His research primarily focuses on tax law and policy, corporate and securities law, and law and economics. He holds a B.A. from Cornell University and his JD from Stanford Law School, where he served as Managing Editor of the Stanford Law Review. Prior to joining the University of San Diego faculty, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Jay S. Bybee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and practiced law at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. He was awarded the Thorsnes Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 2012 and was named the Herzog Endowed Scholar earlier this year. Todd Carper