Prior to joining the faculty at Richmond, he was the Executive Director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School. His academic focus is constitutional history and First Amendment law, with particular attention to the relationship between constitutional doctrine and social and political change. After completing his J.D. at Stanford Law School in 2011, he clerked for Judge Diane S. Sykes on the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and for Judge José A. Cabranes on the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He holds a bachelor’s degree in math and political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and two master’s degrees from the London School of Economics, where he studied as a Marshall Scholar.