Selected Publications

2022. “COVID-19 Housing Policy: State and Federal Eviction Moratoria and Supportive Measures in the United States During the Pandemic” with Emily Benfer, Peter Hepburn, Valerie Nazzaro, Anne Kat Alexander, Danya Keene, and Matthew Desmond. Housing Policy Debate. (Here, see also a write up @ The Eviction Lab at Princeton University)

2022. “Judges in Lawyerless Courts” with Colleen Shanahan, Anna Carpenter, and Jessica Steinberg. Georgetown Law Journal 110(3): 509-567. (Here, and here’s a link to an episode of the Legal Service Corporation’s Talk Justice podcast, where we talk about the article and our work. If you’re interested in learning more about it and you want to see me and my coauthor Anna wear a series of increasingly interesting hats, check out this Tiny Chat by the National Center for State Courts).

2021. “Judges and the Deregulation of the Lawyer’s Monopoly” with Jessica Steinberg, Anna Carpenter, and Colleen Shanahan, Fordham Law Review.
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2020. “COVID, Crisis, and Courts.” with Colleen Shanahan, Anna Carpenter, and Jessica Steinberg. Texas Law Review Online. (SSRN)

2019. "The Conditional Effectiveness of Legislative Threats: How Court-curbing Alters the Behavior of (Some) Supreme Court Justices." with Michael Zilis. Political Research Quarterly (PDF)
- Discussed in Pacific Standard Here. We also wrote up a short piece in the London School of Economics USAPP Blog Here
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2018. "Blurring Institutional Boundaries: Judges' Perceptions of Threats to Judicial Independence." with Michael Zilis. Journal of Law and Courts 6(2): 333-353 (PDF)

2018.  “Restraining the Court: Assessing Accounts of Congressional Attempts to Limit Supreme Court Authority.” with Michael Zilis.  Legislative Studies Quarterly. 43(1): 141-169 (PDF)

2018. “Trial and Error: Lawyers and Nonlawyer Advocates.” with Colleen Shanahan and Anna Carpenter.  Law and Social Inquiry 42(4):1023-1057. (PDF)

2016. "Lawyers, Power, and Strategic Expertise" with Anna Carpenter and Colleen Shanahan. Denver Law Review. 93(2): 469-521. (PDF)
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2015. “Legal Elites and Public Perceptions of the Supreme Court: Is the Supreme Court a ‘Political’ Institution?” with Brandon Bartels and Chris Johnston. Law and Society Review 49(3): 761-794. (PDF)

2014.  "Stepping on Congress: Courts, Congress, and Inter-institutional Politics" with Forrest Maltzman, Charles Shipan, and Michael Zilis. Journal of Law and Courts 2(2): 219-240. (PDF)

Selected Working Projects
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Disrupting the Courts: The Civil Legal System and the COVID-19 Pandemic; a book project under contract with the University Press of Kansas

America’s Lawyerless Courts, a book project with Anna Carpenter, Colleen Shanahan, and Jessica Steinberg

“Civil legal problems and the military: a demand side account,” with Zach Zarnow (National Center for State Courts), Valerie Nazzaro (Wesleyan), and Catrina Denvir (Monash University)

“Studying lawyer resistance to legal regulatory reform,” with Anna Carpenter
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Exploring public attitudes toward law reform and legal change using natural language processing techniques, a multi-publication project with Catrina Denvir and Guy Aglionby

“Public Campaign Financing’s Effects on Judicial Legitimacy: Evidence from a Survey Experiment,” with Tiger Bjornlund (Wesleyan student)

“Full Court Press: The Causes and Consequences of Executive Court Curbing” with Michael Zilis

11th Annual Bellow Scholar Workshop @ Southern Clinical Conference; University of South Carolina School of Law

11th Annual Bellow Scholar Workshop @ Southern Clinical Conference; University of South Carolina School of Law