Bringing Democracy to the Study of Legal Mobilisation (with Claire Kilpatrick)

Strategic Litigation (with Lilla Farkas and Venera Protopapa)

Research Handbook on the Sociology of Legal Ethics (with Tamara Butter, Ole Hammerslev & Sergio Anzola, under contract with Elgar Publishing)

Access to Justice (with Deborah L. Rhode, under contract with Elgar Publishing)

Lawyers in Democratic Backsliding, 112 California Law Review (forthcoming 2024)

Preemption by Procurement (with Madeline Janis), 70 UCLA Law Review (forthcoming 2023)

Mobilizable Labor Law, Indiana Law Journal (with Andrew Elmore, forthcoming 2023)

Making Public Interest Lawyers in a Time of Crisis: An Evidence Based Approach (with Richard Abel and Catherine Albiston), 34 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 223 (2021)

Law and Social Movements: Reimagining the Progressive Canon, 2018 Wisconsin Law Review 441 (2018)

The Social Movement Turn in Law, 42 Law & Social Inquiry 360 (2018)

The Puzzle of Social Movements in American Legal Theory, 64 UCLA Law Review 1554 (2017)

Movement Lawyering, 2017 University of Illinois Law Review 1645 (2017)

Excerpted in Leadership: Law, Policy, and Management (Deborah L. Rhode & Amanda K. Packel eds., 2d ed. 2017)

Rethinking the Foundational Critiques of Lawyers in Social Movements, 85 Fordham Law Review 1987 (2017) (invited contribution to symposium on Civil Litigation Ethics at a Time of Vanishing Trials)

Preemptive Strike: Law in the Campaign for Clean Trucks, 4 UC Irvine Law Review 939 (2014)

Excerpted in Transnational Law: Cases and Problems in an Interconnected World (Alfred C. Aman, Jr. & Carol J. Greenhouse eds., 2017)

Empirical Studies of Law and Social Change: What Is the Field? What Are the Questions?, 2013 Wisconsin Law Review 171 (2013)

Beyond the Numbers: What We Know—and Should Know—About American Pro Bono (with Rebecca L. Sandefur), 7 Harvard Law & Policy Review 83 (2013)

The Pursuit of Legal Rights—and Beyond, 59 UCLA Law Review 506 (2012)

Privatizing Public Interest Law, 25 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 1 (2012)

Litigation at Work: Defending Day Labor in Los Angeles, 58 UCLA Law Review 1617 (2011)

Lawyering for Marriage Equality (with Douglas NeJaime), 57 UCLA Law Review 1235 (2010)

Edited version published in 7 UCLA Scholarly Perspectives 5 (2011)

Managing Pro Bono: Doing Well by Doing Better (with Deborah L. Rhode), 78 Fordham Law Review 2357 (2010)

Mobilizing Local Government Law for Low-Wage Workers (with Steven A. Boutcher), 2009 University of Chicago Legal Forum 187 (2009) (invited contribution)

Hemmed In: Legal Mobilization in the Anti-Sweatshop Movement, 30 Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 1 (2009)

Public Interest Litigation: Insights from Theory and Practice (with Deborah L. Rhode), 36 Fordham Urban Law Journal 603 (2009)

Globalizing Public Interest Law (with Louise G. Trubek), 13 UCLA Journal of International Law & Foreign Affairs 1 (2008) (introduction to special issue)

Revised Version Reprinted at 9 International Review of Constitutionalism 1 (2009). Special Issue: Law, Poverty and Economic Inequality (Penelope Andrews & Frank Munger eds., 2010)

The Internationalization of Public Interest Law, 57 Duke Law Journal 891 (2008)

Law in the Labor Movement’s Challenge to Wal-Mart: A Case Study of the Inglewood Site Fight, 95 California Law Review 1927 (2007)

Excerpted in Critical Justice: Systemic Advocacy in Law and Society (Francisco Valdes, Steven W. Bender & Jennifer Hill eds., West Academic 2020)

Excerpted in Labor Law in the Contemporary Workplace (Martin Malin, Roberto Corrada, Christopher Cameron & Catherine Fisk eds., West Publishing 2009)

The Politics of Pro Bono, 52 UCLA Law Review 1 (2004)

Excerpted in Problems in Professional Responsibility (Andrew L. Kaufman & David Wilkins eds., 5^th ed. 2009).

