Forthcoming

• Corruption Temptation, California Law Review (forthcoming 2013)
• Mapping a Post-Shelby County Contingency Strategy, Yale Law Journal Online (forthcoming 2013) (with Luis E. Fuentes-Rohwer)
• The New Black: What Has Changed--and What Has Not-- With Race in America, (The New Press, forthcoming 2013) (editor with Kenneth W. Mack)

Books

• Election Law in the American Political System (Aspen, 2012) (with James A. Gardner)
• Race, Reform, and Regulation of the Electoral Process: Recurring Puzzles in American Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2011) (editor with Heather K. Gerken & Michael S. Kang)

Articles and Essays

• Dissent, Diversity, and Democracy: Heather Gerken and the Contingent Imperative of Minority Rule, 48 Tulsa Law Review 493-502 (2013)
• Section 2 is Dead: Long Live Section 2, 160 University of Pennsylvania Law Review PENNumbra 219-227 (2012)
• 'Not that Smart': Sonia Sotomayor and the Construction of Merit (August 10, 2011) (with Daniel L. Chen & Mitu Gulati)
• A Tribute to the Oracle of Ann Arbor, 16 Michigan Journal of Race & Law 147-148 (2011)
• The Future of Elections Scholarship, in Race, Reform, and Regulation of the Electoral Process: Recurring Puzzles in American Democracy 1-6 (Guy-Uriel Charles ed., 2011) (with Heather K. Gerken & Michael S. Kay)
• Can Mature Democracies Be Perfected?, 9 Election Law Journal 157-159 (Spring 2010) (reviewing Matthew J. Streb, Rethinking American Electoral Democracy (2008))
• Do We Care Enough About Racial Inequality? Reflections On The River Runs Dry, 158 University of Pennsylvania Law Review PENNumbra 119-127 (2009)
• Race and Redistricting: What the Print Media Conveys to the Public about the Role of Race, 64 Journal of Social Issues 619-637 (2008) (with Damla Ergun, Grace Deason & Eugene Vorgida)
• Democracy and Distortion, 92 Cornell Law Review 601-677 (2007)
• Race, Redistricting, and Representation, 68 Ohio State Law Journal 1185-1212 (2007)
• The Politics of Preclearance, 12 Michigan Journal of Race & Law 513-535 (2007) (with Luis Fuentes-Rohwer)
• Toward a New Civil Rights Framework, 30 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 353-363 (2007)
• On the Renewal of Section 5 of the VRA: Why Congress Failed Voters of Color, in Making Every Vote Count: Federal Election Legislation in the States 37-54 (Andrew Rochlin ed., 2006) (with Luis Fuentes-Rohwer)
• Preclearance, Discrimination, and the Department of Justice: The Case of South Carolina, 57 South Carolina Law Review 827-858 (2006) (with Luis Fuentes-Rohwer)
• Reexamining Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, in The Future of the Voting Rights Act  38-60 (Epstein et al. eds, 2006) (with Luis Fuentes-Rohwer)
• Colored Speech: Cross Burnings, Epistemics, and the Triumph of the Crits?, 93 Georgetown Law Journal 575-632 (2005)
• Judging the Law of Politics, 103 Michigan Law Review 1099-1141 (2005) (reviewing Richard H. Hasen, The Supreme Court and Election Law: Judging Equality from Baker v. Carr to Bush v. Gore (2003))
• Regulating Section 527 Organizations, 73 George Washington Law Review 1000-1035 (2005)(with Gregg D. Polsky)
• Affirmative Action and Colorblindness from the Original Position, 78 Tulane Law Review 2009-2036 (2004)
• Congressional Representation of Black Interests: Recognizing the Importance of Stability, 66 Journal of Politics 450-468 (2004) (with Vincent L. Hutchings & Harwood K. McClerking)
• In Defense of Deference, 21 Constitutional Commentary 133-170 (2004) ( with Luis Fuentes-Rohwer)
• Law, Politics, and Judicial Review: A Comment on Hasen, 31 Journal of Legislation 17-24 (2004)
• Mixing Metaphors: Voting, Dollars, and Campaign Finance Reform, 2 Election Law Journal 271-283 (2003) (reviewing Bruce Acckerman & Ian Ayers, Voting with Dollars: A New Paradigm for Campaign Finance (2002))
• Racial Identity, Electoral Structures, and the First Amendment Right of Association, 91 California Law Review 1209-1280 (2003)
• Constitutional Pluralism and Democratic Politics: Reflections on the Interpretive Approach of Baker v. Carr, 80 North Carolina Law Review 1103-1163 (2002)
• Challenges to Racial Redistricting in the New Millennium: Hunt v. Cromartie as a Case Study, 58 Washington & Lee Law Review 227-311 (2001) (with Luis Fuentes-Rohwer)
• The Electoral College, the Right to Vote, and Our Federalism: A Comment on a Lasting Institution, 29 Florida State University Law Review 879-924 (2001) (with Luis Fuentes-Rohwer)
• Fourth Amendment Accommodations: (Un)Compelling Public Needs, Balancing Acts, and the Fiction of Consent, 2 Michigan Journal of Race & Law 461-512 (1996)

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

• A Golden Opportunity to Revamp the Voting Rights Act, Los Angeles Times, May 25, 2009 (with Luis Fuentes-Rohwer)