I am an assistant professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center, with primary scholarly interests in administrative law, election law, and democratic and constitutional theory. My research focuses on the structure of government and of the democratic process, drawing on political science, political economy, and analysis of the text and structure of the Constitution. My scholarship has been accepted for publication in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and the Yale Journal on Regulation, among other journals.
I received a B.A. from Columbia University in 2015, a J.D. from Yale Law School in 2022, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 2024.
In addition to other ongoing projects, I am completing a book manuscript, titled Madison’s Mistake: Restoring the Separation of Powers, that develops a new conceptual and normative theory of the separation of powers as a government structure that can reinforce rather than vitiate legislative supremacy. It argues that the separation of powers institutionalizes a deliberative moment in the governance process—but one that is downstream of the legislative process. The book identifies distinctive democratic justifications for a variety of government institutions—including the separation of powers, administrative insulation from political control, and administrative due process protections—that have more familiarly been defended on liberal grounds.
I have published work on the separation of powers, constitutional design, the law of democracy, and legal theory, and I have additional ongoing work on these topics.