The Silent Transition from Capitalism to Equality in Government Offices , 43 Reviews in American History 274 (2015)

Embracing Disruption: How Technological Change in the Delivery of Legal Services Can Improve Access to Justice , 78 Albany Law Review 553 (2015) (with Walter McCarthy, Ashley McDonald, Kellan Potts and Cassandra Rivais)

Charity Begins at Home? An Exploration of the Systemic Distortions Resulting from Post-Disaster Giving Incentives , 44 Rutgers Law Journal 213 (2014)

The New York Law Journal in its Feb 4, 2015 edition published his bi-monthly Evidence column. This column addressed and criticized the recent First Department decision in Ambac v. Countrywide which recognized a broad new exception to NY's waiver by disclosure rule.

The State Of Drones: State Authority to Regulate Drones, 8 Albany Government Law Review 29 (2015)

Some Implications of the Changing Structure of Work for Worker Retirement Security, Pensions and Health Care, U.S. Department of Labor Symposium on the Future of Work (December 2015)

"Ethics in Long Term Care" in THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ADULTHOOD AND AGING (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015) (with Gayle Doll)

Despite Dark History of Exclusion, Laws Demand U.S. Accepts Refugees, National Law Journal (Nov. 30, 2015) (op-ed)

Conflicts Originalism: The 'Original Content' of the Full Faith and Credit Clause and the Choice of Marriage Law, 118 West Virginia Law Review 547 (2015)

CURRENT ISSUES IN CONSTITUTIONAL LITIGATION, A Context and Practice Casebook, 2d ed. (Carolina Academic Press, 2015) (coauthor)

Any Is Too Much: Shelby County v. Holder and Diminished Citizenship, 17 BERKELEY J. AFR.-AM. L. & POL'Y 66 (2015) (simultaneously published in Journal of Race, Gender & Ethnicity)

2015 Practice Commentaries to CPLR Article 22, Stay, Motions, Orders and Mandates; CPLR Article 23, Subpoenas, CPLR Oaths and Affirmations; CPLR Article 30, Remedies and Pleadings and CPLR Article 31: Disclosure

Courts Reconsider Rule Permitting Use of Affidavits on CPLR 3211(a)(7) Motion, 253 (no. 12) New York Law Journal (January 20, 2015)

January 2013, July 2013, January 2014, July 2014 and January 2015 Supplements to Siegel, New York Practice (5th Ed. 2011; West; also available on Westlaw)

Civil Rights and the Sexual Exploitation of Youth in Foster Care, 117 W. Va. L. Rev. 1225 (2015).

Abolish Anonymous Reporting to Child Protective Services, 64 Cath. U. L. Rev. 51 (2015).

Urban Community Collaborative , ELR News & Analysis (Volume 45, Issue No. 1) (2015).

The Cost of Federalism: Ecology, Community, and the Pragmatism of Land Use in The Law and Policy of Environmental Federalism: A Comparative Analysis (Kalyani Robbins & Erin Ryan, eds.) (Edward Elgar 2015) (with Keith Hirokawa).

Local Governments and Global Commons , 6 B.Y.U. L. Rev. 1489 (2015).

Government Budgets As The Hunger Games: The Brutal Competition For State and Local Government Resources Given Municipal Securities Debt, Pension and OBEP Obligations, And Taxpayer Needs, 33 Review of Banking and Financial Law 663 (2014)

Zombieland/the Detroit Bankruptcy: Why Debts Associated with Pensions, Benefits, and Municipal Securities Never Die... and How They Are Killing Cities Like Detroit, 41 Fordham Urban Law Journal 771 (2014)

The Price of Crisis: Eminent Domain, Local Governments, and the Value of Underwater Mortgages , Temple Journal of Civil & Political Rights (2014)

Towards Engaged Scholarship, 33 Pace Law Review 821 (2013) (with John R. Nolon, Michelle Bryan Mudd, Michael Burger, Kim Diana Connolly, Nestor Davidson, Matthew Festa, Jill I. Gross, Lisa Heinzerling, Tim Iglesias, Patrick C. McGinley, Sean Nolon, Uma Outka, Jessica Owley, Kalyani Robbins, Jonathan Rosenbloom, and Christopher Serkin)

The Most Important Current Research Questions in Urban Ecosystem Services, 25 Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum 1 (2014) (with James Salzman, Craig Anthony Arnold, Robert Garcia, Kay Jowers, Jeffrey LeJava, Margaret Peloso, and Lydia Olander)

Professor Kearns is a contributing editor to the 6th edition of Effectively Represending Your Client Before the IRS, an American Bar Association publication.

