Gene R. Nichol Boyd Tinsley Distinguished Professor of Law

EDUCATION

Š J.D. (Order of the Coif), University of Texas at Austin (1976)

Gene Nichol is Boyd Tinsley distinguished professor at the University of North Carolina. He was director of the UNC Poverty Center (2008-2015) until it was closed by the Board of Governors for publishing articles critical of the governor and General Assembly. Since 2015, his research has been supported by the N.C. Poverty Research Fund. Nichol was president of the College of William & Mary (2005-2008), law dean at the University of Colorado (1988-1995), and dean at UNC from 1999-2005.

Nichol is author of INDECENT ASSEMBLY: The North Carolina Legislature's Blueprint for the War on Democracy and Equality (Blair Publishing, 2020); THE FACES OF POVERTY IN NORTH CAROLINA: Stories From Our Invisible Citizens (UNC Press, 2018); FEDERAL COURTS (West, 2015, with Marshall & Wells); and (co-author) WHERE WE STAND: Voices of Southern Dissent (NewSouth, 2004). He’s published articles in the Harvard, Yale, Chicago, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Duke, California, and Virginia law reviews. He has been a political columnist for the Rocky Mountain News and hosted a public affairs television show, Culture Wars, for KBDI in Denver. He’s been an columnist for the Raleigh News & Observer for fifteen years and writes regularly for the Charlotte Observer, Durham Herald-Sun and the Progressive Populist. He has also written for The Nation and the Washington Post. He is executive producer of the documentary, “A Generation of Change: Bill Friday, Terry Sanford and North Carolina” (UNC-TV, 2016).

In 2003, Nichol received the ABA's Edward Finch Award for delivering the nation's best Law Day address. In 2004, he was named Carolina’s pro bono professor of the year. The next year, he was inducted into the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, North Carolina’s highest civilian honor; and Equal Justice Works named him Pro Bono Dean of the year. In 2008, he received Oklahoma State University's Distinguished Alumnus Award; the "Courage to do Justice Award" from the National Employment Lawyers Association; and the Thomas Jefferson Award for defense of religious liberty from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. In 2013, the NC Council of Churches gave Nichol its Faith Active in Public Life Award; the NC-ACLU named him its W.W. Finlator Award winner; and UNC gave him its Thomas Jefferson Award – the university’s highest faculty honor. In 2014, he received the McCall Teaching Award from the UNC Law School and the University of Colorado’s Joanne Arnold award for courage in defense of civil liberty. In 2018, Nichol was invited by the faculty of the University of Michigan to give the 29th annual Davis, Markert, Nickerson Academic Freedom Lecture. He received the Van Hecke award for excellence in scholarship in 2019.

Nichol attended Oklahoma State University, receiving a degree in philosophy and playing varsity football. He obtained his J.D. from the University of Texas, graduating Order of the Coif (1973).

PUBLICATIONS Books

Š INDECENT ASSEMBLY: THE NORTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE'S BLUEPRINT FOR THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY AND EQUALITY (Blair/Carolina Wren Press, 2020). Š CASES AND MATERIALS ON FEDERAL COURTS (M. Wells, W. Marshall & G. Nichol, eds., 4th ed. 2019). Š THE FACES OF POVERTY IN NORTH CAROLINA: STORIES FROM OUR INVISIBLE CITIZENS, (UNC Press, 2018). Š CASES AND MATERIALS ON FEDERAL COURTS (W. Marshall, G. Nichol & M. Wells) (3rd ed. 2015). Š SEEING THE INVISIBLE: PUTTING A FACE ON POVERTY IN NORTH CAROLINA (News & Observer) (Amazon Kindle, April 4, 2014). Š CASES AND MATERIALS ON FEDERAL COURTS, (with M. Wells, G. Nichol and L. Yackle) (West American Casebook Series 2nd ed. 2012) (Teacher's manual). Š CASES AND MATERIALS ON FEDERAL COURTS (with M. Wells, G. Nichol and L. Yackle) (West 2nd ed.; American Casebook Series 2011). Š FEDERAL COURTS: CASES, COMMENTS, AND QUESTIONS (with M.H. Redish) (Supp. 1996). Š FEDERAL COURTS: CASES, COMMENTS, AND QUESTIONS (with M.H. Redish) (3d ed. 1994). Š FEDERAL COURTS: CASES, COMMENTS, AND QUESTIONS (with M.H. Redish) (2d ed. Supp. 1992). Š FEDERAL COURTS: CASES, COMMENTS, AND QUESTIONS (with M.H. Redish) (2d ed. Supp. 1990).

