Professional Experience
Professor
New York University
Current
Education
Columbia Law School
J.D.
Honors: James Kent Scholar, 1996 & 1998; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, 1997
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Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Graduate study in History
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Honors: Richard Hofstadter Fellow; Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow
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University of British Columbia
B.A. | History
Honors: (Hons.), Reid Medalist (top graduate in Honors History)
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Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
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Honors: Government of British Columbia Asia-Pacific Fellow
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Awards
Elected Convocation Speaker by the Cornell Law School Class of 2007
Professional Associations
AALS Section on Federal Courts
Executive Committee Member
Current
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SSRN Law and Politics e-journal
Advisory Board Member
Current
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American Bar Association
Member
Current
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Law and Society Association
Member
Current
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American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
Member
Current
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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Bar Admissions
- Current
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Cornell Law School
Advisor, Phi Alpha Delta
- Current
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Cornell Law School
Advisor, Students for Marriage Equality
- Current
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District of Columbia
Bar Admissions
- Current
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Maryland
Bar Admissions
- Current
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Library/IT Committee, Cornell Law School
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Cornell Law School
Advisor, Cornell Law Review
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Distinguished Jurist-in-Residence Committee, Cornell Law School
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Ad Hoc Committee on Military Recruiting, Cornell Law School
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Faculty Appointments Committee (entry-level candidates), Cornell Law School
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Clerkship Committee, Cornell Law School
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Speaking Engagements
Suspension and the Extrajudicial Constitution
Seton Hall University Law School, Newark, NJ
Congress s New (and Future) Law of Counterterrorism, Oklahoma City, OK
Oklahoma City University School of Law and the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism
Constitutional Avoidance in the Executive Branch
University of Texas School of Law, Austin,TX
Constitutional Avoidance in the Executive Branch, Theories of Statutory Interpretation Seminar, New Haven, CT
Constitutional Avoidance in the Executive Branch, Law and Politics Workshop, Chicago, IL
Constitutional Avoidance in the Executive Branch, Statutory Interpretation Theory Colloquium, New York, NY
Constitutional Avoidance in the Executive Branch, Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, New Haven, CT
Constitutional Avoidance in the Executive Branch, Los Angeles, CA
Southwestern Law School
Constitutional Avoidance in the Executive Branch, Ithaca, NY
Cornell Law School
Electoral Redistricting and the Supreme Court, Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy Symposium, Ithaca, NY
Executive Branch Statutory Interpretation and the Canon of Constitutional Avoidance, 2005 Administrative Law Conference, Washington, DC
ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice
Federalism and Delegation, Immigration Law Teachers Workshop, Las Vegas, NV
William S. Boyd School of Law
Fleeing the State Court Jury: The Growth of Wrongful Removal to Federal Court, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
Forum Manipulation by Defendants: The Growth of Wrongful Removal to Federal Court, JELS 2004 Junior Empirical Legal Scholars Conference, Ithaca, NY
Hamdi s Habeas Puzzle: Suspension as Authorization?, Malibu, CA
Pepperdine University School of Law
Hamdi s Habeas Puzzle: Suspension as Authorization?, Columbia, SC
University of South Carolina School of Law
Hamdi s Habeas Puzzle: Suspension as Authorization?, Cornell Law Review Symposium, Ithaca, NY
Symposium on Habeas Corpus
Latest Developments in the War on Drugs, Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy Symposium, Ithaca, NY
Preemption, State Attorneys General, and Democracy, Durham, NC
Duke University School of Law
Conference on Federalism in the Overlapping Territory
Presidential Signing Statements: What Is the Problem With Them?, Durham, NC
Duke University School of Law
Suspension and the Extrajudicial Constitution
New York University School of Law, New York
Suspension and the Extrajudicial Constitution, Ithaca, NY
Cornell Law School
Workshop of Junior Constitutional Law Scholars
Suspension and the Extrajudicial Constitution, Constitutional and Legal Theory Colloquium, Austin, TX
The Story of United States v. U.S. District Court (The Keith Decision)
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Berlin, Germany
Contact & Map
40 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
Telephone: (212) 992-8907
Fax: (212) 995-4590