[this page is arranged mostly by topic and includes a mix of academic and general-audience pieces—more info on my academic research is here]

Bunk columns (I am contributing editor for the “Justice” section at Bunk, a cool new history site) (all columns here)

• “How We Learned to Love the Bill of Rights” (a review of Gerard Magliocca, The Heart of the Constitution)
• “Litigating the Line between Past and Present” (on voting rights and the burdens of history)

Lawyers and the right to counsel

• Talk Poverty: “Gideon v. Wainwright in the Age of a Public Defense Crisis“
• “What Gideon Did,” Columbia Law Review (2016)
• “Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Before Powell v. Alabama: Lessons from History for the Future of the Right to Counsel,” Iowa Law Review (symposium contribution, 2014)
• “The Case of the Black-Gloved Rapist: Defining the Public Defender in the California Courts, 1913-1948,” California Legal History (2010)
• H-Law: Review of Women and Justice for the Poor: A History of Legal Aid, 1863-1945, by Felice Batlan
• H-Law: Review of Fighting for Their Lives: Inside the Experience of Capital Defense Attorneys by Susannah Sheffer

Death penalty

• Public Books: “Progress and Execution,” review essay on three books on capital punishment past and present

Drugs

• Reason: “Is a ‘Black Silent Majority’ Responsible for Some of America’s Harshest Drug Laws?,” review essay on two recent histories of the War on Drugs

Policing

• Reason: “The Dark Side of Police Reform,” a review of The Streets of San Francisco: Policing and the Creation of a Cosmopolitan Liberal Politics, 1950-1972, by Christopher Lowen Agee

Prisons

• “The Origins of Back-end Sentencing in California,” Stanford Law & Policy Review (2011)
• Reason: “Cruel, Unusual, and Crowded,” a review of Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America by Jonathan Simon
• Chronicle Review: Review of Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics by Marie Gottschalk
• The Awl: “The Case for Abolishing Juvenile Prisons,” interview with Nell Bernstein
• Sacramento Bee: “We Can’t Afford Whitman’s Prison Plan,” op-ed
• Blog posts for Prospect.org, e.g. here; NPR affiliate KALW, archived here [note: the KALW Informant blog is now defunct, so link is to the Internet Archive version]
• Op-ed on prison-based gerrymandering, Prisoners of the Census
• Prison Law Blog

General US legal history & law/policy

• “Federalism Anew” (with Karen Tani), American Journal of Legal History (2016)
• The Hairpin: “Redefining Rape,” interview with Estelle Freedman
• The Nation: “Noted” items on judicial nominations and Newt Gingrich

General history commentary

• The Daily: short history features — Huey Long; Mussolini’s air force
• TheAtlantic.com: guest posts for Ta-Nehisi Coates — rough round-up here
• “A Corner of the Internet Where History — and Civility — Flourish,” HNN

In Other News:

• That time a senator quoted me (?!)