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Bio

I am an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law, where my research applies philosophical and empirical methods to questions in health law, bioethics, elder law, and private law. Prior to joining the faculty at Iowa, I was an Assistant Professor of Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University and, before that, a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. See full CV.

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My work has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of leading law reviews and peer-reviewed journals, including the Virginia Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, the Washington University Law Review, the Indiana Law Journal, the North Carolina Law Review, the Harvard Journal on Legislation, the Elder Law Journal, the Journal of Law and the Biosciences, the American Journal of Law and Medicine, the American Journal of Bioethics – Empirical Bioethics, and the Canadian Journal of Bioethics. See all publications

Education

I received my J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where I was a Student Fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. In addition, I received the Harvard Distinction in Teaching Award and served as the Executive Editor for Online for the Harvard National Security Journal. After law school, I clerked for Judge Stanley Marcus on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

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I received my B.A. from Cornell University with degrees in English, summa cum laude, and Government, magna cum laude, where I was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and wrote award-winning honors theses in both majors. 

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Research Interests

  • Bioethics

  • Law and Philosophy

  • Private Law

  • Trusts & Estates

  • Property 

  • Health Law

  • Law and Psychology

Courses

Present Courses
  • Property (Fall '24)

  • Trusts & Estates (Spring '25)

  • ​Elder Law (Spring '25)

Past Courses
  • Contracts (Pace Law, Spring '23 & '24)

  • Health Law in America (Pace Law White Plains Hospital Program, Summer '23)

  • First Year Legal Research and Writing (Harvard Law School, 2020 - 2022)

  • Contemporary Challenges in Elder Law Reading Group (Harvard Law School, Spring '22)

  • Money, Markets, and Morals (Teaching Assistant; Harvard College, Fall '19)

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