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My latest, “The Myth of Equal Protection” (forthcoming in UC Irvine L Rev) is now posted. Come for an overview of contradictions btw race, gender, and religious equality doctrine. Stay for the takeaways for our constitutional politics! Comments welcome: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

'Discrimination, Private Liberty, and Public Accommodations Law' papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… is published with the TAMU Law Review Texas A&M School of Law!

"Political Divisions in Large Cities: The Socio-Spatial Basis of Legislative Behavior in Chicago and Toronto" by Zack Taylor and David A. Armstrong II. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

I’ll be on Meet the Press today at 4 pm EST to discuss the Trump administration’s invocation of the Alien Enemy Act to speed up some deportations. MSNBC Princeton P*LAW Boston University School of Law

Always nice to get a physical copy. This is from my 2024 MLK Lecture at Villanova Law.

This seems very important, and also an example of the kind of work that the discipline should vigorously support—more replication, and reevaluation please!

Congratulations to Boris Shor (Boris Shor) and coauthor Nolan McCarty (Nolan McCarty), who won the Jewel Enduring contribution award given by the State Policy and Politics section of APSA for their paper "The Ideological Mapping of American Legislatures." doi.org/10.1017/S00030…

My latest: "Localizing Public Order," forthcoming in Vanderbilt Law Review. The takeaway: criminal regulation of public order has largely been delegated to cities, but public order should be treated as a statewide concern.

Are lobbyists influential? The public has long thought so, but applied political science since lobbying registration data emerged (late 90s) struggled to produce evidence that it does. In a new review Wiebke Marie Junk Heath Brown & I chart a wave of research showing how lobbying matters.

State Constitutions As A Bulwark Against Oligarchy - Constitutional Law conlaw.jotwell.com/state-constitu…

Very grateful to Rebecca Zietlow for her generous and generative review in Jotwell of my forthcoming article, "Contesting State Capture" (𝑪𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒐𝒛𝒐 𝑳𝒂𝒘 𝑹𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘)! conlaw.jotwell.com/state-constitu…

Early organizations of city government employees, especially firefighters, helped to influence the adoption of municipal civil service throughout the U.S. in the early 20th century. Happy to see this article with Jessica Trounstine in American Political Science Review!

Announcing the launch of Global Black Thought, a new journal from AAIHS & Penn Press! Learn more about the journal's background, its inaugural issue available now, and what the future holds in a Q&A with Founding Editor-in-Chief Dr. Keisha N. Blain on our blog: bit.ly/4jXcVPW

I’m so excited to announce that my book will be published next week! The book retells the life of Charles Sumner, an abolitionist senator who co-framed the Reconstruction Amendments. I wrote this book with my blood, sweat & tears as a student at Yale Law School. (1/x)

I *strongly* encourage anyone working in constitutional law or related areas to apply for the Constitutional Law Colloquium (being held this year at Loyola Law Chicago), organized by Barry Sullivan and FSU College of Law's Alex Tsesis. See the CFP below! luc.edu/law/events/con…

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Publication day! The Injustice of Property is available from UGA Press. The book details how property in liberalism constrains common attempts at ending homelessness, despite land use practices of un/precariously housed people rejecting the proprietarian logic of liberalism.

I’m honored to announce that I officially start my two year term as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development this month! I look forward to receiving submissions from lawyers, legal scholars, and others writing in this space! American Bar Association

Reparations article #2 just dropped!!

My new article with Jessica Trounstine shows hundreds of city governments had organized employees by the 1930s-1950s. Despite different legal contexts before 1960, the timing & location of early public-sector organization had more in common with private-sector organization than is often