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 2024

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The Tragic Costs of ‘Protecting’ Trans Youth
Kimberly Jade Norwood and Jaimie Hileman

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Rethinking Antebellum Bankruptcy
Rafael I. Pardo

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The New Jersey Drone Scare is a Privacy Wake-Up Call
Neil M. Richards

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Single-Molecule Orientation Imaging Reveals the Nano-Architecture of Amyloid Fibrils Undergoing Growth and Decay
Brian Sun, Tianben Ding, Weiyan Zhou, Tara S. Porter, and Matthew D. Lew

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6D single-fluorogen orientation-localization microscopy for elucidating the architecture of beta-sheet assemblies and biomolecular condensates
Tingting Wu, Weiyan Zhou, Jai S. Rudra, Rohit V. Pappu, and Matthew D. Lew

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Resolving the Nanoscale Structure of β-Sheet Peptide Self-Assemblies Using Single-Molecule Orientation–Localization Microscopy
Weiyan Zhou, Conor L. O'Neill, Tianben Ding, Oumeng Zhang, Jai S. Rudra, and Matthew D. Lew

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Fundamental Limits in Measuring the Anisotropic Rotational Diffusion of Single Molecules
Weiyan Zhou, Tingting Wu, and Matthew D. Lew

Submissions from 2023

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Out of Bounds?: Abortion, Choice of Law, and a Modest Role for Congress
Susan Frelich Appleton

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Reflections on “Personal Responsibility” after COVID and Dobbs: Doubling Down on Privacy
Susan Frelich Appleton and Laura A. Rosenbury

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A Theory of Claim Resolution
Scott Baker and Lewis A. Kornhauser

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Reasonableness
Scott Baker and Giri Parameswaran

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Supreme Bias: Gender and Race in U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings
Christina L. Boyd, Paul M. Collins Jr., and Lori A. Ringhand

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How Gender-Biased Oral Argument Interruptions Opened the Door for Chief Justice Roberts to Be a Transformational Leader
Christina L. Boyd and Sidney E. Shank

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Products Liability, Cases and Materials, 6th Edition
W. Jonathan Cardi; Richard L. Cupp, Jr.; David A. Fischer; Michael D. Green; William C. Powers; and Joseph Sanders

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Moore: The Overlooked Excise Power
Conor Clarke

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There Is No Constitutional End Run Around the Debt Ceiling
Conor Clarke

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The Supreme Court Takes on Yet Another Made-Up Controversy
Conor Clarke

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We Are All Tax Historians Now
Conor Clarke

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What Exactly Is a “Default”?
Conor Clarke

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What Issues are Fair Game in Moore v. United States?
Conor Clarke

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Why Do We Have a Debt Limit?
Conor Clarke

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Why the Debt Limit Is (Still, Really) Constitutional
Conor Clarke

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Why The Statutory Debt-Limit Gimmicks Don't Work
Conor Clarke

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The Phony Debt-Ceiling ‘Calamity’
Conor Clarke and Kristin A. Shapiro

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Coming of Age Reading the Election Law Blog
Travis Crum

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How the House Battle for a New Speaker Could Topple Trump’s Bid for the Presidency
Travis Crum

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Justice Scalia’s Draft Dissent from Denial of Certiorari in Rice v. Cayetano
Travis Crum

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Stopping Alabama’s Defiance of the Voting Rights Act
Travis Crum

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The Eighth Circuit’s Other Jurisdictional Problem
Travis Crum

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The Unabridged Fifteenth Amendment
Travis Crum

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Industry Groups in International Governance: A Framework for Reform
Melissa (M.J.) Durkee

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Privatizing International Governance
Melissa (M.J.) Durkee

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Space Law as Twenty-First Century International Law
Melissa (M.J.) Durkee

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The Pledging World Order
Melissa (M.J.) Durkee

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The Fourth Amendment and General Law
Daniel Epps and Danielle D'Onfro

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It’s Not Just Trump — Crime and Punishment are Inherently Political
Sheldon Evans

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Punishment Externalities and the Prison Tax
Sheldon Evans

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Studying Judicial Citations and Citation Data
Jens Frankenreiter

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Incomplete Contracts and Future Data Usage
Jens Frankenreiter, Talia B. Gillis, and Dan Svirsky

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Are Lawyers’ Case Selection Decisions Biased? A Field Experiment on Access to Justice
Jens Frankenreiter and Michael A. Livermore

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Natural Language Processing in Legal Tech
Jens Frankenreiter and Julian Nyarko

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Corporations
Jens Frankenreiter and Holger Spamann

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The Conflict Among African American Penal Interests: Rethinking Racial Equity in Criminal Procedure
Trevor George Gardner

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Justice by Association: A Review of Danielle Allen’s ‘Justice by Means of Democracy'
John D. Inazu

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Trump May Try to Delay His First Federal Trial – It’s a Common Legal Strategy to Fend off a Criminal Conviction
Peter A. Joy

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What is involuntary manslaughter? A law professor explains the charge facing Alec Baldwin for ‘Rust’ shooting death
Peter A. Joy

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Professional Responsibility: A Contemporary Approach, 5th edition
Peter A. Joy, Renee Knake Jefferson, Bruce A. Green, Sung Hui Kim, M. Ellen Murphy, Laurel S. Terry, Lonnie T. Brown, and Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen

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The Right to (Unbiased) Counsel
Peter A. Joy and Kevin C. McMunigal

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Colorado’s Disqualification of Trump from the 2024 Ballot Puts the US in Uncharted Constitutional Territory
Andrea Scoseria Katz

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Ninguna Ley Superior: El Plebiscito Uruguayo de 1980 Como Constituyente Fallido No Higher Law: The Uruguayan Plebiscite of 1980 as a Failed Constituent Moment
Andrea Scoseria Katz