Research Areas
International law; organizational culture; law and anthropology; human rights; legal institutions; legal profession
Current Projects
Writing a book tentatively titled Values in Translation: Human Rights and the World Bank (under advance contract with Stanford University Press)
Representative Publications
“Why Culture Matters in International Institutions: The Marginality of Human Rights at the World Bank,” American Journal of International Law (forthcoming).
“Measuring Justice: Internal Conflict over the World Bank’s Empirical Approach to Human Rights,” in Mirrors of Justice: Law and Power in the Post-Cold War Era, Kamari Clarke & Mark Goodale eds., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
“International Norm Diffusion in the Pimicikamak Cree Nation: A Model of Legal Mediation,” 48 Harvard International Law Journal 441 (2007).
“Doing Good Business or Just Doing Good: Competing Human Rights Frameworks at the World Bank,” in The Intersection of Rights and Regulation: New Directions in Sociolegal Scholarship, Bronwen Morgan ed., Ashgate Press, 2007.
Note, “The World Bank and the Internalization of Indigenous Rights Norms,” 114 Yale Law Journal 1791 (2005).
Education
PhD, University of Chicago (expected 2010); JD, Yale Law School, 2005; MA, University of Chicago, 2001; AB, Harvard University, 2000
Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
Research Fellow, Program on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School, 2007-2009; Visiting Fellow, Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School, 2006-2008; Visiting Scholar, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2006-2007; Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellow, Center for Ethics, Harvard University, 2005-2006; National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant in Law and Social Sciences and Cultural Anthropology, 2005-2006; National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2000-2002; Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for honors thesis, Harvard University, 2000; Evon Z. Vogt Prize in Anthropology, Harvard University, 2000
Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 2009-present.
Other Positions
Affiliated Faculty, Program on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School, 2009-present; Consultant, The World Bank, 2002-2006