Re-Theorizing Administrative Law in the Great Unsettling, JOTWELL (June 2, 2025) (reviewing Julie E. Cohen, Oligarchy, State, and Cryptopia, available at SSRN. (March 10, 2025)), https://adlaw.jotwell.com/re-theorizing-administrative-law-in-the-great-unsettling/.
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Major Questions about Presidentialism: Untangling the ‘Chain of Dependence’ Across Administrative Law, 65 B.C. L. Rev. 511 (2024) (with Jed Shugerman).
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Regulatory Managerialism as Gaslighting Government, 86 L. & Contemp. Probs. 1 (2023).
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In Search of the Public Interest, 40 Yale J. on Reg. 759 (2023).
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In Search of the Presidential Removal Power: What Venality (Offices as Property) Tells Us About the Constitutional Dogs that Did Not Bark and the Howling Hounds of Bureaucratic Accountability, JOTWELL (July 26, 2023) (reviewing Jed H. Shugerman, Freehold Offices vs. “Despotic Displacement”: Why Article II “Executive Power” Did Not Include Removal (Jul. 25, 2023) available at SSRN), https://adlaw.jotwell.com/in-search-of-the-presidential-removal-power-what-venality-offices-as-property-tells-us-about-the-constitutional-dogs-that-did-not-bark-and-the-howling-hounds-of-bureaucratic-accountability/.
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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 Reuel Schiller, Susan Sibley, Noah Jones, Babak Hammatian, & Lee Anna Bowman-Carpio).
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The Politics of Regulatory Enforcement and Compliance: Theorizing and Operationalizing Political Influences, 15 Reg. & Governance 653 (2020).
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Improving Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains: The Role of Institutional Environments and Monitoring Program Design, 73 Indus. & Lab. Rel. Rev. 873 (2020) (with Michael W. Toffel & Andrea R. Hugill).
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What’s Reasonable Now? Sexual Harassment Law after the Norm Cascade, 2019 Mich. St. L. Rev. 139 (2019) (with Joan Williams, Margot Brooks, Hilary Hardcastle , Tiffanie A. Ellis & Rayna Saron).
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Coupling Labor Codes of Conduct and Supplier Labor Practices: The Role of Internal Structural Conditions, 30 Org. Sci. 647 (2019) (with Yanhua Bird & Michael W. Toffel).
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The Trouble with Counting: Cutting through the Rhetoric of Red Tape Cutting, 103 Minn. L. Rev. 93 (2018).
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Private Regulation and Third-Party Auditing, Environs (2018) (Festschrift in Honor of Professor Lesley McAllister).
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Monitoring Global Supply Chains, 37 Strategic Mgmt. J. 1878 (2016) (with Michael W. Toffel & Andrea Hugill).
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Codes in Context: How States, Markets, and Civil Society Shape Adherence to Global Labor Standards, 9 Reg. & Governance 205 (2015) (with Michael W. Toffel & Melissa Ouellet).
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Competing Normative Frameworks and the Limits of Deterrence Theory: Comments on Baker and Griffith’s “Ensuring Corporate Misconduct”, 38 Law & Soc. Inquiry 493 (2013).
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Self-Regulation in the Regulatory Void: “Blue Moon” or “Bad Moon”?, 649 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 22 (2013).
The Paranoid Style in Regulatory Reform, 63 Hastings L.J. 633 (2012) .
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The Political Turn in American Administrative Law: Power.Rationality.and Reasons, 61 Duke L.J. 1811 (2012) .
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Coming Clean and Cleaning Up: Does Voluntary Self-Reporting Indicate Effective Self-Policing?, 54 J.L. & Econ. 609 (2011) (with Michael W. Toffel).
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Making Self-Regulation More than Merely Symbolic: The Critical Role of the Legal Environment, 55 Admin. Sci. Q. 361 (2010) (with Michael W. Toffel).
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Coerced Confessions: Self-Policing in the Shadow of the Regulator, 24 J.L. Econ. & Org. 45 (2008) (with Michael W. Toffel).
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Creating Peer Sexual Harassment: Mobilizing Schools to Throw the Book at Themselves, 28 Law & Pol’y 31 (2006).
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Killing the Messenger: The Use of Nondisclosure Agreements to Silence Whistleblowers, 60 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 1207 (1999) .
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Sentencing: Capital Punishment, 82 Geo. L.J. 1199 (1994) (with Mark D. Spoto).
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Chapters in Books
Transplanting Law in a Globalized World: Private Transnational Regulation and the Legal Transplant Paradigm, in Comparative Law and Regulation 430 (Francesca Bignami and David Zaring; eds., Edward Elgar 2016).
Book Reviews
Competing Normative Frameworks and the Limits of Deterrence Theory, 38 Law & Soc. Inquiry 493 (2013) (reviewing TOM BAKER &SEAN J.GRIFFITH, ENSURING CORPORATE MISCONDUCT: HOW LIABILITY INSURANCE UNDERMINES SHAREHOLDER LITIGATION (2011)).
Newspaper & Magazine Articles
The Integrity of Private Third-party Compliance Monitoring, 22 Administrative & Regulatory Law News, Fall 2016 (with Michael W. Toffel).
The Causes and Consequences of Industry Self-Policing, 33 Yale Econ.Rev., Summer 2008 (with Michael W.Toffel).
Personal Essay: Sociologists Behind Bars, 6 Footnotes, May/June 2004 (with Elizabeth Drogin).
Miscellaneous
Major Questions About Presidentialism: Untangling the “Chain of Dependence” Across Administrative Law, U.C. Law S.F. (2023) (with Jed H. Shugerman).
Auditor Independence and Outsourcing: Aligning Incentives to Mitigate Shilling and Shirking, Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 21-078 (2021) (with Ashley Palmarozzo & Michael W. Toffel).
Companies’ Responses to Social Activism: A Resource Reconfiguration Perspective, Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 21-114 (2021) (with Yanhua Bird & Michael W. Toffel).
Code Contingencies: Designing Monitoring Regimes to Promote Improvement in Supply Chain Working Conditions, Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Working Paper No. 17-001 (2019) (with Michael W. Toffel & Andrea R. Hugill).
Organizational Structures and the Improvement of Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains: Legalization, Participation, and Economic Incentives, Harvard Business School Working Paper; No. 18-003 (Jul 2017) (with Yanhua Zhou & Michael W. Toffel).
Beyond Symbolic Responses to Private Politics: Examining Labor Standards Improvement in Global Supply Chains, Harvard Business School Working Paper; No. 17-001 (Jul 2016) (with Andrea R. Hugill & Michael W. Toffel).
Monitoring Global Supply Chains, Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 14-032 (Jun 4 2015) (with Michael W. Toffel & Andrea R. Hugill).
Monitoring the Monitors: How Social Factors Influence Supply Chain Auditors, UC Law SF Research Paper No. 84 / Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Working Paper No. 14-032 (2014) (with Michael W. Toffel & Andrea Hugill).