FORGING RIVALS: RACE; CLASS; AND THE FATE OF POSTWAR LIBERALISM (Cambridge Univ. Press 2015).
Journal Articles
A Trip to the Border: Legal History and APA Originalism, 97 Chi.–Kent. L. Rev. 53 (2022).
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The Dog That Didn’t Bark: Looking for Techno-Libertarian Ideology in a Decade of Public Discourse about Big Tech Regulation, 19 Ohio St. Tech. L.J. 1 (2022) (with Jodi Short, Susan Sibley, Noah Jones, Babak Hammatian, & Lee Anna Bowman-Carpio).
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The Curious Origins of Airline Deregulation: Economic Deregulation and the American Left, 93 Bus. Hist. Rev. 729 (2019).
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Administrative Constitutionalism and the History of the Administrative State, 2 Law & Hist. Rev. (2019).
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Mourning King: The Civil Rights Movement and the Fight for Economic Justice, 27 New Lab. F. 12 (2018).
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The Birth of the Birth Certificate: Age, Child Labor and the Growth of the Administrative State, JOTWELL 112 (May 13, 2016) (reviewing Susan J. Pearson, “Age Ought to be a Fact”: The Campaign Against Child Labor and the Rise of the Birth Certificate, J. of Am. Hist. 101 (2015)).
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Conflicting Obligations: American Political Culture and the Law of the Workplace, 30 Nihon Univ. Comp. L. 1 (2013).
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Regulating the Workplace: Three Models of Labor and Employment Law in the United States, 29 Nihon Univ. Comp. L. 1 (2012) .
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Different Cultures, Different Conflicts: Sex Discrimination Law and the United States and Japan, 28 Nihon Univ. Comp. L. 141 (2011) .
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It is Not Wisdom.but Authority that Makes a Law:’ A Historical Perspective on the Problem of Creating a Restatement of Employment Law, 13 Emp. Rts. & Emp. Pol’y J. 39 (2009) .
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The Administrative State, Front and Center: Studying Law and Administration in Postwar America, 26 Law & Hist. Rev. 415 (2008) .
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The Era of Deference: Courts.Expertise.and the Emergence of New Deal Administrative Law, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 399 (2007) .
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Saint George and the Dragon’: Courts and the Development of the Administrative State in Twentieth-Century America, 17 J. Pol’y Hist. 110 (2005) .
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The Emporium Capwell Case: Race.Labor Law.and the Crisis of Post-War Liberalism, 25 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 129 (2004) .
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Rulemaking’s Promise: Administrative Law and Legal Culture in the 1960s and 1970s, 53 Admin. L. Rev. 1139 (2001) .
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Enlarging the Administrative Polity: Administrative Law and the Changing Definition of Pluralism.1945-1970, 53 Vand. L. Rev. 1389 (2000) .
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Free Speech and Expertise: Administrative Censorship and the Birth of the Modern First Amendment, 86 Va. L. Rev. 1 (2000) .
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From Group Rights to Individual Liberties: Post-War Labor Law.Liberalism.and the Waning of Union Strength, 20 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 1 (1999) .
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The Strawhorsemen of the Apocalypse: Relativism and the Historian as Expert Witness, 49 Hastings L.J. 1169 (1998) .
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Chapters in Books
David L. Bazelon, in American National Biography (Susan Ware ed., Oxford Univ. Press 2021).
Regulation and the Collapse of the New Deal Order, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Market, in Beyond the New Deal Order: U.S. Politics from the Great Depression to the Great Recession 168 (Gary Gerstle, Nelson Lichtenstein & Alice O’Connor eds., Univ. Pennsylvania Press 2019).
The Historical Origins of American Regulatory Exceptionalism, in Comparative Law & Regulation 55 (Francesca Bignami & David Zaring eds., Edward Elgar 2016).
An Unexpected Antagonist: Courts, Deregulation, and Conservative Judicial Ideology, 1980-94, in Making Legal History: Essays in Honor of William E. Nelson 264 (Daniel Hulsebosch & R. B. Bernstein eds., N.Y. Univ. press 2013).
A Surprising Antagonist: Executive Deregulation and the Federal Judiciary, 1978-1992, in Making Legal History: Essays in Honor of William E. Nelson 264 (Daniel J. Hulsebosch & R. B. Bernstein eds., N.Y. Univ. Press 2013).
Singing the “Right-to-Work Blues”: The Politics of Race in the Campaign for “Voluntary Unionism” in Post-War California, in The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination 139 (Nelson Lichtenstein & Elizabeth Tandy Shermer eds., Univ.of Pennsylvania Press 2012).
Administrative Agencies, in 1 The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History 25 (Stanley N. Katz ed., Oxford Univ. Press, 2009).
Kenneth Culp Davis, in The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law 154 (Roger K.Newman ed., Yale Univ. Press 2009).
