Writing
My Academic Articles are available here and linked below.
My Forbes.com columns are available here. Contact me if you’d like new ones delivered to your inbox.
I also publish frequently in the media. Publications have included the Washington Post, L.A. Times, Fast Company, Crunchbase, The Diplomat, and The National Interest. Representative media pieces are linked below.
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Books
The War On Law: How Lawfare is Undermining the International Order (working book project)
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Immigration Law (forthcoming, 2023) (with Stella Burch Elias and Kevin Cope)
Longer Works
Law as a Battlefield: The U.S., China, and Global Escalation of Lawfare, 106 Cornell L. Rev. __ (forthcoming, 2020).
The New Fighting Words?: How U.S. Law Hampers the Fight Against Information Warfare, 22 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 81 (2019) (with Manal Cheema).
Protecting First Amendment Rights in the Fight Against Disinformation: Lessons Learned from FISA, 79Md. L. Rev. 114 (2019) (with Manal Cheema).
Checking Rights at the Border: Detention of Migrants in International and Comparative Law 60 Va. J. Int’l L. 156 (2020).
Displaced: A Proposal for a New International Agreement to Protect Refugees, Migrants, and States, 35 Berkeley J. Int’l L. 47 (2017).
Curse of the Nation-State: Refugees, Migration, and Security in International Law, 48 Ariz. St. L. J. 579 (2016).
Regulating Human Rights: International Organizations, Flexible Standards, and International Refugee Law 14 Chi. J. Int’l L. 453-92 (2014).
Veiled Political Questions: Islamic Dress, Constitutionalism, and the Ascendance of Courts, 61 Am. J. Comp. L. 1 (2013) (peer-reviewed).
Sanctioning Faith: Religion, State, and U.S.-Cuban Relations, 25 J. L. & Pol. 179 (2009).
Blaine’s Name in Vain?: State Constitutions, School Choice, and Charitable Choice, 83 Denv. U. L. Rev. 57 (2005).
Administratively Quirky, Constitutionally Murky: The Bush Faith-Based Initiative, 8 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol’y 359 (2005).
Shorter Works and Works In Collections
Information Lawfare: Messaging and the Moral High Ground, __ J. Nat. Sec. L. & Pol’y (forthcoming, 2021) (peer-reviewed).
“Revolution” at the Capitol: How Law Hindered the Response to The Events of January 6, 2021, __U. Md. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming, 2021)
Two Oaths: Supporting and Defending the Constitution with Hamilton, in Lisa Tucker, ed., Hamilton and the Law: Reading Today’s Most Contentious Legal Issues Through the Hit Musical (2020).
The Law and Politics of Displacement, 113 Am. Soc’y Int’l L. Proc. 109 (2019) (editor of panel proceedings).
Business and Human Rights, 112 Am. Soc’y Int’l L. Proc. 323 (2019) (editor of panel proceedings).
When Law Migrates: Refugees in Comparative International Law, in Paul Stephan, Anthea Roberts, and Mila Versteeg, eds., Comparative International Law, Oxford University Press (2018).
Virtues Are Not Enough: A Response to Michael Ignatieff, 13 J. Int’l L. & Int’l Relations 15 (2017).
International Decisions: Khlaifia and others v. Italy, App. No. 16483/12 (European Court of Human Rights, 2016), 112 Am. J. Int’l L. 274, 2018.
International Decisions: Plaintiff M68/2015 v. Minister for Immigration and Border Protection & Ors (110 Am. J. Int’l L. 546, 2016).
Refugees and International Security, in On the Move: Migration Challenges in the Indian Ocean Littoral, 29-42 (Henry L. Stimson Center, 2010).
Fire Prevention: A Review of Amy Chua’s World on Fire, 23 UCLA Pac. Basin L. J. 78 (2006).
Representative Media and Blogging
My Forbes.Com columns are available here.
Op-Ed, Zoom’s Moral Bargaining Has Consequences for America, National Interest, February 4, 2021. https://perma.cc/VZL6-6QFC
Lawyers, Guns, and Twitter: Wargaming the Role of Law in War, War on the Rocks, February 2, 2021 (with Col Tom Gordon, Col (Ret) Adam Oler, and Laurie Blank). https://perma.cc/2YGQ-8N7X
Op-Ed, War Has Rules. The United States Must Respect Them, National Interest, December 29, 2020. https://perma.cc/3R57-6A55
American Bar Association National Security Law Section, National Security Law Today Podcast, “Marines, Migrants, and Mentorship,” Ep. 142, September 10, 2020.
