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 2010

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An Exclusionary Rule for Police Lies, Melanie D. Wilson

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Improbable Cause: A Case for Judging Police by a More Majestic Standard, Melanie D. Wilson

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"You Crossed the Fog Line!"—Kansas, Pretext, and the Fourth Amendment, Melanie D. Wilson

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Insubstantial Burdens: The Case for Government Employee Exemptions to Same-Sex Marriage Laws, Robin Fretwell Wilson

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Privatizing Family Law in the Name of Religion, Robin Fretwell Wilson

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The Death of Jesse Gelsinger: New Evidence of the Influence of Money and Prestige in Human Research, Robin Fretwell Wilson

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Trusting Mothers: A Critique of the American Law Institute's Treatment of De Facto Parents, Robin Fretwell Wilson

Publications from 2009

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Getting the Framers Wrong: A Response to Professor Geoffrey Stone, Samuel W. Calhoun

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Good Conduct Time: How Much and For Whom? The Unprincipled Approach of the Model Penal Code, Nora V. Demleitner

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Replacing Incarceration: The Need for Dramatic Change, Nora V. Demleitner

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Terms of Imprisonment: Treating the Noncitizen Offender Equally, Nora V. Demleitner

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Accountability for Property Crimes and Environmental War Crimes: Prosecution, Litigation, and Development, Mark A. Drumbl

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Book Review, Victor Peskin, International Justice in Rwanda and the Balkans: Virtual Trials and the Struggle for State Cooperation (2008), Mark A. Drumbl

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Reviewing Kenneth S. Gallant, The Principle of Legality in International and Comparative Criminal Law (2009), Mark A. Drumbl

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Reviewing Supranational Criminology: Towards A Criminology of International Crimes, Alette Smeulers & Roelof Haveman, eds. (2008), Mark A. Drumbl

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The Push to Criminalize Aggression: Something Lost Amid the Gains?, Mark A. Drumbl

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Escape Into the Panopticon: Virtual Worlds and the Surveillance Society, Joshua A.T. Fairfield

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The Cost of Consent: Optimal Standardization in the Law of Contract, Joshua A.T. Fairfield

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The End of the (Virtual) World, Joshua A.T. Fairfield

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The God Paradox, Joshua A.T. Fairfield

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The Magic Circle, Joshua A.T. Fairfield

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The Government Contractor Defense and Superior Orders in International Human Rights Law, Jill M. Fraley

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International Investment Arbitration: Winning Losing and Why, Susan D. Franck

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The Future of Law and Development: Investment Treaty Abritration and Law & Development, Susan D. Franck

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Development and Outcomes of Investment Treaty Arbitration, Susan D. Franck

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On Discounted Partnership Interests and Adequate Consideration, Brant J. Hellwig

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Close the Yield Exemption Loophole Created by Childs, Brant J. Hellwig and Gregg D. Polsky

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Bankruptcy Bondage, Margaret Howard

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Corporate Law Professors as Gatekeepers, Lyman P. Q. Johnson

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Are Corporate Officers Advised About Fiduciary Duties, Lyman P.Q. Johnson

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Counter-Narrative in Corporate Law: Saints and Sinners, Apostles and Epistles, Lyman P.Q. Johnson

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Health Insurance Exchanges: Legal Issues, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost

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Criminal Justice and the Public Imagination, Erik Luna

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The Curious Case of Corporate Criminality, Erik Luna

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Reviewing Tom Farer, Confronting Global Terrorism and American Neoconservatives: The Framework of a Grand Strategy, Russell A. Miller

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A Golden-Age of Civil Involvement: The Client-Centered Disadvantage for Lawyers as Law Makers, James E. Moliterno

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The Lawyer as Catalyst of Social Change, James E. Moliterno

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Isaiah and His Young Disciples: Justice Brandeis and His Law Clerks, Todd C. Peppers

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Common Law Punitive Damages: Something for Everyone?, Doug Rendleman

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The Life of the Mind and a Life of Meaning: Reflections on Fahrenheit 451, Rodney A. Smolla

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Words "Which By Their Very Utterance Inflict Injury": Evolving Treatment of Inherently Dangerous Speech in Free Speech Law and Theory, Rodney A. Smolla

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Nationwide Personal Jurisdiction for our Federal Courts, A. Benjamin Spencer

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Understanding Pleading Doctrine, A. Benjamin Spencer

Publications from 2008

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Pluralism in Ghana: The Perils and Promise of Parallel Law, Johanna E. Bond

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May the President Appropriately Invoke God? Evaluating the Embryonic Stem Cell Vetoes, Samuel W. Calhoun

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Anti-Social Contracts: The Contractual Governance of Virtual Worlds, Joshua A.T. Fairfield

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Empiricism and International Law: Insights for Investment Treaty Dispute Resolution, Susan D. Franck

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A Fresh Look at Director "Independence": Mutual Fund Fee Litigation and Gartenberg at Twenty-Five, Lyman P.Q. Johnson

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Global Health Care Financing Law: A Useful Concept?, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost

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Is Health Insurance a Bad Idea? The Consumer-Driven Perspective, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost

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Candor, Zeal, and the Substitution of Judgment: Ethics and the Mentally Ill Criminal Defendant, John D. King

