I'm a philosopher, writer, legal scholar & associate professor at Columbia Law School. I write about art, information, expression, technology, illness, and death. I think about how these construct + transform our identities across space & over time.
I'm Co-Director of the Law & Philosophy Program at Columbia; corresponding fellow at Yale Law School's Center for Private Law; affiliated faculty at the Kernochan Center for Law, Media & the Arts; and on the Board of Trustees of the Journal of Philosophy. Prior to joining Columbia, I received my PhD in philosophy at NYU in 2022, my JD summa cum laude at NYU School of Law as a Furman Academic Scholar in 2018, and my BA in Philosophy and Symbolic Systems at Stanford in 2014. I was also a Furman Fellow at NYU School of Law, a fellow at NYU's Engelberg Center for Innovation Law and Policy, and a visiting fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
I'm writing about the philosophical questions + legal institutions surrounding and structuring our relationships and rights to information, expression, and ourselves. These include questions underlying intellectual property, technology, privacy, aesthetics, speech, defamation, connection, mental and physical illness, and more. I'm exploring these ideas in my academic work as well as in public & literary projects, and I have a particular love for science fiction as a medium for philosophy.
I wrote my philosophy dissertation on the theoretical foundations of copyright law + authorial rights under the advisement of Liam Murphy, Samuel Scheffler, and Jeremy Waldron, and I’m now developing it into a theory of authorship itself. I'm also writing a series of projects on the Extended Self as a framework for legal persons. My other scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the peer-reviewed Journal of Legal Analysis at Harvard Law School and the Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA, the Columbia Law Review, UC Irvine Law Review, and NYU Law Review, and law & philosophy volumes from Oxford University Press & Cambridge University Press.
Beyond my academic work, I also write essays & other public pieces. These have appeared or are forthcoming in Aeon, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Chronicle Review, The Drift, Cleveland Review of Books, The Point, and Pioneer Works Broadcast, and some of my in-progress pieces are listed in the "public writing" tab below. I'm presently working on my first book, a collection of essays entitled The Identity Prism, which weaves together philosophical ideas and thought experiments; cultural, social, and aesthetic commentary; musings on the puzzles of modern law and policy; and personal reflections and experiences while refracting and examining some of the many dimensions of ourselves. I'm represented by Allison Devereux at Trellis Literary Management.
My other loves include music (psychedelic | repetitive | shoegazing | droning); film (David Lynch | Paul Thomas Anderson); dancing (techno | odissi); certain books; certain art; mind-bending science fiction; mind-bending things in general; transcendental meditation; game nights; my butterscotch telecaster + shell pink jaguar; serene deserts; outer space; and life in New York City.
I'm Co-Director of the Law & Philosophy Program at Columbia; corresponding fellow at Yale Law School's Center for Private Law; affiliated faculty at the Kernochan Center for Law, Media & the Arts; and on the Board of Trustees of the Journal of Philosophy. Prior to joining Columbia, I received my PhD in philosophy at NYU in 2022, my JD summa cum laude at NYU School of Law as a Furman Academic Scholar in 2018, and my BA in Philosophy and Symbolic Systems at Stanford in 2014. I was also a Furman Fellow at NYU School of Law, a fellow at NYU's Engelberg Center for Innovation Law and Policy, and a visiting fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
I'm writing about the philosophical questions + legal institutions surrounding and structuring our relationships and rights to information, expression, and ourselves. These include questions underlying intellectual property, technology, privacy, aesthetics, speech, defamation, connection, mental and physical illness, and more. I'm exploring these ideas in my academic work as well as in public & literary projects, and I have a particular love for science fiction as a medium for philosophy.
I wrote my philosophy dissertation on the theoretical foundations of copyright law + authorial rights under the advisement of Liam Murphy, Samuel Scheffler, and Jeremy Waldron, and I’m now developing it into a theory of authorship itself. I'm also writing a series of projects on the Extended Self as a framework for legal persons. My other scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the peer-reviewed Journal of Legal Analysis at Harvard Law School and the Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA, the Columbia Law Review, UC Irvine Law Review, and NYU Law Review, and law & philosophy volumes from Oxford University Press & Cambridge University Press.
Beyond my academic work, I also write essays & other public pieces. These have appeared or are forthcoming in Aeon, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Chronicle Review, The Drift, Cleveland Review of Books, The Point, and Pioneer Works Broadcast, and some of my in-progress pieces are listed in the "public writing" tab below. I'm presently working on my first book, a collection of essays entitled The Identity Prism, which weaves together philosophical ideas and thought experiments; cultural, social, and aesthetic commentary; musings on the puzzles of modern law and policy; and personal reflections and experiences while refracting and examining some of the many dimensions of ourselves. I'm represented by Allison Devereux at Trellis Literary Management.
My other loves include music (psychedelic | repetitive | shoegazing | droning); film (David Lynch | Paul Thomas Anderson); dancing (techno | odissi); certain books; certain art; mind-bending science fiction; mind-bending things in general; transcendental meditation; game nights; my butterscotch telecaster + shell pink jaguar; serene deserts; outer space; and life in New York City.