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This Article identifies and theorizes a neglected element of tariffs: “shadow tariffs,” the tariff-like burdens created by executive volatility rather than by durable border collection. When an admini...

The U.S. Constitution’s Treaty Clause, which requires Senate approval by a two-thirds vote for treaties, has significantly influenced the development of international tax law. This Article examines th...

In the spring of 2025, President Trump threatened Harvard’s tax-exempt status, accusing it of “pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting ‘Sickness.’” In the following months, t...

The founders have been credited with “splitting the atom of sovereignty” in creating our federal system.[3] Yet this revolutionary achievement has fractured into a bewildering array of doctrinal silos...

In the aftermath of Moore v. United States, there has been a modest rise in interest in U.S. consumption taxes, not only for revenue raising but as a response to inequality. This Article argues that t...

For more than a century, progressive taxation has constituted the American fiscal state. A resurgent and expanding tariff regime, however, threatens that commitment to progressive distribution. Given ...

The President’s dramatic use of tariffs has unleashed a host of constitutional and statutory interpretation challenges that promise to make new law. In the leading case, Learning Resources, Inc. v. Tr...

American law is grappling with basic questions about the President’s power to impose tariffs—questions concerning whether Congress can delegate this authority, and the degree to which it has. But the ...

At the federal level, the boundary between public and private functions is under pressure. On top of longstanding trends toward privatizing government functions and running agencies like businesses, t...

This Article contributes to the development of the constitutional law of executive conditions. The appropriations presidentialism of the second Trump Administration—the shift from bilateral executive/...

Appropriations law is a unique body of federal law. Appropriations law imposes its own somewhat baroque set of statutory interpretation rules, approves of very broad delegations to the Executive Branc...

Each year, the Washington University Law Review publishes an issue featuring papers presented at our annual symposium. This year’s symposium, held at the Law School on September 26, 2025, focused on t...

Vanderbilt Law Professor Jeff Gordon's latest paper offers a framework for optimizing resilience in an era of resource uncertainty

Attempting to hold the President and White House officials accountable necessarily presents a fundamental conundrum—how to balance essential characteristics such as independence and neutrality with el...

Scholars examine how regulators should respond to risks posed by AI companions.

State agencies and local nonprofits play a critical role in addressing social problems, by administering federal programs and distributing aid. To uphold the integrity of federal programs, and ensure ...

California’s Senate Bill 1047 (S.B. 1047), known as the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act, represents a significant early legislative effort to regulate advanc...

An unusual and surprising thing is happening in patent law of late: very little. The four decades beginning in 1980 saw almost constant turmoil in patent law, with dramatic changes to the statute, a b...

Trump v. CASA, Inc., the first high-profile Supreme Court case challenging President Trump’s birthright-citizenship executive order, cemented a seismic shift in federal courts’ authority to issue inju...

Decades of inadequate federal action on climate change have culminated in a near-total regulatory retreat. Meanwhile, the climate crisis continues to intensify, imposing escalating costs on individual...

Democracy is a compliance cost. At least, that is the modern conception of performative corporate governance. Structurally contingent legal and market characteristics mean that shareholder voting is n...

Attempting to hold the President and White House officials accountable necessarily presents a fundamental conundrum—how to balance essential characteristics such as independence and neutrality with el...

Spring 2026 UpdateThe Law Review has concluded its primary selection cycle for Spring 2026. A number of publication slots remain available, and we expect to fill these over the summer and into the fal...

Explore the journey of child sex trafficking victims and the urgent need for legal protections recognizing their trauma and coercion.

Explore how recent antitrust actions on non-compete agreements may impact confidentiality laws and employee mobility in the workforce.

Explore the emerging issue of control capture in antitrust law and its implications for competition in high-tech industries.

Explore the interplay of law and economics in enhancing corporate resilience against supply chain disruptions and external market pressures.

Explore the complex interplay between judicial deference and agency litigation outcomes following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Chevron.

Explore the complex debate around university endowment taxation, its political implications, and proposals for reforming federal tax policy.

Explore the viability of bypassing agency adjudication to expedite judicial review of non-final executive actions in this insightful article.

This is the story of Mogridge v. United States, in which the United States asserted, and a multinational commission held, that a child born in Pennsylvania to enemy alien visitors was a U.S. citizen e...

Anyone who has watched The Devil Wears Prada remembers the iconic scene where Miranda Priestly, the editor-in-chief of a fashion magazine, disparages Andy, her assistant who doesn’t care about fashion...

Despite decades of proposed legislation and cries for juvenile justice reform, Georgia cannot cross the finish line—it is one of only three U.S. states whose age of criminal responsibility remains sev...

Whether corporations are obligated to maximize profits or if they ought to consider societal interests more broadly remains one of the most highly contested debates in corporate law. Yet even the fier...

Whether corporations are obligated to maximize profits or if they ought to consider societal interests more broadly remains one of the most highly contested debates in corporate law. Yet even the fier...

The era of AI litigation has begun, and a fundamental tension has emerged. AI tools operate at unprecedented scale, creating mass harms that favor collective legal responses. Yet these same tools gene...