Received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 2002 and an undergraduate
degree, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Duke University in 1995.
He clerked for the Honorable David G. Trager of the Eastern District of
New York and the Honorable Betty Binns Fletcher of the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Prior to joining the associate-in-law
program at Columbia, he was an associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen &
Hamilton LLP, in New York, where he focused on corporate and securities
litigation and arbitration and served as co-coordinator of Cleary
Gottlieb’s pro bono immigration and international human rights practice
group.
He is an adjunct professor of law at Cardozo Law School and on
the Board of Immigration Equality.
He was assistant managing editor at
The New Republic magazine from 1997 through 1999.
He is a member of the
Bar in New York and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of
Appeals of the D.C. Circuit and Ninth Circuit, as well as the U.S.
District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
Published Work
“‘Soft Immutablity’ and ‘Imputed Gay Identity’: Recent Developments in Transgender and Sexual-Orientation-Based Asylum Law,’” 32 Fordham Urb. L.J. 237 (2005)
“Reversal of Fortune,” The New Republic, 3/11/04
“Judge Advocates,” The New Republic, 2/25/04
“Misjudged,” The New Republic, 2/9/04,
“Ripple Effect,” The New Republic, 6/23/03 (cited in Brest et al., Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking 1476 (5th ed. 2006)).
“Out of Order,” The New Republic, 5/5/97
“Marriage as Integration,” in Same Sex Marriage: Pro and Con (ed. Sullivan, Vintage, 1996)
Review, Michael Oakeshott’s Politics of Faith and Politics of Skepticism, in Wilson Quarterly, 2/1996
