Publications from 2021
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
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
John Stuart Mill’s Harm Principle and Free Speech: Expanding the Notion of Harm, Melina Constantine Bell
Practical Abolition: Universal Representation as an Alternative to Immigration Detention, Matthew Boaz
Corporate Family Matters, Carliss N. Chatman
The Soft-Shoe and Shuffle of Law School Hiring Committee Practices, Carliss N. Chatman and Najarian R. Peters
Weaving a Broader Tapestry, Mark A. Drumbl
"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
#Audited: Social Media and Tax Enforcement, Michelle Lyon Drumbl
Bankruptcy, Taxes, and the Primacy of IRS Refund Offsets: Copley v. United States, Michelle Lyon Drumbl
Against Court Packing, or a Plea to Formally Amend the Constitution, Jill M. Fraley
Intent, Responsibility, and the Treatment of Migrant Communities, Shannon Fyfe
Facebook and Politicians’ Speech, Sarah C. Haan
Antiracism in Action, Daniel Harawa and Brandon Hasbrouck
The Just Prosecutor, Brandon Hasbrouck
The Unconstitutional Police, Brandon Hasbrouck
Foreword: Humanity, Dignity, and Grace, Brant J. Hellwig
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
The Beginning of the End: Abolishing Capital Punishment in Virginia, Alexandra L. Klein
Getting Real About Procedure: Changing How We Think, Write and Teach About American Civil Procedure, Suzette M. Malveaux
Executive Extremes: German Lessons for Our Authoritarian Era, Russell A. Miller
Where's Rudy?, James E. Moliterno
Recent Attacks on Judicial Independence: The Vulgar, the Systemic, and the Insidious, James E. Moliterno and Peter Čuroš
Settled Law, G. Alexander Nunn and Alan M. Trammell
Investors as International Law Intermediaries: Using Shareholder Proposals to Enforce Human Rights, Kishanthi Parella
Leveling the Field Through Transnational Regulation, Kishanthi Parella
Protecting Third Parties in Contracts, Kishanthi Parella
Cancelling Justice? The Case of James Clark McReynolds, Todd C. Peppers
“Destructive to Judicial Dignity”: The Poetry of Melville Weston Fuller, Todd C. Peppers and Mary Crockett Hill
Civil Disobedience in the Face of Texas’s Abortion Ban, Alexi Pfeffer-Gillett
Noncompetes and Other Post-Employment Restraints on Competition: Empirical Evidence from Trade Secret Litigation, Christopher B. Seaman
Profiting From Our Pain: Privileged Access to Social Impact Investing, Cary Martin Shelby
Biden's Prosecutors, Melanie D. Wilson
Publications from 2020
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
Family in the Balance: Barton v. Barr and the Systematic Violation of the Right to Family Life in U.S. Immigration Enforcement, David Baluarte
Protecting Stateless Refugees in the United States, David Baluarte
Emergency Parole Release for Older Parole-Eligible DOC Inmates, David I. Bruck
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
If a Fetus Is a Person, It Should Get Child Support, Due Process, and Citizenship, Carliss N. Chatman
The Trump Administration Should Have Attorney Whistleblowers, Carliss N. Chatman
Reforming Federal Sentencing: A Call for Equality-Infused Menschlichkeit, Nora V. Demleitner
Can the Federal Government Use the Generic Wire Fraud Statute to Prosecute Public Officials for Corrupt Activities That Are Conducted for Political Rather than Private Gain?, Nora V. Demleitner
State Prosecutors at the Center of Mass Imprisonment and Criminal Justice Reform, Nora V. Demleitner
The U.S. Sentencing Commission’s Recidivism Studies: Myopic, Misleading, and Doubling Down on Imprisonment, Nora V. Demleitner
The Many Harms of Forced Marriage: Insights for Law from Ethnography in Northern Uganda, Myriam S. Denov and Mark A. Drumbl
Memorializing Dissent: Justice Pal in Tokyo, Mark A. Drumbl
Post-Genocide Justice in Rwanda, Mark A. Drumbl
Climate Change, Sustainability, and the Failure of Modern Property Theory, Jill M. Fraley
The Moral Weight of Preferences: Death, Sex, and Dementia, Shannon Fyfe and Elizabeth Lanphier
Bad Actors: Authenticity, Inauthenticity, Speech, and Capitalism, Sarah C. Haan
Abolishing Racist Policing With the Thirteenth Amendment, Brandon Hasbrouck
White Saviors, Brandon Hasbrouck
Brief of Amici Curiae Professors Katherine Mims Crocker and Brandon Hasbrouck in Support of Neither Party with Respect to Defendant's Motion to Dismiss: Dyer v. Smith, Brandon Hasbrouck and Katherine Mims Crocker