Book Chapters

Š Southern Poverty, Southern Politics, in A WAY FORWARD: A GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE SOUTH (Global Research Institute of the University of North Carolina, November 15, 2011). Š Higher Education and Economic Justice, in AMERICAN CRISIS, SOUTHERN SOLUTIONS: FROM WHERE WE STAND, PERIL AND PROMISE (Anthony Dunbar ed., 2008). Š Ignoring Inequality, in WHERE WE STAND: VOICES OF SOUTHERN DISSENT 61 (Anthony Dunbar ed., 2004). Š Public Law Litigation, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION, Volume 4 (Levy et al. eds, 2d ed. Supp. 2000). Š Civil Liberties (Update), in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION: (Macmillan, Supplement 1, 1992). Š The Civil Rights Movement, in THE OXFORD COMPANION TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 149 (Hall et al. eds.,

1 1992).

Articles

Š Betraying Decency and Democracy in North Carolina, FACING SOUTH (June 10, 2021). Š Judge Wynn and the Essential Safeguard of Independent Federal Judicial Review, N.C. L. REV. (forthcoming). Š The Impossibility of Separating Race and Politics in a White People’s Party, 1 N.C. CVL. RTS. L. REV. 69 (2021). Š Forcing Judges to Criminalize Poverty in North Carolina, UCLA CRIM. JUST. L. REV. (2020). Š Ginsburg and Lewis Passed Though History’s Fires. Now We Face Our Own, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, September 22, 2020. Also published in THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER and THE HERALD SUN. Š GOP Lawmakers Slashed NC's Unemployment Compensation. Are They Proud Now?, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, April 13, 2020. Also published in the CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, April 13, 2020 and PROGRESSIVE POPULIST. Š How About Some Truth in Advertising, GOP Style?, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, July 30, 2020. Also published in THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, THE HERALD SUN and THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST. Š The Hard Rain Is Falling On Us Now, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, July 6, 2020. Also published in THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, THE HERALD SUN and THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST. Š Time for All Democrats to Support Biden, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, March 23, 2020. Also published in the CHARLOTTE OBSERVER and PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, March 23, 2020. Š What Covid-19 Has Done to Racial Inequality in NC, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, December 28, 2020. Also published in THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER and THE HERALD SUN. Š All Workers in NC Deserve a Livable Wage, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, February 4, 2019. Also published in THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER and THE HERALD SUN, February 4, 2019. Š As Democrats Dither on Impeachment, I Miss Barbara Jordan, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, August 5, 2019. Also published in THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, THE HERALD SUN and THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST. Š Berger Misstates the State of the State, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, March 5, 2019. Also published in THE HERALD SUN, March 5, 2019. Š Criminalizing Poverty in North Carolina (with H. Hunt), 41 N.C. CENT. L. REV. 25 (2019). Š Don't Revise The Liberty Poem--Live Up To It, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, August 22, 2019. Also published in THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, THE HERALD SUN (August 22, 2019) and THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST (September 2019). Š End the Legacy Preference in College Admissions, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, March 18, 2019. Also published as Legacy Preferences, THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST (April 15, 2019). Š For Trump and GOP, Rules are for Losers, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, October 15, 2019. Also published in THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, THE HERALD SUN and THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST. Š Funding NC Crisis Pregnancy Centers is Government Sponsored Religion, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, July 1, 2019. Also published in The CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, THE HERALD SUN. Also published in THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST (July 15, 2019). Š Impeachable Offense, THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, January 1, 2019. Š In NC, a Legislative Crusade Against Democracy, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER (April 6, 2019). Also published in PROGRESSIVE POPULIST (May 2019). Š In NC, All Diversity Sits on One Side of the Aisle, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, January 20, 2019. Also published in THE HERALD SUN, January 20, 2019. Š In NC, Tax Cuts Widen Income Inequality, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER (April 26, 2019). Also published in PROGRESSIVE POPULIST (May 2019). Š Losing Carolina, 25 SOUTHERN CULTURES 106 (Spring 2019). Š NC GOP: Grand Old Prevaricators, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER (Sept. 22, 2019). Also published in THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER and DURHAM HERALD SUN (Sept. 22, 2019). Š Obama's Eloquence Rebukes Trump's Crassness, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, October 31, 2019. Also published in THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER and THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST. Š Political Interference with Academic Freedom and Free Speech at Public Universities, ACADEME (Summer 2019). Š Roberts Gave GOP Cover on Gerrymandering, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, July 12, 2019. Also published in The CHARLOTTE OBSERVER and THE HERALD SUN. Also published in THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST and ElectionLaw.blog (July 15, 2019). Š The Arrogance of Abusive Power, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, November 18, 2019. Also published in THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER and THE HERALD SUN, November 18, 2019. Š The Arrogance of Dictating A Woman's Painful Choice, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, June 4, 2019. Also published in THE HERALD SUN, (June 4, 2019), CHARLOTTE OBSERVER (June 6, 2019) and as Abortion and Arrogance in the PROGRESSIVE POPULIST (July 1, 2019). Š Trump Change Would Define Away Poverty, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, May 16, 2019. Also published in THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER (May 16, 2019). Š UNC and Silent Sam: The Uncertain Future of a Great University, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, December 16, 2019. Also published in THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, THE HERALD SUN and WRAL.com, December 16, 2019. Š America's Hope, THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, April 1, 2018. Š In North Carolina's Struggling Regions, Many Feel Like They've Had the Hell Kicked Out of Them, THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, April 15, 2018. Also published as Our Regime of Racial Subordination is Holding Down Black People, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, April 11, 2018). Also published as Gene Nichol: Numbers Don't Lie. There is Systemic Racial Subordination in North Carolina, GREENSBORO NEWS & RECORD, April 22, 2018. Š Lessons on Political Speech, Academic Freedom, and University Governance from the New North Carolina, 16 FIRST AMEND. L. REV. 39 (2018). Š Losing Carolina, THE HERALD SUN, Op-Ed., May 18, 2018. Š Pence and Taxes, THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, June 1, 2018. Also published as Mike Pence's Political Theology: Render Unto the Banks, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, April 26, 2018. Š RFK Fifty Years On, THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, July 1-15, 2018. Also published as Robert F. Kennedy Extended His Hand Across America's Divide, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, June 1, 2018. Š The Kavanaugh Victory, THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, November 1, 2018. Also published as Kavanaugh Won, Decency Lost, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, October 11, 2018. Š Dusting Off the Guarantee Clause for North Carolina, THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, November 15, 2017. Also published as In NC, it's Time to Invoke the Constitution's Anti-Tyrant Provision, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., October 12, 2017 (online). Š Trump Targets Peace Corps, PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, August 15, 2017. Š Academic Activism and Freedom of Speech, 39 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 1111 (2016). Š Keynote Remarks: Academic Activism and Freedom of Speech, 39 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 1111 (2016). Š Stepping on the Necks of Low Wage Workers, PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, June 1, 2016. Š Current Conditions, PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, September 1, 2015. (Similar article published as: Current Conditions, ACSBLOG, AMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY, August 5, 2015.) Š On Being 'Academic,' PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, December 15, 2015.

