Students Publish Scholarship Widely

Numerous Washington University Law students have published their scholarship in a wide range of journals and law reviews, often adapting their seminar papers and working closely with law faculty.

The law school also supports three student-edited journals: Washington University Law Review, Washington University Journal of Law & Policy, and Washington University Global Studies Law Review. Additionally, a group of law students recently launched a new student-sponsored online journal, Technology, Innovation & Commerce Law Review.

Recent student scholarship includes: 

Non-WU Publications

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Washington University Law Publications

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Non-WU Publications 

2009/Forthcoming

• Aaron Block, JD ’08,  “When Money Is Tight, Is Strict Scrutiny Loose?: Cost Sensitivity as a Compelling Governmental Interest Under the Religious Land Use & Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000,” Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights (forthcoming, 2009)
• Seth Bridge, JD ’08, “Russia’s New Counteracting Terrorism Law: The Legal Implications of Pursuing Terrorists beyond the Borders of the Russian Federation,” Columbia Journal of East European Law (forthcoming, 2009)
• Jessica R. Feinberg, JD ’08, “Friends as Co-Parents,” University of San Francisco Law Review (forthcoming, 2009)
• Phillip Geheb, JD ’09, “Tax Increment Financing Bonds As ‘Debt’ Under State Constitutional Debt Limitations,” TheUrban Lawyer (forthcoming, 2009)
• Noah Gold, JD ’09, “Corporate Criminal Liability: This Is a Stick-Up! Do As We Say, and You Won’t Be Indicted,” Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy (forthcoming, 2009)
• Bryan Lammon, JD ’08, “What We Talk about When We Talk about Ideology: Judicial Politics Scholarship and Naive Legal Realism,” St. John’s Law Review (forthcoming, 2009)
• Elizabeth McDonald, JD ’09, “Sperm Donor or Thwarted Father? How Written Agreement Statutes are Changing the Way Courts Resolve Legal Parentage Issues in Assisted Reproduction Cases,” Family Court Review (forthcoming, 2009)
• Erin Nave, JD ’09, “Getting to the Roots of School Segregation: The Challenges of Housing Remedies in Northern School Desegregation Litigation,” National Black Law Journal (forthcoming, 2009)
• Brett Rowan, JD ’08, “The Price of ‘European’ Identity: The Negative Social and Economic Impact of Slovenian Migration Law,” 31 Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review (forthcoming, 2009)
• David Schwister, JD/MBA ’10, “L³Cs: The Next Big Wave in Socially Responsible Investing or Just Simply Too Good to be True?,” Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship and the Law (forthcoming, 2009)
• Lauren Smith, JD ’10, “Alternatives to Property Tax Increment Finance Programs: Sales, Income, and Non-Property Tax Increment Financing,” TheUrban Lawyer (2009)
• Ryan Van Steenis, JD ’07, “From Mao to Madison and Back: An Examination of China’s National Property Law and its Diminished Potential,” Temple International and Comparative Law Journal (forthcoming, 2009)

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2008

• Ricky Y.H. Fong, JD ’06, “Universal Suffrage in Hong Kong: Promise or Illusion? A Critical Analysis of National People’s Congress Standing Committee’s Interpretation of Hong Kong Basic Law Annexes,” 24 UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal 225 (2007) (published in 2008)
• Robert Friedman, JD ’09, “Religious Discrimination in the Workplace: The Persistent Polarized Struggle,” Midwest Black Law Students Association Law Journal (2008)
• Jessica R. Feinberg, JD ’08, “The Clash Between Safety and Freedom of Association in the Regulation of Prom Dates,” Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy (2007–08)
• Jason N.W. Plowman, JD ’08, “When Second-Parent Adoption Is the Second-Best Option: The Case for Legislative Reform as the Next Best Option for Same-Sex Couples in the Face of Continued Marriage Inequality,” Scholar: St. Mary’s Law Review on Minority Issues (2008), and “Compulsory Arbitration as Part of a Broader Employment Dispute Resolution Process: The Anheuser-Busch Example,” (with Northern Kentucky University Prof. R. Bales) 26 Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal 1 (2008)
• Meredith M. Snyder, JD ’07, “One Nation Under God: An Examination of the New Religion Law and its Consequences for Minority Faiths in Post-Communist Romania,” 2 Columbia Journal of East European Law 233 (2008)
• Jessica Wilson, JD ’08, “Russia’s Cultural Aversion to the Rule of Law,” 2 Columbia Journal of East European Law 195 (2008)

