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The Washington University Law Review has a new look! Our redesigned website is now live, celebrating our tradition of legal scholarship since 1915.

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Volume 104, Issue 2 of the Washington University Law Review is now live!

What happens when consumer harm is designed to go unnoticed? When prosecutors hold the leverage in corporate bankruptcy? When the public weighs in on forfeiture and clemency?

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Volume 104, Issue 1 is now published.

The Issue brings together scholarship examining consequential questions across trusts and estates, criminal law, securities regulation, corporate governance, and criminal punishment. Through empirical inquiry, institutional analysis, and innovative legal proposals, these five pieces challenge prevailing assumptions and offer new frameworks for understanding pressing questions in law and policy.

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New in Washington University Law Review Online Volume 104: "Shadow Tariffs and the Executive Volatility Regime" by Doron Narotzki (@DNarotzki).

The Article introduces the concept of "shadow tariffs," arguing that executive tariff volatility can impose real economic costs by prompting businesses to reprice risk, rewrite contracts, and delay investment, even when threatened tariffs are never collected.

Read here: wustllawreview.org/2026/08/02/sha…

Domenic Monteleone’s "One-Person, One-Initiative: Equal Protection Limits on Missouri's Proposed District-Based Initiative Approval Rule" argues Missouri's Amendment 4, which would require citizen-led constitutional amendments to win a majority in each of the state's eight congressional districts, violates the Equal Protection Clause.

The piece is forthcoming in Volume 104. Given Amendment 4’s Aug. 4 election date, we are releasing it early online.

Read it here: wustllawreview.org