College of Law

Publications

Articles, Essays & Book Reviews

• The Thirteenth Amendment and the Regulation of Custom, 112 Colum. L. Rev. 1811 (2012)
• Book Review, Glenda Gilmore, Defying Dixie, 52 Am. J. L. Hist. 379 (2012)
• Racial Cartels and the Thirteenth Amendment Enforcement Power, 100 Ky. L. J. 23 (2012)
• Guns, Inc.: Citizens United, McDonald, and the Future of Corporate Constitutional Rights, 86 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 887 (2011)
• Retail Rebellion and the Second Amendment, 86 Ind. L. J. 939 (2011)
• Iqbal and Empathy, 78 UMKC L. Rev. 999 (2010)
• A Short Reply to Professor Volokh, 109 Colum. L. Rev. Sidebar 97 (2009)
• Guns as Smut: Defending the Home-Bound Second Amendment, 109 Colum. L. Rev. 1278 (2009)
• State DOMAs, Neutral Principles, and the Mobius of State Action, 81 Temple L. Rev. 967 (2008)
• White Cartels, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, and the History of Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co., 77 Fordham L. Rev. 999 (2008)
• The Stain of Slavery: Notes Toward an Attainder Theory of the Thirteenth Amendment, 38 U. Tol. L. Rev. 1011 (2007)

Presentations

• "The Second Amendment in Theory and Practice," Harold Schott Scholarship Award Lecture (Nov. 2012)
• "Historical Tests, (Mostly) Unbalanced Rights, and What the Seventh Amendment Can Teach Us About the Second," University of Chicago Law School Public Law and Legal Theory Workshop (Sept. 2012)
• "Historical Tests, (Mostly) Unbalanced Rights, and What the Seventh Amendment Can Teach Us About the Second," Seton Hall Law School Colloquium (March 2012)
• "The Thirteenth Amendment and the Regulation of Custom", Symposia on the Thirteenth Amendment: Meaning, Enforcement, and Contemporary Implications Columbia Law School (Jan. 2012)
• "What the Seventh Amendment Can Teach Us About the Second," Southwestern Law School (Los Angeles) (August 2011)
• "What the Seventh Amendment Can Teach Us About the Second," University of Cincinnati Summer Workshop (July 2011)
• "Racial Cartels and the Thirteenth Amendment Enforcement Power," Conference on Structural Racism: Inequality in America Today, University of Kentucky (Feb. 2011)
• "Guns, Inc.: Citizens United, McDonald, and the Future of Corporate Constitutional Rights," University of Pittsburgh Law School Faculty Colloquium (Sept. 2010)
• "Idolizing the Constitution," Speech Delivered at the Constitution Day Address, Anderson University (Sept. 2010)
• Panelist, Symposium, "Chamber to Chambers: The Second Amendment in the New Century," Northeastern University Law Journal (March 2010)
• "Retail Rebellion and the Second Amendment," presented at Washington & Lee Law School Faculty Colloquium (Feb. 2010 and at the St. Thomas University Law School (Minneapolis) Faculty Colloquium (Feb. 2010)
• "Iqbal and Empathy," University of Missouri--Kansas City Law School, presented at the Edward A. Smith/Bryan Cave Symposium "Enforcing Constitutional Rights in the Twenty-First Century" (Oct. 2009)
• "A Thirteenth Amendment Agenda for the Twenty-First: Of Promises, Power and Precaution," (originally titled "White Cartels and the Civil Rights Act of 1866"), presented at Slavery, Abolition, & Human Rights: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Thirteenth Amendment, University of Chicago School of Law (April 2009)
• Panelist, Presidential Inauguration Forum, University of Cincinnati (Jan. 2009)
• "Getting Ready for Law and Graduate School," Anderson University (Oct. 2008), conducted mock law school class at Anderson University for undergraduates interested in prusing graduate or legal education
• "White Cartels, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, and the History of Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co.," presented at the Chicago-Kent Law School, Faculty Workshop (Nov. 2008); presented at the Northeast People of Color Coneference, Boston University (Sept. 2008); University of Cincinnati Summer Workshop (July 2008)