I am an associate professor and the chair of Philosophy at Binghamton University. I also edit the Legal Reasoning and Adjudication section at PhilPapers. I work primarily on topics in philosophy of law, political philosophy, and ethical theory. Some of my work addresses the nature of authority and the proper shape of legal reasoning in non-ideal contexts. I have also written on international criminal law, trying to understand the peculiar centrality of jurisdictional questions and what is important about prosecuting grave international crimes.

More broadly, I am currently investigating questions regarding rights, risk, due process, and public justification. I am animated by a number of concerns in these vicinities, but part of what unifies my interest is a nexus of issues about what the normative (moral, social, legal) environment must look like to enable an agential, evaluatively-engaged stance towards the world. Facing certain risks undermines the justification of hope. Being denied due process vitiates one’s sense of claimancy (which further threatens one’s sense of evaluative authority). Living in a social environment expressively indifferent to a serious wrong one is victim of enervates. Elaborating the normative preconditions for meaningful agency is central to my present work.