Academic Appointments

Wake Forest University, Department of Politics & International Affairs, Winston-Salem, NC

• Assistant Professor: 2024–Present
• Teacher/Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow: 2023–2024
• Courses Taught:
  • POL 225: Constitutional Law: Separation-of-Powers and the Federal System (Spring 2024)
  • POL 226: Constitutional Law: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights (Spring 2024)
  • POL 227: Law Courts & Politics (Fall 2024)
  • POL 280: Research Design (Fall 2024, Spring 2024)

Georgia State University, College of Law, Atlanta, GA

• Assistant Professor of Law: 2019–2024
• Courses Taught:
  • Legal Analytics (Statistical and Machine Learning Methods)
  • Applied Text Analytics for Law and Business
  • Civil Procedure, Antitrust Law, Independent Studies in Legal Analytics
• Service:
  • Affiliated Faculty, Legal Analytics and Innovation Initiative: 2019–2024
  • Member, College of Law Recruitment Committee: 2022–2023
  • Member, College of Law Honor Code Committee: 2022–2023
  • Faculty Advisor, Georgia Association of Women Lawyers: 2022–2023
  • Member, College of Law Faculty Development Committee: 2019–2022

Education

New York University School of Law, New York, NY

• J.D.: May 2016
• Honors:
  • Furman Academic Scholar: 2013–2016
  • Senior Online Editor, New York University Law Review (2015–2016)
• Awards:
  • Vanderbilt Medal for Outstanding Contributions to the Law School
  • Betty Bock Prize in Competition Policy
  • Law and Economics Prize

Emory University, Atlanta, GA

• Ph.D. in Political Science: Aug. 2015
• M.A. in Political Science: Dec. 2008
• Dissertation Title: The Evolution of Dissent in the United States Supreme Court (Chair: Micheal W. Giles)
• Concentrations: Judicial Politics and Constitutional Law, American Public Policy Processes, Quantitative Methodology and Game Theory
• Honors: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Fellowship: 2004–2009

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

• B.A. with Distinction and Highest Honors in Political Science: Dec. 2003
• Honors Thesis: Without Fear or Favor: The Impact of Political Contributions on Judicial Decisions (Chair: Kevin T. McGuire)
• Selected Honors:
  • North Carolina Fellows Program Fellow: 2000–2003
  • Order of the Grail-Valkyries: Inducted 2002

Teaching Interests

• Research Design and Methodology
• Computational Text Analysis
• Judicial Politics and Process
• Constitutional Law
• Complex Litigation
• Civil Procedure
• American Political Development
• Federal Courts

Publications

Works-In-Progress

• An Institutional History of Dissent: Examining the evolution of the Supreme Court’s opinion writing practices.
• Beyond the Fine Print: Investigating the Use and Abuse of Boilerplate in Mutual Fund Disclosures (with Anne Tucker & Yusen Xia).
• The Effect of Informal En Bancs on Process and Precedent (with Bethany Blackstone and Micheal W. Giles).
• Supreme Discord: An Analysis of the Increasing Aggressiveness in Supreme Court Opinion Language (with Yaniv Heled and Joe Griswell).

Articles and Book Chapters

• Text Tone and Legal Language: Analyzing Mutual Fund Disclosure Sentiment, Am. Bus. L.J. (forthcoming 2024).
• Aggregated Risks: Mutual Fund Disclosures & Market Risks, J. Corp. L. (forthcoming 2023).
• Antitrust and Consumer Protection Law, in The Law of Fraternities and Sororities (Gregory Parks ed., forthcoming 2023).
• Thriving in a Non-Academic Environment, in Non-Academic Careers for Quantitative Social Scientists (2023).
• Foreword: Rethinking Antitrust, Ga. St. U. L. Rev. (2022).
• Regulating Dynamic Risk in Changing Market Conditions, Wm. & Mary Bus. L.R. (2022).
• Missing Missingness in Merger Analysis, Ky. L.J. (2021).
• Divide and Concur: Separate Opinions and Legal Change, Cornell L. Rev. (2018).
• Compliance Programs and Leniency Applications in Asian Jurisdictions, ABA Cartel & Criminal Practice Committee Newsletter (2017).
• Note: Anticompetitive Use of Administrative Trials in Bargaining Over Patent Rights, N.Y.U. L. Rev. (2016).
• Where One Sits Affects Where Others Stand: Bias, the Bar, and Nominees to Federal District Courts, Judicature (2015).
• Communicating in 140 Characters or Less: Congressional Adoption of Twitter, PS: Pol. Sci. & Politics (2013).
• Bias and the Bar: Evaluating the ABA Ratings of Federal Judicial Nominees, Pol. Res. Q. (2012).
• Judicial Tenure on the U.S. Supreme Court, 1789–1868, Stud. Am. Pol. Dev. (2006).

Other Professional Experience

Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider, Washington, DC

• Associate: Aug. 2016–Apr. 2019
• Law Clerk: May 2015–July 2015, Sept. 2015–Jan. 2016

New York University School of Law, New York, NY

• Research Assistant for Professor Barry Friedman: Oct. 2014–May 2016
• Research Assistant for Professor Adam B. Cox: May 2014–May 2016

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Washington, DC

• Law Clerk: July 2015–Aug. 2015

Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

• Analyst on the Federal Judiciary: Jan. 2009–Sept. 2011

Emory University, Department of Political Science, Atlanta, GA

• Research and Teaching Assistant: 2004–2008

Training and Proficiencies

• Programming Languages: Proficient in R, Python, Stata, and LaTeX. Experience with Tableau, Mathematica, and Access. Familiar with Perl and FileMaker Pro.
• Additional Training: Game theory, quantitative methodology, and data science (Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models Summer Institute, 2006; ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods, 2005, 2008, 2019, 2020).