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 2015

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Back to the Basics in 2015: Practical Information for Setting Up Shop, Jennifer R. Mart-Rice and Carol S. Furnish

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Setting Up Shop: Technology Options & Recommendations, Jennifer R. Mart-Rice and Bradford Thomas

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Ethics 20/20 Successfully Achieved Its Mission: It "Protected, Preserved, and Maintained", James E. Moliterno

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Speech and the Truth-Seeking Value, Brian C. Murchison

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The Liberal Arts in Practice, Brian C. Murchison

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Reforming the Global Value Chain through Transnational Private Regulation, Kishanthi Parella

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Feeling Insecure—A State View of Whether Investors in Municipal General Obligation Bonds Have a Mere Promise to Pay or a Binding Obligation, Randle B. Pollard

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"Was the Deal Worth It?": The Dilemma of States with Ineffective Economic Incentives Programs, Randle B. Pollard

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Professors Do Not Provide Childs Support, Gregg D. Polsky and Brant J. Hellwig

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The Triumph of Equity Revisited: The Stages of Equitable Discretion, Doug Rendleman

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Brief of Restitution and Remedies Scholars as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent: Spokeo v. Robins, Doug Rendleman, Douglas Laycock, and Mark P. Gergen

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A Framework on Mandating Versus Incentivizing Corporate Social Responsibility, Margaret Ryznar and Karen E. Woody

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Brief of Thirty-Four Law Professors as Amici Curiae in Support of Appellants: Altera Corp. v. Papst Licensing GMBH, Christopher B. Seaman

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Comment on “Groove is in the Hart”: A Workable Solution for Applying the Right of Publicity to Video Games, Christopher B. Seaman

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Introduction: The Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2015, Christopher B. Seaman

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Ongoing Royalties in Patent Cases after eBay: An Empirical Assessment and Proposed Framework, Christopher B. Seaman

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The Case Against Federalizing Trade Secrecy, Christopher B. Seaman

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Brief Amicus Curiae of Intellectual Property Professors in Support of Neither Party: Halo Elecs. Inc. v. Pulse Elecs. Inc. and Stryker Corp. v. Zimmer, Inc., Christopher B. Seaman and Jason Rantanen

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The Other Side of the Rabbit Hole: Reconciling Recent Supreme Court Personal Jurisdiction Jurisprudence with Jurisdiction to Terminate Parental Rights, Joan M. Shaughnessy

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Privileged Access to Financial Innovation, Cary Martin Shelby

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A Tale of Two Jurisdictions, Alan M. Trammell

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Isolating Litigants: A Response to Pamela Bookman, Alan M. Trammell

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Personal Jurisdiction and the "Interwebs", Alan M. Trammell and Derek E. Bambauer

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The Open Access Advantage for American Law Reviews, Carol A. Watson, James M. Donovan, and Caroline Osborne

Publications from 2014

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A Tribute to Lara D. Gass, Patrick and Anna Bolling, David I. Bruck, Samuel W. Calhoun, Katherine Coleman, Nora V. Demleitner, Ellen Marks, John A. Parkins Jr., Doug Pittman, Rebecca Reed, Krystal Brunner Swendsboe, Christopher Wagner, Robin Fretwell Wilson, and Julie Cromer Young

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Justice Lewis F. Powell's Baffling Vote in Roe v. Wade, Samuel W. Calhoun

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Why Strive for Balance in a Roe Symposium?, Samuel W. Calhoun

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Human Dignity, Crime Prevention, and Mass Incarceration: A Meaningful, Practical Comparison Across Borders, Nora V. Demleitner

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The State, Parents, Schools, "Culture Wars", and Modern Technologies: Challenges under the U.N. Convention on the Rights of a Child, Nora V. Demleitner

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Curricular Limitations, Cost Pressures, and Stratification in Legal Education: Are Bold Reforms in Short Supply?, Nora V. Demleitner

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Stratification, Expansion, and Retrenchment: International Legal Education in U.S. Law Schools, Nora V. Demleitner

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Child Pirates: Rehabilitation, Reintegration, and Accountability, Mark A. Drumbl

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When Helpers Hurt: Protecting Taxpayers From Preparers, Michelle Lyon Drumbl

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Smart Contracts, Bitcoin Bots, and Consumer Protection, Joshua A.T. Fairfield

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Digital Innocence, Joshua A.T. Fairfield and Erik Luna

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Comment: Knowledge Circles and the Duty of Care, Jill M. Fraley

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The Jurisprudence of Nature: The Importance of Defining What is "Natural", Jill M. Fraley

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Federalizing the Foreign Corporate Form, Sarah C. Haan

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Innovation in Teaching LLCs: Introduction, Lyman P.Q. Johnson

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Comment on the Proposed Definition of “Eligible Organization” for Purposes of Coverage of Certain Preventative Services Under the Affordable Care Act, Lyman P.Q. Johnson, David K. Millon, Stephen M. Bainbridge, Ronald J. Colombo, Brett McDonnell, Alan J. Meese, and Nathan B. Oman

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The Dwindling of Revlon, Lyman P.Q. Johnson and Robert Ricca

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The Still-Dwindled Revlon, Lyman P.Q. Johnson and Robert Ricca

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Beyond Repeal—A Republican Proposal for Healthcare Reform, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost

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Comparative Advantage and the United Nations in Situations of Conflict, Frederic L. Kirgis

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The Ties that Bind: Reevaluating the Role of Legal Presumptions of Paternity, Heather Kolinsky

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Scholars’ Supreme Court Amicus Brief in Support of Neither Party: Petrella v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Douglas Laycock, Mark P. Gergen, and Doug Rendleman

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Is Systemic Risk Prevention the New Paradigm? A Proposal To Expand Investor Protection Principles to the Hedge Fund Industry, Cary Martin

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Germany vs. Europe: The Principle of Democracy in German Constitutional Law and the Troubled Future of European Integration, Russell A. Miller

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Why Lawyers Do What They Do (When Behaving Ethically), James E. Moliterno

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And Now a Crisis in Legal Education, James E. Moliterno

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Ethics 20/20 Successfully Achieved Its Mission: It "Protected, Preserved, and Maintained", James E. Moliterno

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Combatting Cyber-Attacks Through National Interest Diplomacy: A Trilateral Treaty with Teeth, Lawrence L. Muir Jr.

