Selected Publications

2025. Courts Unmasked: Civil Legal System Reform and COVID-19. University Press of Kansas (here)

2024. “Pandemic Policymaking in State Supreme Courts: Implications for the Administration of Justice,” American Bar Association Judges’ Journal, 63(2): 22-27.

2023. “Perceptions of administrative policymaking authority: evidence from interviews in three state court systems,” Oñati Socio-Legal Series: Empirical Research with Judicial Officers and Courts: Methods and Practices, 13(S1), S171-S198. (here)

2022. “COVID-19 Housing Policy: State and Federal Eviction Moratoria and Supportive Measures in the United States During the Pandemic” with Emily Benfer, Peter Hepburn, Valerie Nazzaro, Anne Kat Alexander, Danya Keene, and Matthew Desmond. Housing Policy Debate. (Here, see also a write up @ The Eviction Lab at Princeton University)

2022. “Judges in Lawyerless Courts” with Colleen Shanahan, Anna Carpenter, and Jessica Steinberg. Georgetown Law Journal 110(3): 509-567. (Here, and here’s a link to an episode of the Legal Service Corporation’s Talk Justice podcast, where we talk about the article and our work. If you’re interested in learning more about it and you want to see me and my coauthor Anna wear a series of increasingly interesting hats, check out this Tiny Chat by the National Center for State Courts).

2021. “Judges and the Deregulation of the Lawyer’s Monopoly” with Jessica Steinberg, Anna Carpenter, and Colleen Shanahan, Fordham Law Review.
- Online appendix Here
- Featured on Jotwell

2020. “COVID, Crisis, and Courts.” with Colleen Shanahan, Anna Carpenter, and Jessica Steinberg. Texas Law Review Online. (SSRN)

2019. "The Conditional Effectiveness of Legislative Threats: How Court-curbing Alters the Behavior of (Some) Supreme Court Justices." with Michael Zilis. Political Research Quarterly (PDF)
- Discussed in Pacific Standard Here. We also wrote up a short piece in the London School of Economics USAPP Blog Here
- Online appendix here
- Please email for replication materials.

2018. "Blurring Institutional Boundaries: Judges' Perceptions of Threats to Judicial Independence." with Michael Zilis. Journal of Law and Courts 6(2): 333-353 (PDF)

2018.  “Restraining the Court: Assessing Accounts of Congressional Attempts to Limit Supreme Court Authority.” with Michael Zilis.  Legislative Studies Quarterly. 43(1): 141-169 (PDF)

2018. “Trial and Error: Lawyers and Nonlawyer Advocates.” with Colleen Shanahan and Anna Carpenter.  Law and Social Inquiry 42(4):1023-1057. (PDF)

2016. "Lawyers, Power, and Strategic Expertise" with Anna Carpenter and Colleen Shanahan. Denver Law Review. 93(2): 469-521. (PDF)
- Featured on Jotwell

2015. “Legal Elites and Public Perceptions of the Supreme Court: Is the Supreme Court a ‘Political’ Institution?” with Brandon Bartels and Chris Johnston. Law and Society Review 49(3): 761-794. (PDF)

2014.  "Stepping on Congress: Courts, Congress, and Inter-institutional Politics" with Forrest Maltzman, Charles Shipan, and Michael Zilis. Journal of Law and Courts 2(2): 219-240. (PDF)

Selected Working Projects
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“Beyond the merits: examining judicial impact statements as an alternative signaling method in the separation of powers game,” with Michael Zilis and Nicole Motherway (Wesleyan)

“Close quarters and consensus: exploring cohabitation’s influence on contemporary judicial decision-making,” with Valerie Nazzaro (Wesleyan)

Law reform in the public’s mind – a multi-publication project leveraging machine learning techniques to       investigate legal consciousness, legal knowledge, and the public’s ideas for legal change in the United Kingdom with Catrina Denvir and Guy Aglionby (Cambridge University)

“One call away, or two? Exploring civilian and military demands on a legal aid hotline” with Zach Zarnow (National Center for State Courts) and Valerie Nazzaro (under review)

 “Publishing public law: Successful law and courts tenure files at PhD-granting institutions,” with Abby Matthews (U Buffalo) and Monica Lineberger (UW-Whitewater)