2 Š Our Greatest Constitutional Shortcoming: Legal Access, PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, October 15, 2015. (Similar article published as: Our Greatest Constitutional Shortcoming, ACSBLOG, AMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY, September, 17, 2015) Š Sally Robare and Outrageous Voter ID Laws, PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, July 1, 2015. Š Stepping on Necks of Farmworkers in North Carolina, PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, March 25, 2015. Š The Supreme Court Fails a Nation, PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, June 15, 2015. Š Arizona, Catholics and Freedom of Religion, PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, April 15, 2014. Š A Tar Heel Manifesto, PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, May 1, 2014. Š Harsh Lessons For Students, PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, August 15, 2014. Š On Being a White People's Party, PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, July 1, 2014. Š Poverty and Education, PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, March 1, 2014. Š Race, Poverty and "Current Conditions", 49 WAKE FOREST L. REV. 791 (2014). Š Tillis, Medicaid and Preventable Death, PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, October 15, 2014. Š Continuing Judicial Assault on Democracy, PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, October 15, 2013. Š Dragging North Carolina Back Into the Confederacy, PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, April 1, 2013 at 9. Š Hapless Pat McCrory, PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, December 1, 2013. Š Racialized Criminal Justice, PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, January 1, 2013. Š Roberts Doubles Down For White Supremacy, PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, August 15, 2013 at 13. Š Citizens United and the Roberts Court's War on Democracy, 27 GA. ST. U. L. REV. 1007 (2012). Š Dixie Poverty and Politics, PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, November 1, 2012 at 9. Š Invisible North Carolina, PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, Sept. 1, 2012 at 12. Š On Public Obligation, 73 NORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL JOURNAL 395 (2012) Š Race, Legacy and Affirmative Action, PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, October 15, 2012 at 20. Š Rankings, Economic Challenge, and the Future of Legal Education, 61 J. LEGAL EDUC. 345 (2012). Š State Budget Challenges and the Scourge of Poverty, 7 DUKE J. CONST. L. & PUB. POL'Y 71 (2012). Š Not a Winn-Win: The Establishment Clause and Taxpayer Standing, 2011 SUP. CT. REV. 215 (2011). Š Trumping Politics: The Roberts Court and "Judicial Review," 46 TULSA L. REV. 421 (Supreme Court Symposium) (2011). Š Wages, Work, Privilege, and Legal Education 5 HARV. L. & POL'Y REV. 1 (2011). Š Judicial Abdication and Equal Access to the Civil Justice System, 60 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 325 (2010). Š Access to Civil Justice in North Carolina, 14:4 N.C. ST. BAR J. 12 (2009). Š The Roberts Court and Access to Justice, 59 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 821 (2009). Š Access to Justice, 13 N.C. ST. BAR J. 8 (Spring 2008). Š The Charge of Equal Justice, 47 JUDGES' J. 38 (2008). Š With No Warning, No Debate, CAROLINA ALUMNI REV., July/Aug. 2005, at 41. Š America's Economic (and Legal) Apartheid, 29 MONT. LAW 5. Š A Politician Practices What He Professes, 26 WYO. LAW., Feb. 2003, at 16. Š Standing for Privilege: The Failure of Injury Analysis, 82 B.U. L. REV. 301 (2002). Š Tracking the Attorney General, CAROLINA ALUMNI REV., Mar.