Editorials
Interviews, Podcasts, and Videos
How do autocrats use law to erode democratic systems?, Law at the Margins, November 21, 2025
Lawyers Defending American Democracy: Exposing the Autocratic Legal Playbook, American Bar Association Civil Rights and Social Justice Section, Chair Chat, November 20, 2025
Eliminare gli esperti, Salute, Italy at 7 (by Gabriele Beccaria, October 30, 2025)
É un golpe mascherato. Il tycoon abusa della legge, Domani, Italy (by Martino Mazzonis, June 12, 2025)
Trump’s Cannibalization of Big Law, Sidebar, Courthouse News, April 29, 2025
Advocaat mikpunt én adjudant van autocraten, Advocatenblad, The Netherlands (by Kees Pijnappels April 2025)
Why American Lawyers Must Fight Democratic Backsliding: A Call for Collective Action, Harvard Law School, Center on the Legal Profession, The Practice (March/April 2025)
Federal Judges Temporarily Block Trump Executive Order Targeting Major Law Firms, Meet the Press NOW, March 31, 2025
Law Professor Warns Trump Is Following “Autocratic Legal Playbook”, The Rachel Maddow Show, March 28, 2025
Lawyers in Backsliding Democracy, Law Review with You, UCLA School of Law, December 19, 2024
Are Trump Lawyers Backsliding Democracy? How Unethical Lawyering Erodes Trust in the Rule of Law of a Democratic Nation, The Legal Edition, November 3, 2024
When Lawyers Attack the Rule of Law, Lawyers Defending American Democracy, September 18, 2024
Law Professor Discussions Public Interest Law, Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 196, April 17, 2023
Can Big Law Be Anti-Racist?, Through the Gale, August 17, 2022
The Fraud of “Voting Fraud:” A Conversation w/ Scott Cummings, Good Law | Bad Law, November 13, 2020
Equitable Community Planning in LA, Alliance for Community Transit Los Angeles, February 25, 2018
Reports

Major Research Flaws Undermine Authors’ Bold Claims: Unpacking the Debate on Measure ULA (with Greg Bonett, Jan Breidenbach, Peter Dreier, Regina Freer, Joan Ling, Deepika Sharma, Chris Tilly & Madeline Wander) (September 2025)

Measuring LA’s Mansion Tax: An Evaluation of Measure ULA’s First Year (with Peter Dreier, Joan Ling, Regina Freer, Manuel Pastor, Ananya Roy, Chris Tilly) (April 2024)

The Vacancy Report: How Los Angeles Leaves Homes Empty and People Unhoused (Report by Strategic Actions for a Justice Economy, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, and UCLA School of Law Community Economic Development Clinic, September 2020)

Priced Out, Pushed Out, Locked Out: How Permanent Tenant Protections Can Help Communities Prevent Homelessness and Resist Displacement in Los Angeles County (Report by Public Counsel and UCLA School of Law Community Economic Development Clinic on behalf of Eastside LEADS, July 2019)
Blogs
Stopping Autocratic Legalism in America—Before It Is Too Late, Verfassungsblog, March 26, 2025
How the Conservative Legal Movement Gave First Amendment Rights to Corporations—and Why It Matters Now, Legal Profession Jotwell, July 26, 2024
When Lawyers Attack the Rule of Law, Law and Political Economy Blog, June 20, 2024
Reclaiming the Progressive Potential of Local Procurement, Law and Political Economy Blog, January 10, 2024
A Critical Approach to Legal Pedagogy, Legal Profession Jotwell, February 1, 2023
Lessons for Legal Mobilization, Law and Political Economy Blog, January 24, 2022
A New Realist Perspective on How to Make Law School Better, Legal Profession Jotwell, 2022
How Does Law School Matter in the Pursuit of Public Interest Careers?, Legal Profession Jotwell, December 20, 2019
Comments: Week of October 15, 2018, The Bad, Good Lawyer, New York Magazine, October 14
Are Prosecutors Ethically Responsible for Producing Defender Overload?, Legal Profession Jotwell, November 25, 2020
Cities in the Anti-Global Age?, reviewing Richard Schragger, City Power: Urban Governance in a Global Age (2016), Balkinization
The L.A. Ports Strike, On Labor: Workers Unions, and Politics

