Academic Writing
Recent academic publications:
Vigilante Federalism , 108 Cornell L. Rev. 1187-1264 (2023) (with David Noll)
Designing a Latter-Day Freedmen’s Bureau , 71 UCLA L. Rev. 70-89 (2023).
Just-Right Government , 98 Indiana L.J. 863-919 (2023) (with Emme Tyler).
Blue State Exodus? , 2023 Pepperdine L. Rev. 58-73 (2023) (with David Noll).
Abandoning Presidential Administration , 68 UCLA L. Rev. 104-34 (2021) (with Blake Emerson).
What about Private Options? , in Politics, Policy, and Public Options 58-79 (Ganesh Sitaraman & Anne Alstott, eds., 2021) (Cambridge University Press).
The Constitutional Contours of Privatization, in The Cambridge Handbook of Privatization 144-158 (Avihay Dorfman & Alon Harel, eds.) (Cambridge University Press 2021).
We the Shareholders: Government Market Participation in the Postliberal U.S. Political Economy , 120 Colum. L. Rev. 465-547 (2020).
Baller Judges , 2020 Wisc. L. Rev. 411-438.
Sovereigns, Shopkeepers, and the Separation of Powers , 166 U. Pa. L. Rev. 861-900 (2018).
Trump and the “Deep State,” Foreign Affairs (Sept./Oct. 2017).
Government Market Participation as Conflicted Government , in Administrative Law from the Inside Out: Essays on Themes in the Work of Jerry Mashaw 451 (Nicholas R. Parrillo, ed. 2017) (Cambridge Univ. Press).
The Cycles of Separation-of-Powers Jurisprudence , 126 Yale L.J. 346 (2016) (with Aziz Huq).
Separation of Powers and Centripetal Forces: Implications for the Institutional Design and Constitutionality of Our National Security State , 83 U. Chi. L. Rev. 199 (2016).
Of Constitutional Custodians and Regulatory Rivals: An Account of the Old and New Separation of Powers , 91 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 227 (2016).
An Enduring, Evolving Separation of Powers , 115 Colum. L. Rev. 515 (2015).
Running Government Like a Business…Then and Now , 128 Harv. L. Rev. 1152 (2015).
Privatization’s Progeny , 101 Geo. L.J. 1023 (2013).
The (Willingly) Fettered Executive , 97 Va. L. Rev. 801 (2011).
Privatization’s Pretensions , 77 U. Chi. L. Rev. 717 (2010).
Deputizing Homeland Security , 88 Tex. L. Rev. 1435 (2010).
All the President’s Spies: Private-Public Intelligence Gathering in the War on Terror , 96 Cal. L. Rev. 901 (2008).
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