PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP AND COMMENTARY
Jackson, Mississippi, and the Contested Boundaries of Self-Governance, LPE Blog (June 2023), https://bit.ly/44GiHxm
Averting Local Fiscal Crises—and Resolving the “Trilemma”—by Centralizing Infrastructure Funding, State & Local Government Law Blog (June 2023), https://bit.ly/4361Uma
The Role of Courts in the American Political Economy, LPE Blog (February 2022), with Kathleen Thelen, https://bit.ly/3HzDKGJ
The Bondholders’ Veto: Fiscal Federalism and Local Democracy, LPE Blog (September 2021), https://bit.ly/3z02sep
Republicans Want You (Not the Rich) to Pay for Infrastructure, New York Times (June 2021), https://nyti.ms/3qldCaQ
The Structural Violence of Municipal Hoarding, American Prospect (July 2020), https://bit.ly/38E9Dxh
On Reimagining State and Local Budgets in an Abolitionist Moment, LPE Blog (June 2020), https://bit.ly/3fo54cH
Defund Our Punishment Bureaucracy, American Prospect (June 2020), https://bit.ly/2AsZTcd
A Simple Plan to Make Moving Less Awful, Washington Monthly (Spring 2019), http://bit.ly/2p4w1O7
Don’t Be So Sure Obamacare Will Survive the Latest Lawsuit, Washington Monthly (Dec. 2018), http://bit.ly/32AOfUR
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Regulating Location Incentives, 74 Duke Law Journal __ (forthcoming), https://bit.ly/49GeA7t
Partisan Constitutionalism: Reconsidering the Role of Political Parties in Popular Constitutional Change, 4 Wisconsin Law Review 101 (2019), http://bit.ly/2JD7B5o
The Implications of Inequality for Fiscal Federalism (or Why the Federal Government Should Pay for Local Public Schools), 67 Buffalo Law Review 2 (2019), http://bit.ly/2BYJwlk
Crimsumerism: Combating Consumer Abuses In The Criminal Legal System, 55 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review (CR-CL) 3 (2019), with Alex Kornya, Danica Rodarmel, Mel Gonzalez & Ted Mermin, http://bit.ly/2N29vhX
Progressive Politics and the Courts: Lessons from the United States, Judicial Power and the Left: Notes on a Skeptical Tradition (2017), with Chye-Ching Huang, http://bit.ly/2MYLisW
Welfare Reform at Twenty: The Consequences of Making Work Status a Proxy for Deservingness, 34 Yale Law & Policy Review, 545 (2016), http://bit.ly/2Nol1TP
Does Religion Still Matter? Public Attitudes Toward Integration in Europe, Politics and Religion (2010), with Brent F. Nelsen & James L. Guth, http://bit.ly/2qY7CdE
SELECTED POLICY REPORTS
Commercialized (In)Justice Litigation Guide: Applying Consumer Laws to Commercial Bail, Prison Retail, and Private Debt Collection, National Consumer Law Center (June 2020), with Ariel Nelson, Alex Kornya, and Stephen Raher, https://bit.ly/31121Dk
Commercialized (In)Justice: Consumer Abuses In The Bail And Corrections Industry, National Consumer Law Center (March 2019), https://bit.ly/3L0wHvi
The Rent-To-Own Racket: Using Criminal Courts to Coerce Payments from Vulnerable Families, National Consumer Law Center (February 2019), with Margot Saunders, http://bit.ly/2rvIU4J
Misconceptions and Realities About Who Pays Taxes, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities [CBPP] (September 2012), with Chuck Marr, http://bit.ly/2rvIYS1
Six Tests for Corporate Tax Reform, CBPP (February 2012), with Chuck Marr, http://bit.ly/2NvsLEQ
Repeal of Contractor Withholding Provision Would Encourage Tax Abuse, CBPP (October 2011), with Chuck Marr & Chye-Ching Huang, http://bit.ly/33Bc7ck
Letting Payroll Tax Cut Expire Would Shrink Worker Paychecks and Damage Weak Economy, CBPP (September 2011), with Chuck Marr, http://bit.ly/2CqYznW
Tax Holiday for Overseas Corporate Profits Would Increase Deficits, Fail to Boost the Economy, and Ultimately Shift More Investment and Jobs Overseas, CBPP (June 2011), with Chuck Marr, http://bit.ly/32zNs6G
Reforming Tax Expenditures Can Reduce Deficits While Making the Tax Code More Efficient and Equitable, CBPP (April 2011), with Chuck Marr, http://bit.ly/36TIIMT