Her work touches on a variety of topics and questions in law and society, including access to justice (how personal injury lawyers screen cases and clients; how families who experience birth injuries decide whether or not to sue their doctors), law and gender (appearance-related employment discrimination lawsuits; public sexual harassment in Singapore and the U.S.); the legal profession (prosecutors as cause lawyers); legal consciousness (how legal knowledge shapes day labor workers' desire for workplace change); law and social movements (how living wage campaigns influence labor union organizing), and law and popular culture (gendered, raced, and classed representations of tort plaintiffs in the "Stella" awards).