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Articles & Book Chapters

Reclaiming A Liberal Presidency, 68 Ariz. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026) | SSRN

• Selected for the 2025 Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum and the 2025 Marquette Junior Scholars Works-in-Progress Conference

Partisan Teamsmanship and American Constitutionalism, 51 Law & Soc. Inquiry (forthcoming 2026) | SSRN

• Reviewed in Dorf on Law | Link

Unraveling The Ties That Bind: How Dobbs and Loper Bright Might Reconfigure American Party Politics, 57 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. (forthcoming 2026) (invited contribution) | SSRN

A Progressive Supreme Court? The Supreme Court and Electoral Politics from Reconstruction to the Present (with Joshua Braver), 66 Ariz. L. Rev. 841 (2025) | SSRN

Norm-Breakers, Rights-Makers: Legislative Norms, Democratization, and the Fight For Civil Rights, 26 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol'y 65 (2024) |  SSRN

​Intraparty Conflict and the Separation of Powers, 25 U. Pa. J. Con. L. 1307 (2023) | SSRN

Macro-Level Pluralism: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in the Study of Political History (with Ruth Bloch Rubin and Calvin TerBeek), in Oxford Handbook of Methodological Pluralism in Political Science (Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Dino Christenson & Valeria Sinclair-Chapman, eds. 2023)

The Politics of Deference (with Jonathan Gould), 75 Vand. L. Rev. 475 (2022) | SSRN

• Reviewed in Jotwell ​| Link

When a Statute Comes With a User Manual: Reconciling Textualism and Uniform Acts (with Robert H. Sitkoff), 71 Emory L.J. 1073 (2022) | SSRN

Anatomy of Judicial Backlash: Southern Leaders, Massive Resistance, and the Supreme Court, 1954-1958 (with Ruth Bloch Rubin), 43 Law & Soc. Inquiry 944 (2018) | Link

Investigating the Relationship Between Courts and Parties: The Slaughterhouse Cases, 31 Stud. Am. Pol. Dev. 24 (2017) | Link

Constitutional Litigation in the United States (with Robert A. Kagan), in Constitutional Courts in Comparison: The U.S. Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court (Ralf Rogowski and Thomas Gawron, eds., 2016)

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Works in Progress

Legislating Rights: Congress and the Making of American Indian Law, 1924-1978 (with Ruth Bloch Rubin) (book prospectus available)

The End of First Amendment Lochnerism (with Peter Ormerod) (draft available)

Collective Action, Political Time, and the Separation of Powers (with Ruth Bloch Rubin)


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