Education

Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude, June 1998

Harvard Program in Ethics and the Professions, Graduate Fellow, 1996-1997

University of Pittsburgh, Ph.D. in Philosophy, June 1993
        Dissertation: "A Kantian Criticism of Consequentialism"

University of Maryland, B.A., summa cum laude, in Philosophy, June 1987

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor, University of Baltimore, 2000-Present

Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Fall 1999

Visiting Assistant Professor, Lafayette College, 1993-1994

Areas of Specialization

Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Liberal Political Theory, Constitutional Law

Courses Taught

University of Baltimore

• Philosophy of Law
• Logic
• Law and Morality (Spring 2001)
• Ethical Issues in Constitutional Law (Spring 2001)

• "Responsibility of Public Action" (required course in political philosophy and professional responsibility at the Kennedy School of Government)
• Justice (teaching assistant in undergraduate course)

• Business Ethics
• Introduction to Philosophy
• Introduction to Ethics
• Moral Psychology

Mayer, Brown and Platt, Washington, D.C.                                                            1999-2000
        Associate doing general and appellate litigation, and regulatory law

The Honorable Judge Nancy Gertner, United States District Court, Boston, MA.  1998-99
        Law Clerk drafting opinions, writing bench memoranda, and assisting in the courtroom

Publications and Presentation

• "The Significance of Rawl's Law of Peoples; A Response to Lea Brilmayer," Forthcoming in International Legal Theory.
• "Reasonable Illegal Force: Justice and Legitimacy in a Pluralistic, Liberal Society," Forthcoming in Ethics.
• "Consensual Sex Without Assuming the Risk of Carrying an Unwanted Fetus; Another Foundation for the Right to an Abortion," Brooklyn Law Review 63 (Winter 1997): 1051-1140.
• "The 'Defense of Marriage Act' and Authoritarian Mortality," The William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal 5 (Summer 1997): 619-642; and, in a shorter version, in Dissent (Summer 1997): 85-90.
• "Doing, Allowing, and Disabling: Some Principles Governing Deontological Restrictions," Philosophical Studies 80 (1995): 183-215.
• "What's So Bad About Using People Simply as a Means?  The Doctrine of the Double Effect and the Disabler Principle," presented at the Eastern Pennsylvania Philosophical Association, April 1994.
• "The Categorical Imperative and the Fact of Reason," presented at the University of Maryland, April 1992.
• Co-inventor in US Patent No. 5,172,350 (One-handed clock).

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