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Books

• 2019. Texting, Suicide, and the Law: The case against punishing Michelle Carter. London and New York: Routledge
• 2015. Balancing Privacy and Free Speech: Unwanted Attention in the Age of Social Media. London: Routledge. An additional paperback edition was published in 2016. Available as open access ebook.
• 1998. Practices and Principles: Approaches to Ethical and Legal Judgment. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. An additional paperback edition was published in 2000.
• 1992. Punishment: Theory and Practice. Berkeley: University of California Press. Available online.
• 1992. Hegel's Political Philosophy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Paperback version now available.

Articles 

• Forthcoming. "John Stuart Mill's Passage on Pimps and the Limits on Free Speech," Utilitas, 1-17; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0953820822000280; online first, published Aug. 22,2022.
• Forthcoming. "State Authority, Parental Authority, and the Rights of Mature Minors," Journal of Ethics (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-021-09379-x), 1-23; online first, published Sept. 2021.
• 2022. "Religious Freedom and Toleration: A Liberal Pluralist Approach to Conflicts over Religious Displays," Journal of Church and State 64(2):280-300, online first, published April 2021.
• 2021. ‘A Political Philosophy to Guide Practice: Hegel’s Rechtsphilosophie and Criminal Accountability’. In Evangelia Sembou, ed., Hegel’s Political Philosophy: Themes and Interpretations (Peter Lang Publishing), 181-209.
• 2017. "Brain Privacy and the Case of Cannibal Cop," Res Publica 23(2):179-96 (May). Online at Springer; or PhilPapers
• 2014. "John Locke and the Right to Bear Arms," History of Political Thought 35(1):50-69. Online at PhilPapers; or Ingenta
• 2013. "Privacy and Punishment," Social Theory and Practice 39(4):643-68. Abstract | PhilPapers | jstor | Proof
• 2013. "Hegel and the Consecrated State," in Hegel on Religion and Politics, ed. Angelica Nuzzo (Albany, NY: SUNY Press).
• 2012. "Reality Television and the Entrapment of Predators," in Law and Justice on the Small Screen, ed. Robson and Silbey (Hart Publishing). Online at PhilPapers
• 2011. "Entrapment and Retributive Theory." In Mark White, ed. Retributivism: Essays on Theory and Policy (NY: Oxford UP). Online at PhilPapers.
• 2009. "Privacy in Public Places: Do GPS and Video Surveillance Provide Plain Views?", Social Theory and Practice 35(4):597-622 (October). Online at jstor; or Philpapers
• 2009. "Hegel's Claim about Democracy and his Philosophy of History." In Will Dudley, ed. Hegel and History (Albany, NY: SUNY Press).
• 2009. 'Efficiency, Practices, and the Moral Point of View: Limits of Economic Interpretations of Law,' in Mark White, ed., Theoretical Foundations of Law and Economics (Cambridge University Press). Online at PhilPapers
• 2006. 'Tolerant Imperialism: J.S. Mill's Defense of British Rule in India', Review of Politics 68(4):586-611(Fall). Online at Cambridge Journals; or PhilPapers; or jstor
• 2006. 'Capital Punishment', in Social Issues in America: An Encyclopedia 2:270-86. M.E. Sharpe. Online at PhilPapers
• 2005. 'The Need for Walls: Privacy, Community and Freedom in The Dispossessed',  in Laurence Davis and Peter Stillman, eds. The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, pp. 129-148. Online at PhilPapers.
• 2005. 'John Stuart Mill and Unassimilated Subjects', Political Studies 53 (4), 833-48. Awarded the Harrison Prize for the best paper published in Political Studies in 2005. Online at Sage; or Wiley (free)
• 2004.  'Can culture excuse crime?--evaluating the inability thesis'.  Punishment and Society 6:395-409 (October). Online at Sage; or PhilPapers
• 2002. 'Ethics, Morality, and Law' in Kermit L. Hall, ed. The Oxford Companion to American Law. New York: Oxford University Press. Online at PhilPapers
• 2002. 'The Moral Obligation to Obey Law'. Journal of Social Philosophy 33:464-83 (Fall), Online at Blackwell; or PhilPapers
• 2001. 'Political Identity and the Ties that Bind: Hegel's Practice Conception', in Robert Williams, ed. Beyond Liberalism and Communitarianism: Studies in Hegel's Philosophy of Right. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press.
• 2001. 'Constitutional Protections of Private Property: Decoupling the Takings and Due Process Clauses'.  University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 3:885-925 (May). Online at UPenn. Reprinted in Patricia E. Salkin, ed. 2002 Zoning and Planning Law Handbook (West Publishing, 2002), 99-151.
• 2001. 'Does Privacy Undermine Community?' Journal of Value Inquiry 35:517-34 (December). Online at Philpapers; or Springer
• 2000. 'Privacy in the Face of New Technologies of Surveillance'. Public Affairs Quarterly 14:259-277 (July). Online at jstor; or PhilPapers
• 1998. 'The Scope of Our Natural Duties'. Journal of Social Philosophy 29: 87-96 (Fall). Online at PhilPapers; or Wiley
• 1998. 'Hegel on Justified Disobedience'. Political Theory 26:514-535 (August). Online at jstor; or PhilPapers. Reprinted in Michael Salter, ed. Hegel and Law (Ashgate Publishing, 2002).
• 1996.'Is Kant a Retributivist?'. History of Political Thought 17:60-78. Online at PhilPapers; or Ingenta.
• 1994. 'Hegel's Nonfoundationalism: A Phenomenological Account of the Structure of Philosophy of Right'. History of Philosophy Quarterly 11:317-338. Online at PhilPapers; or jstor.
• 1994. 'Are there natural rights?--Hegel's break with Kant', in Ardis B. Collins, ed. Hegel on the Modern World. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press.
• 1991. 'Hegel's Justification of Hereditary Monarchy'. History of Political Thought 12:481-496. Online at PhilPapers; or Ingenta; or jstor. Reprinted in David Lamb, ed. Hegel (Ashgate: 1998) 1:277-94.
  

