I am currently a Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School.
Published Works
The Attributes of Transactions and the Limits of the New Formalism, Berkeley Business Law Journal (2009)
A recent movement in contracts scholarship—the so-called New Formalism—seeks to justify limitations on the introduction...
Comment: Unceasing Animosities and the Public Tranquility: Political Market Failure and the Scope of the Commerce Power, California Law Review (2003)
Curtailing the economic chaos created by a dearth of centralized power was a prominent motivation...
Works in Progress
Law Without Threat: The Theoretical and Empirical Case for the Passage and Subsequent Non-Enforcement of Smoking Bans (2007)
This Article devlops a theory of “contingent harms” to analyze the unique challenges of regulating...