BOOKS
Criminal Procedure: Cases and Materials (3d ed., West Acad. Publ'g 2023)(with L. Song Richardson).
First edition published in 2016 with L. Song Richardson & Tamara Lawson.
Second edition published in 2018 L. Song Richardson & Tamara Lawson.
Criminal Procedure: Adjudication, Cases and Materials (3d ed., West Acad. Publ'g 2023)(with L. Song Richardson).
First edition published in 2016 with L. Song Richardson & Tamara Lawson.
Second edition published in 2018 L. Song Richardson & Tamara Lawson.
Criminal Procedure: Investigation, Cases and Materials (3d ed., West Acad. Publ'g 2023)(with L. Song Richardson).
First edition published in 2016 with L. Song Richardson & Tamara Lawson.
Second edition published in 2018 L. Song Richardson & Tamara Lawson.
Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (4th ed., West Acad. Publ'g, 2019)(with Angela Harris).
First edition published in 2005.
Second edition published in 2009.
Third edition published in 2014.
The Fourth Amendment, Searches and Seizures: Its Constitutional History and the Contemporary Debate (Prometheus Books, 2011).
Murder and the Reasonable Man: Passion and Fear in the Criminal Courtroom (N.Y. Univ. Press, 2003).
LAW REVIEW ARTICLES & CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Firearms and the Homeowner: Defending the Castle, the Curtilage, and Beyond, 108 Minn. L. Rev. 2889 (2024).
Strengthening the Law of Self-Defense After Bruen, 98 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1905 (2023).
Race and the Criminal Law Curriculum, in The Oxford Handbook of Race and Law in the United States (Devon Carbado, Emily Houh & Khiara M. Bridges eds., Oxford Univ. Press, 2022).
Firearms and Initial Aggressors, 101 N.C. L. Rev. 1 (2022).
Officer Created Jeopardy: Broadening the Time Frame When Assessing the Reasonableness of a Police Officer’s Use of Deadly Force, 89 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1362 (2021).
Probable Cause with Teeth, 88 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 269 (2020).
The Trans Panic Defense Revisited, 57 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 1411 (2020).
Surviving a Difficult Tenure Process: Tips for Junior Faculty of Color, in Presumed Incompetent II: Race, Class, Power, and Resistance of Women in Academia 49 (Yolanda Nieman et al. eds., Utah State Univ. Press, 2020).
Reforming the Law on Police Use of Deadly Force: De-escalation, Preseizure Conduct, and Imperfect Self-Defense, 2018 U. Ill. L. Rev. 629.
Awareness as a First Step Toward Overcoming Implicit Bias, in Enhancing Justice: Reducing Bias 289 (Sarah E. Redfield ed., Am. Bar Ass'n, 2017).
Peña-Rodriguez v. Colorado: The Court’s New Racial Bias Exception to the No-Impeachment Rule, Geo. Wash. L. Rev. On the Docket (Mar. 19, 2017), http://www.gwlr.org/pena-rodriguez-v-colorado-the-courts-new-racial-bias-exception-to-the-no-impeachment-rule/.
Making Black and Brown Lives Matter: Incorporating Race into the Criminal Procedure Curriculum, 60 St. Louis U. L. J. 481 (2016).
Race, Policing, and Lethal Force: Remedying Shooter Bias with Martial Arts Training, 79 Law & Contemp. Probs., no. 3, 2016, at 145.
A New Approach to Voir Dire on Racial Bias, 5 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 843 (2015).
(E)Racing Trayvon Martin, 12 Ohio State J. Crim. L. 91 (2014).
Honoring Angela Harris: A Review of Gender, Violence, Race, and Criminal Justice, 47 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1037 (2014).
The Trans Panic Defense: Masculinity, Heteronormativity, and the Murder of Transgender Women, 66 Hastings L.J. 77 (2014)(with Peter Kwan).
Criminal Law Pedagogy: Making Things Clear, 10 Ohio State J. Crim. L. 637 (2013).
Making Race Salient: Trayvon Martin and Implicit Bias in a Not Yet Post-Racial Society, 91 N.C. L. Rev. 1556 (2013).
Masculinity on Trial: Gay Panic in the Criminal Courtroom, 42 Sw. L. Rev. 817 (2013).
Reasonableness with Teeth: The Future of Fourth Amendment Reasonableness Analysis, 81 Miss. L.J. 1133 (2012).
The Future of 'Reasonableness' Analysis: When Is a Search or Seizure Justified?, 81 Miss. L.J. 1133 (2012).
Package Bombs, Footlockers and Laptops: What the Disappearing Container Doctrine Can Tell Us about the Fourth Amendment, 100 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 1403 (2010).
Hate Crimes and the War on Terror, in 5 Hate Crimes: Responding to Hate Crime 139 (Barbara Perry & Frederick M. Lawrence eds., Praeger Publishers, 2009).
Reasonable Provocation and Self-Defense: Recognizing the Distinction between Act Reasonableness and Emotion Reasonableness, in Criminal Law Conversations 427 (Paul H. Robinson, Stephen Garvey & Kimberly Ferzan eds., Oxford Univ. Press, 2009).
Teaching Criminal Law from a Critical Perspective, 7 Ohio State J. Crim. L. 261 (2009)(with Angela P. Harris)(Commentary Symposium: Criminal Law, Casebooks, and Legal Education).
The Gay Panic Defense, 42 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 471 (2008).
Cultural Convergence: Interest Convergence Theory Meets the Cultural Defense, 49 Ariz. L. Rev. 911 (2007).
'Murder and the Reasonable Man' Revisited: A Response to Victoria Nourse, 3 Ohio State J. Crim. L. 301 (2005).
'But I Thought He Had a Gun': Race and Police Use of Deadly Force, 2 Hastings Race & Poverty L.J. 1 (2004).
Culture and Crime, 9 Goal IX, No. 3, p. 1 (Summer 2003).
Race and the Victim: An Examination of Capital Sentencing and Guilt Attribution Studies, 73 Chicago-Kent L. Rev. 533 (1998).
The Act-Belief Distinction in Self-Defense Doctrine: A New Dual Requirement Theory of Justification, 2 Buff. Crim. L. Rev. 191 (1998).
A New 'Sliding Scale of Deference' Approach to Abuse of Discretion: Appellate Review of District Court Departures under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, 35 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 1 (1997).
From Gatekeeper to Concierge: The Federal Prosecutor's Expanding Power over Substantial Assistance Departures, 50 Rutgers L. Rev. 199 (1997).
Race and Self Defense: Toward a Normative Conception of Reasonableness, 81 Minn. L. Rev. 367 (1996).
Reprinted two-part series in 5 Crim. Practice L. Rep. 25 (1997) and 5 Crim. Practice L. Rep. 33 (1997).
Reprinted in Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America 1066 (West Group, 2000).
Reprinted in Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge 204 (2d ed., Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic eds., Temple Univ. Press, 2000).
Beyond Black and White: Racializing Asian Americans in a Society Obsessed with O.J., 6 Hastings Women's L.J. 165 (1995).
Adapted version published in Asian Week 12 (Nov. 12, 1995).
Prosecutorial Discretion, Substantial Assistance, and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, 42 UCLA L. Rev. 105 (1994).
Reprinted in 3 Crim. Prac. L. Rep. 17 (1995).
Reprinted in 18 Crim. L. Rev. 443 (1996).
The Sentencing Court's Discretion to Depart Downward in Recognition of a Defendant's Substantial Assistance: A Proposal to Eliminate the Government Motion Requirement, 23 Ind. L. Rev. 681 (1990).
Freedom of Speech in the Public Workplace: A Comment on the Public Concern Requirement, 76 Cal. L. Rev. 1109 (1988).
OTHER
Opinion, The Initial-Aggressor Rule and the Shooting of Karon Blake, Nat'l Law J. (Feb. 13, 2023, 12:12 PM), https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2023/02/13/the-initial-aggressor-rule-and-the-shooting-of-karon-blake/?slreturn=20230115165547.
Opinion, When It Comes to Guns and Claims of Self-Defense, Juries Need Guidance, Boston Globe (Dec. 6, 2021, 3:00 AM), https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/12/06/opinion/when-it-comes-guns-claims-self-defense-juries-need-guidance.
Opinion, Ahmaud’s Killers Are Guilty, But Trayvon’s Shooter Went Free. Here’s One Reason Why., Politico (Nov. 26, 2021, 4:15 PM), https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/11/26/race-ahmaud-arbery-case-bias-523395.
Opinion, How a Vaguely Worded Wisconsin Law Could Let Rittenhouse Walk, Politico (Nov. 17, 2021, 1:30 PM), https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/11/17/wisconsin-self-defense-law-rittenhouse-522814.
(With Chanda Smith Baker et al.) 21 Experts on What the Verdict Means – And Where We Go from Here, Politico Mag. (Apr. 20, 2021, 10:00 PM), https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/04/20/mag-roundup-chauvinverdict-483640.
Opinion, It's Time to Judge Cops by Their Actions, Politico (June 11, 2020, 4:06 PM), https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/11/prosecute-police-reasonable-fear-conduct-313833.
Opinion, It Looks Like Another Black Man with a Gun Was Killed by Police After Trying to Help, Slate (Nov. 29, 2018, 5:58 PM), https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/11/ej-bradford-jemel-roberson-police-shootings-good-guy-with-gun.html.
Opinion, Jemel Roberson’s Avoidable Death: Reform Deadly Force Laws, Require Police to De-Escalate, USA Today (Nov. 15, 2018, 5:00 AM), https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/11/15/jemel-roberson-killed-deadly-force-require-police-de-escalation-column/2002341002/.