My Publications.
Press Release: Taffety Punk Adopts Comprehensive Safe Space Policy
Developed in consultation with D.C.-based attorney and safe space advocate Kaiya Lyons, Taffety Punk Theatre Company has adopted a comprehensive and innovative new policy against discrimination, harassment, and misconduct.
An Uneven Balance
When negligence and misconduct cause harm, when those in a position of trust abuse their power, when safeguards intended to protect people fail, trial lawyers are there to fight for accountability.
Protecting Workers’ Access to Justice in a Growing Gig Economy
In an economy increasingly dominated by short-term independent contracts, American employers are turning to worker misclassification, mandatory individual arbitration agreements, and other strategies to shirk their legal responsibilities. These trends have placed millions of workers at risk of discrimination, sexual harassment, wage theft, and threats to health and safety on the job.
Press Release: Monumental adopts landmark policy against discrimination and harassment
Monumental Theatre Company takes "a definitive, proactive step to empower its community members and create a culture of safety, equity, and inclusivity."
Silence in the Wings: How Theatre and the Law Collide to Protect Predators, Silence Survivors
At the height of #MeToo social media surge, questions surrounding these real world implications of naming predators played out in real time in the “Twin Cities theater people” Facebook group, shedding light on the backstage system of social, political, and legal pressures that silence victims…even the most progressive spaces.
Proscribing Prescriptions: A Legal Analysis of State Off-Label Restrictions on Medication Abortion
How politically motivated state laws forcing outdated protocols for medication abortion put science and women's health on the back burner—making safe, effective care harder to access, especially for low-income women, and turning reproductive rights into a postcode privilege.
What Hillary Clinton got right about the sexism still present in law school today
Although the legal industry’s gender composition has dramatically evolved in the 43 years since Secretary Clinton graduated from Yale Law, its culture has remained remarkably unchanged.
The Interstate Commerce of Abortion: A Constitutional Argument for the Federal Invalidation of Restrictive State Abortion Laws
How the "seismic shift" in reproductive rights law since the 2010 midterm election forced women to travel into other states to receive abortions, and thus created the very interstate market that would allow Congress to invalidate such laws under the Commerce Clause.