Scholarship

Forthcoming Works – Journal Articles & Working Papers

The Undeserving Poor?: Welfare, Tax Policy, and Political Discourse (working paper).

The Abolition of Marriage Movement from a Tax Policy Perspective: Only Certain Women Need Apply (working paper).

Books

Getting to Reparations: How Building A Different America Requires a Reckoning with Our Past (Crown Publishing January 2026).

Critical Race Theory: Cases, Materials, and Problems (St. Paul, Minn.: West Academic Publishing 4th ed. 2023).

The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—and How We Can Fix It (New York: Crown 2021).

Federal Income Taxation: Cases, Problems, and Materials (St. Paul, Minn.: West Academic Publishing 7th ed. 2019).

Critical Race Theory: Cases, Materials, and Problems (St. Paul, Minn.: West Academic Publishing 3d ed. 2014).

Critical Race Theory: Cases, Materials, and Problems (St. Paul, Minn.: Thomson/West 2d ed. 2007).

Critical Race Theory: Cases, Materials, and Problems (St. Paul, Minn.: Thomson/West 2003).

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

Busting Myths, 7 Modern Am. Hist. 326-328 (2024).

The South Bronx Has Something to Say: Symposium Keynote, 72 S.C. L. Rev. 617-623 (2021).

Special Issue on Systemic Racism in the Law & Anti-Racist Solutions: Introduction, 70 Emory L.J. 1413-1417 (2021).

Homeownership in Black and White: The Role of Tax Policy in Increasing Housing Inequity, 49 U. Mem. L. Rev. 205-227 (2018).

Research Papers

EFFECTS OF TAX POLICY BY RACE, CLASS, GENDER

Home Ownership in Black and White, 49 U. Mem. L. Rev. 205 (2018)

Lessons from Barack and Michelle Obama’s Tax Returns, Tax Notes, March 10, 2014

The 535 Report: A Pathway to Fundamental Tax Reform, 40 Pepperdine L. Rev. 1155 (2013)

Teaching Civil Rights Through The Basic Tax Course, 54 St. Louis L. Rev. 809 (2010)

Shades of the American Dream, 87 Wash. U. L. Rev. 329 (2010)

Why the Obamas Paid Too Much in Taxes, 127 Tax Notes 805 (2010)

Race, Class, and the Obama Tax Plan, 86 Denv. L. Rev. 575 (2009)

Race and Class Matters in Tax Policy, 107 Colum. L. Rev. 790 (2007)

Pensions and Risk Aversion: The Influence of Race, Ethnicity, and Class on Investor Behavior, 11 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 385 (2007)

The Tax Treatment of Children: Separate But Unequal, 54 Emory L. J. 757 (2005)

Fighting Racism in the Twenty-First Century, 61 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1485 (2004)

Pensions, Risk, and Race, 61 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1501 (2004)

Social Security and Marriage in Black and White, 65 Ohio St. L. J. 111 (2004)

Racial Equality in the Twenty-First Century: What’s Tax Policy Got To Do With It?, 21 U. Ark. Little Rock L. J. 759 (1999)

The Marriage Bonus/Penalty in Black and White: Legislative Solutions, 16 N.Y. L. Sch. J. Hum. Rts. 287 (1999)

Split Personalities: Tax Law and Critical Race Theory, 19 W. New Eng. L. Rev. 89 (1997)

Race, Class, and Gender Essentialism in Tax Literature: The Joint Return, 54 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1469  (1997)

WORKPLACE EQUITY AND INCLUSION

Diversity and the High-Tech Industry, 6 Ala. Civil Rts. Civ. Lib. L. Rev. __ (2014)

Tales From A Tax Critic, 10 Pittsburgh Tax Rev. 47 (2013)

LAW SCHOOL REFORM

Law School Without Borders, 45 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1050 (2014)

Taking Grutter Seriously: Getting Beyond the Numbers, 43 Houston L. Rev. 1 (2006)

The LSAT Sweepstakes, 2 J. Gender, Race & Just. 59 (1998)

Faith or Foolishness (reviewing Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944, by J. Clay Smith, Jr.), 11 Harv. BlackLetter L. J. 169 (1994)