I am a 1983 summa cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where I double majored in Political Science and Economics. In 1987, I graduated the University of Virginia School of Law, where I was on the Law Review and a member of Order of the Coif.

 

Following a one-year judicial clerkship with the Honorable Harrison L. Winter, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, I practiced for two years at Palmer & Dodge, Boston, Massachusetts, and for two years at Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I began teaching law at George Mason University School of Law in 1992, and am now Professor of Law and Marbury Research Professor at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law, where I joined the faculty in in 2006. I have also taught at the University of Michigan School of Law; the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law; Tel Aviv University Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv, Israel; Griffith University School of Law, Brisbane, Australia; and University of Canterbury Department of Economics, Christchurch, New Zealand.

 

I teach in the areas of Constitutional Law, Public Choice, and Law and Economics. My scholarship primarily involves the intersection of Constitutional Law and Supreme Court decision making with various economics-related methodologies.

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My publications have appeared in several leading academic journals, including The Yale Law Journal, The Stanford Law Review, The University of Pennsylvania Law Review, The California Law Review, The Michigan Law Review, The Georgetown Law Journal, The Texas Law Review, The George Washington Law Review, The Vanderbilt Law Review, The Notre Dame Law Review, and the William & Mary Law Review. I have published three books, Public Choice Concepts and Applications in Law (West 2009) (with Todd J. Zywicki); Constitutional Process: A Social Choice Analysis of Supreme Court Decision Making (Michigan 2002); and Public Choice and Public Law: Readings and Commentary (Anderson 1997).

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