Selected writing & research
Case briefs, legal and historical analyses, op-eds and policy work, business memoranda, and quantitative research.
Research
Data & codingBivariate & multivariate relationships: unemployment, wage gap, and median income
A statistical study of how state-level unemployment and the gender wage gap relate to median household income — moving from bivariate correlations to a multivariate regression model fitted across the individual states.
Career pathways of legal elites — U.S. Attorneys dataset
A research assistantship supporting graduate researcher Victor Hsu, building a longitudinal dataset on the career pathways of former United States Attorneys. The work codes education, bar admission, and full employment histories from Westlaw, LinkedIn, government records, and other databases to study how movement between public office and private practice shapes professional conduct.
Unpublished
Writing samples
Eight pieces · four areasLucy v. Zehmer
A brief on the objective theory of contract: whether a land-sale agreement scrawled on the back of a restaurant check — later claimed to be a drunken joke — was nonetheless binding based on the parties' outward expressions of mutual assent.
Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co.
A brief on the landmark question of duty and proximate cause — whether a defendant owes a duty of care to an unforeseeable plaintiff — set against Cardozo's majority and Andrews's dissent.
Purge to Plague: How Doctrine Became the Gay Man's Death
A legal-historical analysis tracing how the federal Lavender Scare transformed sexual orientation into a national-security disqualification, and how that doctrinal architecture persisted to shape the government's failed response to the AIDS epidemic.
The Double Squeeze: Labor Reform and Globalization in Germany
An empirical analysis of how the Hartz labor-market reforms (2003–05) and deeper EU integration after the 2004 eastward expansion reshaped Germany's income distribution and drove a sustained rise in inequality.
The Gun Death Nobody Wants to Talk About
An op-ed arguing that firearm suicide — more than half of all U.S. gun deaths, yet largely absent from the gun-control debate — must move to the center of any serious effort to reduce gun violence.
Pre-Crisis Prevention: Reducing Firearm Violence in Texas Schools
A policy brief weighing Texas's post-Uvalde school-safety response (SB 11) against the evidence, and arguing for prevention-focused alternatives — anonymous tip lines and threat assessment — over armed-presence mandates.
Strategic Communication Plan: Starbucks ~ Pod and Bean
A full communications plan proposing "Pod and Bean," a reservable study-pod concept for Starbucks — built on SMART goals, a SWOT and audience analysis, and a PESO messaging model to redefine the café "third place."