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What Consent to Search Really Means
Stanford Law Review 

Legal Consciousness and Critical Race Theory: Understanding Racialized Legal Alignment With Police
Law & Society Review (with Katie R. Billings)

​What Can Legal Knowledge Do for Access to Justice? 
Duke Law Journal (with Heidi H. Liu)

Social and Psychological Barriers to Self-Determination and Access to Justice
Boston University Law Review Online

Organizational Scarring, Legal Consciousness, and the Diffusion of Local Government Litigation Against Opioid Manufacturers
American Sociological Review (with Amanda Sharkey, Christof Brantner, and Patrick Bergemann)

How Legal Consciousness Can Advance Access to Justice 
The Civil Justice Handbook, edited by Anne Bloom, David Engel, and Richard Jolly 

Getting Help
Wisconsin Law Review 

Access to Justice at the Intersection of Civil and Criminal Law
Punishment & Society (with Karin Martin and Sarah Lageson)

An Intersectional Examination of U.S. Civil Justice Problems
Utah Law Review (with Katie R. Billings)

Racial Disparities in Lifer Outcomes: The Hidden Role of Professional Evaluations
Law & Social Inquiry (with Jessica Pearlman)
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​Remorse, Relational Legal Consciousness, and the Reproduction of Carceral Logic
Law & Society Review (with Hannah Chimowitz)

What the Access to Justice Crisis Means for Legal Education
UC Irvine Law Review​

Understanding the Social and Cognitive Processes in Law School that Create Unhealthy Lawyers
Fordham Law Review

Legal Consciousness and Cultural Capital
Law & Society Review (with Katie R. Billings)

​Understanding Illegality: Tests and Trust in Sociolegal Fieldwork
Journal of Organizational Ethnography 

How Cultural Capital Shapes Mental Health Seeking in College
Sociological Perspectives (with Katie R. Billings)
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​Legal Ruralism and California Parole Hearings: Space, Place, and the Carceral Landscape
Rural Sociology

How to Be Sort of Happy in Law School (book)
Stanford University Press

​Masculine Undercompensation and Masculine Balance: Notes on the Hawaiian Cockfight
Social Forces 

Keeping Track: Surveillance, Control, and the Expansion of the Carceral State
Harvard Law Review (with Joan Petersilia)

Criminal Behavior and Local Resistance: The Sociolegal Significance of the Hawaiian Cockfight
California Law Review

Predicting Parole Grants: An Analysis of Suitability Hearings for California's Lifer Inmates
Federal Sentencing Reporter (with Debbie A. Mukamal and Thomas Favre-Bulle)
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Parole Hearings and Victims' Rights: Implementation, Ambiguity, and Reform
Connecticut Law Review
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​​Everyone Knows the Game: Legitimacy and Legal Consciousness in the Hawaiian Cockfight
Law & Society Review 

Fact and Fiction in Constitutional Criminal Procedure
South Carolina Law Review (with Christin L. Munsch) 
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