Articles
“White Challengers, Black Majorities: Reconciling
Competition in Majority-Minority Districts with the Promise of the
Voting Rights Act,” 95 Georgetown Law Journal (forthcoming
2007) (link)
“Disparate Effects in the Criminal Justice System: A Response to
Randall Kennedy’s Comment,” 14 National Black Law Journal
222 (1997)
“Residential Zoning Regulations and the Perpetuation of
Apartheid,” 43 UCLA Law Review 1690 (1996)
Other Publications
“
Reflection, Celebration, and Renewal: The Voting Rights Act at
40,” The Crisis Magazine (July/August 2005) (with Ted
Shaw)
“40 Years After Bloody Sunday Challenges Remain,” ran in
multiple newspapers, including the Miami Herald, Detroit Free
Press, and Mobile Register (March 2005)
“Give Prisoners A Voice: Interview with Janai Nelson,”
Essence Magazine (October 2004)
“Felons
and the Rights to Vote,” Gotham Gazette (February 17,
2003) (with Juan Cartagena and Joan P. Gibbs)
Paper Presentations & Selected
Speaking Engagements
“Felon
Disfranchisement and African Democracy: A Comparative Analysis of
International Policy and Practice,” Voters and Voting in
New Democracy, African Studies Association 2006 Annual
Conference (Panelist) (November 2006)
“
The Voting Rights Act,” Law of Politics Symposium,
Georgetown University School of Law (Panelist) (October 2006)
“Public International Law,” Kwame Nkrumah University of Science
and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana (Guest Lecturer) (April 2006)
“The Face of Democracy on an International Stage and Whether the
American Model Works in African Nations,” democracy: vote.
right. act., Columbia University School of Law, Eleventh
Annual Paul Robeson Conference (Panelist) (April 2005)
“Voices
from the Frontline,” Lessons from the Past, Prospects for
the Future: Honoring the 40th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act
of 1965, Yale University School of Law (April 2005)
“Felony Disfranchisement,” Northeast People of Color Legal
Scholarship Conference, University of Connecticut School of
Law (Panelist) (October 2004)
“Felon Disfranchisement and Civil Disability: Black Codes for
the Twenty-First Century,” Africana Criminal Justice Project
Conference, The Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture
(Panelist) (April 2003)
Race and Legal Scholarship, New York University School
of Law (Guest Lecturer) (March 2003)
Mass Imprisonment and the Disappearing Voter, Open
Society Institute (Panelist) (October 2002)
Democracy and Disfranchisement, National Symposium on
Felony Disenfranchisement (Panelist) (September 2002)
Drawing Democracy for New York’s New Majority, New York
Voting Rights Consortium (Convener & Panelist) (January
2002)