[7] He is the recipient of Supreme Court Fellows Alumni Association’s Administration of Justice Award for legal scholarship (February 2011).

Thereafter, he was the Harold S. Shefelman Scholar at the University of Washington School of Law.

He has written, edited and co-authored (with David Skover) books related to law, freedom of speech and justice in the United States.

These include A Declaration of Duties Toward Humankind: A Critical Companion to Simone Weil's The Need for Roots (co-edited with Eric Springsted)[9] and Tragedy on Trial: The Story of the Infamous Emmett Till Murder Trial,[10] Collins was selected as a Norman Mailer Fellow in fiction writing with a residence in Provincetown (Winter 2010).

His popular press articles or reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, The Forward, and The Nation.