Writing

Academic Articles

Contract’s Two Foreseeabilities | Alabama Law Review (forthcoming)

Originalism’s Dilemma: Legal Formalism, or Judicial Neutrality | Oregon Law Review (2025) (Highly Recommended and Praised on the Legal Theory Blog) (Reviewed on JOTWELL).

Law in Society: Defending Hart | Res Publica (2025) (Highly Recommended on the Legal Theory Blog)

Moves & Rules: Addressing the Puzzle of Social Rule-Following | Law & Philosophy (2024) (Listed as one of ten Downloads of the Year on the Legal Theory Blog)

Shadows or Forgeries? Explaining Legal Normativity | Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence (2024) (Reviewed on JOTWELL).

Book Chapters

(with David Dyzenhaus) The Resilient Constitution | Constitutionalism: Old Dilemmas, New Insights (Oxford University Press, 2021)

Working Papers

Stop Neglecting the “Social” in Social Obligation.

Publicity and the Rule of Law (with Aziz Z. Huq)

Bootstrapped: A Qualified Defense of Practice-Based Constitutional Argument (SSRN) (Listed as one of ten Downloads of the Year on the Legal Theory Blog.)

Web-Based Publications

Can Law Speak Against Itself? (JOTWELL)

Clarifying Legal Validity (JOTWELL)

Roe, Dobbs, and Everything in Between: A Guide for the Perplexed (SAFI)

Revisiting Law’s Claim to Authority (JOTWELL)

Between the Body and the Politic (Völkerrechtsblog)

The Internal Point of View Restored (JOTWELL)

Academic Presentations

Invited Talks

A Dynamic Theory of Social Obligation. Oxford Jurisprudence Discussion Group (June 4, 2026)

A Dynamic Theory of Social Obligation. University of Virginia School of Law, Legal Theory Workshop (March 10, 2026)

Contract’s Two Foreseeabilities. Michigan State University College of Law Faculty Workshop (Oct. 8, 2025)

Explaining Legal Normativity. Invited Talk at UCLA Law’s Legal Philosophy Course. (September 24, 2024).

Bootstrapped: A (Qualified) Defense of Practice-Based Constitutional Argument. Faculty Workshop at Chicago-Kent College of Law. (March 20, 2024)

Beyond Personal Models of Legal Authority. Legal Philosophy Trident Seminar Series. Co-Hosted by Universities of Surrey, Pompeu Fabra, Torcauto di Tella. (April 4, 2024)

Joseph Raz, Eliminativist. Seminar Series hosted by the Law Research Group at the Institute of Philosophical Research, UNAM. (March 11, 2024).

Moves & Rules: Addressing the Puzzle of Rule-Following. Law & Philosophy Workshop: University of Chicago School of Law. (Jan 22, 2024)

Public Legitimation. Cambridge Legal Theory Discussion Group, University of Cambridge. (Nov. 7, 2023)

Description & Evaluation in Legal Theory. Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence, University of Sydney Law School. (July 19, 2023)

Practice & Normativity. Juris North. Joint Discussion Group co-hosted by Universities of Aberdeen, Durham, Hull, Liverpool, Manchester, Surrey, and Westminster. (March 15, 2023)

The Practice Theory of Rules Revisited. University of Edinburgh Legal Theory Reading Group. (Feb 2, 2023)

Practices & Rules. Cambridge University Legal Theory Discussion Group. (Nov 1, 2022)

We are All Austinians Now: A Look at HLA Hart’s Legacy in Analytic Jurisprudence. Guest Lecture at Technische Universität Braunschweig. (July 19, 2022)

Paper Presentations

Stop Neglecting the “Social” in Social Obligation. The Collective (Women in Legal Philosophy) Discussion Series. (September, 2026).

A Dynamic Theory of Social Obligation. Jurisprudence Workshop, Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM) (May 29, 2026).

A Dynamic Theory of Social Obligation. Michigan Law School Junior Faculty Forum (Oct. 11, 2025)

Law in Society: Defending Hart. General Jurisprudence Workshop, hosted by USC Gould School of Law (June 6, 2025).

Dimensions of Foreseeability. Michigan Junior Scholars Conference. (April 24, 2025).

Contract’s Foreseeabilities. Cambridge University Legal Theory Discussion Group. (February 19, 2025).

Contract & Autonomy. SAFI Annual Conference (September 10, 2024)

Subversion, Restoration, or Legislation? The Supreme Court and the Constitution. AALS Junior Scholar Work-in-Progress Session. (August 27, 2024)

Pious Fictions: Legal Change and Judicial Constraint. University of Chicago Law School Work in Progress Workshop (June 20, 2024).

Contract & Alienation and Public Legitimation. LSA Annual Meeting. (June 6, 2024)

Public Legitimation. Online Discussion Series hosted by The Collective: Women in Legal Philosophy. (April 11, 2024)

Practice-Dependent Law. National Conference of Constitutional Law Scholars. (Feb. 23, 2024)

Practice-Dependent Law. Chicagoland Junior Scholars Conference. Loyola University School of Law. (October 7, 2023)

Joseph Raz: Eliminativist. Society of Legal Scholars Conference: Plural Visions of Law. York Law School. (May 11, 2023).

Shadows or Forgeries?. Humboldt University Berlin Graduate Workshop. (Feb. 17, 2023).

Membership and Responsibility for Collective Harm. University of Verona, Annual SAFI Conference. (Oct. 2, 2022.

Membership as Authority. UK-IVR (Jun. 10, 2022) & Lisbon Law & Ethics Conference. (Mar. 4, 2022)

Constitutions as Transition: Some Lessons from TJ for US Politics. Junior Law and Politics Research Forum. (Oct. 6, 2021).

Law as Common Ground. ICON-S Mundo Conference. (July 8, 2021)

Moderator

Legality and Plans: A Conversation with Scott Shapiro. NYU Law, Center for Law & Philosophy. (April 11, 2022)

Current Debates on Judicial Review and Democracy: A Conversation with Jeremy Waldron and Roberto Gargarella. (Oct. 19, 2021)

Discussant/Commentator

Legal Philosophy Workshop, June 2026 (Commenting on Nadia Miller, Children and Families in the Philosophy of Homelessness)

The Normative Foundations of the Market, May 2026 (Commenting on Rebecca Stone, A Rights-Based Account of Third-Party Rights in Contract)

Michigan Junior Scholars Conference, April 2025 (Commenting on: Sania Anwar, Rethinking Relational Loss).

Roundtable on Constitutional Interpretation, January 2025.

Symposium on Legal Precedent, Notre Dame Law School, October 2024

Legal Theory Workshop 2024 (Commenting on: Law, Morality, Games, How Much Normativity does law need). (June 13, 2024).

Roundtable on Justice for Animals. Hosted by Heidi M. Hurd & Michael S. Moore at the University of Illinois. (Feb. 28-Mar. 2, 2024).

General Jurisprudence and Legal Doctrine. Panel Discussion presented by the Jurisprudence Section at the AALS Annual Conference. (Jan 5, 2024)

Legal Reasoning & Adjudication Symposium. University of Wisconsin Law School. (May 18, 2023)

The Long Arc of Legality: A Conversation with David Dyzenhaus (Nov. 4, 2022)

The Resilient Constitution. Book Launch: Constitutionalism–Old Dilemmas, New Insights (May 7, 2022)

Kelsen’s Contribution to Contemporary Philosophy of International Law. NYU IILJ History and Theory Workshop (Mar. 3, 2021)