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Suicide on Campus: The Appropriate Legal Responsibility of College Personnel, Ann MacLean Massie

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The Fact-Conjecture Framework in U.S. Libel Law: Four Problems, Brian C. Murchison

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William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr.: Breaking the Color Barrier at the U.S. Supreme Court, Todd C. Peppers

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Law Clerk Influence on Supreme Court Decision Making: An Empirical Assessment, Todd C. Peppers and Christopher Zorn

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Restating Restitution: The Restatement Process and Its Critics, Doug Rendleman

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The First Amendment, Journalists, and Sources: A Curious Study in "Reverse Federalism", Rodney A. Smolla

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Plausibility Pleading, A. Benjamin Spencer

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Pleading Civil Rights Claims in the Post-Conley Era, A. Benjamin Spencer

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A Return to the Grand Jury to Promote a Zen Zeal in Prosecutors, Melanie D. Wilson

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DNA – Intimate Information or Trash for Public Consumption?, Melanie D. Wilson

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Finding a Happy and Ethical Medium Between a Prosecutor Who Believes the Defendant Didn't Do It and the Boss Who Says That He Did, Melanie D. Wilson

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Prosecutors "Doing Justice" Through Osmosis—Reminders to Encourage a Culture of Cooperation, Melanie D. Wilson

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The Return of Reasonableness: Saving the Fourth Amendment from the Supreme Court, Melanie D. Wilson

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Matters of Conscience: Lessons for Same-Sex Marriage from the Healthcase Context, Robin Fretwell Wilson

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Karen E. Woody, Putting Pandora on Trial, 98 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 699 (2008) (reviewing Mark A. Drumbl, Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law (2007)), Karen E. Woody

Publications from 2007

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The Expressive Value of Prosecuting and Punishing Terrorists: Hamdan, the Geneva Conventions, and International Criminal Law, Mark A. Drumbl

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The Search Interest in Contract, Joshua A.T. Fairfield

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The Etiology of the Occurrence of En Banc Review in the U.S. Court of Appeals, Micheal W. Giles, Virginia A. Hettinger, Christopher Zorn, and Todd C. Peppers

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Questioning the Wisdom of Patent Protection for Tax Planning, Brant J. Hellwig

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The Law of Unintended Consequences, Margaret Howard

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Having the Fiduciary Duty Talk: Model Advice for Corporate Officers (and Other Senior Agents), Lyman P.Q. Johnson

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Roger, Lyman P.Q. Johnson

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(Not) Advising Corporate Officers about Fiduciary Duties, Lyman P.Q. Johnson and Robert V. Ricca

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Shifting Risk of Ruin to Consumers: The Role of Tax Law in American Health Policy, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost

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The American Right-Wing Policy Agenda, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost

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The Massachusetts Health Plan: Public Insurance for the Poor, Private Insurance for the Wealthy, Self-Insurance for the Rest?, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost

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Motives for Idealizing the Pragmatic, Lewis H. LaRue

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Roger Douglas Groot: A Personal Memoir, Ann MacLean Massie

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A Man Standing High, November 15, 2005, Andrew W. McThenia

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Reviewing Charlotte Ku and Harold Jacobson (eds.), Democratic Accountability and the Use of Force in International Law, Russell A. Miller

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Criminalization of Corporate Law: The Impact on Shareholders and Other Constituents, David K. Millon

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Piercing the Corporate Veil, Financial Responsibility, and the Limits of Limited Liability, David K. Millon

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Roger Groot, Legal Historian, David K. Millon

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Birth of an Institution: Horace Gray and the Lost Law Clerks, Todd C. Peppers

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The Trial Judge's Equitable Discretion Following Ebay v. Mercexchange, Doug Rendleman

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Contemplating the Meaning of "The Rule of Law", Rodney A. Smolla

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Exercises in the Regulation of Hate Speech, Rodney A. Smolla

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Anti-Federalist Procedure, A. Benjamin Spencer

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Diamonds on the Souls of Her Shoes: The Kimberly Process and the Morality Exception to WTO Restrictions, Karen E. Woody

Publications from 2006

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Article Five of the UTC and the Future of Creditors' Rights in Trusts, Robert T. Danforth

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Offenses Involving Immigration, Naturalization and Passports: Model Sentencing Guidelines 211, 212, 213, 214, Nora V. Demleitner

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Where to Go From Here? The Roberts Court at the Crossroads of Sentencing, Nora V. Demleitner

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The Iraqi High Tribunal and Rule of Law: Challenges, Mark A. Drumbl

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The Supreme Court's Casual Use of the Assignment of Income Doctrine, Brant J. Hellwig

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The Employment Tax Challenge to the Check the Box Regulations, Brant J. Hellwig and Gregg D. Polsky

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Faith and Faithfulness in Corporate Theory, Lyman P.Q. Johnson

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The Audit Committee's Ethical and Legal Responsibilities: The State Law Perspective, Lyman P.Q. Johnson

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Health Courts and Malpractice Claims Adjudication through Medicare: Some Questions, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost

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Our Broken Health Care System and How to Fix it: An Essay on Health Law and Policy, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost