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 2016

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How to Change the Philosophy and Practice of Probation and Supervised Release: Data Analytics, Cost Control, Focus on Reentry, and a Clear Mission, Nora V. Demleitner

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Implementing Change in Sentencing and Corrections: The Need for Broad-Based Research, Nora V. Demleitner

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Judicial Challenges to the Collateral Impact of Criminal Convictions: Is True Change in the Offing?, Nora V. Demleitner

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Children, Armed Violence and Transition: Challenges for International Law & Policy, Mark Drumbl

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A Former Child Soldier in the Hague, as an Accused, Mark A. Drumbl

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Extracurricular International Criminal Law, Mark A. Drumbl

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Transitional Justice Moments, Mark A. Drumbl

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Victims Who Victimise, Mark A. Drumbl

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Beyond Polemics: Poverty, Taxes, and Noncompliance, Michelle Lyon Drumbl

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Joint Winners, Separate Losers: Proposals to Ease the Sting for Married Taxpayers Filing Separately, Michelle Lyon Drumbl

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Shareholder Proposal Settlements and the Private Ordering of Public Elections, Sarah C. Haan

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The Constitutional Nature of the United States Tax Court, Brant J. Hellwig

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Big Data Blacklisting, Margaret Hu

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Diversifying to Mitigate Risk: Can Dodd–Frank Section 342 Help Stabilize the Financial Sector?, Kristin Johnson, Steven A. Ramirez, and Cary Martin Shelby

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Justice Stevens and Securities Law, Lyman P.Q. Johnson and Jason A. Cantone

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The Shibboleth of Discretion: The Discretion, Identity, and Persecution Paradigm in American and Australian LGBT Asylum Claims, Heather Kolinsky

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The Rhetoric of the Fourth Amendment: Toward a More Persuasive Fourth Amendment, Timothy C. MacDonnell

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When More is Less—SWAT and Procedural Justice, Timothy C. MacDonnell

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Saving the Public Interest Class Action by Unpacking Theory and Doctrinal Functionality, Suzette M. Malveaux

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Are Hedge Funds Still Private? Exploring Publicness in the Face of Incoherency, Cary Martin Shelby

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To Compare or Not to Compare? Reading Justice Breyer, Russell A. Miller

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Truthiness and the Marble Palace, Chad M. Oldfather and Todd C. Peppers

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The State of Legal Research Education: A Survey of First-Year Legal Research Programs, or “Why Johnny and Jane Cannot Research”, Caroline L. Osborne

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The Stewardship of Trust in the Global Value Chain, Kishanthi Parella

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When “Disruption” Collides with Accountability: Holding Ridesharing Companies Liable for Acts of Their Drivers, Alexi Pfeffer-Gillett

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"Cut—And That's a Wrap"—The Film Industry's Fleecing of State Tax Incentive Programs, Randle B. Pollard

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Foreclosure of a Deed of Trust in Virginia, Doug Rendleman

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Brief for Amici Curiae Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, Citizen, and Remedies Scholars in Support of Respondent: Lynch v. Morales-Santana, Judith Resnick, Stephen I. Vladeck, Mier Feder, Muneer I. Ahmad, Erwin Chemerinsky, Gillian E. Metzger, Gerald L. Neuman, Linda Bosniak, Michael C. Dorf, Burt Neuborne, Doug Rendleman, David L. Shapiro, and Michael J. Wishnie

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The United States and the International Criminal Court: A Complicated, Uneasy, Yet at Times Engaging Relationship, Leila Nadya Sadat and Mark A. Drumbl

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Permanent Injunctions in Patent Litigation After eBay: An Empirical Study, Christopher B. Seaman

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Judging Third-Party Funding, Victoria Shannon Sahani

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Obergefell's Missed Opportunity, Catherine Smith

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The Regulation of Commercial Profiling — A Comparative Analysis, Indra Spiecker, Olivia Tambou, Paul Bernal, Margaret Hu, and Carlos Alberto Molinaro

