Publications

The Carceral State

Andrew Manuel Crespo & John Rappaport, Criminal Law and the American Penal System (2025).

Andrew Manuel Crespo, No Justice, No Pleas: Subverting Mass Incarceration Through Defendant Collective Action, Fordham L. Rev. (2022).

Alexandra Natapoff, Criminal Municipal Courts, 134 Harv. L. Rev. 964 (2021).

Chika O. Okafor, Prosecutor Politics: The Impact of Election Cycles on Criminal Sentencing in the Era of Rising Incarceration, Working Paper (Oct. 18, 2021).

Alexandra Natapoff, Misdemeanor Decriminalization, 68 Vand. L. Rev. 1055 (2015).

Alexandra Natapoff, Gideon’s Servants and the Criminalization of Poverty, 12 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 445 (2015).

Constitutional Political Economy

Ryan Doerfler & Samuel Moyn, After Courts: Democratizing Statutory Law, Mich. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025).

Brian Highsmith, Governing the Company Town, 77 Stan. L. Rev. 1463 (2025).

Ryan Doerfler & Samuel Moyn, We Are Already Defying the Supreme Court, 70 Dissent 108 (2024).

Nikolas Bowie & Daphna Renan, The Separation-of-Powers Counterrevolution, 133 Yale L.J. (2022).

Guy-Uriel Charles, Creating an Inclusive Political Order, Regul. Rev., (Mar. 21, 2022).

Nikolas Bowie, Antidemocracy, 135 Harv. L. Rev. 160 (2021).

Nikolas Bowie, The Constitutional Right of Self-Government, 130 Yale L.J. 1652 (2021).

Guy-Uriel Charles & Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, No Voice, No Exit, But Loyalty? Puerto Rico and Constitutional Obligation, 26 Mich. J. Race & L. 133 (2021).

Ryan D. Doerfler & Samuel Moyn, Democratizing the Supreme Court, 109 Cal. L. Rev. 1703 (2021).

Ryan D. Doerfler & Samuel Moyn, Imagining a Post-Constitutional Political Culture, Public Seminar (Oct. 12, 2021).

Michael J. Klarman, Foreword: The Degradation of American Democracy—and the Court, 134 Harv. L. Rev. 1 (2020).

Laura Weinrib, Power and Premises: The Contested Meanings of the Abrams Dissent, 51 Seton Hall L. Rev. 61 (2020).

Michael Klarman, The Constitution as a Coup Against the Public Opinion, 3 Revista de Estudos Institucionais 255 (2017).

Daphna Renan, Pooling Powers, 115 Colum. L. Rev. 211 (2015).

Labor, Technology, & Production

Sharon Block, How Work, and Workers, Can Influence Heat Action Plans, OnLabor (Mar. 27, 2025).

Benjamin Sachs, Employer Property, Employer Speech, and Worker Organizing, Balkinization (July 3, 2025).

Benjamin Sachs, What Unionization Could Offer Law Firm Associates: Protection and Voice, OnLabor (Apr. 14, 2025).

Sharon Block & Benjamin Sachs, The Truth About the Parties and Labor, Am. Prospect (Oct. 16, 2024).

Sharon Block, Yoorie Chang & Benjamin Sachs, Introducing: “Building Worker Power in Cities and States: A Toolkit for State and Local Labor Policy Innovation”, OnLabor (Sept. 2, 2024).

Yochai Benkler, The Ends of Law, in THE ENDS OF KNOWLEDGE: OUTCOMES AND ENDPOINTS ACROSS THE ARTS AND SCIENCES (Seth Rudy & Rachel Scarborough eds., 2023).

Yochai Benkler, Power and Productivity: Institutions, Ideology, and Technology in Political Economy, in A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF JUSTICE (Danielle Allen et al. eds., 2022).

Benjamin I. Sachs, Safety, Health, and Union Access in Cedar Point Nursery, 2021 Supreme Ct. Rev. 99 (2022).

Benjamin I. Sachs, Unpreemption: The NLRB’s Untapped Power to Authorize State Experimentation, On Labor (Dec. 24, 2022).

Kate Andrias & Benjamin Sachs, Constructing Countervailing Power: Law and Organizing in an Era of Political Inequality, 130 Yale L.J. 546 (2021).

Oren Bar-Gill & Yochai Benkler, Productivity Versus Power: The Role of Law and Technology, (Mis)perceptions and Ideology (Harv. L. Sch. John M. Olin Ctr. Discussion Paper No. 1057, Mar. 2021).

Sharon Block & Benjamin Harris (Eds.), INEQUALITY AND THE LABOR MARKET: THE CASE FOR GREATER COMPETITION, (Brookings Institution Press 2021).

Laura Weinrib, Against Intolerance: The Red Scare Roots of Legal Liberalism, 18 J. Gilded Age & Progressive Era 7 (2019).

Laura Weinrib, Labor History and the Clash of Capabilities, in THE CAPABILITY APPROACH TO LABOUR LAW 159 (Brian Langille ed., 2019).

Benjamin I. Sachs, Law, Organizing, and Status Quo Vulnerability, 96 Tex. L. Rev. 351 (2017).

Money & Finance

Christine A. Desan, Property, Money, and the Claim of Capital (Harvard Pub. L. Working Paper No. 24-20, 2024).

Christine Desan, The Monetary Structure of Economic Activity: A Constitutional Analysis, 86 Law & Contemp. Probs. 77 (2024).

Pierre-Christian Fink, Caught between Frontstage and Backstage: The Failure of the Federal Reserve to Halt Rule Evasion in the Financial Crisis of 1974, American Sociological Review 1 (2022).

Christine Desan, The Key to Value: The Debate over Commensurability in Neoclassical and Credit Approaches to Money, 83 L. & Contemp. Probs. 1 (2020).

Christine Desan, The Monetary Structure of Economic Activity (Harv. Pub. L., Working Paper No. 20-04, Mar. 30, 2020).

Christine Desan, MAKING MONEY: COIN, CURRENCY, AND THE COMING OF CAPITALISM (Oxford Univ. Press 2014).

Race & Capitalism

Guy-Uriel E. Charles & Luis E. Fuentes-Rohwer, The Constitution of Difference, 137 Harv. L. Rev. F. 133 (2024).

Yochai Benkler & Talha Syed, Reconstructing Class Analysis, 4 J.L. & Pol. Econ. 731 (2024).

Guy-Uriel E. Charles & Luis E. Fuentes-Rohwer, Race, Originalism, and Skepticism, 25 J. Const. L. 1241 (2023).

Guy-Uriel Charles & Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, Pathological Racism, Chronic Racism & Targeted Universalism, 109 Cal. L. Rev. 1107 (2021).

Luis Fuentes-Rohwer & Guy-Uriel Charles, Toward a Law and Politics of Racial Solidarity, 106 Cornell L. Rev. Online 50 (2021).