I am a legal scholar with a J.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton. I study how law shapes our political and ecological futures.

My book project and related articles-in-progress examine the intellectual history of U.S. environmental law. I trace how lawyers in the 1960s and 70s used, transformed, and cabined a new concept: “the environment.” To illuminate environmental law’s unruly beginnings, my work ranges from tort and property law to constitutional and administrative law to antitrust and labor law.

In other writing, I have considered how ideas from democratic theory and historical institutionalism might improve regulatory review. My planned and in-progress projects concern the theory and history of constitutional, administrative, and property law.

My research has been published in the Michigan Law Review and the American Journal of Law and Equality.

As of August 2024, I am clerking for Judge Jenny Rivera on the New York Court of Appeals. I previously clerked for Judge John M. Walker, Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.