-Apr. 2002, at 43. Š Bill Aycock and the North Carolina Speaker Ban Law, 79 N.C. L. REV. 1725 (2001). Š Law's Disengaged Left, 50 J. LEGAL EDUC. 547 (2001). Š Ten Small Lessons from the Campaign Trail, 33 U. TOL. L. REV. 131 (2001) (symposium). Š The Impossibility of Lujan's Project, 11 DUKE ENVTL. L. & POL'Y F. 193 (2001) (symposium). Š The Practice of Redistricting, 72 U. COLO. L. REV. 1029 (2001) (symposium). Š Taking Economic Equality Off the Table, 63 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 353 (2000) (symposium). Š Justice Scalia and the Printz Case: The Trials of an Occasional Originalist, 70 U. COLO. L. REV. 953 (1999). Š The New and Unfortunate Face of Judicial Federalism, 23 OHIO N.U. L. REV. 1197 (1997) (symposium). Š Comments to New Lawyers, 25 COLO. LAW., Dec. 1996, at 65. Š Dedication of the Byron White United States Courthouse, 66 U. COLO. L. REV. 1 (1995). Š Is There a Law of Federal Courts?, 96 W. VA. L. REV. 147 (1994). Š Why Lawyers (and Everyone Else) Should Oppose Amendment 12, 23 COLO. LAW. 2083 (1994). Š Justice Scalia, Standing, and Public Law Litigation, 42 DUKE L.J. 1141 (1993). Š Moot Cases, Chief Justice Rehnquist, and the Supreme Court, 22 CONN. L. REV. 703 (1991) (symposium). Š Introduction, 63 U. COLO. L. REV. 291 (1992) (symposium). Š The Left, the Right, and Certainty in Constitutional Law, 33 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1181 (1992). Š Constitutional Law and the Experience of Judging: Introduction, 61 U. COLO. L. REV. 681 (1990) (symposium). Š Bivens, Chilicky, and Constitutional Damage Claims, 75 VA. L. REV. 1117 (1989). Š Money, Equality and the Regulation of Campaign Finance, 6 CONST. COMMENT. 319 (1989). Š Symposium: Terrorism and the Law (Introduction), 60 U. COLO. L. REV. 447 (1989)(symposium). Š The American Constitutional Tradition of Shared and Separated Powers (Introduction), 30 WM. & MARY L. REV. 209 (1988) (symposium). Š 1787: The Constitution in Perspective (Introduction), 29 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1 (1987) (symposium). Š Commentary on Law: Wallowing in Intention, 39 U. FLA. L. REV. 613 (1987). Š Dialectical Federalism: A Tribute to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, 90 W. VA. L. REV. 91 (1987). Š Federalism, State Courts, and Section 1983, 73 VA. L. REV. 959 (1987) (reprinted in SHELDON H. NAHMOD, A SECTION 1983 CIVIL RIGHTS ANTHOLOGY (1993)). Š Ripeness and the Constitution, 54 U. CHI. L. REV. 153 (1987). Š Injury and the Disintegration of Article III, 74 CAL. L. REV. 1915 (1986). Š Religion and the State (Introduction), 27 WM. & MARY L. REV. 833 (1986) (symposium). Š Abusing Standing: A Comment on Allen v. Wright, 133 U. PA. L. REV. 635 (1985). Š Children of Distant Fathers: Sketching an Ethos of Constitutional Liberty, 1985 WIS. L. REV. 1305. Š Rethinking Standing, 72 CAL. L. REV. 68 (1984) (reprinted in LOUIS FISHER, AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (1990) and THOMAS O. SARGENTICH, ADMINISTRATIVE LAW ANTHOLOGY (1994)). Š Standing on the Constitution: The Supreme Court and Valley Forge, 61 N.C. L. REV. 798 (1983). Š Backing into the Future: The Burger Court and the Federal Forum, 30 U. KAN. L. REV. 341 (1982). Š Causation As a Standing Requirement: The Unprincipled Use of Judicial Restraint, 69 KY. L.J. 185 (1981). Š Prior Crime Impeachment of Criminal Defendants: A Constitutional Analysis of Rule 609, 82 W. VA. L. REV. 391 (1980). Š Waiver Under the West Virginia Habeas Corpus Act (Introduction), 81 W. VA. L. REV. 393 (1979). Š An Examination of Congressional Powers Under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment, 52 NOTRE DAME LAW. 175 ((1976).

