Associate Professor of Law
B.A. 1993, Stanford University; J.D. 1996, Harvard Law School; M.A. 2000, Stanford University; B.C.L. in European and Comparative Law, 2003, University of Oxford; Ph.D. 2004, Stanford University
Professor Law joined the USD law faculty in 2004 and holds an adjunct
appointment in the Department of Political Science at the University
of California, San Diego. He served as executive editor of the
Harvard Law Review, clerked for the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and practiced law
with Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in Los Angeles, before obtaining a
Ph.D. in political science at Stanford and a degree in comparative
law at Oxford. He was recently awarded an International Affairs
Fellowship in Japan by the Council on Foreign Relations and will be
spending summer of 2008 as a visiting scholar in Tokyo to study the
Japanese Supreme Court.
Among his publications are "Globalization and the Future of
Constitutional Rights," Northwestern University Law Review
(forthcoming); "Generic Constitutional Law," Minnesota Law Review;
"Appointing Federal Judges: The President, the Senate, and the
Prisoner's Dilemma," Cardozo Law Review; "Strategic Judicial
Lawmaking: Ideology, Publication, and Asylum Law in the Ninth
Circuit," University of Cincinnati Law Review; and "Executive
Revision of Judicial Decisions," Harvard Law Review. His teaching and
scholarly interests include public law (encompassing constitutional
law, administrative law, and federal courts), comparative public law,
law and social science, judicial politics, comparative judicial
politics, constitutional theory, legal theory, and political theory.
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