Making Open Access Viable Economically, Andrew Hyde, Russell A. Miller, and Emanuel V. Towfigh
Gamesmanship and Criminal Process, John D. King
The Meaning of a Misdemeanor in a Post-Ferguson World: Evaluating the Reliability of Prior Conviction Evidence, John D. King
Nondelegating Death, Alexandra L. Klein
Brief of Amicus Curiae the Washington and Lee University School of Law Black Lung Clinic in Support of Petitioners: California v. Texas, Timothy C. MacDonnell
Practical Truth: The Value of Apparent Honesty in Supreme Court Opinions, Timothy C. MacDonnell
Foreword, National Injunctions: What Does the Future Hold?, Suzette Malveaux
National Injunctions: What Does The Future Hold?, Suzette Malveaux
Procedural Law, the Supreme Court, and the Erosion of Private Rights Enforcement, Suzette M. Malveaux
Hearing on the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, Coronavirus, and Addressing China’s Culpability Before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Russell A. Miller
Brief of Amici Curiae Scholars of the Constitutional Rights and Interests of Children in Support of Respondents, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Catherine E. Smith, Tanya Washington Hicks, Lauren Fontana, Jessica Dixon Weaver, and Cary Martin Shelby
Hard and Soft Law Preferences in Business and Human Rights, Kishanthi Parella
A Secretary's Absence for a Law School Examination, Todd C. Peppers
Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller and the Great Mustache Debate of 1888, Todd C. Peppers
Deborah Gelin: Supreme Court Pioneer, Todd C. Peppers
Preserving the Nationwide National Government Injunction to Stop Illegal Executive Branch Activity, Doug Rendleman
An Inside History of the Burger Court's Patent Eligibility Jurisprudence, Christopher B. Seaman and Sheena X. Wang
Boards in Information Governance, Faith Stevelman and Sarah C. Haan
The Constitutionality of Nationwide Injunctions, Alan M. Trammell
The Unqualified Mess of Qualified Immunity; A Doctrine Worth Overruling, Allison Weiss
Habeas Corpus, Conditions of Confinement, and COVID-19, Allison Wexler Weiss
Is It Time for Global Justice? International Human Rights and Wrongs in the 21st Century, Christopher J. Whelan
A Reckoning Over Law Faculty Inequality, Melanie D. Wilson
The Pandemic Juror, Melanie D. Wilson
The New Insider Trading, Karen E. Woody
The Gaps Model and Faculty Services: Quality Analysis Through a “New” Lens, Alex Zhang and Sherry Xin Chen
Publications from 2019
The Arrival of "Statelessness Studies"?, David C. Baluarte
The Right to Migrate: A Human Rights Response to Immigration Restrictionism in Argentina, David C. Baluarte
If Separation of Church and State Doesn’t Demand Separating Religion from Politics, Does Christian Doctrine Require It?, Samuel W. Calhoun
Myth of the Attorney Whistleblower, Carliss N. Chatman
Is Supervised Release Tolled Retrospective to the Start of an Unrelated Detention if the Defendant Is Credited with Time Served upon Sentencing for the New Offense?, Nora V. Demleitner
Felon Disenfranchisement, Nora V. Demleitner
Will the Supreme Court Rein in “Excessive Fines” and Forfeitures? Don’t Rely on Timbs v. Indiana, Nora V. Demleitner
Book Review, Daniele Archibugi & Alice Pease, Crime and Global Justice: The Dynamics of International Punishment (2018), Mark A. Drumbl
Book Review, Marcos Zunino, Justice Framed: A Genealogy of Transitional Justice (2019), Mark A. Drumbl
Epilogue: From Too Tall to Trim and Small, Mark A. Drumbl
From Timbuktu to The Hague and Beyond: The War Crime of Intentionally Attacking Cultural Property, Mark A. Drumbl
Foreword, Michelle Lyon Drumbl
Tax Attorneys as Defenders of Taxpayer Rights, Michelle Lyon Drumbl
A Few Thoughts on “If a Tree Falls in a Roadway . . . .”, David Eggert
The Human Element: The Under-Theorized and Underutilized Component Vital to Fostering Blockchain Development, Joshua A.T. Fairfield
Modern Waste Law, Bankruptcy, and Residential Mortgage, Jill M. Fraley
Facebook's Alternative Facts, Sarah C. Haan
Civil Rights and Shareholder Activism: SEC v. Medical Committee for Human Rights, Sarah C. Haan
The Post-Truth First Amendment, Sarah C. Haan
Saving Justice: Why Sentencing Errors Fall Within the Savings Clause, 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e), Brandon Hasbrouck