Independent Monitoring as a Tool to Protect, Empower and Integrate Unskilled Guest Workers and to Assist Employers Navigate Complex Guest Worker Requirements

Court's Decisions Include Resolution of Nonparty Disclosure Conflict, 252 (no. 38) New York Law Journal (Lead Article to Special Section on Court of Appeals and Appellate Practice) S2 (August 25, 2014)

2014 Supplement to Fundamentals of Trusts and Estates, 4th ed., LexisNexis 2012 (Roger W. Anderson, co-author)

Impact of Recent U.S. Supreme Court Decisions on Practices in New York, 252 (no. 13) New York Law Journal (July 21, 2014)

Stewart F. Hancock, Jr., 1923–2014, 77 Albany Law Review 763 (2014)

Inevident Truths: Why Current International Norms and Policies May Not Have Supported the American Revolution, 24 FLA. J. INT’L L. 583 (2013)

The Politics of Procedure: An Empirical Analysis of Motion Practice in Civil Rights Litigation under the New Plausibility Standard , 46 Akron Law Review 329 (2014)

Impact of Supreme Court Decisions on New York Practice, 251 (no. 16) New York Law Journal (June 18, 2014)

Genetics, Race and Substantive Due Process, 20 Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice 341 (2014)

Consent-Based Humanitarian Intervention: Giving Sovereign Responsibility Back to the Sovereign, 46 Cornell International Law Journal 499 (2013) (with Oona Hathaway, Ryan Liss, Julia Brower and Tina Thomas)

Jewish Foodways and Religious Self-Governance in America: The Failure of Communal Kashrus Regulation and the Rise of Private Kosher Certification, 104 JEWISH QUARTERLY REVIEW (2014)

From Kate Stoneman to Kate Stoneman Chair, Katheryn D. Katz: Feminist Waves and the First Domestic Violence Course at a United States Law School, 77 Albany Law Review 443 (2014) (with Mary A. Lynch)

Oversight in Private Food Safety Auditing: Addressing Auditor Conflict of Interest, WISCONSIN LAW REVIEW (2014) (with Lesley McAllister)

Regulating Sexual Orientation Change Efforts: The California Approach, Its Limitations, and Potential Alternatives, 123 Yale Law Journal 1352 (2014)

Moving Beyond the Battle over Eco-Kosher: Kosher Certification as a Model (Not a Means) for Ethical Food Labeling, Just Balances, Just Weights: Essays on Jewish Business Ethics in a Modern World (2014)

Ending ‘Gay Conversion’ for Good, New York Times, Feb. 12, 2014

Transforming Cultural Norms of Sexual Violence Against Women, 4(2) Journal of Research in Gender Studies 39 (2014).

The Incense Maker, 37 (No. 2) The Chariton Review 51 (Fall 2014)

The Community Reinvestment Act: Guilty, but Not as Charged , 88 St. John’s Law Review 1 (2014)

Disability and Bioethics, Reference Module in Biomedical Sciences . Elsevier. 18-Oct-2014 doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-801238-3.00186-0.

Garcia v. Google and a "Related Rights" Alternative to Copyright in Acting Performances, Yale Law Journal Forum, Oct. 2014

From Kate Stoneman to Kate Stoneman Chair, Katheryn D. Katz: Feminist Waves and the First Domestic Violence Course at a United States Law School, 77 Albany Law Review 443 (2014) (with Melissa L. Breger)

Stop Counting (Or At Least Count Better), JOTWELL: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots) (2014 conference paper)

The EU General Data Protection Regulation: Toward a Property Regime for Protecting Data Privacy, 123 Yale Law Journal 515 (2013)