Research Interests & Areas of Specialization

• Business Law
• International Law
• Torts

Education

• JD, New York University School of Law
• AB, Politics, Princeton University

Professional & Teaching Experience

• Associate Director of Development, Stanford Law School
• Associate, Global Finance, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (San Francisco). Practiced banking and commercial finance law.
• Law Clerk, the Hon. Louisa S. Porter, U.S. District Court, Southern District of California
• Intern to Dr. Nabil Elaraby, United Nations International Law Commission (Geneva)

Selected Publications

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• Book Review: Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code, Feb. 12, 2021.
• How Much is Police Brutality Costing America? 40 Hawaii L. Rev. 141 (2017).
• The Future Is Mobile: Financial Inclusion and Technological Innovation in the Emerging World, 24 Stan. J.L. Bus. & Fin 1 (2018).
• Securing Mobile Technology & Financial Transactions in the United States, 9 Berkeley Bus. L. J. 139 (2012).
• An Uneasy Peace: Multilateral Military Intervention in Civil Wars, 35 N.Y.U. J. Int’l. & Pol. 795 (2003).

Professional Associations

• Board Member, Family Service Agency of San Francisco (FSA is the oldest nonsectarian, nonprofit charitable social-services provider in the city and county of San Francisco. The organization provides services to low-income families, children, the elderly, and disabled)
• Member, California State Bar
• Past member of the Civil Justice Strategies Task Force, California State Bar
• Volunteer with Reading Partners, Oakland
• Volunteer with the Children’s Support League of the East Bay

Honors & Awards

• Former Fulbright Scholar (Jamaica)
• Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar
• Junior Fellow, Center for International Studies
• Associate Director of Development, Stanford Law School
• Associate, Global Finance, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (San Francisco). Practiced banking and commercial finance law
• Law Clerk, the Hon. Louisa S. Porter, U.S. District Court, Southern District of California
• Intern to Dr. Nabil Elaraby, United Nations International Law Commission (Geneva)
• Board Member, Family Service Agency of San Francisco (FSA is the oldest nonsectarian, nonprofit charitable social-services provider in the city and county of San Francisco. The organization provides services to low-income families, children, the elderly, and disabled)