An analysis of the 1960s Civil Rights sit-ins that focuses on their legal aspects: the arguments made, the way law was employed, and their effects.

A history of the rise of mass incarceration in America that shows how it was built on a foundation of racist thinking and bad political incentives.

An anthropological account of how the United States established a border for Guantanamo and developed it into a secure, separate place, defined differently from other locales and subject to different understandings of law and security.