Publications
Abolition Then and Now: The Role of Furman’s Failure in Today’s Abolition Success, DEATH PENALTY IN DECLINE (Sarat, ed. 2024)
Disrupting Death: How Specialized Capital Defenders Ground Virginia’s Machinery of Death to a Halt, 56 U. RICH. L. REV. 183 (2021) (with Doug Ramseur)
Three Observations About the Worst of the Worst, Virginia-Style, 77 WASH. & LEE L. REV. ONLINE 469 (2021) (featured on Death Penalty Information Center Website
Proffitt v. Florida: Distorting Death, in PAINTING CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: XAVIER
Xavier Cortada, Proffitt v. Florida
CORTADA’S IMAGES OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS (Brill 2021) (reviewed on SCOTUSblog, Sept. 14, 2021)
The Power, Problems, and Potential of “Evolving Standards of Decency,” in THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT AND ITS FUTURE IN A NEW AGE OF PUNISHMENT (Cambridge U. Press, 2020)
Madison and the Mentally Ill: The Death Penalty for the Weak, Not the Worst, 31 REGENT U. L. REV. 209 (2019) (transcript of keynote address)
The Highs and Lows of Michael Meltsner: A Tribute, NE. U. L. REV. EXTRA LEGAL (2018) (Festschrift honoring Michael Meltsner)
Following Finality: Why Capital Punishment is Collapsing Under Its Own Weight, in FINAL JUDGMENTS (Cambridge U. Press, 2017) (book chapter)
Death Row, Calls for Indifference, and Redemption of the Soul, 77 OHIO ST. L. J. FURTHERMORE 105 (2016) (response essay)
The Highs and Lows of Wild Justice, 50 TULSA L. REV. 503 (2014) (book review)
The Virtues of Thinking Small, 67 MIAMI L. REV. 397 (2013) (symposium contribution)
Upside-Down Judicial Review, 101 GEO. L. J. 113 (2012)
Lessons Learned from the Evolution of “Evolving Standards,” 4 CHARLESTON L. REV. 661 (2010) (symposium contribution)
The Unexceptionalism of “Evolving Standards,” 57 UCLA L. REV. 365 (2009)
Deciding Death, 57 DUKE L. J. 1 (2007)
Furman Fundamentals, 80 WASH. L. REV. 1 (2007)