Publications and Public Scholarship
Op-Ed: Sherrill has clean transportation options beyond Gateway, NJ Spotlight News.
NJ Spotlight News. March 10, 2026.
Policy-focused analysis offering practical transportation and infrastructure solutions to improve mobility, affordability, sustainability, and regional economic competitiveness beyond reliance on a major regional project.
Keeping a Finger on the Button: Presidential Continuity and the Nuclear Age
Palgrave Macmillan. November 29, 2025
Book published by Palgrave Macmillan, endorsed by Pulitzer Prize finalists, and written for audiences across history, constitutional law, political science, presidential studies, and contemporary public affairs. Drawing on previously unmined archival sources and oral-history interviews — including interviews with the late U.S. Senator Birch Bayh, principal author of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment — the book examines how Cold War nuclear anxieties shaped presidential continuity planning, identifies unresolved threats to democratic stability and national security, and offers concrete reforms to address them.
Here’s how we stop Big Tech from raising our electric bills
NJ.com. November 2, 2025
Co-authored with N.J. Sierra Club Director Anjuli Ramos; policy analysis examining the relationship between energy demand, data-center growth, utility costs, and regulatory policy, while offering practical solutions to protect consumers and strengthen long-term energy affordability.
To address the Energy Affordability Crisis, New Jersey’s next governor must double down on Clean Energy
ROI-NJ.com. October 14, 2025
Policy-focused analysis offering practical solutions for addressing New Jersey’s energy affordability crisis through clean energy investment, long-term infrastructure planning, regulatory stability, and economic resilience.
As flood risk increases, the federal government, insurance industry pulls back
NJ.com. August 6, 2025
Examination of the growing challenges surrounding climate risk, insurance markets, disaster preparedness, and public policy as communities confront increasing environmental and economic vulnerability.
U.S. energy independence requires commonsense policy for the common good
USA Today Network
Analysis of how pragmatic energy policy, long-term planning, and cross-sector collaboration can strengthen American energy security, economic opportunity, and institutional stability while advancing the public interest.
Why clean energy strengthens America’s energy and economic independence
ROI-NJ. July 18, 2024.
Public-policy analysis examining how clean energy investment strengthens American energy independence, economic resilience, affordability, national competitiveness, and long-term democratic stability.
The Presidential Succession Act at 75 | Nuclear Weapons and the Presidential Succession Act of 1947
Fordham Law Review. April 6, 2022.
Scholarly article published in Fordham Law Review, one of the nation’s leading law journals, examining how the nuclear age reshaped presidential succession, executive continuity, constitutional governance, and democratic stability in the modern presidency.
Power and Crisis: A Political Paradox: Power, Fallibility, and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment
Public Seminar. October 7, 2020.
Historical and constitutional analysis exploring why political incentives, executive power, and institutional pressures have complicated the use of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment during moments of presidential crisis and democratic instability.
A Political Paradox: Power, Fallibility, and the 25th Amendment
Insider NJ. October 6, 2020.
Analysis of the tensions between presidential power, political loyalty, constitutional responsibility, and institutional stability during moments of executive crisis and heightened national-security concerns.
Modern States: A Timely Option for New Jersey
Insider NJ. August 19, 2020.
Higher-education policy analysis examining innovative approaches to college access, affordability, digital learning, and institutional adaptation during the COVID-19 crisis, while offering practical reforms to expand educational opportunity in New Jersey. A version of this op-ed was also published by ROI-NJ on August 20, 2020.
Stemming the Tide: Scholars program aims to retain the state's top STEM students for Jersey jobs
NJ Monthly. April 23, 2019.
Featured interview discussing higher-education policy, workforce development, STEM leadership, and strategies for preparing students to navigate New Jersey’s evolving innovation economy and future labor market.
Harnessing Brain Power: How the Governor's STEM Scholars program identifies gifted students and helps them stay in New Jersey
NJBiz.com. April 15, 2019.
Feature highlighting successful leadership and growth of New Jersey’s Governor’s STEM Scholars program, including expanded higher-education partnerships, workforce-development initiatives, student mentorship, and cross-sector collaboration connecting emerging leaders with opportunities in academia, government, and business and industry.
Stop Talking About the 25th Amendment. It Won't Work on Trump. And It Might Just Set Off a Constitutional Crisis
Politico Magazine. September 8, 2018.
Co-authored with Pulitzer Prize finalist David Greenberg; public-facing constitutional analysis demonstrating the ability to respond rapidly and thoughtfully to major political developments involving presidential power, executive accountability, democratic governance, and potential constitutional crisis.
"A Dr. Strangelove Situation": Nuclear Anxiety, Presidential Fallibility, and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment
Fordham Law Review. December 1, 2017.
Legal, cultural, and political history analysis published in Fordham Law Review examining how Cold War fears, nuclear anxiety, and public perceptions of presidential vulnerability shaped constitutional reform and executive governance in the modern presidency.