I coach the undergraduate policy debate team at the University of Illinois, where I
am a student at the College of Law. 

As a relatively new scholar, I am focusing primarily on using the tools of empirical
methods to inform my analysis of issues important to legal practitioners and academics.
In particular, I focus on decision-making. My previous work has been published in
magazines, journals, and online publications dedicated to competitive academic debate,
and my writing on issues in law school admissions has been featured on Brian
Leiter's Law School Reports. Along with Paul Dorasil, I write a column entitled
"Debate by the Numbers" for Victory Briefs Daily. 

Upcoming papers include: (1) an empirical analysis of appellate court decision-making in
CERCLA cases, and (2) an empirical analysis of side/region/gender bias at the debate
Tournament of Champions.

Unpublished Papers

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Judging CERCLA: an Empirical Analysis of Circuit Court Decision-Making, ExpressO (2010)
Political scientists, and increasingly legal scholars, have become skeptical of judges’ attempts to explain decisions...
 

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On Time: An Empirical Analysis of U.S. Law School Admissions Deadlines (with Paul R. Dorasil), ExpressO (2009)
Setting an application deadline is an important decision for a law school admissions committee because...