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Lack of Punishment Doesn't Fit the Crime: America's Tepid Response to Bias-Motivated Crime, 85 STUDIES IN LAW, POLITICS & SOCIETY 27 (Jan. 2021).
The Violence of Nosy Questions, 100 BOSTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 935 (2020). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
The Hidden Fences Shaping Resegregation, 54 HARVARD CIVIL RIGHTS-CIVIL LIBERTIES LAW REVIEW 813 (2019). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
The Resistance and the Stubborn But Unsurprising Persistence of Hate and Extremism in the United States, 26 INDIANA JOURNAL OF GLOBAL LEGAL STUDIES 305 (2019). [HeinOnline]
Dead Canaries in the Coal Mines: The Symbolic Assailant Revisited, 34 GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 513 (2018). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Hate Thy Neighbor: Lessons for Neighborhood Integration for the Post-Obama Era and Beyond, 42 LAW & SOCIAL INQUIRY 577 (2017).
Cross-Sectional Challenges: Gender, Race, and Six-Person Juries (with Mona Lynch), 46 SETON HALL LAW REVIEW 419 (2016). [SSRN]
Can't We Be Your Neighbor? Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, and the Resistance to Blacks as Neighbors, 95 BOSTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 851 (2015). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Police Violence and Ferguson: (En)Racing Criminal Procedure, 65 JOURNAL OF LEGAL EDUCATION 306, 2015. [HeinOnline]
There Are No Racists Here: The Rise of Racial Extremism, When No One Is Racist, 20 MICHIGAN JOURNAL OF RACE AND LAW 349 (2015). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Calavita's Law & Society: (En)racing Law and Society, 39 LAW & SOCIAL INQUIRY 209 (2014).
The Personal, the Political, and Race, 44 LAW & SOCIETY REVIEW 487 (2010). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
The Hangman’s Noose and the Lynch Mob: Hate Speech and the Jena 6, 44 HARVARD CIVIL RIGHTS-CIVIL LIBERTIES LAW REVIEW 329 (2009). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]
Restraining the Heartless: Racist Speech and Minority Rights, 84 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL 963 (2009). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]
"Behind this Mortal Bone": the (In)Effectiveness of Torture, 83 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL 339 (2008). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]
Demise of the Talented Tenth: Affirmative Action and the Increasing Underrepresentation of Ascendant Blacks at Selective Higher Educational Institutions(with Kevin D. Brown) 69 OHIO STATE LAW JOURNAL 1229 (2008). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]
The Fair Housing Act and Extralegal Terror, 41 INDIANA LAW REVIEW 537 (2008). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]
Hate Thy Neighbor: Violent Racial Exclusion and the Persistence of Segregation, 5 OHIO STATE JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW 47 (2007). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]
O Say, Can You See: Free Expression by the Light of Fiery Crosses, 39 HARVARD CIVIL RIGHTS-CIVIL LIBERTIES LAW REVIEW 335 (2004). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]
Asian Pacific Americans and Hate Crime, RICE PAPER 5 (Fall 2003).
Deciding When Hate Is a Crime: the First Amendment, Police Detectives, and the Classification of Hate Crime, 4 RUTGERS RACE & THE LAW REVIEW 33 (2002). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
The Family and Medical Leave Act, 15 PUBLIC PERSONNEL LAW 1 (1997).
Policing Hatred: Bias Units and the Construction of Hate Crime, 2 MICHIGAN JOURNAL OF RACE AND LAW 421 (1997). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Richard S. Melvin Professor of Law