I am primarily concerned with oppression, where it may be found and how it may be critiqued and understood. This takes my research in many directions as I am concerned with how supposed groups, be they racial, ethnic, gender, or class -oriented are treated differently in the law. My work is informed by critical theory, particularly continental philosophy, critical race theory, and rhetorical theory. I desire to expose oppression and its manifestation by applying these schema across the law.
Race/Critical Race Theory
Social Justice in Turbulent Times: Critical Race Theory and Occupy Wall Street, National Lawyers Guild Review (2012)
In this brief article, I tackle several issues that are critically important to progressive move(ment)s...
Conversations with the Law: Irony, Hyperbole, and Identity Politics or Sake Pase? Wyclef Jean, Shottas, and Haitian Jack: A Hip-Hop Creole Fusion of Rhetorical Resistance to the Law, Oklahoma City University Law Review (2009)
This article sets out to prove why the law must be investigated in an interdisciplinary...
Regionalism, the Supreme Court, and Effective Governance: Healing Problems that Know No Bounds, Howard Scroll: The Social Justice Law Review (2006)
By actively endorsing remedies that favor a city-suburb divide, the Supreme Court has failed to...
Feminism
“This Woman’s Work” in a "Man's World": A Feminist Analysis of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002, Whittier Law Review (2006)
This paper will discuss the background of the 2002 Farm Bill and its origins in...
Poststructuralism/Critical Theory
Zizek/Questions/Failing, Willamette Law Review (2011)
In this article I am primarily concerned with presenting Slavoj Žižek3 as a legal theorist....
Amos Lee's "Street Corner Preacher" through Michel Foucault's Critique of Scientific Knowledge: A Critique of Legal Knowledge, the crit: critical legal stud. j. (2011)
This article will demonstrate that although students of the law, legal scholars, and practitioners rely...
Atlantean Prose and the Search for Democracy, the crit: critical legal stud. j. (2009)
Atlantis, the Lost City, has been a focal point of folklore, archeological inquiry, literary criticism,...
International Law/International Relations/Postcolonialism
On the Language of (Counter)Terrorism and the Legal Geography of Terror, Willamette Law Review (2012)
In this paper, I will discuss the difficulties in defining a place for the global...
The Ghost in the Global War on Terror: Critical Perspectives and Dangerous Implications for National Security and the Law, Drexel Law Review (2011)
In this Article, I set out to discuss the dangerous implications of the Global War...
A Whale of a Tale: Post-Colonialism, Critical Theory, and Deconstruction: Revisiting the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling Through a Socio-Legal Persepctive, New York City Law Review (2008)
This article is a critical interpretation of the indigenous whaling debate, which, although often discussed...
Canada and Russia in the North Pole: Cooperation, Conflict, and Canadian Identity in the Interpretation of the Arctic Region, Crossroads (2008)
The Arctic debate touches on a number of important international issues: national security, energy exploration...