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Voluntary Disclosure Fostering Overenforcement and Overcriminalization of the FCPA, Karen E. Woody

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A Tale of Two Resources: Foreign Law Guide v. Globalex, Alex Zhang

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Discovering the Knowledge Monopoly of Law Librarianship Under the DIKW Pyramid, Alex Zhang

Publications from 2015

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Life after Limbo: Stateless Persons in the United States and the Role of International Protection in Achieving a Legal Solution, David C. Baluarte

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Brief for Amici Curiae Scholars of the Constitutional Rights of Children in Support of Respondent Edith Windsor Addressing the Merits and Supporting Affirmance, J. Robert Brown Jr., Catherine E. Smith, Kyle C. Velte, Susannah William Pollvogt, and Tanya Washington

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Overcriminalizing Speech, Michal Buchhandler-Raphael

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Alternative Visions for the Federal Criminal Justice and Corrections System: Is True Change Possible?, Nora V. Demleitner

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International Criminal Law: Year in Review 2014-2015, Mark A. Drumbl

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Stepping Beyond Nuremberg’s Halo: The Legacy of the Supreme National Tribunal of Poland, Mark A. Drumbl

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Lessons from Institutional Shareholder Services: Governing Benefit Corporations' Third-Party Standard, Tammi S. Etheridge

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Bitproperty, Joshua A.T. Fairfield

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Privacy as a Public Good, Joshua A. T. Fairfield and Christoph Engel

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Water, Water, Everywhere: Surface Water Liability, Jill M. Fraley

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The Diversity Challenge: Exploring the "Invisible College" of International Arbitration, Susan D. Franck

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Predicting Outcomes in Investment Treaty Arbitration, Susan D. Franck and Lindsey E. Wylie

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The New Global Financial Regulatory Order: Can Macroprudential Regulation Prevent Another Global Financial Disaster?, Behzad Gohari and Karen E. Woody

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The CEO and the Hydraulics of Campaign Finance Deregulation, Sarah C. Haan

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Voter Primacy, Sarah C. Haan

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Brief of Professor Margaret Howard as Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondents: Bank of America, N.A. v. Caulkett, Margaret Howard

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Small Data Surveillance v. Big Data Cybersurveillance, Margaret Hu

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Taxonomy of the Snowden Disclosures, Margaret Hu

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Corporate Law After Hobby Lobby, Lyman P.Q. Johnson and David K. Millon

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Anomalies in the Affordable Care Act that Arise from Reading the Phrase “Exchange Established by the State” Out of Context, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost and James Engstrand

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The Intended Parent: The Power and Problems Inherent in Designating and Determining Intent in the Context of Parental Rights, Heather Kolinsky

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Justice Scalia's Fourth Amendment: Text, Context, Clarity, and Occasional Faint-Hearted Originalism, Timothy C. MacDonnell

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A Pragmatic Approach to Interpreting the Federal Rules, Suzette M. Malveaux

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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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Brief of Amici Curiae Scholars of the Constitutional Rights of Children in Support of Petitioners in Obergefell v. Hodges, Catherine E. Smith, Lauren Fontana, Susannah William Pollvogt, and Tanya Washington

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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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Children's Rights in the Midst of Marriage Equality: Amicus Brief in Obergefell v. Hodges by Scholars of the Constitutional Rights of Children, Tanya Washington, Susannah Pollvogt, Catherine Smith, and Lauren Fontana

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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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The Story Behind a Letter in Support of Professor Derrick Bell, Cheryl Nelson Butler, Sherrilyn Ifill, Suzette Malveaux, Margaret E. Montoya, Natsu Taylor Saito, Nareissa L. Smith, and Tanya Washington

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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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Safety v. Surgery: Sex Reassignment Surgery and the Housing of Transgender Inmates, Tammi S. Etheridge

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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