Links to Published Work

                           

 

“The Roberts Court’s Judicial Zealotry.” UCLA Law Review. Vol 72(6):1392. 2026.

“‘Serviceable Instruments of His Authority’: The Office of Legal Counsel, Donald Trump, and the Expansion of Executive Power.” w/ Celia Parry & Sean Diament. Law and Policy. 47(3): 2025.

“Making Fusionism Great Again: Authoritarian Means to Christian Nationalist Ends.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 713(1): 2025.

“How the Christian Right Slayed a Monster and Reframed the Religion Clauses in Bremerton. w/ Joshua C. Wilson. Polity. 55 (2): 2023. 

“Exhuming Brutus: Constitutional Rot & Cyclical Calls for Court Reform.” Missouri Law Review. 86 (2): 2021. 

“In the ‘Mold of Justice Scalia’: The Causes and Consequences of the Trump Judiciary.” w/ Celia Parry. The Forum. 19(1): 2021. 

“Beyond the Torture Memos: How the Office of Legal Counsel Matters for Executive Branch Scholarship” w/ Isaac Cui. Presidential Studies Quarterly. 51(4): 2021, 904-928. 

“Higher Law: Can Christian Conservatives Transform Law Through Legal Education?”w/ Joshua C. Wilson. Law and Society Review, 52(4): 2018.

“An Activist’s Court: Political Polarization and the Robert’s Court.” in Parchment Barriers: Political Polarization and the Limits of Constitutional Order. Kansas University Press: 2018.

“Playing for the Rules: How and Why New Christian Right Public Interest Law Firms Invest in Secular Litigation.” w/ Joshua C Wilson. Law and Policy 39(2): 2017.

“Lawyers for God & Neighbor: The Emergence of ‘Law as a Calling’ as a Mobilizing Frame for Christian Lawyers.” w/ Joshua C Wilson. Law and Social Inquiry Vol 39(2): 416-448: 2014.

“An [Un]clear Conscience Clause: The Causes and Consequences of Statutory Ambiguity in State Contraceptive Mandates.” w/ Rachel VanSickle-Ward. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Vol. 38, No. 4: 2013.

“It’s the Network: The Federalist Society as a Supplier of Intellectual Capital for the Supreme Court.” in Law, Politics, and Society, Vol 61: 137-178: 2013.

“Helping Ideas Have Consequences: Political and Intellectual Investment in the Unitary Executive Theory, 1981-2000.” Denver University Law Review, 89 (1): 2011.

“Support Structures and Constitutional Change: Teles, Southworth, and the Conservative Legal Movement.” Law and Social Inquiry 36 (2): 551-74: 2011.