environmental law, ethics, and economics
Environmental governance arises out of a dynamic clash of law and politics. From local air pollution to climate change, addressing environmental challenges strikes at the heart of what it means to live in the world together.
representative publications
“Valuing Diversity,” 28 Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 264 (2024).
“Where Nature’s Rights Go Wrong,” 107 Virginia Law Review 1347 (2021) (with Mauricio Guim).
“Sociopolitical Feedbacks and Climate Change,” 43 Harvard Environmental Law Review 119 (2019) (with Peter Howard).
“Rethinking Health-Based Environmental Standards,” 89 New York University Law Review 1184 (2014) (with Richard L. Revesz).
regulation and administrative law
In complex societies, governments must balance expertise, evidence, and analysis with the demands of legality and democratic accountability. These competing priorities shape institutions of political and judicial oversight as well as the substantive standards they use to evaluate agency decision making.
representative publications
“Presidential Transitions and Interest Group Participation in the Notice and Comment Process,” 54 American Review of Public Administration 648 (2024) (with Vladimir Eidelman, Anastassia Kornilova, and Onyi Lam).
Reviving Rationality: Saving Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Sake of the Environment and Our Health (Oxford University Press 2020) (with Richard L. Revesz).
“Administrative Law in an Era of Partisan Volatility,” 69 Emory Law Journal 1 (2019) (with Daniel Richardson).
“Computationally Assisted Participatory Rulemaking” 93 Notre Dame Law Review 977 (2018) (with Vladimir Eidelman and Brian Grom).
computational legal studies
An explosion in the digital availability of legal documents, coupled with advances in computational techniques of text analysis and natural language processing, creates many new opportunities for scholars interested in studying the law and legal institutions.
representative publications
“Judicial Dark Matter,” 91 University of Chicago Law Review 1949 (2024) (with Nina Varsava, Keith Carlson, and Daniel N. Rockmore).
“Are Lawyers’ Case Selection Decisions Biased? A Field Experiment on Access to Justice,” 52 Journal of Legal Studies 273 (2023) (with Jens Frankenreiter).
“Modeling Law Search as Prediction,” 29 Artificial Intelligence and Law 3 (2021) (with Faraz Dadgostari, Mauricio Guim, Peter A. Beling, and Daniel N. Rockmore).
“The Problem of Data Bias in the Pool of Published U.S. Appellate Court Opinions,” 17 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 224 (2020) (with Keith Carlson and Daniel N. Rockmore).
Law as Data: Computation, Text, and the Future of Legal Analysis (Santa Fe Institute Press 2019) (editor, with Daniel Rockmore).
“The U.S. Supreme Court and the Judicial Genre” 59 Arizona Law Review 837 (2017) (with Allen B. Riddell and Daniel N. Rockmore).
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