Selected Scholarly articles and essays

The New Old Civil Rights, in LAW AND THE 100 YEAR LIFE (forthcoming Anne Alstott & Abbe Gluck eds., 2023).

Acts of Oblivion, 72 STAN. L. REV. 65 (2020) (book review).

Appellate Deference in the Age of Facts, 58 WILLIAM & MARY L. REV. 251 (2016) (Cutler Lecture).

A New Birth of Freedom?—Obergefell v. Hodges, 129 HARV. L. REV. 147 (2015).

The Anti-Humiliation Principle and Same-Sex Marriage, 123 YALE L.J. 2534 (2014).

Immodest Claims and Modest Contributions: Sexual Orientation in Comparative Constitutional Law, in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 1079 (Michel Rosenfeld and András Sajó, eds., Oxford University Press, 2012) (with Michael Kavey).

The “Civil” Courts: The Case of Same-Sex Marriage, 54 ARIZ. L. REV. 469 (2012).

The New Equal Protection, 124 HARV. L. REV. 747 (2011).

Selected Public Commentary

After the Supreme Court’s Abortion Ruling, What Could Happen to Other Unwritten Rights?, WASH. POST, November 30, 2022.

Is The Right To Same-Sex Marriage Next?, N.Y. TIMES, June 30, 2022.

A Retro Reading of the Constitution Imperils Many Rights Beyond Abortion, L.A. TIMES, May 6, 2022.

A Supreme Court for the Rich, N.Y. Times, Feb. 21, 2020.

Metamorphosis, 118 COLUM. L. REV. 317 (2018).

Frosted Floodgates: A Supreme Court Ruling in Favor of Masterpiece Cakeshop Would Destroy Discrimination Law, SLATE, Nov. 28, 2017 (with David Glasgow).

Holding Court: Richard A. Posner’s ‘Reflections on Judging’, N.Y. TIMES BOOK REVIEW, Nov. 8, 2013.

For Obama, It’s About the Children, N.Y. TIMES, May 12, 2012.