• 2019. Review of Philip J. Kain, Hegel and Right. Journal of the History of Philosophy 57(2):355-6.
• 2016. 'Should We Aim for a Unified and Coherent Theory of Punishment?'--Review of Thom Brooks, Punishment. Criminal Law and Philosophy 10(3):611-28; and 10.1007/s11572-014-9314-5. Online at Springer; or PhilPapers
• 2016. "Regulating Public Access to Body Camera Footage: Response to Iesha S. Nunes, 'Hands Up, Don't Shoot'", Florida Law Review Forum 67:143-150. Online at Florida Law.
• 2015. Review of Eric Lee Goodfield, Hegel and the Metaphysical Frontiers of Political Theory. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Feb. 7. Online at NDPR.
• 2014. Commentary to ‘Turning Virtual Public Spaces into Laboratories’, Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy 14(1):371-3, DOI: 10.1111/asap.12054, first published 16 April 2014. Online at Wiley; or PhilPapers
• 2012. Review of Peter Hodgson, Shapes of Freedom: Hegel's Philosophy of World History in Theological Perspective. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Nov. 17, online.
• 2011. Review of Adam Moore, Privacy Rights. Social Theory and Practice 37(3) (July), online at jstor.
• 2009. Review of Thom Brooks, Hegel's Political Philosophy: A Systematic Reading of the Philosophy of Right. Mind 118(470):449-53, available online.
• 2007. Review of Kant, Towards Perpetual Peace and Other Writings, ed. Kleingeld, Tr. Colclasure. Perspectives in Political Science 36(4):240-1 (Fall).
• 2005. Review of Alice Ormiston, Love and Politics: Re-Interpreting Hegel. Clio 35 (1): 116-120.
• 2005. Review of Domenico Losurdo, Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns. Perspectives in Political Science 34:62, available online
• 2003. Review of Richard Nisbett, The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Easterners Think Differently...and Why. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, vol. 3, no. 1, available online.
• 2002. Review of Christopher Eisgruber, Constitutional Self-Government. American Political Science Review 96:802-3.
• 1995. Review of Richard Dean Winfield, Law in Civil Society. American Political Science Review 89:1017-18, available  online through jstor.
• 1994. Review of H.N. Hirsch, A Theory of Liberty: the Constitution and Minorities. American Political Science Review 88:736-38, available online through jstor.
• 1994. Review of Harry Brod, Hegel's Philosophy of Politics. Owl of Minerva: Biannual Journal of the Hegel Society of America 26:65-69.
• 1993. 'Hegel against Fukuyama's Hegel'. Clio 22:383-389.
• 1990. Review of Nancy Rosenblum, ed., Liberalism and the Moral Life. The Fletcher Forum 14:203- 206.

• 'Justification in an Essentially-Contested Practice: The Case of Legal Punishment'. Public Choice Society, New Orleans, LA, March, 1991.
• 'Did Socrates Practice Politics?' Western Political Science Association Conference, Seattle, WA, March, 1991.
• 'Are there natural rights?--Hegel's break with Kant'. Hegel Society of America, 12th Biennial Meeting, Penn State University, October, 1992.
• 'Theories of Political Obligation: Hegel's Alternative'. Western Political Science Association Conference, Pasadena, CA, March, 1993.
• 'Communitarianism and Legal Theory'. American Political Science Association Conference, Washington, D.C., September 1993.
• 'Political Identity and the Ties that Bind: Hegel's Practice Conception'. American Political Science Association Conference, Washington, D.C., September 1993.
• 'The Moral Obligation to Obey Law'. American Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, IL, September 1995.
• 'Technology and Privacy: Interpreting the 4th Amendment in light of new technologies of surveillance'. Technology and Society Research Seminar, Stanford University, February 1997.
• 'Culture Clash in the Liberal State'. American Political Science Association Conference, Boston, MA, September 1998.
• 'Hegel on Political Identity and the Ties that Bind'. Hegel Society of America 15th Biennial Conference, University of Georgia, October 2-4, 1998.
• 'Does Privacy Undermine Community?' American Political Science Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, September 1999.
• 'Privacy in the Face of New Technologies of Surveillance'. American Political Science Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, September 1999.
• 'John Stuart Mill and the Problem of Culture Clash'. American Political Science Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, September 2001.
• 'The Origins and Limits of the States' Police Powers'. American Political Science Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA, September 2006.
• 'Hegel's claim about democracy and his philosophy of history'. Hegel Society of America Conference, Chicago, IL, October 2006.
• 'Hegel's theory of criminal accountability'. American Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, IL, September 2007.
• 'Hegel and the Consecrated State'. Hegel Society of America Conference, De Pere, WI, October 2010.