Scholarship@WashULaw
Explore the scholarship and commentary of the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. This collection represents only a small subset of our faculty scholarship, but is growing daily.
Submissions from 2025
The Illusion of Inclusion: The False Promise of the New Governance Project for Content Moderation, Brenda Dvoskin
Submissions from 2024
The Debt Limit, Conor Clarke
Special-Purpose Governments, Conor Clarke and Henry Hansmann
Justice Alito Embraces a Retrogression Standard, Travis Crum
Justice Thomas Exits the Political Thicket, Travis Crum
Rewarding Loyalty and the Fifteenth Amendment, Travis Crum
The Court v. The Voters, Travis Crum
The Riddle of Race-Based Redistricting, Travis Crum
Voting Under the Federal Constitution, Travis Crum
Contract-Wrapped Property, Danielle D'Onfro
Book Review: Rethinking Participation in Global Governance: Voice and Influence After Stakeholder Reforms in Global Finance and Health, Melinda (M.J.) Durkee
Private Sector Participants in International Rulemaking: Governance Models, Melinda (M.J.) Durkee
The Ambivalent Logics of Business Representation in International Organizations, Melinda (M.J.) Durkee
The Rush into Space is Producing a Perilous Legal Fragmentation, Melinda (M.J.) Durkee
Introduction to the Symposium on Digital Evidence, Melinda (M.J.) Durkee and Tamar Megiddo
Introduction to the Symposium on Digital Evidence, Melinda (M.J.) Durkee and Megiddo Tamar
States, Firms, and Their Legal Fictions: Attributing Identity and Responsibility to Artificial Entities, Melissa (M.J.) Durkee
Regulatory Monitoring in the Information Economy, Brenda Dvoskin
Speaking Back to Sexual Privacy Invasions, Brenda Dvoskin
Provisioning Digital Tools and Systems for Government Use, Brenda Dvoskin, Julie E. Cohen, Paul Ohm, Meg Leta Jones, Smitha Krishna Prasad, and Nina-Simone Edwards
The False Promise of Jurisdiction Stripping, Daniel Epps and Alan M. Trammell
‘Tough on immigrants’ is the New ‘Tough on Crime’, Sheldon Evans
Antitrust, Amazon, and Algorithmic Auditing, Jens Frankenreiter, Abhisek Dash, Abhijnan Chakraborty, Saptarshi Ghosh, Animesh Mukherjee, Stefan Bechtold, and Krishna P. Gummadi
Sex & Startups, Jens Frankenreiter, Talia B. Gillis, and Eric L. Talley
Sticky Charters? The Surprisingly Tepid Embrace of Officer-Protecting Waivers in Delaware, Jens Frankenreiter and Eric L. Talley
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
Assembly, Pluralism, and Identity, John D. Inazu
Learning to Disagree: The Surprising Path to Navigating Differences with Empathy and Respect, John D. Inazu
No Higher Law: The Uruguayan Plebiscite of 1980 as a Failed Constituent Moment, Andrea Scoseria Katz
WashU Expert: Can Trump Bypass Senate Approval of Controversial Cabinet Nominees?, Andrea Scoseria Katz and Neil Schoenherr
Sales: A Systems Approach, 8th Edition (Aspen Casebook), Daniel Keating
Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Algorithmic Management, and Labor Law, Pauline Kim
Limitations of the “Four-Fifths Rule” and Statistical Parity Tests for Measuring Fairness, Pauline Kim and Manish Raghavan
Whither Coursework and NextGen Bar Exam Success?, Robert R. Kuehn
Redistributing Justice, Benjamin Levin and Kate Levine
Legitimacy and the Major Questions Doctrine, Ronald M. Levin
The Real Significance of the Supreme Court’s ‘Chevron Deference’ Ruling, Ronald M. Levin
The Tragic Costs of ‘Protecting’ Trans Youth, Kimberly Jade Norwood and Jaimie Hileman
Rethinking Antebellum Bankruptcy, Rafael I. Pardo
The New Jersey Drone Scare is a Privacy Wake-Up Call, Neil M. Richards
Against Engagement, Neil M. Richards and Woodrow Hartzog
Reducing Prescription Drug Prices: How Competition Can Make Medications Affordable for Patients - Testimony of Rachel E. Sachs, Rachel Sachs
Justice Delayed is Justice Denied: Moving Forward with a New Crimes Against Humanity Treaty, Leila Nadya Sadat and Akila Radhakrishnan
ERISA Principles, Peter J. Wiedenbeck and Brendan S. Maher
Submissions from 2023
Out of Bounds?: Abortion, Choice of Law, and a Modest Role for Congress, Susan Frelich Appleton
Reflections on “Personal Responsibility” after COVID and Dobbs: Doubling Down on Privacy, Susan Frelich Appleton and Laura A. Rosenbury
A Theory of Claim Resolution, Scott Baker and Lewis A. Kornhauser
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
Moore: The Overlooked Excise Power, Conor Clarke
There Is No Constitutional End Run Around the Debt Ceiling, Conor Clarke