I am Associate Professor of Law and Associate Graduate Faculty in Philosophy at Rutgers University, as well as an Advisor at the Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy. In the past several years, I have taught property law, copyright law, moral philosophy, and jurisprudence, as well as seminars on political philosophy, colonialism, and ethical theory.
I’m working on two book projects. One is about spontaneous freedom–the freedom of acting in unplanned and unscripted ways–and its implications for ethics, politics, law, and technology. An overview of this project is provided by my recent paper in Ethics.
The other is a monograph co-authored with Daniela Dover on Simone de Beauvoir’s moral psychology, metaethics, and ethics. An introduction to this project is provided by our forthcoming paper in Berislav Marušić and Mark Schroeder’s volume on Analytic Existentialism.
I am available to serve on dissertation committees for philosophy Ph.D. students at Rutgers working in any of my areas of research.
CV
My CV is here.
Work in Progress
The Spontaneity of Freedom (monograph in progress)
Freedom and Futurity: Ethics after Simone de Beauvoir (with Daniela Dover) (monograph in progress)
A paper on the politics of spontaneous freedom (draft available on request)
A paper on constitutivist theories of action (draft available on request)
A paper on Kant’s theory of genius (draft available on request)
‘The Freedom of Finitude’ (with Francey Russell) (in progress)
‘An Imagination-Based Approach to Freedom of Speech’ (in progress)
Articles & Chapters
‘Toward an Existentialist Metaethics: Beauvoir’s Groundwork,’ co-authored with Daniela Dover, in Analytic Existentialism, forthcoming
‘Democratic Vibes’, William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal, forthcoming 2024
‘Spontaneous Freedom,’ Ethics, 2022
‘Is Spotify Bad for Democracy? Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Democracy, and Law,’ Yale Journal of Law and Technology, 2022
‘Remixing Rawls: Constitutional Cultural Liberties in Liberal Democracies,’ Northeastern University Law Review, 2019
‘Freedom and the Value of Games,’ Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2018
‘Responding to the Market: The Impact of the Rise of Corporate Law Firms on Elite Legal Education in India,’ co-authored with Nick Robinson, in The Indian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization, 2017
‘The Anatomy of Legal Recruitment in India: Tracing the Tracks of Globalization,’ co-authored with Vikramaditya Khanna and Aditya Singh, in The Indian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization, 2017
‘The Political Morality of Nudges in Healthcare,’ in Nudging Health: Health Law and Behavioral Economics, 2016
‘A.V. ex rel. Vanderhye v. iParadigms, LLC: Electronic Databases and the Compartmentalization of Fair Use,’ IDEA: The Intellectual Property Law Review, 2010
‘A Call for Blind Review: Student Edited Law Reviews and Bias,’ Journal of Legal Education, 2009
Reviews & Discussions
Review of C Thi Nguyen’s Games: Agency as Art. Oxford University Press, 2019, Philosophy, 2023
‘Poincaré, Sartre, Continuity and Temporality,’ Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 2006 (discussion)
Dissertation
Bibliography
Decolonising Jurisprudence Reading List: Resources for Revising Philosophy of Law Syllabi
Some Recent/Upcoming Talks
‘Kantian Genius Reconstructed’, London Aesthetics Forum, Senate House, 5 June 2024.
‘Stop Making Sense’, Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar, University of Oxford, 27 May 2024.
‘Democratic Vibes’, Edinburgh Legal Theory Research Group, University of Edinburgh, 2 May 2024.
‘Freedom beyond Choice’, University of Maryland Department of Philosophy, 21 March 2024.
‘Freedom beyond Choice’, Yale Law and Philosophy Speaker Series, 24 October 2023.
‘Can Speech Regulation on Social Media Platforms Be Democratic?’, USC/King’s College London/Rutgers Early Career Workshop in Legal Philosophy, USC Gould School of Law, 17 August 2023.
‘Can Speech Regulation on Social Media Platforms Be Democratic?’, AALS Jurisprudence Section Junior Scholars Workshop, 4 August 2023.
‘Toward an Existentialist Metaethics’, with Daniela Dover, Oxford Philosophy Society, 12 June 2023.
‘Play, Spontaneous Freedom, and Aesthetics’, Current Themes in Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, 21 April 2023.
‘Toward an Existentialist Metaethics’, with Daniela Dover, University of Edinburgh Department of Philosophy Speaker Series, 5 April 2023.
‘Can Speech Regulation on Social Media Platforms Be Democratic?’, Social Affinity and the Uses of Language, Institute of Philosophy, University of London, 10 March 2023.
Contact
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