisfaction During Intracultural Encounters (May 1995) (M.S. thesis available digitally at Texas Christian University).

Presenter/Moderator, Color Adjustment: A Comparative Analysis of Media Portrayals of Black Success and Approaches to Family & Criminal Law from 1948 to 2024: Spokane, WA, 2024.

Moderator, WIP Panel Criminal Law SEALS: Boca Raton, Florida, 2023.

Co-Presenter, Shifting Gears: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Integrating DEIJ Throughout Curriculum, LSA Annual Conference: San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2023.

Presenter, Rhetoric and Democratic Participation, Lutie-Lytie Workshop: Carlisle, PA, June 2023.

Co-Presenter, Teaching Constitutional “Law” in the New Regressive with Mary Pat Treuhart, Brooks Holland, & Jason Gilmer. SALT Conference: Chicago, 2022.

Presenter, New Definition of Toxic Stress and How It Applies to Our Clients, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association: Capital Defense Program, Dallas, 2017.

Presenter, Understanding Sexual Harassment: An Exploratory Model for Understanding the Relationship Between a Raced Organization and Sexual Harassment Experiences of Women of Color: Western Association of Communication, 2005. Co-authored with Dr. Brian Richardson, Awarded Top Paper Organizational Communication.

Presenter, New Perspectives on the Relationship between Teacher Immediacy Behaviors and Student Motivation to Learn: An African American Assessment, Co-authored with Dominque Genderin and Mary Rucker. Competitively selected for presentation at the annual National Communication Association Convention: Atlanta, 2001.

Presenter, Haitian Immigration and the Rhetoric of President George Bush and Bill Clinton. Texas A&M University: “12th Annual Conference on Presidential Studies,” : March, 2001.

Presenter, Will the Real Negros Brasileros Stand Up: An Analysis of Identity Construction in Brazil’s RAÇA Magazine. First Annual Communication Conference on Race, Identity, Representation: Austin, April 1997.

Presenter, Waking the Sleeping Giant: An Analysis of Ideologies and Polices Presented in the L.A. Times, La Opinon, El Nueva Herald and the Miami Herald and the Impact on Latino Political Behaviors During the 1996 Presidential Elections. Competitively selected for presentation Texas National Association of Chicano Studies: University of Texas at San Antonio, February 1997.

Presenter, Once Upon a Time There Was a Revolution: An Examination of Fidel Castro’s Use of Narratives to Construct a Revolutionary Identity in the Public Sphere. Competitively selected for presentation at the annual National Communication Association convention: New York, 1998.

Presenter, Dividing Lines: The Politics of Language in Miami’s Haitian and Cuban Communities. Competitively selected for presentation at the American Anthropological Association Annual Convention: Philadelphia, 1998.

Presenter, Who Puts the ‘Black’ in the Black Consumer?: An Examination of E-Style Catalogs and BET Shop as Artifacts that Constitute Modernist Identities in a Postmodern Moment. Speech Communication Association. Competitively selected for presentation Black Caucus Summer Conference: Baltimore, June 1997.

Presenter, Power to the People: An Analysis of the Impact of the Black Panther Party Through the Application of Raven’s Social Interaction Theory. Competitively selected for presentation at the Texas State Communication Association: October 1994.

Presenter, Who Puts the ‘Black’ in the Black Consumer?: An Examination of E-Style Catalogs and BET Shop as Artifacts that Constitute Modernist Identities in a Postmodern Moment. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the National Association of African America and National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies: Houston, 1998.

Presenter, Proving Up Racial Bias, Black Public Defenders/NLADA, Annual Racial Justice Conference. October 2025.

Presenter, History Matters: Incorporating Race Into Your Case, National Association of Public Defenders. February 2024.

Presenter, History Matters: Incorporating Race Into Your Case, National Association of Public Defenders. October 2023.

Presenter/Ethics Speaker, The Role of Implicit Gender Bias, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association: Capital Defense Program. 2021.

Presenter, The Role of Implicit Gender Bias in Developing Female Social Justice Advocates, National Public Defender’s Association: Virtual Women in Public Defense Conference (Co-presented with Betsy Wilson). 2020.

Presenter, Mitigation with Evidence of Mental Illness, Capital Defense College, Texas Defender Services. Plano, Texas, 2019.

Presenter, Mitigation & Mental Health: Using Definitions and Details to Our Advantage, Capital Defense College, Texas Defender Services. Plano, Texas, 2018.

Presenter, The CSI Effect Jury Expectations. Ends of Court West Chester, PA , 2010.

