Peter J. Wiedenbeck

Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law

Joseph H. Zumbalen Professor of the Law of Property

Campus Box 1120

St. Louis, MO 63130

United States

http://law.wustl.edu/faculty-staff-directory/profile/peter-wiedenbeck/

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1.

The Executive Compensation Threat to Retirement

Florida Tax Review, vol. 26, No. 1
Number of pages: 92 Posted: 02 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 30 May 2024
Peter J. Wiedenbeck and Norman P. Stein
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law
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ERISA, employee benefits, qualified retirement plans, tax expenditures, executive compensation, top hat plans, nondiscrimination

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Judging Statutes: Thoughts on Statutory Interpretation and Notes for a Project on the Internal Revenue Code

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 26 Jan 2004
Lee Epstein, Nancy C. Staudt and Peter J. Wiedenbeck
University of Southern California, Washington University Law School and Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
Downloads 251 (262,439)
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Tax, Law, Courts Politics, Empirical

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Judging Statutes: Interpretive Regimes

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, Symposium on Statutory Interpretation, Vol. 38, p. 1909, 2005, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 07-22
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 12 Apr 2007
Nancy C. Staudt, Lee Epstein, Peter J. Wiedenbeck, René Lindstädt and Ryan J. Vander Wielen
Washington University Law School, University of Southern California, Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law, University of Birmingham and Temple University - Department of Political Science
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courts, statutory interpretation, tax, empirical

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Unbelievable: ERISA’s Broken Promise (ver. 3.3)

Number of pages: 98 Posted: 06 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2021
Peter J. Wiedenbeck
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
Downloads 212 (309,311)

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ERISA, Employee Retirement Income Security Act, Employee Benefit Plan, Disclosure, Summary Plan Description, ERISA Remedies, ERISA Civil Enforcement, Estoppel, Contract Reformation

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Unbelievable: ERISA's Broken Promise [ver. 4.1; January 2022]

Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21-08-01
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 11 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 20 May 2024
Peter J. Wiedenbeck
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
Downloads 173 (372,668)

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ERISA, Employee Benefits, Disclosure, Equitable remedies, Estoppel, Welfare plans, Pension plans

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Trust Variation and ERISA's 'Presumption of Prudence'

Tax Notes, Vol. 142, No. 11, 2014, Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-04-01
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 03 Apr 2014
Peter J. Wiedenbeck
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
Downloads 159 (401,124)

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Employee Stock Ownership Plans, qualified retirement plans, 401(k) plans, trust variation, pension plan investments, diversification, ERISA, Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, ERISA fiduciary duties

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Invisible Pension Investments

Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-06-01
Number of pages: 99 Posted: 07 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 13 Jun 2012
Peter J. Wiedenbeck, Rachael Hinkle and Andrew D. Martin
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law, State University of New York (SUNY) - University at Buffalo and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - College of Literature, Science & the Arts
Downloads 152 (416,562)

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pension plans, indirect investment vehicles, asset allocation, financial disclosure, ERISA

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Untrustworthy: ERISA's Eroded Fiduciary Law

Forthcoming: 59 William & Mary Law Review ____ (2018), Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-11-01
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 08 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2017
Peter J. Wiedenbeck
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
Downloads 149 (423,340)

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ERISA, Employee Retirement Income Security Act, Fiduciary Duties, Employee Benefit Plan, Trust Law, Pension Plan, Welfare Plan, Exclusive Benefit Rule, Duty of Loyalty, Duty of Care, Exculpatory Provisions, Conflicts of Interest, Fiduciary Definition

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'Ninety-Five Percent of Them Will Not Be Missed': Recovering the Tax Shelter Limitation Aspect of ERISA

Drexel Law Review, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2014 , Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-03-05
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 23 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 02 May 2014
Peter J. Wiedenbeck
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
Downloads 102 (567,617)

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ERISA,employee benefit law, pension plans, qualified retirement plans, tax shelters

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Inconceivable? – Understandable ERISA Disclosures
Forthcoming in the Elder Law Journal, vol. 33, no. 1 (2025)

Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 09 Oct 2024 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2025
Peter J. Wiedenbeck
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
Downloads 91 (611,516)

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ERISA, Employee benefits, Disclosure, Understandable disclosures, Summary plan description, Pension plans, Welfare plans, Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974

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Refining Mandatory Disclosure: Statement Presented to the ERISA Advisory Council, June 6, 2017

Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17-06-01
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 07 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2017
Peter J. Wiedenbeck
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
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ERISA; disclosure; summary plan description; employee benefit plans

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The Ideological Component of Judging in the Taxation Context

Washington University Law Review, Forthcoming, Washington U. School of Law Working Paper No. 07-04-02, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 07-14, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 07-01
Posted: 08 Apr 2007
Nancy C. Staudt, Lee Epstein and Peter J. Wiedenbeck
Washington University Law School, University of Southern California and Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law

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courts, tax, empirical