Death Penalty Stories (with John H. Blume, eds., New York: Foundation Press, 2009).
Articles
Brown's Descendants [Symposium: Fifth Annual Wiley A. Branton-Howard Law Journal Symposium: Thurgood Marshall: His Life, His Work, His Legacy], 52 Howard Law Journal 583 (2009).
Atkins v. Virginia: Lessons from Substance and Procedure in the Constitutional Regulation of Capital Punishment [Symposium: Protecting a National Moral Consensus: Challenges in the Application of Atkins v. Virginia: Seventeenth Annual DePaul Law Review Symposium], 57 DePaul Law Review 721 (2008) (with Carol S. Steiker).
Opening a Window or Building a Wall? The Effect of Eighth Amendment Death Penalty Law and Advocacy on Criminal Justice More Broadly [Symposium: Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Litigating Under The Eighth Amendment], 11 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 155 (2008) (with Carol S. Steiker).
Improving Representation of Capital Cases: Establishing the Right Baseline in Federal Habeas to Promote Structural Reform Within States, 34 American Journal of Criminal Law 293 (2007).
The Shadow of Death: The Effect of Capital Punishment on American Criminal Law and Policy, 89 Judicature 250 (March-April 2006) (with Carol Steiker).
United States: Roper v. Simmons, 4 International Journal of Constitutional Law 163 (2006).
Foreword [Symposium: Punishment Law and Policy], 84 Texas Law Review 1687 (2006) (with Susan R. Klein).
A Tale of Two Nations: Implementation of the Death Penalty in ?Executing? Versus ?Symbolic? States in the United States [Symposium: Punishment Law and Policy], 84 Texas Law Review 1869 (2006) (with Carol S. Steiker).
The Seduction of Innocence: The Attraction and Limitations of the Focus on Innocence in Capital Punishment Law and Advocacy, 95 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 587 (2005) (with Carol S. Steiker).
The Supreme Court and Affirmative Action: Ruling by Ruling, We Inch Closer to Core Problem at Our Universities, Austin American-Statesman, June 25, 2003, at A11 (with Sanford Levinson).
The Search for Equality in Criminal Sentencing, 2002 Supreme Court Review 223 (2003) (with Susan R. Klein).
Should Abolitionists Support Legislative ?Reform? of the Death Penalty?, 63 Ohio State Law Journal 417 (2002) (with Carol S. Steiker).
Abolition in Our Time, 1 Ohio State Criminal Law Journal 323 (2003) (with Carol Steiker).
The Death Penalty: A Panel Discussion, 2002 Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Texas 86 (with others)
A Chance for Texas to Right a Death-Penalty Wrong, Houston Chronicle, Apr. 1, 2001, at 4C.
It?s Time to Practice the Law We Preach, Newsday, Feb. 20, 2001, at A27 (with Carol S. Steiker).
Did the Oklahoma City Bombers Succeed?, 574 Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 185 (2001)
Habeas Exceptionalism [Symposium: Restructuring Federal Courts], 78 Texas Law Review 1703 (2000).
Introduction [Symposium: Restructuring Federal Courts], 78 Texas Law Review 1399 (2000).
Graglia?s Argument Has Some Holes, Austin American-Statesman, Dec. 11, 1999, at A15
The Constitutional Regulation of Capital Punishment Since Furman v. Georgia, 29 St. Mary?s Law Journal 971 (1998) (with Carol S. Steiker)
Restructuring Post-Conviction Review of Federal Constitutional Claims Raised by State Prisoners: Confronting the New Face of Excessive Proceduralism, 1998 University of Chicago Legal Forum 315.
Defending Categorical Exemptions to the Death Penalty: Reflections on the ABA?s Resolutions Concerning the Execution of Juveniles and Persons With Mental Retardation, Law & Contemporary Problems, Autumn 1998, at 89 (with Carol Steiker).
Panel Discussions: Reflections on a Quarter-Century of Constitutional Regulation of Capital Punishment, 30 John Marshall Law Review 399 (1997) (with several others).
The Limits of Legal Language: Decisionmaking in Capital Cases, 94 Michigan Law Review 2590 (1996).
Taking Text and Structure Really Seriously: Constitutional Interpretation and the Crises of Presidential Eligibility, 74 Texas Law Review 237 (1995) (with Sanford Levinson & J.M. Balkin).
Incorporating the Suspension Clause: Is There a Constitutional Right to Federal Habeas Corpus for State Prisoners?, 92 Michigan Law Review 862 (1994).
Sober Second Thoughts: Reflections on Two Decades of Constitutional Regulation of Capital Punishment, 109 Harvard Law Review 355 (1995) (with Carol S. Steiker). [Reprinted in Capital Punishment: A Balanced Examination (Evan J. Mandery ed.; Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2005).]
Innocence and Federal Habeas, 41 UCLA Law Review 303 (1993).
Judging the Executioners: Progressive Politicians and the Death Penalty, 2 Reconstruction no. 2, at 112 (1993).
The Long Road Up From Barbarism: Thurgood Marshall and the Death Penalty, 71 Texas Law Review 1131 (1993).
Let God Sort Them Out? Refining the Individualization Requirement for Capital Sentencing, 102 Yale Law Journal 835 (1992).
Reviews
American Icon: Does it Matter What the Court Said in Brown?, 81 Texas Law Review 305 (2002) (essay reviewing What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said, ed. by Jack Balkin).
?Post? Liberalism, 74 Texas Law Review 1059 (1996) (reviewing Constitutional Domains: Democracy, Community, Management, by Robert C. Post).
Punishment and the Death Penalty, ed. by Robert M. Baird & Stuart E. Rosenbaum, 16 Canadian Philosophical Reviews / Revue Canadienne de Comptes rendus en Philosophie 3 (1996).
Creating a Community of Liberals, 69 Texas Law Review 795 (1991) (reviewing Human Liberty and Freedom of Speech, by C. Edwin Baker; and The First Amendment, Democracy, and Romance, by Steven H. Shiffrin).
Contributions
The Role of Constitutional Facts and Social Science Research in Capital Litigation: Is Proof of Arbitrariness or Inaccuracy Relevant to the Constitutional Regulation of the American Death Penalty? in The Future of the American Death Penalty: An Agenda for the Next Generation of Capital Punishment Research 23 (Charles S. Lanier, William J. Bowers, & James R. Acker eds., Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2009).
Capital Punishment, in Federalism in America: An Encyclopedia (Joseph R. Marbach et al. eds.; Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005).
Judicial Developments in Capital Punishment Law, in America?s Experiment with Capital Punishment: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of the Ultimate Penal Sanction (J.R. Acker & R.M. Bohm eds. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2nd ed. 2003) (with Carol S. Steiker).
Federal Habeas and the Death Penalty: Reflections on the New Habeas Provisions of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, in Essential Readings on Political Terrorism: Analyses of Problems and Prospects for the 21st Century 216 (Harvey W. Kushner ed.; Lincoln, Neb.: Gordian Knot Books, 2002).
Habeas Corpus, in Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice (4 vols.; Joshua Dressler ed.; New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2nd ed. 2002).
Judicial Developments in Capital Punishment Law, in America?s Experiment With Capital Punishment: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of the Ultimate Penal Sanction 47 (James R. Acker et al. eds.; Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1998) (with Carol S. Steiker).
