In Search of the Presidential Removal Power: What Venality (Offices as Property) Tells Us About the Constitutional Dogs that Did Not Bark and the Howling Hounds of Bureaucratic Accountability, 2023 JOTWELL 1 (2023). URL
In Search of the Public Interest, 40 Yale J. on Reg. 759 (2023). FULLTEXT
Regulatory Managerialism as Gaslighting Government, 86 L. & Contemp. Probs. 1 (2023). FULLTEXT
The Dog That Didn’t Bark: Looking for Techno-Libertarian Ideology in a Decade of Public Discourse about Big Tech Regulation, 19 Ohio St. Tech. L.J. 1 (2022) (with Reuel Schiller, Susan Sibley, Noah Jones, Babak Hammatian, & Lee Anna Bowman-Carpio). FULLTEXTSSRN
Improving Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains: The Role of Institutional Environments and Monitoring Program Design, 73 Indus. & Lab. Rel. Rev. 873 (2020) (with Michael W. Toffel & Andrea R. Hugill). URL
The Politics of Regulatory Enforcement and Compliance: Theorizing and Operationalizing Political Influences, 15 Reg. & Governance 653 (2020). URL
Coupling Labor Codes of Conduct and Supplier Labor Practices: The Role of Internal Structural Conditions, 30 Org. Sci. 647 (2019) (with Yanhua Bird & Michael W. Toffel). URL
What's Reasonable Now? Sexual Harassment Law after the Norm Cascade, 2019 Mich. St. L. Rev. 139 (2019) (with Joan Williams, Margot Brooks, Hilary Hardcastle , Tiffanie A. Ellis & Rayna Saron). FULLTEXTSSRN
Private Regulation and Third-Party Auditing, Environs (2018) (Festschrift in Honor of Professor Lesley McAllister). URL
The Trouble with Counting: Cutting through the Rhetoric of Red Tape Cutting, 103 Minn. L. Rev. 93 (2018). FULLTEXTSSRN
Monitoring Global Supply Chains, 37 Strategic Mgmt. J. 1878 (2016) (with Michael W. Toffel & Andrea Hugill). SSRN
Codes in Context: How States, Markets, and Civil Society Shape Adherence to Global Labor Standards, 9 Reg. & Governance 205 (2015) (with Michael W. Toffel & Melissa Ouellet). FULLTEXTSSRN
Competing Normative Frameworks and the Limits of Deterrence Theory: Comments on
Baker and Griffith’s "Ensuring Corporate Misconduct", 38 Law & Soc. Inquiry 493 (2013). FULLTEXTSSRN
Self-Regulation in the Regulatory Void: “Blue Moon” or “Bad Moon”?, 649 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 22 (2013). URL
The Paranoid Style in Regulatory Reform, 63 Hastings L.J. 633 (2012). FULLTEXTSSRN
The Political Turn in American Administrative Law: Power, Rationality, and Reasons, 61 Duke L.J. 1811 (2012). FULLTEXT
Coming Clean and Cleaning Up: Does Voluntary Self-Reporting Indicate Effective Self-Policing?, 54 J.L. & Econ. 609 (2011) (with Michael W. Toffel). FULLTEXTSSRN
Making Self-Regulation More than Merely Symbolic: The Critical Role of the Legal Environment, 55 Admin. Sci. Q. 361 (2010) (with Michael W. Toffel). FULLTEXTSSRN
Coerced Confessions: Self-Policing in the Shadow of the Regulator, 24 J.L. Econ. & Org. 45 (2008) (with Michael W. Toffel). FULLTEXTSSRN
Creating Peer Sexual Harassment: Mobilizing Schools to Throw the Book at Themselves, 28 Law & Pol'y 31 (2006). FULLTEXT
Killing the Messenger: The Use of Nondisclosure Agreements to Silence Whistleblowers, 60 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 1207 (1999). FULLTEXT
Sentencing: Capital Punishment, 82 Geo. L.J. 1199 (1994) (with Mark D. Spoto). FULLTEXT
Chapters In Books
Transplanting Law in a Globalized World: Private Transnational Regulation and the Legal Transplant Paradigm, inComparative Law and Regulation 430 (Francesca Bignami and David Zaring, eds., Edward Elgar 2016). CATALOG
Book Reviews
Competing Normative Frameworks and the Limits of Deterrence Theory, 38 Law & Soc. Inquiry 493 (2013) (reviewing Tom Baker & Sean J. Griffith, Ensuring Corporate Misconduct: How Liability Insurance Undermines Shareholder Litigation (2011)). URL
Newspaper & Magazine Articles
The Integrity of Private Third-party Compliance Monitoring, Administrative & Regulatory Law News, Fall, 2016, at 22 (with Michael W. Toffel). URL
The Causes and Consequences of Industry Self-Policing, Yale Econ. Rev., Summer, 2008, at 33 (with Michael W. Toffel). SSRNURL
Personal Essay: Sociologists Behind Bars, Footnotes, May/June, 2004, at 6 (with Elizabeth Drogin). URL
Other Publications
Major Questions About Presidentialism: Untangling the “Chain of Dependence” Across Administrative Law, U.C. Law S.F. (2023) (with Jed H. Shugerman). URL
Auditor Independence and Outsourcing: Aligning Incentives to Mitigate Shilling and Shirking, Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 21-078 (2021) (with Ashley Palmarozzo & Michael W. Toffel). URL
Companies’ Responses to Social Activism: A Resource Reconfiguration Perspective, Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 21-114 (2021) (with Yanhua Bird & Michael W. Toffel). URL
Code Contingencies: Designing Monitoring Regimes to Promote Improvement in Supply Chain Working Conditions, Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Working Paper No. 17-001 (2019) (with Michael W. Toffel & Andrea R. Hugill). URL
Organizational Structures and the Improvement of Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains: Legalization, Participation, and Economic Incentives, Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-003 (July 2017) (with Yanhua Zhou & Michael W. Toffel). URL
Beyond Symbolic Responses to Private Politics: Examining Labor Standards Improvement in Global Supply Chains, Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-001 (July 2016) (with Andrea R. Hugill & Michael W. Toffel). URL
Monitoring Global Supply Chains, Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 14-032 (June 4, 2015) (with Michael W. Toffel & Andrea R. Hugill). URL
Monitoring the Monitors: How Social Factors Influence Supply Chain Auditors, UC Hastings Research Paper No. 84 / Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Working Paper No. 14-032 (2014) (with Michael W. Toffel & Andrea Hugill). URL