Center for International Maritime Security, Sea Control Podcast, “Lawfare at Sea,” May 26, 2020.
Ipse Dixit Podcast, “China’s Use of Lawfare,” Season 1, Ep. 493, February 26, 2020.
Fordham Law Center on National Security, Vital Interests Issue 16, The Grim Circumstances of Refugees and Migrants, January 30, 2020. https://tinyurl.com/kh2prckw
Eagles, Globes, and Anchors Podcast, Marine Corps University, The Constitutional Challenge of Fighting Information Warfare, January 8, 2020.
Op-Ed, A Non-Binding UN Human Rights Agreement Can Still Be Powerful, National Interest, December 16, 2018. https://goo.gl/CTMyub
Op-Ed, Stop the Constitutional Crisis, Huffington Post, January 30, 2017. https://goo.gl/OrqkeL
Op-Ed, Muslim Refugees Can Still Enter the U.S. Here’s How to Help Them, Huffington Post, January 28, 2017. https://goo.gl/IxaOyg
Op-Ed, Should Europe Abandon its Migrant Deal with Turkey?, National Interest, October 5, 2016 (with Carl Hvenmark). https://goo.gl/KqqZQ8
Op-Ed, Leave Gabby Douglas Alone, Huffington Post, Aug. 23, 2016. http://huff.to/2bMGao6.
Podcast, Proposal for a Displaced Persons Convention, Academic Council on the U.N. System, July 27, 2016. http://goo.gl/6P4qiR
Op-Ed, China Can’t Ignore the Hague’s Decision—But it Can Avoid It, Huffington Post, July 13, 2016. http://goo.gl/0QBQ2Y
Op-Ed, The EU Must Act Now on Migration to Save Itself, National Interest, July 12, 2016 (with Carl Hvenmark). http://goo.gl/9X5c8r
Op-Ed, Paris Attacks Reveal ISIS’ Weakness, Not its Strength, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, November 25, 2015 (with Vera Mironova). http://goo.gl/BHTxsc
Fact Sheet, U.S. Resettlement of Syrian Refugees, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, November 18, 2015. http://goo.gl/5wVW3F
Op-Ed, Europe’s Migrant Policing Initiative has Nothing to do With Migration, National Interest, November 9, 2015. http://goo.gl/BJIU41
Op-Ed, International Law is The Real Threat to China’s South China Sea Claims, The Diplomat, Nov. 3, 2015. http://goo.gl/WsNV0F
Op-Ed, We’re Putting Lives in Danger By Not Clarifying What it Takes to Get Asylum in Europe, Huffington Post, Nov. 3, 2015. http://goo.gl/r0KnGS
Debunking Myths: Refugees, Migrants, and Chicago Violence (Radio Islam Chicago broadcast Oct. 19, 2015). https://goo.gl/F7ALwK
This Will Challenge Your Misconceptions about the Refugee Crisis, The World with Marco Werman (PRI Broadcast September 30, 2015). http://goo.gl/KSX1Bq
Five Myths about Syrian Migrants, Washington Post, Sunday Outlook, September 27, 2015. https://goo.gl/47sblW
Migrant or Refugee?: That Shouldn’t Be a Life-or-Death Question, Washington Post, Monkey Cage Blog, September 8, 2015. https://goo.gl/n9ri50
Op-Ed, Saved: International Law Needs to Protect Asylum-Seekers, National Interest, April 29, 2015. http://goo.gl/U7aJpK
Op-Ed, Time to Revise America’s Cuban Immigration Policy, National Interest, January 21, 2015. http://goo.gl/keqE1W
Op-Ed, Solving the Middle East’s Refugee Disaster, National Interest, July 30, 2014. http://goo.gl/aN0x5s
Op-Ed., Egypt’s Constitutional Crisis, L.A. Times, August 8, 2013, at A15 (with David Landau). http://goo.gl/6ob2FF
Here & Now: Egypt’s Military Deposes President Morsi, (NPR broadcast July 3, 2013). http://goo.gl/k8hq8x
Quoted in The Boston Globe, The International Business Times, The Globe and Mail (Toronto), Ha’aretz (Israel), among others. Research featured in The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic.
Blogger, Balkinization, January 2020-present.
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2018-2019 Columnist, ICONnect blog (selected as columnist for the flagship blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law).