BOOK
RAP ON TRIAL (with Erik Nielson) (The New Press 2019)
Winner, Hugh M. Hefner Foundation, 2020 First Amendment Award (October 2020) (book publishing category)
Finalist, Library of Virginia, 23rd Annual Literary Awards (October 2020) (non-fiction category)
BOOK CHAPTERS
Character (Evidence) Assassination, in Bennett Capers, Jasmine Gonzales, Julia Simon-Kerr eds., CRITICAL EVIDENCE (Cambridge University Press forthcoming 2026).
Black Collaboration during American Slavery in Juan Espindola and Leigh A. Payne, eds., COLLABORATION IN AUTHORITARIAN AND ARMED CONFLICT SETTINGS (Oxford University Press 2022).
Adventures of the Accidental Homeschoolers in HOMESCHOOLING BLACK CHILDREN IN THE U.S: THEORY, PRACTICE, AND POPULAR CULTURE (Dr. Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman and Dr. Cheryl Fields-Smith eds) (Information Age Publishing 2022).
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Countries as Laboratories: Reflections on Sierra Leone’s Amended Anti-Human Trafficking Law, 53 Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law 1 (2025).
Judicial Threats to Olmstead and the Americans with Disabilities Act, 75 Psychiatric Services 589-93 (2024) (with Jean Goetz Mangan) (peer-reviewed) (online Dec. 2023 -- https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.20230397).
Schoolhouse Rap, 41 Popular Music 511 (2022) (special issue) (peer-reviewed).
Remarks, 55 U. Mich. J. L. Reform 759 (2022) (invited) (2022 annual symposium - Reimagining Police Surveillance: Protecting Activism and Ending Technologies of Oppression).
The Dysfunctional Criminalization of Family Violence, 57 Criminal Law Bulletin 559 (2021).
Systemic, Racial-Justice Informed Solutions to Shift “Care” from the Criminal Legal System to the Mental Healthcare System, 72 Psychiatric Services 1428-33 (with Sarah Y. Vinson, MD) (Dec. 2021 (peer-reviewed).
Decriminalizing Childhood, 45 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1 (2017).
Criminal Law as Family Law, 33 Georgia State Law Review 285 (2017).
Black Contemporary Social Movements, Resource Mobilization, and Musical Activism, 79 Law & Contemporary Problems 29 (2016).
Talk Don’t Touch? Considerations for Children’s Attorneys on the Physical Touch of Clients, 65 Catholic University Law Review 253 (2015).
Encouraging Victims: Responding to a Recent Study of Battered Women Who Commit Crimes, 15 Nevada Law Journal 1 (with Carol E. Jordan) (2014).
A Snitch in Time: An Historical Sketch of Black Informing during Slavery, 97 Marquette Law Review 279 (2013).
Prosecutorial Discretion and the Neglect of Juvenile Shielding Statutes, 90 Nebraska Law Review 341 (2011).
Collateral Damage? Juvenile Snitches in America’s “Wars” on Drugs, Crime, and Gangs, 46 American Criminal Law Review 1145 (2009).
Reprinted in ADAM M. GERSHOWITZ, THE WIRE: CRIME, LAW, AND POLICY 372 (Carolina Acad. Press 2013).
Poetic (In)Justice? Rap Music Lyrics as Art, Life, and Criminal Evidence, 31 Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts 1 (2007).
Reprinted in HIP HOP AND THE LAW: THE KEY WRITINGS THAT FORMED THE MOVEMENT (Pamela Bridgewater, andre douglas pond cummings, & Donald Tibbs eds., Carolina Acad. Press 2015).
Note, Because I am Black, Because I am Woman: Remedying the Sexual Harassment Experience of Black Women, 1996 N.Y.U. Annual Survey of American Law 555 (1996).
ESSAYS and SHORTER WORKS
The Music of Mass Incarceration, 13 No. 2 ABA LANDSLIDE 14 (Nov/Dec 2020).
Good Cop-Bad Cop: Police Violence and the Child’s Mind, 58 Howard Law Journal 811 (2015).
Teaching “The Wire”: Crime, Evidence, and Kids, 64 Journal of Legal Education 111 (2014).