Education
J.D., University of Chicago Law School
A.B., Brown University

Selected Publications
Coerced Labor and Implied Congressional Power: The Example of Deserting Sailors and Fugitive Slaves, ___ U. Pa. J. Lab. & Emp. L. ___ (forthcoming) 

A Jurisdictional Prolegomenon to the Limitation of Liability Act, 32 J. Mar. L & Comm. 203 (2001)

The Law of Piracy in Popular Culture, 31 J. Mar. L. & Com. 643 (2000)

Federal Common Law and Congressional Delegation: A Reconceptualization of Admiralty, 61 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 367 (2000)

Original Understandings and the Private Law Origins of the Federal Admiralty Jurisdiction: A Reply to Professor Casto, 30 J. Mar. L & Com. 361 (1999)

Limitation of Liability in Oil Pollution Cases: In Search of Concursus or Procedural Alternative to Concursus?, 22 Tul. Mar. L.J. 331 (1998) (with Robert Force)

Admiralty, Article III, and Supreme Court Review of State Court Decisionmaking, 70 Tul. L. Rev. 2169 (1996)