Presenter, Discourses of Stability and Change: Women of Color in the field of Pedagogy, Intercultural and Rhetorical Communication. Competitively selected for presentation at the annual National Communication Association Convention: Chicago, 2009.

Presenter, The Ties that Bind: An Exploratory Analysis of the Intersection of Race and African American and Hispanic Women’s Perception of Sexual Harassment. Co-Presented with Dr. Brian Richardson. Competitively selected for presentation at the annual National Communication Association Convention: Chicago, 2004.

Moderator, Consuming Cuba: Fast Forward/Backtracking Through Havana. Competitively selected for presentation at the annual National Communication Association Convention: Chicago, 2004.

Presenter, Perspectives, Needs, and Communication Practices of At-Risk Students. Competitively selected for presentation at the National Communication Association Convention: Miami 2003.

Presenter, From Barnstorming to Drive by Campaign or How Minority Democrat Candidates in the Texas Mid- Term Elections Tried to Out Republican the Republican. Competitively selected for presentation at the annual National Communication Association Convention: Miami, 2003.

Presenter, Purged Democracy: A Comparative Analysis of General Market and Spanish-Language Print Media Coverage of “Race” During the 2000 Presidential Election. Competitively selected for presentation at the annual National Communication Association Convention: Atlanta, 2001.

Presenter, An Exploratory Analysis of Media Images in the Identity Formation of Black Generation Xers. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the National Association of African America and National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies. Houston, February 2000.

Presenter, African American Me: An Ethnography of Identity Construction in Miami, Florida. Competitively selected for presentation at the annual National Communication Association convention: Chicago, 1999.

Presenter, Identity Politics in Miami: How the Golden Image Got Tarnished. Competitively selected for presentation at the annual National Communication Association convention: New York, 1998. Awarded Top Three Papers in Latina/ Latino Communication Studies Division.

• “Methods of Execution: Emergency Legislation to Provide for Execution by Firing Squad.” Idaho HB 186. March 24, 2023. Asked by the Idaho Defense Bar to offer expert testimony on prisoner rights and legal history of executions.

• “Special sentencing rules for certain youth” (Granting juveniles the opportunity for parole instead of life sentences/ LWOP). Pennsylvania HB 1999, September 2009. Directly contacted by state representative Kenyetta Johnson to provide expert testimony on sentencing considerations for juveniles.

• “Uniform admission policy” (Texas 10% college admission plan). Texas HB 588- April 30, 1999. Nominated to speak by graduate student organizations.

• “Payback killer,” Upcoming episode legal analyst “True Crime Documentary, TV ONE Network (May 4, 2024).

• “Missouri executes Michael Tisius after jurors waver on death sentence,” The New York Times (June 6, 2023).

• “The jurors sentenced a Missouri man to death. now some are not so sure,” The New York Times (June 5, 2023).

• “Payback killer, mitigation legal analyst, True Crime Documentary, TV ONE Network (Aired May 23, 2023).

• “Firing squad as constitutional method of execution,” News Nation (Mar. 23, 2023).

• “Doubts about Idaho Senate bill for firing squad as method of execution,” KREM3 (March 3,2023).

• “Jury deadlocks on death penalty, Jacob Holmes Jr. to serve life in prison” WFMZ-TV (Dec 21, 2020).

• “Life or death? Jury Is Now Deliberating That Question In Jacob Holmes Homicide Trial,” LehighValleyLive.com (Dec 21, 2020).

• “Date set in long-delayed murder trial for Jacob Holmes Jr.,” Pennsylvania 69 News (May 20, 2020).

• “The critical role this person has had in death penalty cases,” KSAT 12 (Aug. 17, 2017).

• “Bethlehem murderer deserves shorter sentence because of dismal upbringing, defense argues,” LehighValleyLive.com (Nov 10, 2014).

• “Convicted teen murderer asks for mercy in Bethlehem shooting,” The Morning Call, (Nov. 10, 2014).

• “Man who murdered Allentown man on Halloween 2008 faces 20 years in state prison” LehighValleyLive.com (Oct 5, 2012).

• “Alleged bloods member gets up to 40 years for Halloween slaying,” The Morning Call (Oct 5, 2012).

• “Death or life in prison? Chapman jury set to hear arguments,” Daily Local News (Nov, 12, 2012).

• “Defense in murder case seeking delay,” Daily Local News (Aug 7, 2011).

Faculty Trainor, National Association of Public Defenders: Clarence Darrow/David Baldus College.

Faculty Trainor, Capital Defense College Texas Defender Services (Plano, Texas).

Faculty Trainor, Texas Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.