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Foreign Investments and the Market for Law, Erin O'Hara O'Connor and Susan D. Franck

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Judicial Assistants or Junior Judges: The Hiring, Utilization, and Influence of Law Clerks, Chad Oldfather and Todd C. Peppers

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Outsourcing Corporate Accountability, Kishanthi Parella

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Surgeons or Scribes? The Role of United States Court of Appeals Law Clerks in "Appellate Triage", Todd C. Peppers, Micheal W. Giles, and Bridget Tainer-Parkins

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Grade Incomplete: Examining the Securities and Exchange Commission's Attempt to Implement Credit Rating and Certain Corporate Governance Reforms of Dodd-Frank, Tod Perry and Randle B. Pollard

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Collection of Student Loans: A Critical Examination, Doug Rendleman and Scott Weingart

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Third-Party Litigation Funding and the Dodd-Frank Act, Victoria Shannon

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An Essay on Poverty and Child Neglect: New Interventions, Joan M. Shaughnessy

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Brief of Professors at Law and Business Schools as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents: Omnicare, Inc., et al. v. Laborers District Council Construction Industry Pension Fund, et al., Celia Taylor, Lyman P.Q. Johnson, J. Robert Brown, and Joan MacLeod Heminway

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Toil and Trouble: How the Erie Doctrine Became Structurally Incoherent (and How Congress Can Fix It), Alan M. Trammell

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Transactionalism Costs, Alan M. Trammell

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Comment: 3D Printing, Sarah K. Wiant

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Anti-Justice, Melanie D. Wilson

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Sentencing Inequality Versus Sentencing Injustice, Melanie D. Wilson

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Securities Laws as Foreign Policy, Karen E. Woody

Publications from 2013

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Conceptions of Corporate Purpose in Post-Crisis Financial Firms, Christopher M. Bruner

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Is the Corporate Director's Duty of Care a 'Fiduciary' Duty? Does It Matter?, Christopher M. Bruner

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Drugs, Dignity and Danger: Human Dignity as a Constitutional Constraint to Limit Overcriminalization, Michal Buchhandler-Raphael

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Can and Should Human Rights Themes Impact Decision-making in a Law School? Reflections from the U.S. Perspective, Nora V. Demleitner

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She Makes Me Ashamed to Be a Woman: The Genocide Conviction of Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, 2011, Mark A. Drumbl

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Those Who Know, Those Who Don't, and Those Who Know Better: Balancing Complexity, Sophistication, and Accuracy on Tax Returns, Michelle Lyon Drumbl

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Do-Not-Track as Default, Joshua A.T. Fairfield

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Colonial Property, Private Dams, and Climate Change in Virginia, Jill M. Fraley

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Introduction to Property, History & Climate Change in the Former Colonies Symposium Special Issue, Jill M. Fraley

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Scaled Legislation & the Legal History of the Common Good, Jill M. Fraley

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Biometric ID Cybersurveillance, Margaret Hu

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Unsettledness in Delaware Corporate Law: Business Judgment Rule, Corporate Purpose, Lyman P. Q. Johnson

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Why Register Hedge Fund Advisers—A Comment, Lyman P.Q. Johnson

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Rethinking How Business Purpose Is Taught in Catholic Business Education, Lyman P. Q. Johnson, Michael Naughton, and William Bojan

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Religious Freedom and Women's Health - Litigation on Contraception, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost

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Self-Insurance for Small Employers Under the Affordable Care Act: Federal and State Regulatory Options, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost and Mark A. Hall

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Beyond “Life and Liberty”: The Evolving Right to Counsel, John D. King

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Coercion, Consent, Compassion, John D. King

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Lamentations, Celebrations, and Innovations: Gideon at 50, John D. King

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Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should: Reconciling Attorney Conduct in the Context of Defamation with the New Professionalism, Heather M. Kolinsky

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Rage Against the Machine: A Reply to Professors Bierschbach and Bibas, Erik Luna

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Florida v. Jardines: The Wolf at the Castle Door, Timothy C. MacDonnell

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Shareholder Primacy in the Classroom After the Financial Crisis, David Millon

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Shareholder Social Responsibility, David Millon

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The Trouble with Lawyer Regulation, James E. Moliterno

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A Way Forward for an Ailing Legal Education Model, James E. Moliterno

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The Future of Legal Education Reform, James E. Moliterno

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A Methodical Approach to Legal Research: The Legal Research Plan, an Essential Tool for Today's Law Student and New Attorney, Caroline L. Osborne

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Remedies: A Guide for the Perplexed, Doug Rendleman

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Standards of Proof in Civil Litigation: An Experiment from Patent Law, David L. Schwartz and Christopher B. Seaman

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American Innovation and the Limits of Patent Law: A Response to William Hubbard, Competitive Patent Law, Christopher B. Seaman

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Recent Developments in Third-Party Funding, Victoria Shannon

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Class Actions, Heightened Commonality, and Declining Access to Justice, A. Benjamin Spencer