About Me
I am currently the Isadore and Ida Topper Professor of Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. During the spring of 2023, I was a Visiting Professor of Law at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, where I taught constitutional law (to LLMs) and critical theory/critical lawyering (to JD students).
After graduating from the University of Michigan’s law school, I clerked for Judge Alice Batchelder on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and then worked at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in NYC.
I left that gig to become a Reginald F. Lewis Fellow for Law Teaching at Harvard Law School, and from there I went back to teach as a Visiting Instructor at Michigan Law. That led to a two-year stint as a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy at Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University. During that time, I adjuncted at Georgetown’s law school and taught as a faculty associate at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. I also served as a research fellow at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
Since joining the faculty at the Moritz College of Law, I have also been a visiting professor of law at Georgetown’s law school and at Michigan’s.
My Writing
My writing focuses largely on questions of inequality as they intersect with law and culture, with a particular eye on sexuality, reproduction, death, and love. In addition to current and recent work focused on LGBTQIA+ rights and reproductive justice, I am the co-author of a leading casebook in Family Law and have published numerous articles. More information and links to all of my writing can be found under the writing tab above.
I have also been regularly consulted by domestic and international press on a range of subjects, including constitutional law, family law, LGBTQIA+ rights, and the law and ethics of death and dying. Visit the media tab above to see my recent press appearances.
My Teaching
In my teaching I strive to create an inclusive and intellectually stimulating space in which students can not only learn the law, but also critically examine their roles as students and future lawyers, while growing as people.
I regularly teach both traditional doctrinal courses, including Constitutional Law, Family Law, and Constitutional Law Theory, as well as discussion-based seminars including Critical Theory/Critical Lawyering, Sexual Violence and the Law, and Social Justice and the Law, a special seminar for first-year law students at Moritz.
Other courses I have recently taught include The Lawyer in the Community, and an innovative course called The Rule of Law in the Age of Legal Change. In years past, I have taught Advanced Family Law, Bioethics (including specially dedicated courses on assisted suicide and the right to die), Health Ethics, Critical Perspectives on Health Ethics, Health Law, and Sexual Violence and the Law.