Biography
I hold a first degree in law from the University of Cambridge, BA (Hons.), MA, where I also completed a research M.Phil. in the History and Philosophy of Science. I later completed my Juris Doctorate at Lewis and Clark. I am a Visiting Fellow to Exeter College at Oxford University, and an academic visitor to the Oxford University Faculty of Law (2025/26).
Until summer 2025, my legal practice focused on public law in the United States as a litigator and policy counsel to the U.S. government. Most recently, I served as a senior ethics policy lawyer to a U.S. cabinet agency in Washington, D.C., with 70,000 employees. There, I advised senior political appointees and agency leadership on personal conflicts of interest and ethics policy, with a portfolio focusing on natural resource extraction, sustainability projects, and Native American trust obligations. Earlier, I served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney, representing the U.S. government in multiple federal trial and appellate courts. I have also served as policy counsel to the U.S. federal courts, and as policy and litigation counsel to a disability law nongovernmental organization. I began my career as a federal judicial law clerk, authoring hundreds of federal judicial opinions in public law cases.
My research focuses on legal and government ethics, and legal history pertaining to medical and expert testimony. I am the author of a forthcoming law casebook, Legal Ethics for Government and Nongovernmental Organization Lawyers (Carolina Academic Press).
Previous Courses: Legal Ethics Government and Nongovernmental Organization Lawyers - Fall 2022, 2023. Spring 2025
Specialty Areas and Course Descriptions
Legal Ethics Government and Nongovernmental Organization Lawyers - Fall 2025