Professor Halewood's research addresses international trade and commercial law, voting rights, race and law, property law and commodification, food insecurity and human rights law. He has published articles in top journals including the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, the Iowa Law Review, the University of British Columbia Law Review, the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, the Columbia Journal of Race and Law, the Berkeley Journal of African-American Law and Policy, and the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism.