My work has been on epistemologies and law. I argue that we should look at law as a
language, the Supreme Court as an institution and social movements in terms of the laws
that constitute them. 

Currently I have written on what it means to see law and I teach about the ethnographic
dimensions of local politics. My course Ethnography and Policy focuses on representation
with attention to maps, places and politicians. 

Jurisprudence

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The Discourse of Judging, Studies (2012)
 

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Celebrity as Authority in Law (with Jill Meyers), Contemporary Issues in the Semiotics of Law (2005)
 

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The Supreme Court & the Closet, The Future of Gay Rights in America (2004)

This chapter is about the Supreme Court learning what it means to be gay. This...

 

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Realism and Its Consequences (with Christine B. Harrington), International Journal of the Sociology of Law (1989)

Realism, offered as a critique, has become the dominant paradigm for law.

 

The Constitution

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Sex in Context: The Constitution of Images (2008)

This paper examines the changing context for sexual images and the details that give law...

 

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Unusual Punishment, Journal of Law and Policy (2004)

This paper examines the way state and federal authority is constituted in the United States...

 

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The Constitution in Crisis, Schmooze 'tickets' (2003)
 

The Death Penalty in Massachusetts, The Hanging of E. Wheeler (2003)
 

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Original Intent and Other Cult Classics, The Good Society (2002)
 

Policy

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Anti, Anti Terror and the Joke of Homeland Security, Criminology Department, University of Barcelona (2005)
 

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Landscapes of Fear in Springfield (2005)

This is an English version of a paper I published in Spanish as part of...

 

Sociology of Law

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Sites of Law (2007)
 

Courses

Material Law

Court Architecture, Representing Justice (2011)
 

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Design Excellence, The Courthouse Series (2005)