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Washington University Law Publications

Forthcoming 

Washington University Law Review

• Joseph B. Keillor, JD ’10, “Veterans at the Gates: Exploring the New GI Bill and Its Transformative Possibilities,” 87:1 Washington University Law Review, Note (forthcoming)
• Jeffrey D. Mornhinweg, JD ’10, “On the Road to Recovery: How Simple Changes in the Inequitable Conduct Doctrine Can Yield Major Improvements in Patent Law,” 87:1 Washington University Law Review, Note (forthcoming)

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 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy

• Michael A. Blank, JD ’09, “Disestablishing Deism: Advocating Free Exercise Challenges to State Induced Invocations of God,” 31 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy, Note (forthcoming)
• Daniel G. Iles, JD ’09, “With a Little Help from My Friends: The Federal Government’s Reliance on Cooperation from the States in Enforcing Immigration Policy,” 31 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy, Note (forthcoming)
• Elizabeth A. Roush, JD ’09, “(Re)Entering the Workforce: An Historical Perspective on Family Responsibilities Discrimination and the Shortcomings of Law to Remedy It,” 31 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy, Note (forthcoming)
• Paul Varnado, JD ’09, “Books as Weapons: Reading Materials and Unfairly Prejudicial Character Evidence,” 31 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy, Note (forthcoming)

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 Washington UniversityGlobal Studies Law Review

• Charles R. Fritch, JD ’09, “Drug Smuggling on the High Seas: Using International Legal Principles to Establish Jurisdiction Over the Illicit Narcotics Trade and the Ninth Circuit’s Unnecessary Nexus Requirement,” 8:4 Washington University Global Studies Law Review, Note (forthcoming)
• Jenny Mendelsohn, JD ’09, “Calling the Boss or Calling the Press: A Comparison of British and American Responses to Internal and External Whistleblowing,” 8:4 Washington University Global Studies Law Review, Note (forthcoming)
• Stephen J. Wiese, JD/MBA ’10, “U.S. Foreign Aid Reform: Changing Institutional Problems in Order to Meet Modern Day Needs,” 8:4 Washington University Global Studies Law Review, Note (forthcoming)

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2009

Washington University Law Review

• Alexander S. Elson, JD ’09, “Disappearing Without A Case—The Constitutionality of Race-Conscious Scholarships in Higher Education,” 86:4 Washington University Law Review 975 (2009)
• Travis W. England, JD ’09, “Bilingual Education: Lessons from Abroad for America’s Pending Crisis,” 86:5 Washington University Law Review 1211 (2009)
• Wallis K. Finger, JD ’09, “Unsophisticated Wealth: Reconsidering the SEC’s ‘Accredited Investor’ Definition Under the 1933 Act,” 86:3 Washington University Law Review 773 (2009)
• Michael E. Klenov, JD ’09, “Preemption and Removal: Watson Shuts the Federal Officer Backdoor to the Federal Courthouse, Conceals Familiar Motive,” 86:6 Washington University Law Review 1455 (2009)
• Sarah Smith Kuehnel, JD ’09, “Abstinence-Only Education Fails African American Youth,” 86:5 Washington University Law Review 1241 (2009)
• Colman D. McCarthy, JD ’09, “Criminal Relationships: Vertical and Horizontal Relatedness in Criminal RICO,” 86:6 Washington University Law Review 1493 (2009)
• Brooke E. Robertson, JD ’09, “Expanding the Use of Supplemental Environmental Projects,” 86:4 Washington University Law Review 1025 (2009)

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Washington University Journal of Law & Policy