Excerpted in Contemporary Civil Litigation (Steven Yeazell ed., 2009)

Community Economic Development as Progressive Politics: Toward a Grassroots Movement for Economic Justice, 54 Stanford Law Review 399 (2001)

Reprinted in The International Library of Essays in Law and Society: Law and Poverty (Frank Munger ed., Ashgate Publishing Limited 2006)

A Critical Reflection on Law and Organizing (with Ingrid V. Eagly), 48 UCLA Law Review 443 (2001)

Excerpted in Social Justice: Professionals, Communities, and Law: Cases and Materials (Martha R. Mahoney, John O. Calmore & Stephanie M. Wildman eds., Thomson West 2003)

Developing Cooperatives as a Job Creation Strategy for Low‑Income Workers, 25 N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change 181 (1999)

Affirmative Action and the Rhetoric of Individual Rights: Reclaiming Liberalism as a “Color‑Conscious” Theory, 13 Harvard Blackletter Law Journal 183 (1997)

An Odhttps://fordhamlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Cummings_March.pdfe to Rhode: in Principle and in Practice, Fordham Law Review (forthcoming 2023)

Solidarity in the City, in Solidarity: Debates in Labor Law and Beyond 98 (Julia López López ed., Cambridge University Press, 2022)

Catalytic Localism: What Is New about the Green New Deal?, 97 Chicago-Kent Law Review 291 (2022) (published version of 42^nd Annual Kenneth M. Piper Lecture)

Policy by the People, for the People: Designing Responsive Regulation and Building Democratic Power (with Doug Smith), 90 Fordham Law Review 2025 (2022) (invited special issue on Subversive Lawyering)

Public Interest Litigation in Comparative Perspective, Australian Journal of Human Rights (2021) (Keynote Speech Delivered at Conference on Public Interest Litigation in Australia—A Comparative Perspective, La Trobe University School of Law, Melbourne, Australia)

United States: Out of Many Legal Professions, One? (with Carroll Seron, Ann Southworth, Rebecca L. Sandefur, Steven A. Boutcher, and Anna Raup-Kounovsky), , in Lawyers in 21st-CenturySocieties, Vol. 1: National Reports 127 (Richard L. Abel, Ole Hammerslev, Hilary Sommerlad & Ulrike Schultz eds., 2020)

Preemption as a Tool of Misclassification, 66 UCLA Law Review 1872 (with Emma Curran Donnelly Hulse, 2019) (invited symposium in honor of Judge A. Wallace Tashima)

Cited in California Trucking Association v. Bonta, 996 F.3d 644 (9^th Cir. 2021)

Ethics Case Study: Lawyer for a Coalition with an Informal Leader (with Michael Haber), 47 Hofstra Law Review 61 (2019) (invited special issue on Ethical Issues in Movement Lawyering)

Living Poor in the Affluent City, UCLA Law Review Discourse (2018) (commentary on land use equity in Los Angeles as part of Law Meets World series)

Reflections on the Ethics of Movement Lawyering (with Susan Carle), 31 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 447 (2018) (invited contribution)

Excerpted in Professional Responsibility: A Contemporary Approach (5^th ed., Renee Knake Jefferson, Russell Pearce et al., eds. West 2022)

Community Development Law and Economic Justice—Why Law Matters, 26 Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 35 (2017) (invited contribution)

Access to Justice: Looking Back, Thinking Ahead (with Deborah L. Rhode), 30 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 485 (2017) (invited contribution on 30-year anniversary of journal)

Reviewed in Jotwell (2018) (Nora Engstrom)

When a Case Sparks a Social Movement, delivered at the 50^th Anniversary of the Central District of California Symposium, transcript published at Panel Discussion: The El Monte Sweatshop Slavery Cases, 23 Southwestern Law School Journal of International Law 291-297 (2017) (on the El Monte Thai Worker Litigation, Bureerong v. Uvawas, 922 F. Supp. 1450 (C.D. Cal. 1996).

Law and Social Movements: An Interdisciplinary Analysis, in Handbook of Social Movements Across Disciplines 233 (Conny Roggeband & Bert Klandermands eds. 2017)

Teaching Movements, 65 Journal of Legal Education 374 (2015)

Adapted version published in Thinking about Clinical Legal Education: Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives (Omar Madhloom & Hugh McFaul eds., Routledge 2022)

Public Interest Law: The United States and Beyond, in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 555 (James D. Wright ed., 2015)

Poverty Law: United States (with Jeffrey Selbin), in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 733 (James D. Wright ed., 2015)

Letter to a Public Interest Attorney, 5 Los Angeles Public Interest Law Journal 83 (2014-2015)

How Lawyers Manage Intragroup Dissent, 89 Chicago-Kent Law Review 547 (2014) (keynote speech for Chicago-Kent Law Review Symposium on Intragroup Dissent, adapted from The Accountability Problem in Public Interest Practice: Old Paradigms and New Directions)

Excerpted in Critical Justice: Systemic Advocacy in Law and Society (Francisco Valdes, Steven W. Bender & Jennifer Hill eds., West Academic 2020)

Mobilizing Law for Justice in Asia: A Comparative Approach (with Frank Munger and Louise Trubek), 31 Wisconsin Journal of International Law353 (2013) (introduction to special volume)

Community Benefits Agreements (with Benjamin S. Beach), in Community Economic Development Law: A Text for Engaged Learning 322 (Susan Bennett, Brenda Bratton Blom, Louise Howells & Deborah Kenn eds., 2012)

The Accountability Problem in Public Interest Practice: Old Paradigms and New Directions, in Lawyers in Practice: Ethical Decision Making in Context 340-364 (Leslie C. Levin & Lynn Mather eds., University of Chicago Press, 2012).

