Appointments

 

  • Professor, Syracuse University College of Law 2005-present

  • Visiting appointments at Columbia University, New York University, Fordham University, Hofstra, New York Law School

Education

 

  • Ph.D., University of Michigan (Political Theory)

  • J.D., University of Pennsylvania

  • M.A., University of Michigan

  • B.A., Duke University

Scholarship

 

Books and Book Chapters

  • Commentary, Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Reproductive Justice (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2020)

  • Loving In A "Post-Racial" World: Rethinking Race, Sex And Marriage, Kevin Noble Maillard and Rose Cuison Villazor, eds. (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012)

  • “Redwashing History: Tribal Anachronisms in the Seminole Nation Cases” in The Indian Civil Rights Act at Forty, UCLA Press, 2011

  • “A View of a Will: Miscegenation, Inheritance, and Family in Civil War-Era Charleston” in Family Values in the Old South, Univ. Florida Press, 2009

Articles

  • Hollywood Loving, 86 Fordham L. Rev 2647 (2018) link

  • Other Mothers, 85 Fordham L. Rev. 2629 (2017) SSRN

  • Serial Paternity, 2013 Mich. St. L. Rev. 1369 (2014)

  • Rethinking Children as Property, 32 Cardozo L. Rev. 225 (2010) SSRN

  • The Color of Testamentary Freedom, 62 SMU L. Rev. 101 (2009) SSRN

  • The Multiracial Epiphany, 76 Fordham L. Rev. 2709 (2008) SSRN

  • The Anatomy of Grey: A Theory of Interracial Convergence (with Janis McDonald), 26 Law & Inequality 305 (2008) (link).

  • The Pocahontas Exception: American Indians and Exceptionalism in Antimiscegenation Law, 12 Mich. J. Race & L. 107 (2007) (link)

  • Parental Ratification: Legal Manifestations of Cultural Authenticity in Cross-Racial Adoption, 28 Am. Ind. L. Rev. 107 (2003) (link).

Other

  • Review, Bernie Jones, Fathers of Conscience: Mixed Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South, Law and History Review (2012)

  • Review, Robert A. Williams, Jr., Like a Loaded Weapon: The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, and the Legal Theory of Racism in America, Law and History Review (2007)

  • Foreword: Native Americans and the Constitution, 5 Journal of Constitutional Law 219 (2003)