He received a B.A. in Ethics, Politics, and Economics from Yale, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a D. Phil. in Politics from Oxford, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He clerked for Chief Justice Margaret Marshall of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. His book, Opening the Bottlenecks: A New Theory of Equal Opportunity (working title), will be published in 2013 by Oxford University Press.