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 2008

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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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Unconscious Bias and Outsider Interest Convergence, Catherine Smith

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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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Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo. Décision sur la Confirmation des Charges. Case No. ICC-01/04-01/06, Mark A. Drumbl

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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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Queer as Black Folk, Catherine Smith

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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

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The Role of Competition in Health Care: A Western European Perspective, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, Diane Dawson, and André den Exter

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The End of Preclearance As We Knew It: How the Supreme Court Transformed Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, Peyton McCrary, Christopher B. Seaman, and Richard Valelly

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A Tribute to Lewis H. LaRue, Andrew W. McThenia

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A Cap on the Defendant's Appeal Bond?: Punitive Damages Tort Reform, Doug Rendleman

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The Group Dangers of Race-Based Conspiracies, Catherine E. Smith

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Lawyer Advertising and the Dignity of the Profession, Rodney A. Smolla

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Jurisdiction and the Internet: Returning to Traditional Principles to Analyze Network-Mediated Contacts, A. Benjamin Spencer

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Jurisdiction to Adjudicate: A Revised Analysis, A. Benjamin Spencer

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Terminating Calder: "Effects" Based Jurisdiction in the Ninth Circuit After Schwarzenegger v. Fred Martin Motor Co., A. Benjamin Spencer

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The Preservation Obligation: Regulating and Sanctioning Pre-Litigation Spoliation in Federal Court, A. Benjamin Spencer

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The Cabining of Rosenberger: Locke v. Davey and the Broad Nondiscrimination Principle That Never Was, Alan M. Trammell

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In Booker's Shadow: Restitution Forces a Second Debate on Honesty in Sentencing, Melanie D. Wilson

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The Price of Pretrial Release: Can We Afford to Keep Our Fourth Amendment Rights?, Melanie D. Wilson

Publications from 2005

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A Tribute to Frederic L. Kirgis, Samuel W. Calhoun

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Grounding Normative Assertions: Arthur Leff's Still Irrefutable, But Incomplete, "Sez Who?" Critique, Samuel W. Calhoun

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A Tribute to Edward O. Henneman, Robert T. Danforth

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The Virginia Uniform Trust Code, Robert T. Danforth

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Constitutional Challenges, Risk-Based Analysis and Criminal History Databases: More Demands on the U.S. Sentencing Commission, Nora V. Demleitner

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Smart Public Policy: Replacing Imprisonment with Targeted Nonprison Sentences and Collateral Sanctions, Nora V. Demleitner

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Thwarting a New Start? Foreign Convictions, Sentencing and Collateral Sanctions, Nora V. Demleitner

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A Tribute to Frederic L. Kirgis, Mark A. Drumbl

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Book Review, Charif M. Bassiouni, Introduction to International Criminal Law (2003), Mark A. Drumbl

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Collective Violence and Individual Punishment: The Criminality of Mass Atrocity, Mark A. Drumbl

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Guantanamo, Rasul, and the Twilight of Law, Mark A. Drumbl

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Law and Atrocity: Settling Accounts in Rwanda, Mark A. Drumbl

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Pluralizing International Criminal Justice, Mark A. Drumbl

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Virtual Property, Joshua A.T. Fairfield

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Taxing the Promise to Pay, Brant J. Hellwig and Gregg D. Polsky

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Corporate Officers and the Business Judgment Rule, Lyman P.Q. Johnson

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Recalling Why Corporate Officers are Fiduciaries, Lyman P.Q. Johnson and David K. Millon

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Consumer-Driven Health Care in South Africa: Lessons from Comparative Health Policy Studies, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost

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The Role of State Regulation in Consumer-Driven Health Care, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost and Mark A. Hall

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The Avena Case in the International Court of Justice and the U.S. Response, Frederic L. Kirgis

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Fighting to Keep Employment Discrimination Class Actions Alive: How Allison v. Citgo's Predomination Requirement Threatens to Undermine Title VII Enforcement, Suzette M. Malveaux

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Statutes of Limitations: A Policy Analysis in the Context of Reparations Litigation, Suzette M. Malveaux

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A Tribute to Frederic L. Kirgis, David K. Millon

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A Tribute to Frederic L. Kirgis, Joan M. Shaughnessy

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Commentary: Unpublication and the Judicial Concept of Audience, Joan M. Shaughnessy

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Content and Context: The Contributions of William Van Alstyne to First Amendment Interpretation, Rodney A. Smolla

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Restoring Reason and Civility to the Judicial Selection Process, Rodney A. Smolla

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The "Do-Not-Call List" Controversy: A Parable of Privacy and Speech, Rodney A. Smolla

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Due Process and Punitive Damages: The Error of Federal Excessiveness Jurisprudence, A. Benjamin Spencer

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Since When Is Dicta Enough to Trump Fourth Amendment Rights? The Aftermath of Florida v. J.L., Melanie D. Wilson

Publications from 2004

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Risk Assessment: Promises and Pitfalls, Nora V. Demleitner

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Prosecutor v Radislav Krstić: ICTY Authenticates Genocide at Srebrenica and Convicts for Aiding and Abetting, Mark Drumbl

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'Lesser Evils' in the War on Terrorism, Mark A. Drumbl

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Rights, Culture, and Crime: The Role of Rule of Law for the Women of Afghanistan, Mark A. Drumbl

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The Alien Tort Claims Act Under Attack: Introductory Remarks, Mark A. Drumbl

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Cracks in the Foundation: The new Internet Regulation's Hidden Threat to Privacy and Commerce, Joshua A.T. Fairfield