• Caldwell G. Collins, JD ’09, “Home Alone: Is This the Best We Can Do? A Proposal to Amend Pending Parental Leave Legislation,” 29 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 301 (2009)
• Kevin Green, JD ’09, “Attacking Without Provocation; Maintaining a Subsequent Occupation; All for the Sake of Democratization: The Constitutionality and Wisdom of Preventive War and Post-Conflict Nation-Building,” 30 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 509 (2009)
• Erin Nave, JD ’09, “Giving Deference to Inaction: How Geddes v. United Staffing Alliance Employee Medical Plan Compromised an Employee’s Right to Meaningful Review Under ERISA,” 29 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 323 (2009)
• Sonja Schiller, JD ’09, “Avoiding the Problem of the Commons in a Communist Society: The Role of Water Rights in the Enforcement of Environmental Law in China,” 29 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 349 (2009)
• Elizabeth A. Siemer, JD ’09, “Bored Out of Their Minds: The Detrimental Effects of No Child Left Behind on Gifted Children,” 30 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 539 (2009)
• Kelly Snyder, JD ’09, “All Names Are Not Equal: Choice of Marital Surname and Equal Protection,” 30 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 561 (2009)
• Kevin M. Wilemon, JD ’09, “The Fair Housing Act, the Communications Decency Act, and the Right of Roommate Seekers to Discriminate Online,” 29 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 375 (2009)
• Lauren Worsek, JD ’09, “It Really Does Take a Village: Recognizing the Total Caregiving Network by Moving Toward a Functional Perspective in Family Law After Troxel v. Granville,” 30 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 589 (2009)

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Washington University Global Studies Law Review 

• Bernard Isaac Weinstein Baskin, JD ’09, “Historical Heist: An Economic Argument Against Embargoing Chinese Cultural Property,” 8:1 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 107 (2009)
• Dania S. Becker, JD ’09, “Less Can Be More: Recent Examples of Cooperation Between the United States and European Union on Securities Regulation,” 8:1 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 139 (2009)
• Miriam R. Cahan, JD ’09, “An Impossible Choice: Denial of Parents’ Derivative Asylum Claims Based on Their Citizen Daughter’s Risk of Female Genital Mutilation,” 8:3 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 545 (2009)
• Sumeet Jain, JD ’09, “Tightening India’s ‘Golden Straitjacket’: How Pulling the Straps of India’s Job Reservation Scheme Reflects Prudent Economic Policy,” 8:3 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 567 (2009)
• Adam R. Young, JD ’09, “Generic Pharmaceutical Regulation in the United States with Comparison to Europe: Innovation and Competition,” 8:1 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 165 (2009)
• Yin Lily Zheng, JD ’09, “It’s Not What Is on Paper, but What Is in Practice: China’s New Labor Contract Law and the Enforcement Problem,” 8:3 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 595 (2009)

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2008 

Washington University Law Review 

• James A. Bloom, JD ’08, “Plurality and Precedence: Judicial Reasoning, Lower Courts, and the Meaning of United States v. Winstar Corp.,” 85:6 Washington University Law Review 1373 (2008)
• Annabel R. Chang, JD ’09, “Lost in Interpretation: The Problem of Plea Bargains and Court Interpretation for Non-English-Speaking Defendants,” 86:2 Washington University Law Review 445 (2008)
• David A. Curfman, JD ’09, “Thar Be Treasure Here: Rights to Ancient Shipwrecks in International Waters—A New Policy Regime,” 86:1 Washington University Law Review 181 (2008)
• Aditi D. Kothekar, JD ’09, “Refocusing the Lens of Child Advocacy Reform on the Child,” 86:2 Washington University Law Review 481 (2008)
• Bryan D. Lammon, JD ’08, “The Practical Mandates of the Fourth Amendment: A Behavioral Argument for the Exclusionary Rule and Warrant Preference,” 85:5 Washington University Law Review 1101 (2008)
• Kate M. Lesciotto, JD ’09, “KSR: Have Gene Patents Been KO’d? The Non-obviousness Determination of Patents Claiming Nucleotide Sequences When the Prior Art Has Already Disclosed the Amino Acid Sequence,” 86:1 Washington University Law Review 209 (2008)
• Joshua R. Mourning, JD ’08, “The Majority-Voting Movement: Curtailing Shareholder Disenfranchisement in Corporate Director Elections,” 85:5 Washington University Law Review 1143 (2008)
• Andrew Nash, JD ’08, “Victims by Definition,” 85:6 Washington University Law Review 1419 (2008)
• Daniel S. Riemer, JD ’08, “Special Purpose Acquisition Companies: Spac and Span, or Blank Check Redux?,” 85:4 Washington University Law Review 931 (2008)

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Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 