Fair Labor Standards Act, in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States of America 173 (David S. Tanenhaus ed., Macmillan 2008).
Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States of America 7 (David S. Tanenhaus ed., Macmillan 2008).
Cleveland Brd. of Education v. Loudermill, in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States of America 345 (David S. Tanenhaus ed., Macmillan 2008).
The Story of Emporium Capwell: Civil Rights, Collective Action, and the Constraints of Union Power, in Labor Law Stories 241 (Laura J. Cooper & Catherine L. Fisk eds., 2005) (with Calvin William Sharpe & Marion G. Crain).
Reining in the Administrative State: World War II and the Decline of Expert Administration, in Total War and the Law: The American Home Front in World War II 185 (Daniel R. Ernst & Victor Jew eds., 2002).
Book Reviews
Law and the Structure of the New Working Class, 1202 (Sept. 2022 2022) (reviewing GABRIEL WINANT, THE NEXT SHIFT: THE FALL OF INDUSTRY AND THE RISE OF HEALTH CARE IN RUST BELT AMERICA (2021)) .
The Civil Rights Movement You Haven’t Heard Of, 1202 (Aug. 3, 2021 2021) (reviewing KATE MASUR, UNTIL JUSTICE BE DONE: AMERICA’S FIRST CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, FROM THE REVOLUTION TO RECONSTRUCTION (2021)) .
The Cigarette and the State, 1202 (11-Jun-20 2020) (reviewing SARAH MILOV, THE CIGARETTE: A POLITICAL HISTORY (2019)) .
Law and Public History: The Legal History of Memory Regulation in Twentieth-Century Europe, 1202 (13-May-19 2019) (reviewing NIKOLAY KOPOSOV, MEMORY LAWS, MEMORY WARS: THE POLITICS OF THE PAST IN EUROPE AND RUSSIA (2018)) .
Fathers and Sons: The Brown Family and the Arc of Liberalism in the Twentieth Century, 1377 26 (Fall/Winter 2019 2019) (reviewing MIRIAM PAWEL, THE BROWN OF CALIFORNIA: THE FAMILY DYNASTY THAT TRANSFORMED A STATE AND SHAPED A NATION (2018)) .
Urban History as Legal History, 1202 (June 28, 2018) 2018) (reviewing KIM PHILLIPS-FEIN, FEAR CITY: NEW YORK’S FISCAL CRISIS AND THE RISE OF AUSTERITY POLITICS (2017)) .
Ordinary Politics; Extraordinary Results: A Definitive History of the Framing of the United States Constitution, 1202 (31-May-17 2017) (reviewing MICHAEL J. KLARMAN; THE FRAMERS’ COUP: THE MAKING OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION (2016)) .
Book Review, 122 1091 1244 ( 2017) (reviewing JOSHUA D. FARRINGTON, BLACK REPUBLICANS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE GOP (2016)) .
How Adversarialism Triumphed : and What It Wrought, 1377 26 (Fall/Winter 2017 2017) (reviewing AMALIA D. KESSLER, INVENTING AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM: THE ORIGINS OF AMERICAN ADVERSARIAL LEGAL CULTURE 1800-1877) .
Book Review, 81 1201 242 ( 2015) (reviewing JEFFREY D. HOCKETT, A STORM OVER THIS COURT: LAW, POLITICS AND SUPREME COURT DECISION MAKING IN BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION (2013)) .
Book Review, 31 334 639 ( 2013) (reviewing JOANNA L. GRISINGER, THE UNWIELDY AMERICAN STATE: ADMINISTRATIVE POLITICS SINCE THE NEW DEAL (2012)) .
Law; Liberalism; and the New History of the Civil Rights Movement, 61 218 1257 ( 2010) (reviewing THOMAS SUGRUE; SWEET LAND OF LIBERT; THE FORGOTTEN STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE NORTH) .
Book Review, 19 334 462 ( 2001) (reviewing JEFFREY D. HOCKETT, NEW DEAL JUSTICE: THE CONSTITUTIONAL JURISPRUDENCE OF HUGO L. BLACK, FELIX FRANKFURTER, AND ROBERT H. JACKSON (1996)) .
Regulation’s Hidden History, 25 740 416 ( 1997) (reviewing WILLIAM J. NOVAK; THE PEOPLE’S WELFARE: LAW AND REGULATION IN NINETEENTH–CENTURY AMERICA (1996)) .
Student Note/Comment
Conflicting Obligations; Slave Law and the Late Antebellum North Carolina Supreme Court, 78 Va. L. Rev. 1207 (1992) .
Dissertation
Policy Ideals and Judicial Action: Expertise, Group Pluralism, and Participatory Democracy in Intellectual Thought and Legal Decision–Making, 1932–1970 (May-97) unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virginia (on file with Alderman Library University of Virginia).
Miscellaneous
The Ideological Origins of Deregulation, The Regulatory Review (Mar. 18, 2019).