Programs
Publications
The Mob Lawyer’s Constitution
“The Mob Lawyer’s Constitution,” Journal of American Constitutional History 1, no. 4 (2023)
FULL TEXT: | PDFMake All the Laws You Want’: The Catholic Left against Legal Liberalism, circa 1968
“‘Make All the Laws You Want’: The Catholic Left against Legal Liberalism, circa 1968,” Journal of Law and Religion 38, no. 2 (2023)
FULL TEXT: | PDFThe Federal Courts and Criminal Justice
“The Federal Courts and Criminal Justice,” in Approaches to Federal Judicial History, ed. Gautham Rao, Winston Bowman, & Clara Altman (Federal Judicial Center, 2020)
FULL TEXT: SSRNFree Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth-Century America
Free Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth-Century America, University of North Carolina Press (2020)
FULL TEXT: | WWWThe Idea of ‘the Criminal Justice System,’
"The Idea of ‘the Criminal Justice System,’" 45 American Journal of Criminal Law 55 (2018)
FULL TEXT: SSRNAn Honest But Fearless Fighter
"‘An Honest But Fearless Fighter’: The Adversarial Ideal of Public Defenders in 1930s and ’40s Los Angeles," 36 Law and History Review 619 (2018)
FULL TEXT: | WWWYouth and Punishment at the Roberts Court
"Youth and Punishment at the Roberts Court," 21 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 543 (2018)
FULL TEXT: | BEPRESSFederalism Anew
"Federalism Anew," 56 American Journal of Legal History 128 (2016) (with Karen Tani)
FULL TEXT: | WWWWhat Gideon Did
Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Before
"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)
FULL TEXT: SSRNThe Origins of Back-end Sentencing in California
"The Origins of Back-end Sentencing in California," 22 Stanford Law & Policy Review 529 (2011)
FULL TEXT: | WWWThe Case of the Black-Gloved Rapist: Defining the Public Defender in the California Courts, 1913-1948
"The Case of the Black-Gloved Rapist: Defining the Public Defender in the California Courts, 1913-1948," 5 California Legal History 217 (2010)
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