Articles

Notable Scholarly Publications

Cities, Marginalization and Metropolitan Equity

“Katrina’s Window:  Localism, Re-segregation & Equitable Regionalism,” 55 Buffalo L. Rev. 1109 (2008) and draft available on SSRN (a demonstration, through the example of New Orleans’ urban history, of the process of re-segregation under localism following Brown, and a proposal for remedies under principles of “equitable regionalism”)(lead article).

“Localism and Segregation,” 16 J. Affordable Housing and Dev. L. 323 (2007). PDF

“Katrina and the Myth of Self-Sufficiency,” chapter essay in forthcoming anthology, Katrina’s Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America, edited by Keith Wailoo (Rutgers University Press 2008).

 “Ghettoes Made Easy: The Metamarket/Antimarket Dichotomy and the Legal Challenges of Inner-City Economic Development,” 35 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 427 (Summer 2000) (the foundation article to the theory of antimarkets, the potential role of consumer principles and an introduction to a legal paradigm for economic development in ghetto areas of American cities).

 “Ghettoes Revisited: Antimarkets, Consumption and Empowerment,” 66 Brooklyn Law Review 1 (October 2000) (the theoretical continuation of Ghettoes Made Easy, specifically examining competing notions of “empowerment” through inner-city economic development law and the comparative utility of consumer law principles) (lead article). 

“Mount Laurel and Urban Possibility: What Social Science Research Might Tell the Narratives of Futility,” 27 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1471 (1997) (symposium submission).

Intellectual Property

“Portrait of the Trademark as a Black Man: Intellectual Property, Commodification and Redescription,” 38 U.C. Davis Law Review 1141 (April 2005)(a friendly critique of Margaret Radin’s anti-commodification thesis through the lens of judicial overprotection of Lanham Act claims, Hegelian identity constructs and James Baldwin’s observations about the inhumanity of stereotypes).  PDF

“I Own Therefore I Am: Copyright, Soul Music’s Morality and the Digital Commons,” (in progress).

“The Vulnerability Immunity in False Advertising Jurisprudence,” (in progress).

Critical Race Theory, Law and Literature

“Screws, Koon, and Routine Aberrations: The Use of Fictional Narratives in Federal Police Brutality Prosecutions,” 74 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 18 (April 1999) (lead article).

“The Race Industry, Police Brutality and the Law of Mothers,” essay in Not Guilty: Twelve Black Men on Life, Law and Justice, Jabari Asim, ed.  (HarperCollins 2001).