Works in Progress

I have too many projects underway. A few relate to bail and pretrial detention. Another is addressed to the Trusty system of prison labor. There’s one exploring power dynamics and judicial ethics in state criminal courts. And several tackle various components of a long-term theoretical agenda on law & consciousness, with an emphasis on moral agency.

Should you be interested in reading and providing input on any current draft, please don’t hesitate to email me! I am always grateful for readers and frank input.

Multimedia Projects

• Bail at the Founding (website, article, archival sources, short bail history stories).

Academic Articles (available on SSRN and/or linked below)

Pretrial Detention and Release (i.e. Bail & Bail Reform)

• Bail at the Founding, 137 Harv. L. Rev. 1816 (2024) (with Kellen Funk).

• Systemic Failure to Appear in Court, 172 Penn. L. Rev. 1 (2023) (with Aurelie Ouss, Megan Stevenson, and Lindsay Graef).

• Pretrial Detention and the Value of Liberty, 108 Va. L. Rev. 709 (2022) (with Megan Stevenson). 

• Detention by Any Other Name, 60 Duke L. Rev. 1643 (2020).

• Boots and Bail on the Ground: Assessing the Implementation of Misdemeanor Bail Reforms in Georgia, 54 Ga. L. Rev. 1235 (2020) (with Lauren Sudeall, Andrea Woods, Anthony Potts and Guthrie Armstrong).

• Dangerous Defendants, 127 Yale L. J. 490 (2018).

• The Downstream Consequences of Misdemeanor Pretrial Detention, 69 Stan. L. Rev. 711 (2017) (with Paul Heaton and Megan Stevenson). 

• Pretrial Detention and Bail, Academy for Justice: A Report on Scholarship and Criminal Justice Reform (Erik Luna ed., 2017) (with Megan Stevenson).

Risk Assessment / Algorithmic Justice

• Bias In, Bias Out, 128 Yale L. J. 2218 (2019).

Legal Theory

• A Consequentialist Framework for Prevention, 41 L. & Phil. 219 (2022).

• But What Is Personalized Law?, U. Chi. L. Rev. Online (2022).

• The Concept of Criminal Law, 14 Crim. L. & Phil. 447 (2020).

Misdemeanor Justice

• Misdemeanors by the Numbers, 61 B.C. L. Rev. 971 (2020) (with Megan Stevenson).

• The Scale of Misdemeanor Justice, 98 B.U. L. Rev. 101 (2018) (with Megan Stevenson).

Collateral Consequence of Conviction

• Collateral Consequences and the Preventive State, 91 Notre Dame L. Rev 301 (2015).

Other

• Carbon Footprint Labeling in Climate Finance, in Climate Finance: Regulatory and Funding Strategies for Climate Change and Global Development (R. Stewart, B. Kingsbury & B. Rudyk, eds. 2009).

Short Works and Popular Media:

• Officers’ Failure to Appear in Court Undermines Justice, Law360.com (May 17, 2024) (op-ed with Lindsay Graef, Aurelie Ouss, and Megan Stevenson).

• Too Many Philly Police Are No-Shows in Court, Derailing Cases and Undermining Our Justice System, Phila. Inquirer (Dec. 1, 2023) (op-ed with Lindsay Graef, Aurelie Ouss, and Megan Stevenson).

• Choosing Freedom, Inquest.org (Aug. 19, 2021) (with Jane Bambauer, Andrea Roth, & Megan Stevenson).

• Punishing Poverty: How Bail and Pretrial Detention Fuel Inequalities in the Criminal Justice System, Law & Soc. Rev. (July 30, 2021) (book review).

• Virtually No One is Dangerous Enough to Jail: A Commonsense Cost-Benefit Analysis of Pretrial Detention, The Appeal (March 15, 2021) (op-ed; with Megan Stevenson).

• After Money Bail: Lifting the Veil on Preventive Detention, L. & Pol. Econ. Blog (Feb. 15, 2020) (commentary).

• Taming the Presumption of Innocence, Crim. L. & Crim. J. Books (Sept. 2016) (book review).

• Bail System is Unjust and Undermines Public Safety, Houston Chronicle (Aug. 18, 2016) (op-ed; with Paul Heaton and Megan Stevenson).