Book Reviews

Š Book Review, Establishing Inequality (reviewing Martha Nussbaum, LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE: IN DEFENSE OF AMERICA'S TRADITION OF RELIGIOUS EQUALITY (2008)), 107 MICH. L. REV. 913 (2009).

3 Š Book Review, Toward a People's Constitution (reviewing Robert A. Dahl, HOW DEMOCRATIC IS THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION? (Yale U. Press 2001)), 91 CAL. L. REV. 621 (2003). Š Book Review, Poverty and Equality: A Distant Mirror (reviewing Joel Schwartz, FIGHTING POVERTY WITH VIRTUE: MORAL REFORM AND AMERICA'S URBAN POOR, 1825-2000 (2000) and Elliott J. Gorn, MOTHER JONES: THE MOST DANGEROUS WOMAN IN AMERICA (2001)), 100 MICH. L. REV. 1661 (2002). Š Book Review, Constitutional Judgment (reviewing Philip Bobbitt, CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION (Blackwell 1991)), 91 MICH. L. REV. 1107 (1993). Š Book Review, Bork's Dilemma (reviewing Robert H. Bork, THE TEMPTING OF AMERICA: THE POLITICAL SEDUCTION OF THE LAW (Simon & Schuster 1990)), 76 VA. L. REV. 337 (1990). Š Book Review, Liberalism, Public Virtue and JFK (reviewing "LET THE WORD GO FORTH": THE SPEECHES, STATEMENTS, AND WRITING OF JOHN F. KENNEDY (Theodore C. Sorensen ed., 1988)), 30 WM. & MARY L. REV. 893 (1989). Š Book Review, An Activism of Ambivalence (reviewing THE BURGER COURT: THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION THAT WASN'T (Yale U. Press 1983)), 98 HARV. L. REV. 315 (1984). Š Book Review, Constitutional Perils--Real and Otherwise (reviewing OUR ENDANGERED RIGHTS--THE ACLU REPORT ON CIVIL LIBERTIES TODAY (Norman Dorsen ed., 1984)), 1984 DUKE L.J. 1002. Š Book Review, The Tory and the Constitution: A Review Essay on Statecraft as Soulcraft: What Government Does (reviewing George F. Will, STATECRAFT AS SOULCRAFT: WHAT GOVERNMENT DOES (Simon & Schuster 1983)), 7 LEGAL STUD. F. 109 (1983). Š Book Review, Giving Substance Its Due (reviewing Philip Bobbitt, CONSTITUTIONAL FATE (1982) and Michael Perry, THE CONSTITUTION, THE COURTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS (1982)), 93 YALE L.J. 171 (1983). Š Book Review (reviewing Bob Woodward & Scott Armstrong, THE BRETHREN: INSIDE THE SUPREME COURT (Simon & Schuster 1979)), 82 W. VA. L. REV. 299 (1979).

