| Public Pensions: Gender and Civic Service in the States, 1850–1937 SM Sterett Cornell University Press, 2018 | 46 | 2018 |
| Judicial review in Britain S Sterett Comparative Political Studies 26 (4), 421-442, 1994 | 37 | 1994 |
| Need and citizenship after disaster SM Sterett Natural Hazards Review 13 (3), 233-245, 2012 | 29 | 2012 |
| Caring about individual cases: immigration lawyering in Britain S Sterett Cause Lawyering: Political Commitments and Professional Responsibilities 293, 1998 | 26 | 1998 |
| Introductory essay SM Sterett Law & Society Review 36 (2), 209-226, 2002 | 22 | 2002 |
| Creating constitutionalism?: the politics of legal expertise and administrative law in England and Wales SM Sterett (No Title), 1997 | 22 | 1997 |
| Creating constitutionalism S Sterett Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997 | 22 | 1997 |
| Disaster, displacement, and casework: Uncertainty and assistance after Hurricane Katrina SM Sterett Law & Policy 37 (1-2), 61-92, 2015 | 18 | 2015 |
| 6 Parents and Paperwork SM Sterett Queer mobilizations: LGBT activists confront the law, 103, 2009 | 13 | 2009 |
| Comparing legal professions S Sterett Law & Social Inquiry 15 (2), 363-384, 1990 | 13 | 1990 |
| Legal mobilization and climate change: the role of law in wicked problems AM Marshall, SM Sterett Oñati Socio-Legal Series 9 (3), 267-274, 2019 | 12 | 2019 |
| New Orleans everywhere: Bureaucratic accountability and housing policy after Katrina S Sterett, A Sarat, J Lezaun Catastrophe: Law, politics and the humanitarian impulse, 83-115, 2009 | 12 | 2009 |
| Serving the State: Constitutionalism and Social Spending, 1860s-1920s S Sterett Law & Social Inquiry 22 (2), 311-356, 1997 | 11 | 1997 |
| Keeping the law up to date: The idiom of legalism and the reform of administrative law in England and Wales S Sterett Law & Social Inquiry 15 (4), 731-764, 1990 | 11 | 1990 |
| State policy and disaster assistance: Listening to women S Sterett The women of Katrina: How gender, race, and class matter in an American …, 2012 | 10 | 2012 |
| Data access as regulation SM Sterett American behavioral scientist 63 (5), 622-642, 2019 | 8 | 2019 |
| What is law and society? Definitional disputes SM Sterett The Handbook of Law and Society, 1-17, 2015 | 8 | 2015 |
| Disaster and sociolegal studies S Sterett Quid Pro Books, 2013 | 7 | 2013 |
| Administrative law and service learning: Clients, repetition, and race S Sterett, N DuPuis, FG Hubbard Administration & Society 49 (5), 679-699, 2017 | 6 | 2017 |
| Displacement, legal mobilization, and disasters: Trial courts and legal process SM Sterett, LK Mateczun Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy 11 (4), 348-376, 2020 | 5 | 2020 |
