PhD 2007 (history) Harvard University
JD 1999 Yale University
AB 1996 (history) Yale University

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FIELD SPECIALTIES

Legal history, federalism, constitutional law, federal jurisdiction, civil procedure, and law and literature

NEWS

• Elected to the membership of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2026
• Winner of the Littleton-Griswold Prize from the American Historical Association, 2025.
• “America at 250” at the Institute of Politics, with Valerie Jarrett, Ro Khanna, and Sarah Isgur, May 2026
• Publishes The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms, Yale University Press (2024)
  • Winner of the 2025 SHEAR (Society for Historians of the Early American Republic) Book Prize
• Discusses Chicago's approach to teaching legal history