He joined the faculty in July 2018. He is completing his Ph.D. in American history at Princeton University, where he was a Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellow. His dissertation, The Lawyers’ Code: The Transformation of American Legal Practice, explores how New York’s enactment in 1848 of the first American civil practice code (aka the Field Code) granted significant power to lawyers in the management of litigation and codified rules of civil procedure that were adopted by other states and the federal courts.