Scholarship & Teaching
Teaching:
- Critical Race Theory Syllabus
June, 2021
Class Assignments:
- The Cat and Mouse of Getting Around the Law
- 1619 Project
- Al Jazeera, The Long Repressed History of Black Leftism
- Bell, Brown v Board of Education and the Interest-Convergence Dilemma
- Carbardo and Gulati, The Law and Economics of Critical Race Theory
- Coates, The Case for Reparations
- Crenshaw, Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics
- Crenshaw, Race, Reform, Retrenchment: Transformation and Legitimation in Antidiscrimination Law
- Derrida, Politics and Friendship, A Discussion with Jacques Derrida
- Epstein, Legal Education and the Politics of Exclusion
- Farber and Sherry, Distorting Public Discourse
- Ford, The Boundaries of Race: Political Geography in Legal Analysis
- Freeman, Legitimizing Racial Discrimination Through Antidiscrimination Law: A Critical Review of Supreme Court Doctrine
- Gotanda, A Critique of Our Constitution is Color Blind
- Harris, Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory
- Harris, Whiteness as Property
- Hutchinson, "Gay Rights" for "Gay Whites"?: Race, Sexual Identity, and Equal Protection Discourse
- Jones, The Social Construction of Race
- Kang, Trojan Horses of Race
- Kennedy, A Cultural Pluralist Case for Affirmative Action in Legal Academia
- Leslie Harris, "Critique of the 1619 Project"
- Lopez, Race Ethnicity Erasure - The Salience of Race to LatCrit Theory
- Matsuda, We Will Not Be Used
- Montoya, Mascaras y Trenzas
- Peller, Race Consciousness
- Peller, Reason and the Mob: The Politics of Representation
- Posner, The Skin Trade
- Prashad, Anti-D'Souza-The Ends of Racism and the Asian American
- Rankine, The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning
- Roberts, The Social and Moral Costs of Mass Incarceration in African American Communities
- Roithmayr, Reproducing Racism, Introduction
- Russell, Lesbian, Gay And Bisexual Rights and "The Civil Rights Agenda"
- Tushnet, An Essay on Rights
- Tushnet, The Degradation of Constitutional Discourse
- Taylor, From Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation
- United States Departmentof Justice, Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department
- Volpp, Civility and the Undocumented Alien
- Williams, The Alchemy of Race and Rights
Books & Book Chapters:
Articles:
- Evolutionary Dynamics Theory and Empirical Method
Methodologies of Law and Economics (Thomas Ulen ed. Elgar forthcoming 2017)
2017
- The Dynamics of Excessive Force
2016 U Chicago Legal Forum 407
2016
- Should Law Keep Pace with Society? Relative Update Rates Determine the Co-Evolution of
Institutional Punishment and Citizen Contributions to Public Goods
6 Games 124 (2015) (with Alex Isakov and David Rand)
June 2015
- Critical Race Theory Meets Social Science
Annual Review of Law and Social Science
August 2014
- The Flaw at the Heart of The Triple Package
Slate
February 2014
- The Numbers Don't Lie
Huffington Post
January 2014
- Critical Race Theory Meets Social Science
ANNUAL REV. L. SOCIAL SCI. (With Devon Carbado)
Forthcoming 2014
- Faking It
Reviewing Nancy Leon, Racial Capitalism, 126 Harv. L. Rev. 2151 (2013), JOTWELL
September 2013
- Poverty, Prisons and Power
Reviewing Ian Haney Lopez, Post-Racial Racialism, 98 CAL. L. REV. 1023 (2010), JOTWELL
October 2012
- Lessons From Mazibuko: Shifting From Rights to the Commons
2010(3) CONSTITUTIONAL COURT REVIEW 317 (Peer Reviewed South African Journal)
2010
- Racial Cartels
16 MICH. J. RACE AND LAW 45
2010
- Them That Has, Gets
27 MISS. C. L. REV. 373
2007-08
- A Dangerous Supplement
55 J. LEGAL ED. 80 (Review-Essay Reviewing Duncan Kennedy, Legal Education and the Reproduction of Racial Hierarchy)
2005
- Locked In Segregation
12 VA. J. SOCIAL POLICY AND LAW 197
2004
- Tacking Left: A Radical Critique of Grutter
21 CONST. COMMENT. 191
2004
- Locked In Inequality: The Persistence of Discrimination
9 MICH. J. RACE AND LAW 31
2003
- Access, Adequacy, and Equality: The Constitutionality of School Fee Financing in Public Education
19 SOUTH AFR. J. HUM. RTS. 382
2003
- Easy for You to Say: An Essay on Outsiders, the Usefulness of Reason, and Radical Pragmatism
57 UMIAMI L. REV. 939
2003
- A Bad Subject
9 CARDOZO WOMEN'S L. J. 501
2003
- Direct Measures: An Alternative Affirmative Action Program for Law Schools
7 MICH. J. RACE AND LAW 1 (Lead Article)
2001
- Left(Over) Rights
22 CARDOZO L. REV. 1113
2001
- Left Over Rights: Are Rights Still Useful After the Critique of Indeterminacy?
JOURNAL OF LAW, TEXT AND CULTURE (Austin Sarat and Penny Pether, eds.)
2001
- Barriers to Entry: A Market Lock-in Model of Discrimination
86 VIRGINIA L. REV. 727
2000
- Barriers to Entry: A Market Lock-in Model of Discrimination
86 VIRGINIA L. REV. 727
2000
- "Gay Rights" for "Gay Whites"?: Race, Sexual Identity, and Equal Protection Discourse
Cornell Law Review
1998
- Deconstructing the Distinction Between Bias and Merit
85 CAL. L. REV. 1449
1998
- Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Rights and "The Civil Rights Agenda"
Santa Clara Law Digital Commons
January1994