Political Science Faculty

“Desegregation, Then and Now,” National Affairs, Winter, 2020

“Analyzing the Department of Education’s final Title IX rules on sexual misconduct,” Brookings Report, June 11, 2020

“The Title IX Spotlight Shifts from the Campus to the Schoolhouse,” Education Next, May 27, 2020

“The Mismeasure of ‘Enforcement,’” Education Next Blog, February, 2020

“The Department of Education’s Proposed Sexual Harassment Rules:  Looking Beyond the Rhetoric,” Brookings Brief, January, 2019

“The Strange Evolution of Title IX,” National Affairs, Summer, 2018

“Rethinking Federal Regulation of Sexual Harassment:  The Need for Debate, not Demagoguery in the Age of Trump,” Education Next, Winter, 2018

“Sexual Harassment and the Evolving Civil Rights State,” in Lynda Dodd, ed., The Rights Revolution Revisited:  Institutional Perspectives on the Private Enforcement of Civil Rights in the U.S. (Cambridge, 2018)

“Scalia’s Dilemmas as a Conservative Jurist,” in Paul E. Peterson and Michael W. McConnell, eds., Scalia’s Constitution:  Essays on Law and Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)

“Adversarial Legalism, Civil Rights, and the Exceptional American State,” in Thomas Burke and Jeb Barnes, eds., Varieties of Legal Order:  The Politics of Adversarial and Bureaucratic Legalism (Routledge, 2017)

“Gridlock and the Madisonian Constitution,” in Benjamin Wittes and Pietro Nivola, eds., What Would Madison Do?  The Father of the Constitution Meets Modern American Politics (Brookings, 2015)

”The Gridlock Illusion,” The Wilson Quarterly (Winter, 2013)

“Politics as a Vocation: An Appreciation of the Life and Work of James Q. Wilson,” The Forum, vol. 10, #1 (May, 2012)

“Taking Remedies Seriously:  Can Courts Control Public Schools?” in Joshua Dunn and Martin West, eds., From Schoolhouse to Courthouse:  The Judiciary’s Role in American Education (Brookings, 2009)

Martin Shapiro” in Thomas Ginsburg and Robert Kagan, eds., Institutions and Public Law (Peter Lang, 2005)

“From Tax-and-Spend to Mandate-and-Sue:  Liberalism After the Great Society” in Sidney Milkis and Jerome Mileur, eds., The Great Society and the High Tide of Liberalism (University of Massachusetts Press, 2005)

 “Constitutional Bureaucracy,” in Mark Blitz and William Kristol, eds., Educating the Prince: Essays in Honor of Harvey Mansfield (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000)

“Separation of Powers and the Strategy of Rights:  The Expansion of Special Education,” in Landy and Levin, eds., The New Politics of Public Policy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995)

“Administrative Law and Bureaucratic Reality,” Administrative Law Review (Summer, 1992)

 “Pollution Deadlines and The Coalition for Failure,” The Public Interest, (Spring, 1984); reprinted with a new epilogue in Environmental Politics:  Public

Costs, Private Rewards, Greve and Smith, eds., (Praeger, 1992)

“The Courts, Congress, and Programmatic Rights,” in Remaking American Politics, Milkis and Harris, eds. (Westview, 1989)