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 2023
The Supreme Court Takes on Yet Another Made-Up Controversy, Conor Clarke
We Are All Tax Historians Now, Conor Clarke
What Exactly Is a “Default”?, Conor Clarke
What Issues are Fair Game in Moore v. United States?, Conor Clarke
Why Do We Have a Debt Limit?, Conor Clarke
Why the Debt Limit Is (Still, Really) Constitutional, Conor Clarke
Why The Statutory Debt-Limit Gimmicks Don't Work, Conor Clarke
The Phony Debt-Ceiling ‘Calamity’, Conor Clarke and Kristin A. Shapiro
Coming of Age Reading the Election Law Blog, Travis Crum
Justice Scalia’s Draft Dissent from Denial of Certiorari in Rice v. Cayetano, Travis Crum
The Unabridged Fifteenth Amendment, Travis Crum
Industry Groups in International Governance: A Framework for Reform, Melinda (M.J.) Durkee
Privatizing International Governance, Melinda (M.J.) Durkee
Space Law as Twenty-First Century International Law, Melinda (M.J.) Durkee
The Pledging World Order, Melinda (M.J.) Durkee
Expert Governance of Online Speech, Brenda Dvoskin
Expertise and Participation in the Facebook Oversight Board: From Reason to Will, Brenda Dvoskin
The Fourth Amendment and General Law, Daniel Epps and Danielle D'Onfro
It’s Not Just Trump — Crime and Punishment are Inherently Political, Sheldon Evans
Punishment Externalities and the Prison Tax, Sheldon Evans
Studying Judicial Citations and Citation Data, Jens Frankenreiter
Incomplete Contracts and Future Data Usage, Jens Frankenreiter, Talia B. Gillis, and Dan Svirsky
Are Lawyers’ Case Selection Decisions Biased? A Field Experiment on Access to Justice, Jens Frankenreiter and Michael A. Livermore
Natural Language Processing in Legal Tech, Jens Frankenreiter and Julian Nyarko
Corporations, Jens Frankenreiter and Holger Spamann
The Conflict Among African American Penal Interests: Rethinking Racial Equity in Criminal Procedure, Trevor George Gardner
First Amendment Scrutiny: Realigning First Amendment Doctrine Around Government Interests, John D. Inazu
Justice by Association: A Review of Danielle Allen’s ‘Justice by Means of Democracy', John D. Inazu
Trump May Try to Delay His First Federal Trial – It’s a Common Legal Strategy to Fend off a Criminal Conviction, Peter A. Joy
What is involuntary manslaughter? A law professor explains the charge facing Alec Baldwin for ‘Rust’ shooting death, Peter A. Joy
Colorado’s Disqualification of Trump from the 2024 Ballot Puts the US in Uncharted Constitutional Territory, Andrea Scoseria Katz
Becoming the Administrator-In-Chief: Myers and the Progressive Presidency, Andrea Scoseria Katz and Noah A. Roseblum
Removal Rehashed Legal History: Response, Andrea Scoseria Katz and Noah A. Rosenblum
Lessons Learned in Prison, Daniel Keating
The Glannon Guide to Bankruptcy: Learning Bankruptcy Through Multiple-Choice Questions and Analysis, Daniel Keating and Nathalie Martin
An Empirical Analysis of Clinical Legal Education at Middle Age, Robert R. Kuehn
After the Criminal Justice System, Benjamin Levin
“Progressive” Prosecutors and “Proper” Punishments, Benjamin Levin
Prosecuting the Crisis, Benjamin Levin
Standing and Vacatur in U.S v. Texas, Ronald M. Levin
Vacatur, Nationwide Injunctions, and the Evolving APA, Ronald M. Levin
The Fatal Flaw In Efforts To Restrict 'Inappropriate' Library Materials, Gregory P. Magarian
How the Pandemic Further Derailed Historically Disadvantaged Public School Students, Kimberly Jade Norwood
A Concrete Proposal for Data Loyalty, Neil M. Richards, Woodrow Hartzog, and Jordan Francis
Comments of the Cordell Institute on AI Accountability, Neil M. Richards, Woodrow Hartzog, and Jordan Francis
Digital Child Protection is Not Censorship, Neil M. Richards and Oliver Khairallah
Fourth Amendment Notice in the Cloud, Neil M. Richards and Jesse Lieberfeld
Is There Implicit Bias Implicit in International Tax Law?, Adam H. Rosenzweig
The Endgame of Court-Packing, Kyle Rozema, Daniel Epps, Adam Chilton, and Maya Sen
Prescription Drug Policy, 2022 And 2023: The Year In Review And The Year Ahead, Rachel Sachs