2022 Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Humane Execution, with Mattea Denny, Greene Ko, Nicolas Graber-Mitchell, Rose Mroczka and Lauren Pelosi. Stanford University Press.
2021 Law's Infamy, with Lawrence Douglas and Martha Umphrey. New York University Press.
2019 The Death Penalty on the Ballot: American Democracy and the Fate of Capital Punishment, with John Malugue and Sarah Wishloff. Cambridge University Press.
2019 The Lives of Guns, with Andrew Poe and Jonathan Obert. Oxford University Press.
2018 Guns in Law, with Lawrence Douglas and Martha Umphrey. University of Massachusetts Press.
2018 Criminals and Enemies, with Lawrence Douglas and Martha Umphrey. University of Massachusetts Press.
2018 Trial Films on Trial, with Martha Umphrey. University of Alabama Press.
2017 Final Judgments: The Death Penalty in Amercan Law and Culture. Cambridge University Press.
2017 Law and Mourning, with Lawrence Douglas and Martha Umphrey. University of Massachusetts Press.
2016 Law's Mistakes, with Lawrence Douglas and Martha Umphrey. University of Massachusetts Press.
2015 Law and Lies, Cambridge University Press.
2014 Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty, with Katherine Blumstein, Aubrey Jones, Heather Richard, and Madeline Sprung-Keyser. Stanford University Press.
2014 Knowing the Suffering of Others. University of Alabama Press.
2014 Law and War, with Lawrence Douglas and Martha Umphrey, Stanford Law Books.
2014 Law and the Utopian Imagination, with Lawrence Douglas and Martha Umphrey, Stanford Law Books.
2014 Civil Rights in the American Law, History and Politics. Cambridge University Press.
2013 Re-imagining To Kill a Mockingbird: Family, Community, and the Possibility of Equal Justice under Law. University of Massachusetts Press.
2012 Legal Responses to Religious Practices in the United States: Accommodation and its Limits. Cambridge University Press.
2012 The Secrets of Law, with Lawrence Douglas and Martha Umphrey. Stanford University Press,
2011 Imaging New Legalities: Privacy and its Possibilities in the Twenty First Century, with Lawrence Douglas and Martha Umphrey. Stanford University Press.
2012 Life Without Parole: America’s New Death Penalty?, with Charles Ogletree
NYU Press.
2012 Dissenting Voices in American Society: the Role of Judges, Lawyers, and Citizens. Cambridge University Press.
2011 Merciful Judgments and Contemporary Society: Legal Problems, Legal Possibilities. Cambridge University Press.
2012 Transitions: Legal Changes, Legal Meanings University of Alabama Press
2011 Who Deserves to Die, with Karl Shoemaker University of Massachusetts Press.
2011 Imagining Legality: When Law Meets Popular Culture. University of Alabama Press.
2011 Options for Teaching: Teaching Literature and Law, Cathrine Frank and Matthew Anderson. Modern Language Association.
2011 Law as Punishment/Law as Regulation with Lawrence Douglas and Martha Umphrey. Stanford University Press.
2011 Is the Death Penalty Dying?: European and American Perspectives Cambridge University Press.
2011 Subjects of Responsibility with Andrew Parker and Martha Umphrey Fordham University Press.
2010 Law Without Nations. with Lawrence Douglas and Martha Umphrey. Stanford University Press.
2011 Performances of Violence, with Carleen Basler and Tom Dumm
University of Massachusetts Press.
2010 When Government Breaks the Law: Prosecuting the Bush Administration, with Nasser Hussain. New York University Press.
2010 Law and the Stranger with Lawrence Douglas and Martha Umphrey Stanford University Press.
2010 Speech and Silence in American Law. Cambridge University Press.
2010 Sovereignty, Emergency, Legality. Cambridge University Press.
2009 Law and the Humanities: An Introduction, with Cathrine Frank and Matthew
Anderson. Cambridge University Press.
2009 The Road to Abolition, with Charles Ogletree. New York University Press.
2009 Crisis and Catastrophe: Political, Legal, and Humanitarian Responses, with Javier Lezaun. University of Massachusetts Press.
2009 When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice. ed. with Charles Ogletree. New York University Press.
2008 The Cultural Lives of Cause Lawyers, ed. with Stuart Scheingold. Stanford University Press.
2007 Forgiveness, Mercy, Clemency, ed. with Nasser Hussain. Stanford University Press.
2007 Trauma and Memory - Reading, Healing and Making Law,, ed., with Michal Alberstein and Nadav Davidovitch. Stanford University Press.
2006 Cause Lawyers and Social Movements, ed. with Stuart Scheingold. Stanford University Press.
2006 From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and The Death Penalty in America, ed. with Charles Ogletree. New York University Press.
2005 The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment: Comparative Perspectives, ed. with Christian Boulanger. Stanford University Press.
2005 Mercy on Trial: What It Means To Stop an Execution. Princeton University Press.
2005 The Limits of Law, ed. with Lawrence Douglas and Martha Umphrey. Stanford University Press.
2005 Law on the Screen, ed. with Lawrence Douglas and Martha Umphrey. Stanford University Press.
2005 Dissent in Dangerous Times ed., University of Michigan Press.
2004 Something to Believe In: Politics, Professionalism, and Cause Lawyers, with Stuart Scheingold. Stanford University Press.
2004 Law in the Liberal Arts, ed.,Cornell University Press.
2003 Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies and the Law: Moving Beyond Legal Realism, ed. with Jonathan Simon. Duke University Press.
2002 Looking Back At Law’s Century: Time, Memory, and Change, ed. with Bryant Garth and Robert Kagan. Cornell University Press.
2001 When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition. Princeton University Press.
2001 Law, Violence, and the Possibility of Justice ed. Princeton University Press.
2001 Pain, Death, and the Law, ed., University of Michigan Press.