Curriculum Vitae
Education
MFA in Writing, 2023, Savannah College of Art and Design
Bachelor of Civil Law, 2016, University of Oxford (Queen’s College)
Juris Doctor, summa cum laude, 2013, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law
Bachelor of Arts in History with Honors, 2010, University of Chicago
Awards & Honors
Order of the Coif, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law, 2013
Editor-in-Chief, Pepperdine Law Review, 2013 (Volume 40)
Dean’s Merit Scholarship (full tuition), Pepperdine Caruso School of Law, 2010-2013
Phi Beta Kappa, University of Chicago, 2010
Emil Karafiol Prize for Best Thesis in European & International History, University of Chicago, 2010
Fellowship & Teaching
Research Fellow, Institute of Law, Politics, and Development, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy, 2017
Teaching Assistant, Legal Research & Writing, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law, 2011-2013
Presenter, The Rise of the Automatons Conference, Savannah Law School, September 2017
Presenter, Health Data in the Algorithmic Society Seminar, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, July 2017
Speaker, “The New Normal in College Sports,” Pepperdine Law Review Symposium, April 2013
Speaker, “Tax Advice for the Second Obama Administration,” Pepperdine Law Review Symposium, January 2013
Academic Publications
"My Ex-Boyfriend Was an Automaton: Narcissism, Selfhood, and Discrimination in the Algorithmic Age"
Savannah Law Review, 2018
“Because Automaton consciousness is, by definition, alien—emanating from a source that we would not intuitively expect—the horror of this confrontation is wrapped up in an effort to try to apply our existing categories to determine whether such consciousness is equivalent to ours in the ways that are important for living together. If the Automatons of the future strike us as real [and] . . . seem almost as if they could be people, is there any reason not to treat them—at least in public life—as such?”
"The Wellness Cure for the Workplace: Human Capital Law as a Lens for Considering Personal Health Data Beyond Privacy”
Tulane Journal of Technology & Intellectual Property, 2017
“Slowly but surely, Big Data is infiltrating traditional employment relationship structures, fundamentally changing both industry and society. Although this ‘datafication’ of the workplace is changing not only how we work but also how we live in ways that remain nascent, we are, for the most part, blind to its occurrence and uncertain about its import.”
“Louboutins and Legal Loopholes: Aesthetic Functionality and Fashion”
Pepperdine Law Review, 2013
“Christian Louboutin redefined high-fashion footwear with his signature red sole. The shoes with the red soles have inspired pop music singles, museum retrospectives, and even articles in the New Yorker. Fashionistas around the world buy Louboutin’s shoes in droves, despite their prohibitory pricing. And so it came as no surprise when Louboutin took the equally famous and fashionable designer Yves Saint Laurent (YSL) to court in August of 2011 for stealing his look; after all, such a lucrative feature certainly required a level of jealous protection, and everyone who was anyone (in the world of haute couture footwear at least) knew that the red sole was Louboutin’s. What did come as a surprise was the judge’s ruling: it went against Louboutin.”