Bio

Now entering my fourth year of law teaching, my research centers on the public law of property where property rights intersect with state power and public interest. My work has examined the legal and constitutional dimensions of public housing, public accommodations, and reparatory frameworks aimed at addressing housing inequality. Increasingly, my scholarship also engages with the role of the federal government in property regimes, including takings, land dispossession, and the legal and political dynamics of federal property disposal. At its core, my work explores how property law operates as a structure of private entitlements, as well as a powerful mechanism of governance that both reflects and reproduces broader patterns of inequality and social ordering.

Since Fall 2022, I have served as an assistant professor of law at The University of Massachusetts School of Law. I earned law degrees from Boston College Law School (JD) and Boston University School of Law (LLM). I earned my PhD in Sociology from Columbia University in 2020, after which I served in that department as a full-time lecturer in the Department of Sociology.

My research includes articles on surveillance in public housing, concentrated property regimes, and equal protection challenges to race-conscious policy, with recent publications in Stanford Law & Policy Review, Socius, and the Maine Law Review. My article An Argument for Housing Reparations proposes a constitutional framework for local governments to address the racialized history of property deprivation. I’m currently developing projects on federal property disposal, the public use power and oligopoly, and the privatization of public infrastructure—each aimed at interrogating how law mediates the balance between private capital and democratic control over land and resources.

In the classroom, I bring these themes to life through courses like The Public Law of Property (spring 2026), Law & Social Change, and Remedies, where I challenge students to think critically about law’s role in shaping the built environment and our collective futures. Across my teaching and scholarship, I aim to illuminate how property law can evolve to support more equitable, inclusive, and responsive legal regimes.

Education

Columbia University

Ph.D.

Boston College

JD

Boston University

LLM

Birmingham-Southern College

BA

Teaching

• Property I & II
• Remedies
• Law & Social Change
• Legal Ethnography
• Business Organizations
• Field Placement Seminar

Law Courses

• Housing
• Law & Social Change
• Inequality
• Research Methodology
• Teaching Methodology