“The Mob Lawyer’s Constitution,” Journal of American Constitutional History 1, no. 4 (2023)

“‘Make All the Laws You Want’: The Catholic Left against Legal Liberalism, circa 1968,” Journal of Law and Religion 38, no. 2 (2023)

“The Federal Courts and Criminal Justice,” in Approaches to Federal Judicial History, ed. Gautham Rao, Winston Bowman, & Clara Altman (Federal Judicial Center, 2020)

Free Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth-Century America, University of North Carolina Press (2020)

"The Idea of ‘the Criminal Justice System,’" 45 American Journal of Criminal Law 55 (2018)

"‘An Honest But Fearless Fighter’: The Adversarial Ideal of Public Defenders in 1930s and ’40s Los Angeles," 36 Law and History Review 619 (2018)

"Youth and Punishment at the Roberts Court," 21 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 543 (2018)

"Federalism Anew," 56 American Journal of Legal History 128 (2016) (with Karen Tani)

"What Gideon Did," 116 Columbia Law Review 15 (2016)

"Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Before Powell v. Alabama: Lessons from History for the Future of the Right to Counsel," 99 Iowa Law Review 2161 (symposium contribution, 2014). Cited by the Iowa Supreme Court in State v. Young (April 3, 2015)

"The Origins of Back-end Sentencing in California," 22 Stanford Law & Policy Review 529 (2011)

"The Case of the Black-Gloved Rapist: Defining the Public Defender in the California Courts, 1913-1948," 5 California Legal History 217 (2010)