His research interests include political and election law, constitutional law, federal courts, and statutory interpretation. He previously served as a law clerk to Judge William Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and to U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor. He has also worked in private practice at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. and has argued in a number of state and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.