History of Political Thought – Later Medieval and Early Modern Political Thought (especially Bodin, Grotius, Hobbes); Reception of Classical Political Thought
Political Theory - Theory of Sovereignty; Democratic Theory; Republicanism; Constitutionalism
Jurisprudence - Philosophy of Law; Theory of Rights; Roman Law; Legal History (especially concerning the law of property and the law of obligations)
Awards & Grants
SSHRC Institutional Grant, 2012
Visiting Scholarship, Trinity College, Cambridge, Easter Term 2012
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, The Society of Fellows, Columbia University, 2010 – 2011
Leo Strauss Award for the Best Dissertation in Political Philosophy, American Political Science Association, 2011
Prize Fellowship, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, 2009 – 2010
Publications
‘Office Is a Thing Borrowed: Jean Bodin on the Rights of Office and Seigneurial Government,’ Political Theory (forthcoming)
‘Roman Law, German Liberties, and the Constitution of the Holy Roman Empire,’ Freedom and the Construction of Europe, ed. Quentin Skinner and Martin Van Gelderen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2013)
‘Hobbes and the Civil Law: The Use of Roman Law in Hobbes’s Civil Science,’ Hobbes and the Law, ed. David Dyzenhaus and Thomas Poole (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
‘Sources of Sovereignty: Roman Imperium and Dominium in Civilian Theories of Sovereignty,’ Politica Antica 2 (2012)
‘Popular Liberty, Princely Government and the Roman Law in Hugo Grotius’ De Jure Belli ac Pacis,’ Journal of the History of Ideas 72 (2011).
‘The Legacy of Medieval Constitutionalism in the Philosophy of Right: Hegel and the Prussian Reform Movement,’ History of Political Thought 29 (2008)
‘Private Law Models for Public Law Concepts: The Roman Law Theory of Dominium in the Monarchomach Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty,’ The Review of Politics 70 (2008)
