My scholarship focuses on the substance and enforcement of civil rights, both constitutional and statutory. Much of my work explores disability rights law to draw lessons for broader debates in doctrine and scholarship (in antidiscrimination law, social welfare law, risk regulation, and tort damages, among other areas). Much of my work also explores civil rights remedies and enforcement, both inside and outside of the disability rights context.
Antidiscrimination Theory
“Rational Discrimination,” Accommodation, and the Politics of (Disability) Civil Rights, Virginia Law Review (2003)
Civil Rights Litigation
The Perversity of Limited Civil Rights Remedies: The Case of “Abusive” ADA Litigation, UCLA Law Review (2006)
Disability Rights Law
Abolish the Integration Presumption? Not Yet, University of Pennsylvania Law Review PENNumbra (2007)
Hedonic Damages, Hedonic Adaptation, and Disability (with Margo Schlanger), Vanderbilt Law Review (2007)
The Perversity of Limited Civil Rights Remedies: The Case of “Abusive” ADA Litigation, UCLA Law Review (2006)
Law and Psychology
Hedonic Damages, Hedonic Adaptation, and Disability (with Margo Schlanger), Vanderbilt Law Review (2007)
Nonacademic Legal Writing (Including Briefs)
Brief for Plaintiffs-Appellees, Brown v. Tennessee Dept. of Finance & Admin. (2008)
I represent the plaintiff class in the Sixth Circuit in this case where the State...
Senate Testimony on Ledbetter v. Goodyear (2008)
I testified at a hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee in...
Petition for Rehearing En Banc in Alaska v. EEOC (2007)
I filed this petition for rehearing en banc on behalf of the complainant in Alaska...
Opening Brief for Petitioner Goodman in US/Goodman v. Georgia (2005)
I argued U.S. v. Georgia, 546 U.S. 151 (2006), for the private petitioner Tony Goodman....
Brief for the Respondents in Tennessee v. Lane (2003)
I was the principal author of the Brief for the Private Respondents in Tennessee v....