Bio

I am a Lecturer in the Department of Government at Harvard University, from which I received my Ph.D. and A.M. in May 2026, and a J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School, where I serve as the Director of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy: Per Curiam. In 2027–28, I will clerk for the Hon. Andrew L. Brasher on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

My research sits at the intersection of property and criminal procedure, focusing on the meaning of legal terms of art in the context of the professional literatures that produced them. My current project examines the relationship between trespass and the law of search from the early seventeenth century to the American Founding, based on a census of over seven hundred printed warrant forms from 1618 to 1791. I am also working on a book on the development of just-war jurisprudence in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. My article, “Papal Jurisdiction and War as Judgment under the ius gentium: Raphael Fulgosius on Dig. 1.1.5," published in the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d’histoire du droit international, received the 2025 Irving Oberman Memorial Award in Legal History and was a finalist for the Brown Award for Excellence in Legal Writing.

In the summer of 2026, I served as a law clerk in the Office of the Attorney General of Alabama. At Harvard, I am a Concentration Adviser in the Department of Government.

I graduated with my A.B. from Harvard College (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa (Junior 24)), where I received the James Gordon Bennett Prize, the Mather Scholar-Citizen Award, and the Charles Joseph Bonaparte Scholarship. I was also a John Harvard Scholar.

My CV can be found here.