• James Bixby, JD ’08, “The 2005 Energy Policy Act: Lessons on Getting Alternative Fuels to the Pump from Minnesota’s Ethanol Regulations,” 26 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 353 (2008)
• E. Jason Burke, JD ’08,“‘Quasi-property’ Rights: Fantasy or Reality? An Examination of C.B.C. Distribution & Marketing Inc. v. Major League Baseball Advanced Media, L.P. and Fantasy Sports Providers’ Use of Professional Athlete Statistics,”27 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 161 (2008)
• Bryan K. Clark, JD ’08, “Filling the First Amendment Gap: Can Gideons Get Away with In-School Bible Distribution by Exploiting the Play in the Joints Between the Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses?,” 28 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 403 (2008)
• Ryan Cronin, JD ’08, “Bureaucrats vs. Physicians: Have Doctors Been Stripped of Their Power to Determine the Proper Use of Human Growth Hormone in Treating Adult Disease?,”27 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 191 (2008)
• Rebecca Feldmann, JD ’08,“What Constitutes Exceptional? The Intersection of Circumstances Warranting Reopening of Removal Proceedings After Entry of an In Absentia Order of Removal and Due Process Rights of Noncitizens,”27 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 219 (2008)
• Aaron E. Hankel, JD ’08, “On the Road to the Merits in Our Federal System: Is the ‘Forum Defendant Rule’ a Procedural Speed Bump or a Jurisdictional Road Block?,” 28 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 427 (2008)
• John J. Rehmann, JD ’08, “Paying the Price: Should Corporations’ Payment of Their Employees’ Legal Fees Be a Factor in Corporate Indictment Decisions?,” 26 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 379 (2008)
• Lauren Taub, JD ’08, “Major Privacy Concerns When Minor Sues for Paternity,” 26 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 459 (2008)
• Ann Bindu Thomas, JD ’08,“Avoiding EMBRYOS ‘R’ US: Toward a Regulated Fertility Industry,”27 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 247 (2008)
• Jonathan J. Tompkins, JD ’08, “Opportunity Knocks, but the SEC Answers: Examining the Manipulation of Stock Options Through the Spring-Loading of Grants and Rule 10b-5,” 26 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 413 (2008)
• Sarah Tupper, JD ’08, “Taking the Ninth: A Victim’s Right of Privacy,” 28 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 457 (2008)

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Washington University Global Studies Law Review 

• Gretchen C. Ackerman, JD ’08, “An Analysis of Whether Aliens Should be Required to Exhaust Local Remedies Before Suing in the United States Under the Alien Tort Statute,” 7:3 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 543 (2008)
• Sophie Marie Alcorn, JD ’08, “Landlords Beware, You May Be Renting Your Own Room...In Jail: Landlords Should Not Be Prosecuted For Harboring Aliens,” 7:2 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 289 (2008)
• Joshua A. Altman, JD ’08, “A Schrödinger’s Onion Approach to the Problem of Secure Internet Communications,” 7:1 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 103 (2008)
• Bryan Boyle, JD ’08, “Private Damages for Immigration Violations: A Reality for the U.S.; A Possibility for the E.U.,” 7:3 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 569 (2008)
• Elizabeth B. Chilcoat, JD ’08, “Pinkie Promises or Blood Oaths? Using Social Clauses in U.S. Free Trade Agreements to Eradicate Child Labor,” 7:2 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 307 (2008)
• Eric M. Goldstein, JD ’08, “Inspecting the Hands That Feed Us: Requiring U.S. Quality for All Imported Foods,” 7:1 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 137 (2008)
• Daniel Richard Kuehnert, JD ’08, “The International Labor Organization and A Possible End to Violence Against Union Members in Colombia,” 7:3 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 593 (2008)
• Nancy I. Potter, JD ’08, “How Brazil Achieved Energy Independence and the Lessons the United States Should Learn from Brazil’s Experience,” 7:2 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 331 (2008)
• Brett C. Rowan, JD ’08, “Caution, Your Civil Liberties May Have Shifted During the Flight: Judicial Interpretations of the Warsaw Convention,” 7:1 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 161 (2008)
• Christopher T. Wheatley, JD ’08, “Overreaching Technological Means for Protection of Copyright: Identifying the Limits of Copyright in Works in Digital Form in the United States and the United Kingdom,” 7:2 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 353 (2008)
• Kevin M. Whiteley, JD ’08, “Holding International Organizations Accountable Under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act: Civil Actions Against the United Nations for Non-Commercial Torts,” 7:3 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 619 (2008)
• May Lydia Yeh, JD/MSW ’08, “Restorative Justice, Affirmative Action Sentencing Legislation and the Canucks: Lessons from Our Northern Neighbor,” 7:3 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 661 (2008)