Law Review at Washington University in St. Louis

Police Prosecutions and Punitive Instincts

Kate Levine

This Article makes two contributions to the fields of policing and criminal legal scholarship. First, it sounds a cautionary note about the use of individual prosecutions to remedy police brutality. It argues that the calls for ways to ease the path to more…

Miscarriage, Stillbirth, & Reproductive Justice

Jill Wieber Lens

Each year in the United States, millions of women’s pregnancies end not with the birth of a living child, but in miscarriage or with the birth of a dead, stillborn child. Marginalized women face a higher risk of these undesired endings. Compared to…

Delegating National Security

Robert Knowles

Conservative scholars and a Supreme Court majority support reviving the nondelegation doctrine as a way to downsize the administrative state. But proposals from these scholars and Justices inevitably maintain there should be an exception for national security. This Article explains why a national…

Racial Transition

Yuvraj Joshi

The United States is a nation in transition, struggling to surmount its racist past. This transitional imperative underpins American race jurisprudence, yet the transitional bases of decisions are rarely acknowledged and sometimes even denied. This Article uncovers two main ways that the Supreme…

Reimagining the "Team Four Plan" With an Eye Toward Community Collaboration and Private Capital

Morgan Seim

This Note seeks to explore the historical underpinnings of the Team Four Plan by considering St. Louis’s dramatic economic decline alongside a citywide panic regarding the fate of the Midwest city. Though it acknowledges Congressional efforts to stop the urban plan in its tracks,…

Getting Into Court When Data Has Gotten Out: A Two-Part Framework

Alyssa Aubuchon

Part I of this Note will examine the history of the FCRA, the basics of Article III standing, and its applications to intangible harms and data-privacy related injuries. Part II of this Note will then propose two potential solutions to the standing issues…

Considering the Private Animal and Damages

Richard L. Cupp, Jr.

Since 2018, private law damages claims seeking to place animals in the role of plaintiffs have––in dramatic fashion––moved from academic debate to high-profile litigation. Focusing on two recent cases, this short Article asserts that lawsuits seeking to make animals plaintiffs in damages actions are…