I am currently a law clerk at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Before the clerkship, I spent the better part of a decade jointly enrolled in the University of Arizona’s PhD program in philosophy and the JD program at Harvard Law School, finishing the JD in 2025 and the PhD in 2026.
I came to the law from moral and linguistic philosophy: my past work looked at how people think and talk to each other about what to do. This includes how ordinary people use modals ('should'), the imperative mood ('have a seat!'), among other expressions to direct each other in conversation. But it has also come to include how institutional actors like j…
I am currently a law clerk at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Before the clerkship, I spent the better part of a decade jointly enrolled in the University of Arizona’s PhD program in philosophy and the JD program at Harvard Law School, finishing the JD in 2025 and the PhD in 2026.
I came to the law from moral and linguistic philosophy: my past work looked at how people think and talk to each other about what to do. This includes how ordinary people use modals ('should'), the imperative mood ('have a seat!'), among other expressions to direct each other in conversation. But it has also come to include how institutional actors like judges and legislators use language and moral concepts to direct. My dissertation and my current projects in legal theory grew out of this last step.
