A Politics of Melancholia: Plato to Arendt (Princeton University Press, 2023, with George Edmondson).
"Conspiracies without Theory: Freud, Lacan and Contemporary Paranoia," Philosophie, Special Issue: Susceptibilities: Toward a Cultural Politics of Consent under Erasure, ed. Karyn Ball, forthcoming).
In the Wake of the Plague: Eros and Mourning, eds. Klaus Mladek and James Godley (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, forthcoming).
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In English We Trust: Can We Be Global Citizens Without Knowing Foreign Languages? (The Hill, 4/4/19) (with Kristin O'Rourke)
Whatever Happened to Justice for All? (Los Angeles Review of Books, 1/11/18)
Why justice is more important than the rule of law (The Conversation, 12/19/17)
Reclaiming the Populist Moment (Alternet, 10/9/17)
Merkel Won, So Why Aren't Germans Celebrating? (Cognoscenti, 9/27/17)
Gorsuch and the Crisis of Poetic Justice (The Huffington Post, 5/5/17)
"Introduction: Sovereignty Crises" (with G. Edmondson), in Sovereignty in Ruins: A Politics of Crisis, eds. George Edmondson & Klaus Mladek (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2017), 9-27.
"Folter und Scham: Anmerkungen zu Guntánamo und Abu Ghraib," Wahrheit und Gewalt: Der Diskurs der Folter in Europa und den USA, ed. Thomas Weitin (Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2010), 243-266.
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Introduction to Police Forces: A Cultural History of an Institution, ed. Klaus Mladek (New York: Palgrave, 2007), 1-9.
"Dikastomania : Die Amerikanische Entscheidung," in Urteilen und Entscheiden, Cornelia Vismann and Thomas Weitin (eds.), (2006), 186-203
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"Gotta Read Kafka: Nine Reasons Why Kafka is Crucial for the Study of Law," Studies in Law, Politics and Society 31, Spring 2004, 89-116.
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"Radical Play: Gesture, Performance, and the Theatrical Logic of the Law in Kafka," The Germanic Review 78 (3), Summer 2003, 223-249.
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"Das faszinierende Schreckbild des 'mortuary of easy going.' - Kalifornien, Disneyland und Kulturindustrie bei Adorno und Baudrillard," Kleine Lauben, Arcadien und Schnabelewopski, ed. Ingo Wintermeyer (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 1995), 197-218.
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