Publications by the Appellate Brief Expert

Awarding Attorneys’ Fees and Managing Fee Litigation, Federal Judicial Center, 2005 (coauthored with Diane Sheehey)
For the People: What the Constitution Really Says About Your Rights, The Free Press, 1999 (coauthored with Akhil Reed Amar)
A Citizen’s Guide to Impeachment, Essential Books, 1998
The Analysis and Decision of Summary Judgment Motions, Federal Judicial Center, 1991 (coauthored with Judge William W. Schwarzer and David J. Barrans)
Talking Heads : Political Talk Shows and Their Star Pundits, St. Martins Press, 1991

Not Coming Clean: Common Police Practices Won’t Cure Tainted Terrorist Confessions, Legal Times, February 18, 2008
Confessions and Harmless Error: A New Argument for the Old Approach, Boalt Journal of Criminal Law, Spring 2007
Is Innocence the Best Argument for Ending the Death Penalty?, The Texas Observer, February 23, 2007 (coauthored with David R. Dow)
Why Good Lawyers Become Overzealous Prosecutors, Los Angeles Times, June 21, 2006
Why the Innocent Confess, Los Angeles Times, April 25, 2006
Threats, Promises, and False Confessions: Lessons of Slavery, Howard Law Journal, Winter 2005
If Gays Are OK, Job Bias Can’t Be, Los Angeles Times, April 29, 2004
Court to Gays: Don’t Ask Us, Village Voice, March 1, 2005
Straight-Out Truth on Gay Parents, Los Angeles Times, April 4, 2004
Just What Is Marriage Anyway?, Los Angeles Times, November 19, 2003
Judicial Federalism in Action: The Coordination of State and Federal Cases in Mass Tort Litigation, Virginia Law Review, November 1992 (coauthored with Judge William W. Schwarzer & Nancy Weiss)