Publications & Presentations
Alongside my practice, I also enjoy scholarly research. In addition to immigration law, my main research interests are in human rights, the rule of law, and general jurisprudence. You can find a list of my publications and presentations below.
Publications
- Beyond Persecution: A Moral Defence of Expanding Refugee Status
30 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REFUGEE LAW 512 (2018) - The Importance of the Thin Conception of the Rule of Law for International Development: A Decision-Theoretic Account
8 LAW AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW 293 (2015) - Reflections on the Rule of Law After NFIB v. Sebelius
In THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT DECISION: PHILOSOPHICAL AND LEGAL IMPLICATIONS (F. Allhoff and M. Hall eds. 2014)
Presentations
- Hayek on the Ethical and Economic Importance of the Rule of Law: Answering the Razian Challenge
2018 Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Annual Meeting - Plenary Power's Chilling Effect: Why Religious Liberty Requires Judicial Review of the Trump Travel Ban
2018 Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting - Justice, Coordination, and Legal Certainty: A Rawlsian Functionalist Defense of the Rule of Law
(co-presented with Chad Van Schoelandt, Tulane University)
2017 Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Annual Meeting - Respecting Human Rights: The Primacy of Non-Interference
2016 Cambridge Doctoral Workshop in Legal Theory - Comparative Constitutional Law in Dworkinian Jurisprudence
2016 Juris Diversitas Annual Conference - Beyond Persecution: In Defense of Expanding Refugee Status
2016 London School of Economics Graduate Conference in Political Theory - Insecure Expectations, Unfree Exercises
2016 Institute for Humane Studies Graduate Research Colloquium - Legal Responsibility and the Substantive Demands of the Rule of Law
2015 Louisiana State University Graduate Philosophy Conference - The Importance of the Thin Conception of the Rule of Law for International Development:
A Decision-Theoretic Account
2015 Law and Development Conference - Balancing Rights Through Biological Measures of Mental Health
(co-presented with Leslie Kelley, LSU Health Sciences Center)
2014 University of Memphis Philosophy Graduate Student Association Conference - Law, Morality, and Method: Lon Fuller as Methodological Naturalist
2013 Ontario Legal Philosophy Partnership Graduate Conference for Legal Theory
John Stuart Mill, Victoria Embankment Gardens, London, UK