Books
Hidden Laws: How State Constitutions Stabilize American Politics. Yale University Press, 2021
Articles
“The Lost Clause: Reinterpreting the Declaration’s Silence on the Atlantic Slave Trade.” Polity, 55.1 (2023), forthcoming
“Judicial Power and the Shifting Purpose of Article V,” Studies in American Political Development, (2022) with David Bateman and Stephan Stohler
“Federal Experimentation through State Constitutional Initiatives,” Nebraska Law Review, 101.1 (2022): 101-122
“Rethinking Self-Reliance: Emerson on Mobbing, War, and Abolition.” The Journal of Politics 83.1 (2021): 137-149, winner 2018 McWilliams Award for Best Faculty Paper in Political Theory, NPSA
“Counter-Majoritarian Constitutional Hardball.” Maryland Law Review, 81.1 (2021): 380-393
Review Essays
Commentary
“Statehood, Partisanship, and the Constitution.” The Constitutionalist, May 14, 2021
“Congress Must Fix a Fatal Flaw in the D.C. Statehood Bill.” Washington Post, April 13, 2021
“Is the Two-Century Battle for D.C. Statehood Finally Near an End?” Washington Post, March 23, 2021
“The Best Way to Secure the Capitol is to Make D.C. a State.” Washington Post, January 13, 2021
“The Person Who Changes the Constitution.” The Atlantic, January 17, 2020