published + forthcoming articles
a functionalist theory of legal persons
(revise & resubmit at Law and Philosophy)
the will to outlive ourselves
(forthcoming in oxford volume on time, meaning, and value: the significance of the past & the future for the present) (honoring samuel scheffler)
property, speech & authorship:
a dilemma for personhood theories of copyright
(forthcoming in cambridge volume on intellectual property + private law)
the legal afterlife: a theory of posthumous life & the law of the dead
(forthcoming in oxford studies in private law theory volume IV)
intellectual property, alienability, and identity
(forthcoming in texas law review) (symposium essay)
understanding intellectual property:
expression, function, and individuation
70 journal of the copyright society of the u.s.a. 57 (2023)
intellectual property, independent creation, and the lockean commons
12 uc irvine law review 747 (2022)
lockean copyright vs. lockean property
12 journal of legal analysis 136 (2020)
minds, machines, and the law:
the case of volition and copyright law
(with jeanne fromer)
119 columbia law review 1887 (2019)
conceptual separability as conceivability:
a philosophical analysis of the useful articles doctrine
(note)
93 nyu law review 553 (2018)
in-progress articles
extended personality to extended minds: the case for legal rights beyond bodies
extending the legal person
personal identity, surviving death, and harming the dead
the extended self: a framework for information rights
legal minds
the alienable legal identity
expression, expressive liberty, and quasi-expression
privacy, prediction, and person: toward a legal right to the illusion of freedom
the imitation game: style, speech, and identity
fake selves, future selves, and fading selves
book projects + manuscripts
the extended self: a theory of identity and the law
(in progress)
research handbook on philosophy & intellectual property
(editor) (with shyamkrishna balganesh)
the fruits of authorship: a theory of copyright
PhD dissertation (NYU department of philosophy)