Education

Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude, June 1998

Harvard's Program (now Center) in Ethics and the Professions, Graduate Fellow, 1996-1997

University of Pittsburgh, Ph.D. in Philosophy, June 1993, Dissertation: "A Kantian Criticism of Consequentialism"

University of Maryland, B.A., summa cum laude, in Philosophy, June 1987

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor, University of Baltimore, 2000-Present

Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Fall 1999

Visiting Assistant Professor, Lafayette College, 1993-1994

Areas of Specialization

Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Liberal Political Theory, Constitutional Law

Courses Taught

University of Baltimore

Philosophy of Law

Logic

Law and Morality (Spring 2001)

Ethical Issues in Constitutional Law (Spring 2001)

Harvard University

"Responsibility of Public Action" (required course in political philosophy and professional responsibility at the Kennedy School of Government)

Justice (teaching assistant in undergraduate course)

Lafayette College

Business Ethics

Introduction to Philosophy

Introduction to Ethics

Moral Psychology

Other Work Experience

Mayer, Brown and Platt, Washington, D.C. 1999-2000
Associate doing general and appellate litigation, and regulatory law

The Honorable Judge Nancy Gertner, United States District Court, Boston, MA. 1998-99
Law Clerk drafting opinions, writing bench memoranda, and assisting in the courtroom

Publications and Presentations

"Intention and Permissibility: A Response to Three Arguments," at the University of Maryland School of Law, March 2002, and in the Legal Studies Group at Johns Hopkins University, April 2002.

"Intention and Permissibility," at the Conference on Value Inquiry, Oklahoma State University, and the University of Baltimore Law School, both in April 2001.

"Obscenity and Hate Speech," presented during Ethics Week at the University of Baltimore, March 2001.

"Reasonable Illegal Force: Justice and Legitimacy in a Pluralistic, Liberal Society," Ethics III (January 2001): 344-373.

"The Significance of Rawl's Law of Peoples; A Response to Lea Brilmayer," International Legal Theory 6 (2001): 51-57.

"Consensual Sex Without Assuming the Risk of Carrying an Unwanted Fetus; Another Foundation for the Right to an Abortion," Brooklyn Law Review 63 (Winter 1997): 1051-1140.

"The 'Defense of Marriage Act' and Authoritarian Mortality," The William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal 5 (Summer 1997): 619-642; and, in a shorter version, in Dissent (Summer 1997): 85-90.

"Doing, Allowing, and Disabling: Some Principles Governing Deontological Restrictions," Philosophical Studies 80 (1995): 183-215.

"What's So Bad About Using People Simply as a Means? The Doctrine of the Double Effect and the Disabler Principle," presented at the Eastern Pennsylvania Philosophical Association, April 1994.

"The Categorical Imperative and the Fact of Reason," presented at the University of Maryland, April 1992.

Co-inventor in US Patent No. 5,172,350 (One-handed clock).