American law and politics, the administrative state, urban inequality, political violence

Recent Publications and Working Papers

Free Speech and Anti-Democratic Violence, Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice 31(1) (2025): 1–69.

Available via JCRSJ.

Invisible Cities, Part I: Zones of Exclusion, Protean Magazine (Dec. 18, 2024).

Available via Protean.

Book Review: Ashutosh Bhagwat, Our Democratic First Amendment (Cambridge University Press 2020), in Law & Politics Book Review 32(5) (May 2022): 57-66.

Available via the Law & Politics Book Review.

‘Singular Proceeding’ or ‘Divided’ Judgment? Constitutional Principles and Separation of Powers in the Humphreys and Belknap Impeachment Trials (Midwest Political Science Association [MPSA], April 2022)
(Working paper draft version, May 2022)

Available via SSRN.

About Me

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the New School for Social Research (NSSR) in New York and have worked previously as an instructor at Fordham University and Manhattan University, among others. In both my research and teaching, I focus on American law and politics, and I use a mix of normative, theoretical, and critical empirical approaches. Substantively, my work focuses on the federal bureaucracy and housing policy; the executive branch and the scope of executive authority; municipal law and urban political movements, including cycles of racial resentment/backlash; and extensive earlier work on free speech under the First Amendment.

My other writing has included book reviews in literary and academic outlets, legal news and analysis for Instinct magazine and the Culture Crush, and a long-running blog series on the intersections of law, politics, and the crises facing news media outlets in the 21st century.

I live and work in New York City.

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