I earned an LLM with distinction from the University of East Anglia in Norwich,
England. I taught lectures as a lecturer's assistant for the Law American program. 

I earned a J.D. from Cumberland Law School at Samford University. I mentored new law
students as an assistant to the legal writing program, providing guidance specific to
legal writing as well as more general guidance on surviving the first year of law school. 

I currently practice law in Georgia, but I am licensed in Tennessee and Washington D.C.
as well. My practice involves questions of local government law, general litigation,
environmental permitting, and real estate transactions. 

I research and write about the ways in which law and technology interact; both when they
work together and when they work against one another. I plan on exploring the role of
property in today's modern world and the role of contracts in legal globalism. 

Below are my current works.

Law and Technology

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A Virtual Property Solution: How privacy law can protect the citizens of virtual worlds, ExpressO (2010)

Privacy laws can protect virtual worlds and their users where property law cannot. Yet, legal...

 

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The Virtual Property Problem: What property rights in virtual resources might look like, how they might work, and why they are a bad idea, McGeorge Law Review (forthcoming) (2010)

‘Virtual property’ is a solution looking for a problem. Arguments justifying ‘virtual property’ lie among...

 

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Fiber Optic Foxes: Virtual objects and virtual worlds through the lens of Pierson v. Post and the Law of Capture, Journal of Technology Law and Policy (University of Florida) (2009)

Virtual worlds are more successfully blurring the lines between real and virtual. This tempts many...

 

Fourth Amendment

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Border Confidential: Why Searches of Laptop Computers at the Border Should Require Reasonable Suspicion, American Journal of Trial Advocacy (2007)

Our laptops are capable of containing large amounts of personal, private, intimate, and confidential information....

 

Computer Law

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A Virtual Property Solution: How privacy law can protect the citizens of virtual worlds, ExpressO (2010)

Privacy laws can protect virtual worlds and their users where property law cannot. Yet, legal...