I am currently a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. My scholarship explores the political economy of public law. Much of my research examines how political parties shape the separation of powers, administrative law, and legislative process. A separate strand of scholarship traces the varied ways the U.S. constitutional system has responded to the demands of groups and social movements representing the interests of racial minorities. My work draws on a variety of methodologies: the political scientist’s emphasis on path dependence and causal inference, the lawyer’s doctrinal toolkit and sensitivity to the structure of legal institutions, and the historian’s facility with archival data. I have published articles in several leading peer-reviewed journals, including Law and Social Inquiry and Studies in American Political Development.
Before coming to HLS, I was an associate in Kirkland & Ellis’s Chicago office, where my practice focused on commercial and appellate litigation. I clerked for Judge David Barron on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Judge Gary Feinerman on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. I hold a J.D. from Stanford Law School, a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. from Harvard College.
Before coming to HLS, I was an associate in Kirkland & Ellis’s Chicago office, where my practice focused on commercial and appellate litigation. I clerked for Judge David Barron on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Judge Gary Feinerman on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. I hold a J.D. from Stanford Law School, a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. from Harvard College.
