Frampton, Thomas

GW Law Faculty Publications

July 31, 2026

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LAW REVIEW ARTICLES & CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

Challenges for Cause, in Research Handbook on Jury Decisionmaking (Valerie Hans & Nancy Marder eds., Edward Elgar Publ’g) (forthcoming 2026). 

The Radical Roots of the Representative Jury, 135 Yale L.J. 372 (2025).

How Batson Was Decided, 22 Ohio St. J. Crim. L., no.1, 2025, at 23.

The First Black Jurors and the Integration of the American Jury, 99 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 515 (2024).

The End of Batson? Rulemaking, Race, and Criminal Procedure Reform, 124 Colum. L. Rev. 1 (2024) (with Brandon Charles Osowski).

Decision-Making in the Shadow of Evidence Law, in The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Legal Decision-Making 395 (Monica K. Miller, Logan A. Yelderman, Matthew T. Huss & Jason A. Cantone eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2024) (with Barbara A. Spellman). 

The Dangerous Few: Taking Seriously Prison Abolition and Its Skeptics, 135 Harv. L. Rev. 2013 (2022).

Why Do Rule 48 Dismissals Require “Leave of Court”?, 73 Stan. L. Rev. Online 28 (2020).

For Cause: Rethinking Racial Exclusion and the American Jury, 118 Mich. L. Rev. 785 (2020).

In Defense of Reentry: A Response to Shreya Subramani’s Productive Separations, 47 Fordham Urban L.J. 993 (2020) (with Kelly Orians). 

What Justice Thomas Gets Right About Batson72 Stan. L. Rev. Online 1 (2019).

The Jim Crow Jury, 71 Vand. L. Rev. 1593 (2018).

“Some Savage Tribe”: Race, Legal Violence, and the Mormon War of 1838, 40 J. Mormon Hist. 175 (2014).

Predisposition and Positivism: The Forgotten Foundations of the Entrapment Doctrine, 103 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 111 (2013).

A Union of Amateurs: A Legal Blueprint to Reshape Big-Time College Athletics, 60 Buffalo L. Rev. 1003 (2012) (with Nicholas Fram).

Bivens’s Revisions: Constitutional Torts After Minneci v. Pollard, 100 Cal. L. Rev. 1711 (2012).

The Uneven Bulwark: How (and Why) Criminal Jury Trial Rates Vary by State, 100 Cal. L. Rev. 183 (2012).

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Review, 32 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 211 (2011) (reviewing James P. Kraft, Vegas at Odds: Labor Conflict in a Leisure Economy, 1960-1985 (2010)).

OTHER

Hanging up the Robe, 33 Fed. Sent’g Rep. 184 (2021).

The Coming Storm? Hush Money and the Federal Election Campaign Act, Harv. L. Rev. Blog (Jan. 29, 2018), https://harvardlawreview.org/blog/2018/01/the-coming-storm-hush-money-and-the-federal-election-campaign-act/.

A Blueprint for Unionizing College Sports, Deadspin (Jan. 31, 2014, at 13:17 ET), https://deadspin.com/a-blueprint-for-unionizing-college-sports-1513193846/.

Lombroso’s Ghost, The New Inquiry (Mar. 7, 2013), https://thenewinquiry.com/lombrosos-ghost/.

Opinion, College Athletes Deserve Employee Status, SFGate (Mar. 25, 2012), https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/College-athletes-deserve-employee-status-3430855.php (with Nicholas Fram).