Scholarship
Publications
2026
- “Faces of Convention: A Positivist Account of Theoretical Disagreement.” Legal Theory 32 (2026): 1–23.
Work in progress
- “Group Agency in Organized Institutions” (in progress)
- “Legal Normativity and the Evasion of Jurisprudence” (in progress)
- “Res Publica Romana: A Constitutional Conundrum” (in progress)
Presentations24
2026
- “The Practical Ground of Law” at Social Ontology 2026, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, July 2026, and Philosophy and Legal Theory Collaborative Summer Workshop, UC Berkeley School of Law, May 2026
- “Law’s Demise?” at International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR), Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2026
2025
- “How to φ Conventionally Without Agreeing to φ” at SoPhA International Congress, Nantes University, July 2025
- “Faces of Convention: A Positivist Account of Theoretical Disagreement” at Legal Philosophy Workshop, University of Amsterdam Law School, June 2025
- Comments on Alison McQueen’s (Stanford) “Better to be a Traitor? Hobbes on Betrayal” at Ethics and Politics Ancient and Modern (EPAM), Stanford University, May 2025
- “Res Publica Romana: A Constitutional Conundrum” at Ethics and Politics Ancient and Modern (EPAM), Stanford University, May 2025
- “Law as a Social Practice” at EDGE Cross Talks, Stanford University, April 2025
- Comments on Daniel Wodak’s (UPenn) “Can The One-System Picture Be Systematic?” at Stanford Ancient Philosophy Conference: Contemporary and Ancient Philosophy of Law, Stanford University, February 2025
- Comments on Jonghyeon Kim’s (Arizona State University) “Control, Complicity, and Structural Injustice: A Reply to Estlund” at Stanford Graduate Political Theory Conference, February 2025
2024
- Comments on Emma Duncan’s (Stanford) “Mind Your Own Business! Relationships and Standing to Give Reasons” at Political Theory Workshop, Stanford University, October 2024
- “Shared, Participatory, and Common Plans: Prologue to a Social Theory of Law” at Social Ontology 2024, Duke University, June 2024
- Comments on Nathan Hauthaler’s (Duke) “(Simply) Executing an Intention” at Bratman Fest: A Conference in Honor of Michael Bratman’s Work & Mentorship, Stanford University, May 2024
- “Puzzles about Plans: Shared, Participatory, and Common” at Philosophy Department Fourth Year Talk, Stanford University, May 2024
2023
- “On Conventional Wisdom” at Epistemology, Language, Logic, Metaphysics and Mind Working Group (ELLMM City) Yale University, November 2023
- “Dimensions of Shared Agency in Organized Institutions” at Social Ontology 2023, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2023
- “Legal Normativity and the Evasion of Jurisprudence” at EDGE Cross Talks, Stanford University, May 2023
- “The Einstein-Bohr Debate and the Triumph of Complementarity” at Graduate Student Workshop, Stanford University, May 2023
- Comments on Jerome Romagosa’s (U.C. Davis) paper “De-centering the Everett Interpretation” at Berkeley-Stanford-Davis Graduate Conference, April 2023
2022
- “Cultural Pretense: The Pragmatics of Conventional Misdescription” at EDGE Cross Talks, Stanford University, May 2022
2021
- “Political Mythology and Public Reason: The Limits of Liberalism in Rawls and Cassirer” at Graduate Student Workshop, Stanford University, November 2021
- “Adorno’s Radical Objective Spiritualization of Artwork: Genealogy of an Aesthetic” at the Philosophy and Literature Workshop at Stanford University, September 2021
- “Well-Intentioned Self-Delusion About Collective Goals” at Social Ontology 2021, University of California, San Diego, California, June 2021
- “Segregation and Inequality: ‘Separate but Equal’ Strikes Back” at the University of Washington Graduate Conference on the Philosophy of Race, May 2021
2020
- “Shared Agency, Plural Intentions, and Institutions” at Social Ontology 2020, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel Switzerland, June 2020
Full detail, including education, teaching and professional activity, is in the curriculum vitae.