The Scholarly Articles collection provides access to published works by members of the faculty at the Washington and Lee University School of Law. Items are downloadable in PDF and primarily include law review and journal articles, authored by current and former faculty members and arranged by year of publication.

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Publications from 2024

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How a “Superstar” CEO Exposes the Necessity for Third Party D&O Insurance, Angela N. Aneiros and Karen Woody

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Delegated Corporate Voting and the Deliberative Franchise, Sarah C. Haan

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1983, Brandon Hasbrouck

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Unshielded: How the Police Can Become Touchable, Brandon Hasbrouck

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Beyond Trade Secrecy: Confidentiality Agreements that Act Like Noncompetes, Camilla A. Hrdy and Christopher B. Seaman

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Corporate Crime and Cooperation, Karen E. Woody

Publications from 2023

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Caremark's Butterfly Effect, Angela N. Aneiros and Karen E. Woody

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Speculative Immigration Policy, Matthew Boaz

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Teaching Slavery in Commercial Law, Carliss N. Chatman

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

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Digital Property Cycles, Joshua Fairfield

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Making Virtual Things, Joshua A.T. Fairfield

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Voting Rights in Corporate Governance: History and Political Economy, Sarah C. Haan

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Women in Shareholder Activism, Sarah C. Haan

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Allow Me to Transform: A Black Guy’s Guide to a New Constitution, Brandon Hasbrouck

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Democratizing Abolition, Brandon Hasbrouck

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Pandemic as Transboundary Harm: Lessons from the Trail Smelter Arbitration, Russell A. Miller

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Place-Based versus Practice-Based Norms for American Lawyers: "It's the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)", James E. Moliterno

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Corporate Foreign Policy in War, Kishanthi Parella

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International Law in the Boardroom, Kishanthi Parella

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From Natchitoches to Nuremberg: The Life of Legal Pioneer Lyria Dickason, Todd C. Peppers

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Thoughts on Law Clerk Diversity and Influence, Todd C. Peppers

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Unfair by Default: Arbitration's Reverse Default Judgment Problem, Alexi Pfeffer-Gillett

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Being in the Room Where It Happens: Celebrating Virginia’s First Female Law Clerks, Anne Rodgers and Todd C. Peppers

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Tribute to Professor Joan Shaughnessy, Alan M. Trammell, Joan M. Shaughnessy, Mary Z. Natkin, Brian C. Murchison, Mark H. Grunewald, Barry Sullivan, and Michelle L. Drumbl

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The SEC's SPAC Solution, Karen Woody and Lidia Kurganova

Publications from 2022

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A New Narrative of Statelessness, David Baluarte

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Refugees Under Duress: International Law and the Serious Nonpolitical Crime Bar, David Baluarte

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Foreword: Centering Intersectionality in Human Rights Discourse, Johanna Bond

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Honoring Lutie A. Lytle and John Mercer Langston with our Words, Carliss Chatman

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We Shouldn't Need Roe, Carliss Chatman

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The Visualities and Aesthetics of Prosecuting Aged Defendants, Mark Drumbl and Caroline Fournet

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Property as the Law of Virtual Things, Joshua A.T. Fairfield

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Tokenized: The Law of Non-Fungible Tokens and Unique Digital Property, Joshua A.T. Fairfield

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“You Keep Using That Word”: Why Privacy Doesn’t Mean What Lawyers Think, Joshua A.T. Fairfield

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Governing the Interface Between Natural and Formal Language in Smart Contracts, Joshua A.T. Fairfield and Niloufer Selvadurai

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Eminent Domain and Unfettered Discretion: Lessons from a History of U.S. Territorial Takings, Jill M. Fraley

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Corporate Governance and the Feminization of Capital, Sarah C. Haan

Is American Shareholder Activism a Social Movement?, Sarah C. Haan

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Brief of Professor Brandon Hasbrouck as Amicus Curiae in Support of Appellant: Bell v. Streeval, Brandon Hasbrouck

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Movement Constitutionalism, Brandon Hasbrouck

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Movement Judges, Brandon Hasbrouck

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On Lenity: What Justice Gorsuch Didn’t Say, Brandon Hasbrouck

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Reimagining Public Safety, Brandon Hasbrouck

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The Antiracist Constitution, Brandon Hasbrouck

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Who Can Protect Black Protest?, Brandon Hasbrouck

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Why Corporate Purpose Will Always Matter, Lyman P.Q. Johnson

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Juries, Democracy, and Petty Crime, John D. King

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"Only to Have a Say in the Way He Dies": Bodily Autonomy and Methods of Execution, Alexandra L. Klein

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When Police Volunteer to Kill, Alexandra L. Klein

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Introducing Students to Ethics and Professionalism Challenges in Virtual Communication, Katherine M. Koops, James E. Moliterno, Carol E. Morgan, and Carol D. Newman

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Black Women and Voter Suppression, Carla Laroche

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The New Jim and Jane Crow Intersect: Challenges to Defending the Parental Rights of Mothers During Incarceration, Carla Laroche

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Making an Offer That Can't Be Refused: The Need for Reform in the Rules Governing Informed Consent and Doctor-Patient Agreements, Timothy C. MacDonnell

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Contractual Stakeholderism, Kishanthi Parella

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Arthur A. Thomas: A Hero of a Valet, Todd C. Peppers

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Gertrude Jenkins, Unplugged, Todd C. Peppers

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The Chief Justice and the Page: Earl Warren, Charles Bush, and the Promise of Brown v. Board of Education, Todd C. Peppers

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Memorandum of Amici Curiae Doug Rendleman & Caprice Roberts in Support of Plaintiff: Estate of Henrietta Lacks v. Thermo Fisher Scientific, Doug Rendleman and Caprice Roberts

