Faculty Scholarship and Media
Featured Faculty Scholarship
Sepehr Shahshahani, When Hard Cases Make Bad Law: A Theory of How Case Facts Affect Judge-Made Law, 110 Cornell L. Rev. 963 (2025).
Brenda Dvoskin, #MeToo Torts, Georgia L. Rev. (forthcoming, 2027).
Steven J. Alagna, The Pedagogical Value of Clinical Amicus Advocacy, 75 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol’y 47 (2024).
Conor Clarke & Peter Wiedenbeck, The Original Function Of Tax Apportionment, 188 Tax Notes Fed. 1215 (2025).
States, Firms, and Their Legal Fictions: Attributing Identity and Responsibility to Artificial Entities (Melissa J. Durkee ed., Cambridge Univ. Press 2024) (Winner, 2024 Edited Volume Award, American Branch of the International Law Association).
Sheldon Evans, Punishment Externalities and the Prison Tax, 111 Calif. L. Rev. 683 (2023)
Benjamin Levin, Criminal Law Exceptionalism, 108 Va. L. Rev. 1381 (2022).
Constitutional Rights and General Private Law, 140 Harv. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2027) (with Daniel Epps)
Susan Frelich Appleton, Advanced Introduction to Family Law in the US (Edward Elgar Publ’g, Jan. 2026).
Daniel Epps & Ganesh Sitaraman, How to Save the Supreme Court, 129 Yale L. J. 148 (2019).
Wei Luo, Export Control and WMD Nonproliferation Law: A Comprehensive Research Guide (William S. Hein & Co. 3d ed.) (forthcoming 2026).
Connor Clarke & Peter Wiedenbeck, The Original Function Of Tax Apportionment, 188 Tax Notes Fed. 1215 (2025).
John Inazu, Assembling the Past: History, Tradition, and the Future of the Right of Assembly, Notre Dame L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026)
Adam Chilton, Peter Joy, Kyle Rozema & James Thomas, Improving the Signal Quality of Grades, 40 J.L. Econ. & Org. 820 (2024).
Peter A. Joy & Robert R. Kuehn, An Anthology of Interference in Law School Clinics (2025).
Mark W. Janis, John E. Noyes & Leila Nadya Sadat. International Law: Cases and Commentary (7th ed. 2025).
Gregory P. Magarian, Centering Noncitizens’ Free Speech, 56 Ga. L. Rev. 1563 (2022).
Research Handbook on Law and Psychology (Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff ed., Edward Elgar Publ’g, 2024).
John N. Drobak, Rethinking Market Regulation: Helping Labor by Overcoming Economic Myths (Oxford University Press, 2021).
Andrew F. Tuch, Lend Me Your Counsel, 99 S. Cal. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026) (with Cathy Hwang)
Emily Black, John Logan Koepke, Pauline T. Kim, Solon Barocas & Mingwei Hsu, Less Discriminatory Algorithms, 113 Geo. L.J. 53 (2024).
Rachel E. Sachs, Regulating Healthcare Technologies in a Post-FDA World, Northwestern U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026).
Adrienne D. Davis, The Private Law of Race and Sex: An Antebellum Perspective, 51 Stan. L. Rev. 221 (1999).
Rafael I. Pardo, Reinventing American Bankruptcy: Financial Failure and Freedom in the Slaveholding Republic (under contract with Columbia University Press).
Jens Frankenreiter, Grading Machines: Can AI Exam-Grading Replace Law Professors? (Wash. U. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 25-12-03, 2025).
Louis Loss, Joel Seligman & Troy Paredes, Securities Regulation (Wolters Kluwer, 7th ed., 2025).
Travis Crum, The Riddle of Race-Based Redistricting, 124 Colum. L. Rev. 1823 (2024).
Trevor Gardner, Multidimensional Criminal Law, in Race, Racism, and the Law (Aziza Ahmed & Guy-Uriel Charles, eds., Edward Elger Publ’g) (forthcoming 2026).
WashU Law in the Media
Our faculty are regularly called upon to offer expert analysis across major media platforms. From breaking legal news to complex policy discussions, WashU Law professors provide authoritative commentary that informs public understanding of critical legal issues.
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Forbes | July 30, 2026Justice Kennedy reflects on his time deciding the Constitution’s promise of liberty and equality
Los Angeles Times | July 26, 2026New York Bill Could Create the Nation’s First System for Tracking AI-Related Job Layoffs
The National Law Review | July 22, 2026