Curriculum Vitae

Employment

• University of New Hampshire, Concord, NH
  Franklin Pierce School of Law
  Assistant Professor, 2023–present

  • Teaching Torts, Constitutional Law I and Constitutional Law II

• University of Maine, Portland, ME
  School of Law
  Visiting Assistant Professor, 2021–2023

  • Taught Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Criminal Law Seminar, and Philosophy of Law

• Mitchell Hamline School of Law, St. Paul, MN
  Visiting Assistant Professor, 2019–2021

  • Taught Criminal Law, Contracts, Law & Economics, and Feminist Jurisprudence

• George Mason University, Arlington, VA
  Antonin Scalia Law School
  Visiting Assistant Professor, 2017–2019

  • Taught Contracts I, Contracts II, Legal Theory, and Feminist Jurisprudence

  • Average Teaching Evaluation 4.75/5 (1L courses average 4.68/5)

  • Faculty Speaker at 2019 Commencement (elected by graduating students)

Education

• University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
  Department of Economics
  Ph.D., 2019

  • Erasmus Mundus Scholar

• University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
  Institute of Law and Economics
  Ph.D., 2019

  • Erasmus Mundus Scholar

• University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
  Law School
  J.D., magna cum laude, 2012

  • Concentration in Criminal Law

  • Minnesota Journal of International Law – Staff

• New York University, New York, NY
  Tisch School of the Arts
  B.F.A., 2009

  • Major in Film and Television Production

  • Minors in Mathematics, Philosophy

Awards and Scholarships

• Erasmus Mundus Fellowship, 2013–2019
  European Commission, Erasmus Mundus Programme Scholarship

• Göran Skogh Prize, 2014
  European Association of Law and Economics

  • Awarded to the best paper presented by a young scholar at the EALE Annual Conference.

• Dean's List "A" Average, 2011–2012
  University of Minnesota, Law School

• Book Award — Jurisprudence, 2012
  University of Minnesota, Law School

  • Awarded to the individual student with the highest grade in a law school course.

• Book Award — Game Theory, 2012
  University of Minnesota, Law School

  • Awarded to the individual student with the highest grade in a law school course.

• Book Award — Analytical Methods, 2011
  University of Minnesota, Law School

  • Awarded to the individual student with the highest grade in a law school course.

• Book Award — Perspectives, 2011
  University of Minnesota, Law School

  • Awarded to the individual student with the highest grade in a law school course.

• Best Oral Argument, 2011
  University of Minnesota, Law School

• Carroll and Milton Petrie Scholarship, 2004–2009
  The Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation

Conference Presentations

• Italian Society of Law and Economics, 2023
  University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
  ”The Indeterminacy of Legal Rules”

• The Global Law Market, 2021
  Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel (online)
  ”Legal Presumptions and Evidence Rules” (with Francesco Parisi and Alice Guerra)

• European Association of Law and Economics, 2018
  University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
  "Harmful Speech"

• European Association of Law and Economics, 2016
  University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
  "Reasonable Doubt: An Economic Approach" (with Francesco Parisi and Barbara Luppi)

• Asian Law and Economics Association Annual Conference, 2016
  Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
  "Tort Law for Robots" (with Alice Guerra)
  "The Structure of Political Constitutions"

• American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, 2015
  Columbia University, New York, NY
  "Reasonable Doubt: An Economic Approach" (with Francesco Parisi and Barbara Luppi)

• Italian Society of Law and Economics, 2014
  Sapienza, Universitá di Roma, Rome, Italy
  "The Structure of Political Constitutions"

• European Association of Law and Economics, 2014
  Aix-Marseille Université, Aix-en-Provence, France
  "Using Bounded Rationality to Fight Crime"

  • Awarded 2014 Göran Skogh Prize

• German Law and Economics Association, 2014
  Universiteit Gent, Ghent, Belgium
  "Using Bounded Rationality to Fight Crime"

• Notre Dame Law & Market Behavior Program, 2013
  University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
  "Biasing, Debiasing, and the Law" (with Francesco Parisi and Barbara Luppi)

• American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, 2012
  Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
  "Double-Edged Torts" (with Francesco Parisi and Barbara Luppi)

Other Activities

• Journal Referee

  • International Review of Law and Economics, 2018—present

  • Review of Law and Economics, 2012–present

  • Supreme Court Economic Review, 2016–2019

  • European Association of Law and Economics Annual Conference, 2014

• Maine Advisory Committee on Rules of Unified Criminal Procedure

  • Member, 2021–2023

• Media Appearances

  • Television appearance, History’s Greatest Mysteries, Season 5 Salem Witch Trials (The History Channel).

  • Television appearance, WMUR-TV, Apr. 16, 2024, commenting on B.P.J. v. West Virginia and New Hampshire SB 375 banning transgender girls from participating on girls’ sports teams (ABC WMUR-TV News 9).

  • Podcast Interview, The Legal Impact, Apr. 9, 2024, commenting on Trump’s ongoing legal cases.

  • Television appearance, The World Today, Feb. 18, 2024, commenting on Trump’s ongoing legal cases and the significance for the 2024 presidential election (China Global Television Network).

  • Television appearance, WMUR-TV, Feb. 13, 2024, commenting on Trump’s motion to stay criminal prosecution (ABC WMUR-TV News 9).

  • Television appearance, The World Today, Feb. 8, 2024, commenting on Supreme Court oral arguments in Trump v. Anderson (China Global Television Network).

  • Television appearance, WMUR-TV, Feb. 6, 2024, commenting on D.C. Circuit’s decision to deny Trump presidential immunity from criminal prosecution (ABC WMUR-TV News 9).

  • Television appearance, WMUR-TV, Jan. 10, 2024, commenting on D.C. Circuit case reviewing Trump’s claim of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution (ABC WMUR-TV News 9).

  • Television appearance, WMUR-TV, Jan. 2, 2024, commenting on a pending suit to disqualify Trump from the New Hampshire primary ballot (ABC WMUR-TV News 9).

  • Television appearance, WMUR-TV, Dec. 20, 2023, commenting on the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling disqualifying Trump from appearing on the ballot (ABC WMUR-TV News 9).

  • Quoted in The Maine Monitor, Aug. 14, 2022, commenting on the right to speedy trial in criminal courts in Maine.

  • Television appearance I Was There, Season 1, Episode 4 Salem Witch Trials (The History Channel).

  • Television appearance I Was There, Season 1, Episode 2 Johnstown: America’s Deadliest Flood (The History Channel).

  • Quoted in The Maine Monitor, Feb. 13, 2022, commenting on the recording of jail phone calls between attorneys and criminal defendants.

  • Quoted in Washington Post, Oct. 5, 2018, commenting on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.