Kathryne M. Young
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What Can Legal Knowledge Do for Access to Justice? (draft available upon request)
​Duke Law Journal (forthcoming), with Heidi H. Liu

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

​Legal Consciousness and Access to Justice (draft available upon request)
The Civil Justice Handbook, edited by Anne Bloom, David Engel, & Richard Jolly, eds. (forthcoming).
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Getting Help 
Wisconsin Law Review

Access to Justice at the Intersection of Civil and Criminal Law
Punishment & Society, with Karin D. Martin and Sarah Lageson  

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

Remorse, Relational Legal Consciousness, and the Reproduction of Carceral Logic
Law & Society Review, with Hannah Chimowitz

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Racial Disparities in Lifer Parole Outcomes: The Hidden Role of Professional Evaluations
Law & Social Inquiry, with Jessica Pearlman
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How Cultural Capital Shapes Mental Health Seeking in College
Sociological Perspectives, with Katie R. Billings

 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
 
Tests and Trust in Sociolegal Fieldwork: Ethnographies of Illegal Behavior
Journal of Organizational Ethnography 
 
Legal Ruralism and California Parole Hearings: Space, Place, and the Carceral Landscape
Rural Sociology

How to Be Sort of Happy in Law School
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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 as An Expression of Identity and a Form of Resistance: The Sociolegal Significance of the Hawaiian Cockfight
California Law Review


Parole Hearings and Victims’ Rights: Implementation, Ambiguity, and Reform
Connecticut 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

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
 
Outing Batson: How the Case of Gay and Lesbian Jurors Demonstrates the Need for Voir Dire Reform
Willamette Law Review
 
Rights Consciousness in Criminal Procedure: A Theoretical and Empirical Inquiry
Access to Justice, Sociology of Crime, Law, & Deviance
 
The Privatization of California Correctional Facilities: A Population-Based Approach
Stanford Law & Policy Review 
 
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