The Scholarly Articles collection provides access to published academic 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 2021

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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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Intent, Responsibility, and the Treatment of Migrant Communities, Shannon Fyfe

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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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Getting Real About Procedure: Changing How We Think, Write and Teach About American Civil Procedure, Suzette M. Malveaux

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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

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The Trump Administration Should Have Attorney Whistleblowers, Carliss N. Chatman

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Reforming Federal Sentencing: A Call for Equality-Infused Menschlichkeit, Nora V. Demleitner

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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

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State Prosecutors at the Center of Mass Imprisonment and Criminal Justice Reform, Nora V. Demleitner

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The U.S. Sentencing Commission’s Recidivism Studies: Myopic, Misleading, and Doubling Down on Imprisonment, Nora V. Demleitner

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The Many Harms of Forced Marriage: Insights for Law from Ethnography in Northern Uganda, Myriam S. Denov and Mark A. Drumbl

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Memorializing Dissent: Justice Pal in Tokyo, Mark A. Drumbl

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Post-Genocide Justice in Rwanda, Mark A. Drumbl

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Climate Change, Sustainability, and the Failure of Modern Property Theory, Jill M. Fraley

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The Moral Weight of Preferences: Death, Sex, and Dementia, Shannon Fyfe and Elizabeth Lanphier

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Bad Actors: Authenticity, Inauthenticity, Speech, and Capitalism, Sarah C. Haan

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Abolishing Racist Policing With the Thirteenth Amendment, Brandon Hasbrouck

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White Saviors, Brandon Hasbrouck

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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

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Making Open Access Viable Economically, Andrew Hyde, Russell A. Miller, and Emanuel V. Towfigh

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Gamesmanship and Criminal Process, John D. King

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The Meaning of a Misdemeanor in a Post-Ferguson World: Evaluating the Reliability of Prior Conviction Evidence, John D. King

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Nondelegating Death, Alexandra L. Klein

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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

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Practical Truth: The Value of Apparent Honesty in Supreme Court Opinions, Timothy C. MacDonnell

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Foreword, National Injunctions: What Does the Future Hold?, Suzette Malveaux

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National Injunctions: What Does The Future Hold?, Suzette Malveaux

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Procedural Law, the Supreme Court, and the Erosion of Private Rights Enforcement, Suzette M. Malveaux

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Hearing on the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, Coronavirus, and Addressing China’s Culpability Before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Russell A. Miller

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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

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Hard and Soft Law Preferences in Business and Human Rights, Kishanthi Parella

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A Secretary's Absence for a Law School Examination, Todd C. Peppers

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Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller and the Great Mustache Debate of 1888, Todd C. Peppers

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Deborah Gelin: Supreme Court Pioneer, Todd C. Peppers

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Preserving the Nationwide National Government Injunction to Stop Illegal Executive Branch Activity, Doug Rendleman

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An Inside History of the Burger Court's Patent Eligibility Jurisprudence, Christopher B. Seaman and Sheena X. Wang

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Boards in Information Governance, Faith Stevelman and Sarah C. Haan

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The Constitutionality of Nationwide Injunctions, Alan M. Trammell

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The Unqualified Mess of Qualified Immunity; A Doctrine Worth Overruling, Allison Weiss

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Habeas Corpus, Conditions of Confinement, and COVID-19, Allison Wexler Weiss

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Is It Time for Global Justice? International Human Rights and Wrongs in the 21st Century, Christopher J. Whelan

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A Reckoning Over Law Faculty Inequality, Melanie D. Wilson

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The Pandemic Juror, Melanie D. Wilson

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The New Insider Trading, Karen E. Woody

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The Gaps Model and Faculty Services: Quality Analysis Through a “New” Lens, Alex Zhang and Sherry Xin Chen

Publications from 2019

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The Arrival of "Statelessness Studies"?, David C. Baluarte

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The Right to Migrate: A Human Rights Response to Immigration Restrictionism in Argentina, David C. Baluarte

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If Separation of Church and State Doesn’t Demand Separating Religion from Politics, Does Christian Doctrine Require It?, Samuel W. Calhoun

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Inappropriate for Establishment Clause Scrutiny: Reflections on Mary Nobles Hancock’s, God Save the United States and this Honorable County Board of Commissioners: Lund, Bormuth, and the Fight Over Legislative Prayer, Samuel W. Calhoun

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Myth of the Attorney Whistleblower, Carliss N. Chatman

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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

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Felon Disenfranchisement, Nora V. Demleitner

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Will the Supreme Court Rein in “Excessive Fines” and Forfeitures? Don’t Rely on Timbs v. Indiana, Nora V. Demleitner

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Book Review, Daniele Archibugi & Alice Pease, Crime and Global Justice: The Dynamics of International Punishment (2018), Mark A. Drumbl

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Book Review, Marcos Zunino, Justice Framed: A Genealogy of Transitional Justice (2019), Mark A. Drumbl

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Epilogue: From Too Tall to Trim and Small, Mark A. Drumbl

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From Timbuktu to The Hague and Beyond: The War Crime of Intentionally Attacking Cultural Property, Mark A. Drumbl

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Foreword, Michelle Lyon Drumbl

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Tax Attorneys as Defenders of Taxpayer Rights, Michelle Lyon Drumbl

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A Few Thoughts on “If a Tree Falls in a Roadway . . . .”, David Eggert

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The Human Element: The Under-Theorized and Underutilized Component Vital to Fostering Blockchain Development, Joshua A.T. Fairfield

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Modern Waste Law, Bankruptcy, and Residential Mortgage, Jill M. Fraley

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Facebook's Alternative Facts, Sarah C. Haan

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Civil Rights and Shareholder Activism: SEC v. Medical Committee for Human Rights, Sarah C. Haan

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The Post-Truth First Amendment, Sarah C. Haan

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Saving Justice: Why Sentencing Errors Fall Within the Savings Clause, 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e), Brandon Hasbrouck

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The Ironic Privacy Act, Margaret Hu