Publications, research, and other scholarship by faculty across all schools, departments, and centers at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Submissions from 2025

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Ten Years and Ten Miles: Reflecting on "Ferguson"
Benjamin Levin

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Painting rich six-dimensional pictures using polarized fluorescence microscopy
Matthew D. Lew

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The Keys to the Kingdom: The Unexpectedly Unsettled Definitions of Security and Sale and the Overruling of Chevron
Joel Seligman

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Lessons Learned from the Trump Rule of Law Stress Test: Beware Bad Faith Actors
Brian Z. Tamanaha

Research from 2024

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Optimization of a Quantum Subset Sum Oracle
Angelo G. Benoit, Sam Schwartz, and Ron K. Cytron

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How the Trump Administration’s Quota Policy Transformed Immigration Judging
Christina L. Boyd, Elise Blasingame, Roberto F. Carlos, and Joseph T. Ornstein

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The Debt Limit
Conor Clarke

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Profit, Mission, and Protest at Work
Marion Crain

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Justice Alito Embraces a Retrogression Standard
Travis Crum

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Justice Thomas Exits the Political Thicket
Travis Crum

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Originalism, Lived Experience, and the Twenty-Sixth Amendment
Travis Crum

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Rewarding Loyalty and the Fifteenth Amendment
Travis Crum

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The Court v. The Voters
Travis Crum

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The Fifteenth Amendment’s Relevance to Trump v. Anderson
Travis Crum

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The Riddle of Race-Based Redistricting
Travis Crum

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Voting Under the Federal Constitution
Travis Crum

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Contract-Wrapped Property
Danielle D'Onfro

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Book Review: Rethinking Participation in Global Governance: Voice and Influence After Stakeholder Reforms in Global Finance and Health
Melissa (M.J.) Durkee

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Fragmented Futures: Publication Choices and the Evolution of International Legal Scholarship
Melissa (M.J.) Durkee

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Private Sector Participants in International Rulemaking: Governance Models
Melissa (M.J.) Durkee

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States, Firms, and Their Legal Fictions: Attributing Identity and Responsibility to Artificial Entities
Melissa (M.J.) Durkee

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The Ambivalent Logics of Business Representation in International Organizations
Melissa (M.J.) Durkee

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The Rush into Space is Producing a Perilous Legal Fragmentation
Melissa (M.J.) Durkee

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Introduction to the Symposium on Digital Evidence
Melissa (M.J.) Durkee and Tamar Megiddo

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The False Promise of Jurisdiction Stripping
Daniel Epps and Alan M. Trammell

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Book Review: The Idea of Prison Abolition
Sheldon Evans

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‘Tough on immigrants’ is the New ‘Tough on Crime’
Sheldon Evans

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Antitrust, Amazon, and Algorithmic Auditing
Jens Frankenreiter, Abhisek Dash, Abhijnan Chakraborty, Saptarshi Ghosh, Animesh Mukherjee, Stefan Bechtold, and Krishna P. Gummadi

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Sex & Startups
Jens Frankenreiter, Talia B. Gillis, and Eric L. Talley

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Sticky Charters? The Surprisingly Tepid Embrace of Officer-Protecting Waivers in Delaware
Jens Frankenreiter and Eric L. Talley

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Measuring Compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act Over Space and Time
Jens Frankenreiter, Van Tran, Aarushi Mehrotra, Marshini Chetty, Nick Feamster, and Lior Strahilevitz

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Police Diversity Theory
Trevor George Gardner

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Do Patents Drive Investment in Software?
James Hicks

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Assembly, Pluralism, and Identity
John D. Inazu

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Learning to Disagree: The Surprising Path to Navigating Differences with Empathy and Respect
John D. Inazu

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Obligations When Receiving Flat Fees and Other Fees Paid in Advance
Peter A. Joy and Kevin C. McMunigal

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A Regime of Statutes: Building a Modern President in Gilded Age America (1873-1921)
Andrea Scoseria Katz

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No Higher Law: The Uruguayan Plebiscite of 1980 as a Failed Constituent Moment
Andrea Scoseria Katz

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WashU Expert: Can Trump Bypass Senate Approval of Controversial Cabinet Nominees?
Andrea Scoseria Katz and Neil Schoenherr

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Sales: A Systems Approach, 8th Edition (Aspen Casebook)
Daniel Keating

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Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Algorithmic Management, and Labor Law
Pauline Kim

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Less Discriminatory Algorithms
Pauline Kim, Emily Black, John Logan Koepke, Solon Barocas, and Mingwei Hsu

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Limitations of the “Four-Fifths Rule” and Statistical Parity Tests for Measuring Fairness
Pauline Kim and Manish Raghavan

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Whither Coursework and NextGen Bar Exam Success?
Robert R. Kuehn

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Measuring the Impacts of Experiential Legal Education
Robert R. Kuehn and Peter A. Joy

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Criminal Law Minimalisms
Benjamin Levin

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Redistributing Justice
Benjamin Levin and Kate Levine

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The Major Questions Doctrine: Unfounded, Unbounded, and Confounded
Ronald M. Levin

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Legitimacy and the Major Questions Doctrine
Ronald M. Levin

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The Vanishing Appeal?
Stefanie A. Lindquist and Kirk Randazzo