Daniel Epps

Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law

Treiman Professor of Law

Anheuser-Busch Hall 573

1 Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1120

St. Louis, MO 63130

United States

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1.

How to Save the Supreme Court

129 Yale Law Journal 148 (2019), Vanderbilt Law Research Paper 18-65, Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 27 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 31 Oct 2019
Daniel Epps and Ganesh Sitaraman
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and Vanderbilt Law School
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supreme court, supreme court reform, court packing

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The Endgame of Court-Packing

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 28 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 08 May 2023
Adam Chilton, Daniel Epps, Kyle Rozema and Maya Sen
University of Chicago - Law School, Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Supreme Court, Judicial Behavior, Judicial Politics, Court-Packing

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The Consequences of Error in Criminal Justice

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 128, No. 4, pp. 1065-1151, 2015, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 14-30
Number of pages: 87 Posted: 09 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2015
Daniel Epps
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
Downloads 1,429 (23,699)
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criminal law, criminal procedure, punishment theory, false convictions, false acquittals, Blackstone, error costs

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Designing Supreme Court Term Limits

95 Southern California Law Review 1 (2021), Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper, Forthcoming, HKS Working Paper, Forthcoming, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 763
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 23 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 09 May 2022
Adam Chilton, Daniel Epps, Kyle Rozema and Maya Sen
University of Chicago - Law School, Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
Downloads 1,393 (24,640)
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supreme court, empirical, term limits, simulations

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The Fourth Amendment and General Law

132 Yale Law Journal 910 (2023), Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 21 Mar 2022 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2023
Danielle D'Onfro and Daniel Epps
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
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criminal procedure, fourth amendment, private law, property, positive law, general law

6.

The Defender General

168 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1469 (2020)
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 16 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 19 Feb 2021
Daniel Epps and William Ortman
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and Wayne State University School of Law
Downloads 823 (52,141)

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Supreme Court, criminal law, criminal procedure, criminal justice, public defense, appellate litigation, legal ethics

7.

The Informed Jury

75 Vanderbilt Law Review 823 (2022)
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 28 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 11 May 2022
Daniel Epps and William Ortman
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and Wayne State University School of Law
Downloads 821 (52,298)
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criminal law, criminal procedure, juries, jury trial

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Harmless Errors and Substantial Rights

131 Harvard Law Review 2117 (2018), Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 16 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2018
Daniel Epps
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
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harmless error, harmless constitutional error, criminal procedure

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The Lottery Docket

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 116, pp. 705–757, 2018, Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17-03-05
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 07 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 09 May 2018
Daniel Epps and William Ortman
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and Wayne State University School of Law
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Supreme Court, Certiorari, Lottery, Case Selection, Random

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The False Promise of Jurisdiction Stripping

123 Columbia Law Review 2077 (2023)
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 13 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2023
Daniel Epps and Alan M. Trammell
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and Washington and Lee University
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jurisdiction stripping, federal courts, Supreme Court, Court reform

11.

Adversarial Asymmetry in the Criminal Process

New York University Law Review, Vol. 91, No. 4, p. 762, 2016, Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2877348
Number of pages: 93 Posted: 01 Dec 2016
Daniel Epps
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
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Prosecutors, Adversarialism, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Adversary System, Asymmetry

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Mechanisms of Secrecy

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 121, No. 6, p. 1556, 2008
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 13 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 23 Aug 2008
Daniel Epps
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
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secrecy, transparency, FISA, delayed disclosure, proxy monitoring, bottom-line transparency

13.

Checks and Balances in the Criminal Law

74 Vanderbilt Law Review 1 (2021)
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 09 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2021
Daniel Epps
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
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Supreme Court Reform and American Democracy

130 Yale L.J. F. 821 (2021)
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 09 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2023
Daniel Epps and Ganesh Sitaraman
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and Vanderbilt Law School
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Supreme Court, court reform, judicial review, judicial restraint

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The Future of Supreme Court Reform

134 Harv. L. Rev. F. 398 (2021), Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 19 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2022
Daniel Epps and Ganesh Sitaraman
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and Vanderbilt Law School
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Supreme Court, Court reform, Congress, Executive branch

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One Last Word on the Blackstone Principle

102 Virginia Law Review Online 34 (2016), Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 16-33
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 04 May 2016 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2016
Daniel Epps
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
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criminal law, criminal procedure, Blackstone, false convictions, false acquittals, equality, political structure

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Written Testimony of Daniel Epps on “Court Expansion and Other Changes to the Court’s Composition” for The Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 19 Jul 2021
Daniel Epps
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
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Nonpartisan Supreme Court Reform and the Biden Commission

106 Minnesota Law Review 2609 (2022)
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 12 Sep 2022
Daniel Epps
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
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supreme court reform, supreme court, Biden Commission

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The Right Approach to Harmless Error

120 Columbia Law Review Forum 1 (2020)
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 11 Mar 2020
Daniel Epps
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
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Bailey v. United States: Another Win for That 'Doggone Fourth Amendment'

2012-2013 Cato Supreme Court Review, pp. 187-214 (2013), Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 13-40
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 17 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2013
Daniel Epps
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
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Fourth Amendment, Bailey v. United States, Michigan v. Summers, criminal procedure, Supreme Court

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Foreword: Criminal Procedure in Winter

51 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 379 (2018)
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 19 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 12 May 2019
Daniel Epps
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
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Criminal Procedure, Politics, 2016 Election, Trump, Gorsuch

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Teacher for the Nation

70 Hastings Law Journal 101 (2019)
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 07 Jun 2019
Daniel Epps
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
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Justice Kennedy, constitutional law, judicial review

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Perfecting Issue Preservation

98 Texas Law Review Online 162, 2020
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 24 Apr 2020
Daniel Epps
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
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Brief for Professor Daniel Epps as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner, Pon. v. United States

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 22 Jul 2021
Daniel Epps
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
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