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Patent Eligibility and Cancer Therapy, Christopher B. Seaman

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Intellectual Property and Tabletop Games, Christopher B. Seaman and Thuan Tran

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The Common Prosecutor, Melanie D. Wilson

Publications from 2021

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Submission of Amicus Curiae Observations in the Case of The Prosecutor v. Dominic Ongwen, Erin Baines, Kamari M. Clarke, and Mark A. Drumbl

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Tribute to Professor Doug Rendleman, Katy Barnett; Alison Bell; Jeff Berryman; Neil Birkhoff; Daniel Friedmann; Thomas P. Gallanis; Claire Hagan Eller; Brandon Hasbrouck; Corey Hauser; Brant Hellwig; Margaret Howard; Alexandra L. Klein; Douglas Laycock; Benjamin V. Madison, III; Judith L. Madison; Kyle McNew; Linda Mullenix; Rami Rashmawi; Caprice Roberts; Victoria Shannon Sahani; Joan Shaughnessy; Barry Sullivan; Martha Vazquez; and Edilson Vitorelli

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Tribute to Professor David Bruck, Cristina Becker, C. Elizabeth Belmont, Johanna Bond, J.D. King, Zoe Bruck, Judy Clarke, Dawn M. Davison, Bernadette M. Donovan, Matthew L. Engle, William S. Geimer, Dan Goldman, Brandon Hasbrouck, Laura G. Hastay, Alexandra L. Klein, Emily Kuchar, Charu Kulkarni, Kristina Leslie, Kamyle Li, Kevin McNally, Maisie Osteen, Jonathan Shapiro, and Scott E. Sundby

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John Stuart Mill’s Harm Principle and Free Speech: Expanding the Notion of Harm, Melina Constantine Bell

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Practical Abolition: Universal Representation as an Alternative to Immigration Detention, Matthew Boaz

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Corporate Family Matters, Carliss N. Chatman

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The Soft-Shoe and Shuffle of Law School Hiring Committee Practices, Carliss N. Chatman and Najarian R. Peters

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Weaving a Broader Tapestry, Mark A. Drumbl

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"A Hussy Who Rode on Horseback in Sexy Underwear in Front of the Prisoners": The Trials of Buchenwald’s Ilse Koch, Mark A. Drumbl and Solange Mouthaan

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#Audited: Social Media and Tax Enforcement, Michelle Lyon Drumbl

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Bankruptcy, Taxes, and the Primacy of IRS Refund Offsets: Copley v. United States, Michelle Lyon Drumbl

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Against Court Packing, or a Plea to Formally Amend the Constitution, Jill M. Fraley

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Facebook and Politicians’ Speech, Sarah C. Haan

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Antiracism in Action, Daniel Harawa and Brandon Hasbrouck

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The Just Prosecutor, Brandon Hasbrouck

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The Unconstitutional Police, Brandon Hasbrouck

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Foreword: Humanity, Dignity, and Grace, Brant J. Hellwig

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Meaningless Guarantees: Comment on Mitchell E. McCloy’s “Blind Justice: Virginia’s Jury Sentencing Scheme and Impermissible Burdens on a Defendant’s Right to a Jury Trial”, Alexandra L. Klein

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The Beginning of the End: Abolishing Capital Punishment in Virginia, Alexandra L. Klein

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Executive Extremes: German Lessons for Our Authoritarian Era, Russell A. Miller

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Where's Rudy?, James E. Moliterno

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Recent Attacks on Judicial Independence: The Vulgar, the Systemic, and the Insidious, James E. Moliterno and Peter Čuroš

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Settled Law, G. Alexander Nunn and Alan M. Trammell

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Investors as International Law Intermediaries: Using Shareholder Proposals to Enforce Human Rights, Kishanthi Parella

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Leveling the Field Through Transnational Regulation, Kishanthi Parella

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Protecting Third Parties in Contracts, Kishanthi Parella

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Cancelling Justice? The Case of James Clark McReynolds, Todd C. Peppers

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“Destructive to Judicial Dignity”: The Poetry of Melville Weston Fuller, Todd C. Peppers and Mary Crockett Hill

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Civil Disobedience in the Face of Texas’s Abortion Ban, Alexi Pfeffer-Gillett

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Noncompetes and Other Post-Employment Restraints on Competition: Empirical Evidence from Trade Secret Litigation, Christopher B. Seaman

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Profiting From Our Pain: Privileged Access to Social Impact Investing, Cary Martin Shelby

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Biden's Prosecutors, Melanie D. Wilson

Publications from 2020

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Tribute to Professor Samuel W. Calhoun, Doug Ammar, David Carson, Kelly Faglioni, John Fishwick, Mark Grunewald, Stephen Halpin, Brandon Hasbrouck, Brant Hellwig, Lyman Johnson, Bill Johnston, Rick Kirgis, Brian Murchison, Joan Shaughnessy, and Howard Wall

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Family in the Balance: Barton v. Barr and the Systematic Violation of the Right to Family Life in U.S. Immigration Enforcement, David Baluarte

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Protecting Stateless Refugees in the United States, David Baluarte

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Emergency Parole Release for Older Parole-Eligible DOC Inmates, David I. Bruck

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Tribute to Professor Mary Z. Natkin, David Carson, Christine Greene, Mark Grunewald, Howard Highland, Brianne Kleinert, Brian C. Murchison, Debbie Price, Sheryl Salm, and Joan Shaughnessy

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If a Fetus Is a Person, It Should Get Child Support, Due Process, and Citizenship, Carliss N. Chatman