The Future of Public Interest Law, 33 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Journal 355 (2011) (expanded version of featured lecture at University at Arkansas Little Rock Bowen School of Law, Altheimer Symposium, Reframing Public Service Law: Innovative Approaches to Integrating Public Service into the Legal Profession)

Labor Activism in Local Politics: From CBAs to ‘CBAs’ (with Katherine Stone), in The Idea of Labour Law 273 (Guy Davidov & Brian Langille eds., Oxford University Press, 2011)

What Good Are Lawyers?, in The Paradox of Professionalism: Lawyers and the Possibility of Justice 1 (Scott L. Cummings ed., Cambridge University Press, 2011)

The Market for Public Interest Law Services, 19 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law 1075 (2011) (transcript of invited lecture delivered at AALS 2011 Annual Meeting, Plenary Panel on Lawyers’ Special Responsibilities as Public Citizens in a Rapidly Changing World)

A Pragmatic Approach to Law and Organizing: A Comment on “The Story of South Ardmore”, 42 John Marshall Law Review 631 (2009) (invited commentary)

A Tribute to Judge James Moran, The Circuit Rider 13 (Nov. 2009)

Between Principle and Profit: The Private Public Interest Law Firm (with Ann Southworth), in Private Lawyers and the Public Interest: The Evolving Role of Pro Bono in the Legal Profession 183 (Robert Granfield & Lynn Mather eds., Oxford University Press 2009)

Editor’s Note, 18 Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 365 (2009)

The Emergence of Community Benefits Agreements, 17 Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 5 (2008)

Critical Legal Consciousness in Action, 120 Harvard Law Review Forum 39 (2007). Reply to Orly Lobel, The Paradox of Extralegal Activism: Critical Legal Consciousness and Transformative Politics, 120 Harvard Law Review 937 (2007)

Global-Local Linkages in the Community Economic Development Field, in Progressive Lawyering, Globalization and Markets: Rethinking Ideology and Strategy 73 (Clare Dalton ed., William S. Hein & Co. 2007)

Katrina & Rita: Two Years After the Storms, 16 Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 321 (2007) (editor’s note)

Mobilization Lawyering: Community Economic Development in the Figueroa Corridor, in Cause Lawyers and Social Movements 302 (Austin Sarat & Stuart Scheingold eds., Stanford University Press 2006)

Reprinted at 1 Irish Review of Community Economic Development Law & Policy 11 (2011)

Edited Version Reprinted at 17 Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 59 (2007)

The Federal Role in Community Economic Development (with Benjamin S. Beach), 40 Clearinghouse Review 89 (May-June 2006). Special Issue: What the Federal Government Must Do to End Poverty

Access to Justice in the New Millennium: Achieving the Promise of Pro Bono, Human Rights, Summer 2005, at 6. Revised Excerpt from The Politics of Pro Bono, 52 UCLA Law Review 1 (2004)

The Trickle After the Flood, 15 Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 12 (2005)

Clinical Legal Education and Community Development, 13 Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 208 (2005)

Community Economic Development and the Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, 13 Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 443 (2004)

Recentralization: Community Development and the Case for Regionalism, 8 Journal of Small & Emerging Business Law 131 (2004) (invited contribution to symposium on community development)

Between Markets and Politics: A Response to Porter’s Competitive Advantage Thesis, 82 Oregon Law Review  901 (2004) (expanded version of keynote address at Yale Law School conference on Urban Community Development: Market, Government, and Social Forces)

The New Politics of Poverty, 13 Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 159 (2004)

The Paradox of Community: A View from the Prismatic Metropolis, 13 Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 8 (Fall 2003)

Toward a New Theory of Community Economic Development (with Gregory Volz), 37 Clearinghouse Review 158 (July-Aug. 2003) (invited contribution to Special Issue: Economic Development Strategies for Individuals and Communities)

Legal Pedagogy and Economic Justice, 17(3) Management Information Exchange 48 (2003)

The Politics of Helping: Reflections on Identity, Ethic, and Defending the Poor, 6 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy 43 (1999)

Book Review, 70 Journal of Legal Education 493 (Winter & Spring 2021). Reviewing Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity during this Crisis (and the Next) (2020)

Book Review, 61 Journal of Legal Education 711 (2012). Reviewing Stones of Hope: How African Activists Reclaim Human Rights to Challenge Global Poverty (Lucie E. White & Jeremy Perleman eds., Stanford Univ. Press 2011)

Review Essay (with Ingrid V. Eagly), After Public Interest Law, 100 Northwestern University Law Review 1251 (2006). Reviewing Jennifer Gordon, Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights

Lawyers, Unite (with Ingrid V. Eagly), Legal Affairs, March-April 2005, at 63. Reviewing Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights, by Jennifer Gordon

Counsel of Record, Brief of Amici Curiae Economics and Public Policy Professors in Support of Respondents, DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Cuno, Supreme Court Nos. 04-1704, 04-1724