Other

Š The Price of Poverty in North Carolina's Juvenile Justice System (H. Hunt and G. Nichol), N.C. POVERTY RESEARCH FUND (Spring 2021). Š Surviving Through Together: Hunger, Poverty and Persistence in High Point, North Carolina (with H. Hunt), NORTH CAROLINA POVERTY RESEARCH FUND (Fall 2019). Also published as Holiday Season'Must Read': The Harsh Reality of Poverty in High Point, NC, NC POLICY WATCH (December 19, 2019). Š The Rest of Us Get the Lickspittle, THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, January 1, 2018. Also published as N.C. Senators Vote to Ignore the Poor, Serve the Rich, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed, December 7, 2017 (online). Š In One of the Hungriest States--A Move to Cut Food Stamps, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., May 24, 2017 (online). Also published as What did Poor Kids do to Sen. Ralph Hise?, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, Op-Ed., May 27, 2017 (online). Š King Phil Berger: 'Will No One Rid Me of These Meddlesome Judges?', RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., Oct. 27, 2017 (online). Also published by WRAL.com on Oct. 29, 2017, under the title GENE NICHOL: Phil Berger Rules By Whim To Gain Partisan Omnipotence (online). Š Crushing Poor Tar Heels by Denying Medicaid, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, Op-Ed., October 27, 2016. Also published as Refusing Medicaid Expands Suffering, STAR NEWS ONLINE, Op.-Ed., October 26, 2016 (online), as Crushing Impoverished Tar Heels by Denying Medicaid, THE HERALD-SUN, Op.-Ed., October 27, 2016, and Crushing Impoverished Tar Heels by Denying Medicaid, Greensboro News & Record,Op.-Ed.,Oct. 30, 2016 (online at N&R Greensboro.com). Š Making the Case that Lawmakers are Destroying North Carolina, NEWS & OBSERVER, Op.-Ed., June 25, 2016 (online). Also published as Here's How the Republicans in Raleigh are Ruining North Carolina, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, Op.-Ed., June 28, 2016 (online) and Making the Case that Lawmakers are Destroying North Carolina, THE VIRGINIAN PILOT, Op.-Ed., July 3, 2016 (online). Š Okaying North Carolina's Voter Suppression Law, ACSBLOG, AMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY, May 3, 2016. Š Putting a Face of North Carolina Medicaid Expansion (with H. Hunt & M. Norchi), N.C. Poverty Research Fund (October 2016). Š Taking the Measure of Who We Are in NC - a Greedy Bully, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., January 30,2016 (online). Also published as N.C. Has Become a Greedy Bully, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, Op-Ed., February 1, 2016 (online). Š The Cold Cruelty of NC Leaders is to Tax Poor to Render to Rich, NEWS & OBSERVER, Op.-Ed., July 23, 2016. Š The Grave Sin of Black Suppression, NEWS & OBSERVER, Op.-Ed., September 18, 2016 (print). Also published as Given NC History, GOP's Black Suppression the Gravest Sin, NEWS & OBSERVER, Op.-Ed. September 23, 2016 (online). Also published as Suppressing the Black Vote, WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, Op.-Ed., September 23, 2016 (online). Š Through the Looking Glass with Thom Tillis, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., March 26, 2016 (online). Also published as Through the Looking Glass with Thom Tillis, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, Op-Ed., March 28, 2016 (online) and Through the Looking Glass, PROGRESSIVE POPULIST, May 1, 2016 (online). Š What Poverty Looks Like in Charlotte, THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, Op.-Ed., July 16, 2016. Š An Exercise in Villainy, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., September 25, 2015 at 15A. Š At UNC, Abdicating the Obligations of Leadership in Scandal, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., November 28, 2015 (online). Also published as Hiring Out Leadership, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, November 29, 2015 (print), and Outsourcing Leadership at UNC, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, November 28, 2015 (online). Š Current Conditions, ACSBLOG, AMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY, August 5, 2015. Š Helping Students Navigate the Harshest Challenges of Poverty, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., August 22, 2015. Š NC Teachers Being 'Voluntarily Exploited', RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, August 29,2015. Š One NC Woman's Unforgivable Quest for a Photo ID, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., June 11, 2015. Š Our Greatest Constitutional Shortcoming, ACSBLOG, AMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY, September 17, 2015. Š Staring Poverty in the Face, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, Op-Ed., May 16, 2015. Š The Selfless NC Teachers Fighting to Breach Poverty's Barrier, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., August 15, 2015. Š What Charlotte's Poor Need, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, Op-Ed., Jan. 18, 2015. Š The Shocking Burden of $800 Light Bills (third installment in series Seeing the Invisible: A Yearlong Look at N.C. Poverty), RALEIGH NEWS AND OBSERVER, Op-Ed., March 30, 2013. Š Continuing the Assault on Democracy, U. S. Constitution Day Symposium, AM. CONST. SOC'Y BLOG (Sept. 18, 2013). Š Desperate For Dental Work, An All-night Wait (eighth installment in series Seeing the Invisible: A Yearlong Look at N.C. Poverty), RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., Aug. 24, 2013. Š Digging into NC Districts, Desperation Easy to Find (fifth installment in series Seeing the Invisible: A Yearlong Look at N.C. Poverty), RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., May 25, 2013. Š From Silence to Savagery, Pain for the Poor Intensifies (twelfth installment in series Seeing the Invisible: A Yearlong Look at N.C. Poverty), RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., Dec.. 28, 2013. Š Full of Courage, Smarts, Yet Facing Empty Future (fourth installment in series Seeing the Invisible: A Yearlong Look at N.C. Poverty), RALEIGH NEWS AND OBSERVER, Op-Ed., Apr. 27, 2013. Š In a Growing State, a Growing Hunger (seventh installment in series Seeing the Invisible: A Yearlong Look at N.C. Poverty), RALEIGH NEWS AND OBSERVER, Op-Ed., July 27, 2013. Š In NC, Poverty Pervades, As We Evade (first installment in series Seeing the Invisible: A Yearlong Look at N.C. Poverty), RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., Jan. 27, 2013.

