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Editorials plus icon

There’s a Darker Reason Trump Is Going After Those Law Firms, New York Times, May 15, 2025

Stop Attacks on the Legal Profession—Before It’s Too Late, Crain’s Chicago Business, March 31, 2025

Trump’s Disbarred Lawyers Have a Plan for After His 2024 Victory, Slate, October 8, 2024

California Should Not Bar Access to Justice (with Nora Engstrom), Bloomberg Law, August 4, 2022

Clarence Thomas, Jan. 6 and a Tipping Point for Supreme Court Ethics, NBCNews.com, July 17, 2022

Why Are So Many Big U.S. Law Firms Still Doing Work that Boosts Russia?, Slate.com, Apr. 1, 2022

The Lawyer Behind Trump’s Infamous Jan. 6 Memo Has a Galling New Defense, Slate.com, Oct. 20, 2021

The Lessons from Trump’s ‘Kraken’ Lawyer Sanctions in Michigan, NBCNews.com, Sept. 1, 2021

Hands Off Our Taco Carts! Small Legal Changes Would Protect Vendors (with Doug Smith) Los Angeles Times, Aug. 9, 2021

It’s Time to Consider Sanctions for Trump’s Legal Team (with Nora Freeman Engstrom, David Luban, and Deborah Rhode), Slate.com, Nov. 23, 2020

Inequality, Polarization Undermine Ethical Lawyering, Los Angeles Daily Journal, March 27, 2019

How L.A. Should Grow (with Doug Smith), Los Angeles Times, Mar. 23, 2017, at A13

Doing Well by Doing Better (with Deborah L. Rhode), Supplement to the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal: Navigating Change in Pro Bono, November 4, 2009, at 14

Pro Bono: Quantity over Quality? (with Deborah L. Rhode), National Law Journal, July 19, 2010, at 38

Deferral Economics (with Deborah L. Rhode), The American Lawyer, July/August 2010, at 45

Election Is Opportunity to Change City’s Economic Policies, Los Angeles Daily Journal, June 4, 2001, at 6

Events Highlight Need for Campaign‑Finance Reform, Los Angeles Daily Journal, March 26, 2001, at 6

Interviews, Podcasts, and Videos plus icon

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)

Lawyers in Backsliding Democracy, Law Review with You, UCLA School of Law, December 19, 2024

When Lawyers Attack the Rule of Law, Lawyers Defending American Democracy, September 18, 2024

Public Opinion of the Supreme Court Is at an All-Time Law. Justice Thomas’ Ethics Scandal Isn’t Helping, KQED, April 19, 2023 (with Emily Bazelon, The New York Times Magazine; Josh Kaplan, Pro Publica; and Alex Padilla, U.S. Senator)

Law Professor Discussions Public Interest Law, Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 196, April 17, 2023

https://open.spotify.com/show/6K6LkqCIVdJ96uryk4pGWd

Can Big Law Be Anti-Racist?, Through the Gale, August 17, 2022

Legal Ethics and the Profession, Lawyer 2 Lawyer: Law News and Legal Topics, January 24, 2020

Equitable Community Planning in LA, Alliance for Community Transit Los Angeles, February 25, 2018

Reports plus icon

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)

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)

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 plus icon

When Lawyers Attack the Rule of Law, Law and Political Economy Blog, June 20, 2024

Lessons for Legal Mobilization, Law and Political Economy Blog, January 24, 2022

Comments: Week of October 15, 2018, The Bad, Good Lawyer, New York Magazine, October 14

https://legalpro.jotwell.com/?s=Cummings&id=1829

Are Prosecutors Ethically Responsible for Producing Defender Overload?, Legal Profession Jotwell, November 25, 2020

https://balkin.blogspot.com/search?q=Cummings

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