“Of Rights and Regulation”

Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History
2022

New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State

  • Legal History
2022

“Morals, Sex, Crime, and the Origins of Modern American Social Police”

  • Criminal Law
  • Law and Social Sciences
The Intimate State: Gender, Sexuality, and Governance in Modern U.S. History
2021

“The American Law of Overruling Necessity: The Exceptional Origins of State Police Power”

  • Constitutional Law
States of Exception in American History
2020

“Epilogue: The Need for a New and Critical Democracy”

  • Legal Writing and Research
  • Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility
The Tocqueville Review
2020

“The Progressive Idea of Democratic Administration”

  • Constitutional Law
  • Legal History
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
2019

“Institutional Economics and the Progressive Movement for the Social Control of Business”

  • Legal History
Business History Review
2019

“The Administrative State in America”

The Administrative State
2017

“The Public Utility Idea and the Origins of Modern Business Regulation”

Corporations and American Democracy
2017

“Response: The People’s Welfare Redux”

American Journal of Legal History
2017

“The Continental Idea of the State”

Max Planck Handbooks of Public Law in Europe, Volume I: State and Administration
2017

Corporations and American Democracy

2017

“Democratic States of Unexception: Towards a New Genealogy of the American Political”

The Many Hands of the State: Theorizing Political Authority and Social Control
2017

Boundaries of the State in U.S. History

2015

“Beyond Max Weber: The Need for a Democratic (Not Aristocratic) Theory of the Modern State”

Tocqueville Review
2015

“A Revisionist History of Regulatory Capture”

Preventing Regulatory Capture: Special Interest Influence and How to Limit It
2013

“Emancipation and the Creation of Modern Liberal States in America and France”

Journal of the Civil War Era
2013

“Making the Modern American Legislative State”

Living Legislation: Durability, Change, and the Politics of American Lawmaking
2012

“Toward a History of the Democratic State”

Tocqueville Review
2012

“Political History after the Cultural Turn”

  • Legal History
Perspectives on History
2011

“Legal Realism and Human Rights”

  • Human Rights
History of European Ideas
2011

“AHR Exchange: Long Live the Myth of the Weak State? A Response to Adams, Gerstle, and Witt”

American Historical Review
2010

“Constitutional Theology: The Revival of Whig History in American Public Law”

  • Constitutional Law
  • Legal History
Michigan State Law Review
2010