4 Š In Urban North Carolina, Deep Pockets of Misery are Masked (ninth installment in series Seeing the Invisible: A Yearlong Look at N.C. Poverty), RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., September 29, 2013. Š Most of NC's Poor Cannot Afford Legal Representation (tenth installment in series Seeing the Invisible: A Yearlong Look at N.C. Poverty), RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., Oct. 26, 2013. Š Seeing the Invisible: What Are We Doing For the Least of These? (second installment in series Seeing the Invisible: A Yearlong Look at N.C. Poverty), RALEIGH NEWS AND OBSERVER, Op-Ed., Feb.23, 2013. Š Selfless Saints Support North Carolina's Poor With Little Help (eleventh installment in series Seeing the Invisible: A Yearlong Look at N.C. Poverty), RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., Nov. 23, 2013. Š The Picked-On in Brunswick County's Paradise (sixth installment in series Seeing the Invisible: A Yearlong Look at N.C. Poverty), RALEIGH NEWS AND OBSERVER, Op-Ed., June 29, 2013. Š Back to Where We Were, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., June 8, 2011. Š Correcting an Injustice on Campus, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., Jan. 7, 2011. Š Haves, Have-nots and Hurbris, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., Aug. 12, 2011. Š Legal Services, Down and Nearly Out, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., Feb. 28, 2011. Š N.C.'s Constitution-Are They Serious?, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., April 8, 2011. Š She's the Last Line of Defense, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., May 9, 2011. Š Abortion Coverage: It's a Policy Choice, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., March 1, 2010. Š A Nonpartisan Race's Partisan Consequences, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., May 9, 2010. Š Campaign Reforms, Supremely Trashed, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., Dec. 13, 2010. Š Documenting Poverty, Economic Distress and Challenge in North Carolina: A Report for the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, UNC-CH Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity (2010). Š Falling Behind, Quietly, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., July 15, 2010. Š Legacy Loophole, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., Oct. 18, 2010. Š Racial Wealth Disparity in North Carolina: A Report for the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, UNC-CH CENTER ON POVERTY, WORK AND OPPORTUNITY (2010). Š Supreme Corporations, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., Jan. 25, 2010. Š Tax Cuts at the Top and Other Priorities, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., Aug. 16, 2010. Š The Challenge of Pervasive Poverty (with L. Winner), RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., Apr. 9, 2010. Š The Great Divide in Household Wealth, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., Sept. 19, 2010. Š Three Reforms for Right Now (with R. Orr), RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., May 30, 2010. Š Big Money Takes One on the Chin, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., Oct. 20, 2009. Š Care Comes to the City of Angels, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., Sept. 22, 2009. Š Courage on the Bench, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., Dec. 25, 2009. Š Healing Health Care's Fracture, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., Sept. 22, 2009. Š North Carolina's Priority Gap, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., June 21, 2009. Š The Case for the Supreme Court, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., Sept. 22, 2009. Š When it Comes to Elections, Just Wait for the Big Money, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., Sept. 22, 2009. Š Where the Uninsured Don't Count, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., Oct. 20, 2009. Š Why Not Counsel in Civil Cases Too?, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Op-Ed., Nov. 23, 2009. Š Abandoning Their Mission, 55 THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION A50 (Oct. 31, 2008). Š The Command of Equal Justice, 31 COLO. LAW., July 2002, at 57.

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