I am an Assistant Professor and John W. Rowe Junior Faculty Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where I study the design of legal and political institutions with an emphasis on liability rules and collective decision making. My work in corporate and contract law examines liability, remedies, governance, and enforcement. My work on voting examines preference aggregation, electoral competition, and the design of voting rules. I also study corporate voting, where corporate governance and collective choice meet. Across my work, the common theme is how rules shape conduct, structure choice, and influence institutional outcomes.
I hold research affiliations at the ETH Zurich Center for Law & Economics and the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy, and serve on the advisory board for Better Choices for Democracy, advising the group on electoral reform. I also provide expert testimony and consulting for both governmental and private parties.
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Academic Affiliations
University of Wisconsin Law School, Assistant Professor, 2021-
Education
Ph.D., Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2019
J.D., Stanford Law School, 2018
B.A., Oregon State University, 2011
Publications
(1) “Designing Remedies to Compensate Plaintiffs for Unobservable Harms.” American Law and Economics Review, 2018. [ALER]
(2) “If Not the Index Funds, Then Who?” Berkeley Business Law Journal, 2020. [BBLJ] [Featured on Columbia Blue Sky Blog]
(3) “Profiting from Pollution” Yale Journal on Regulation Bulletin, 2023 [Replication Files] [JREG] [Featured on Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance]
(4) “Corporate Liability, Collateral Consequences, and Capital Structure“ Columbia Business Law Review, 2023. [CBLR] [Featured on ProMarket]
(5) “Beyond the Spoiler Effect: Can Ranked Choice Voting Solve the Problem of Political Polarization?” (with Edward B. Foley and Scott C. Ganz), University of Illinois Law Review, 2024. [Illinois] [Featured on the Election Law Blog]
(6) “Robust Electoral Competition: Rethinking Electoral Systems to Encourage Representative Outcomes” (with Scott C. Ganz), University of Maryland Law Review, 2024 [Maryland] [Featured on the Election Law Blog]
(7) “The Strong Maximum Circulation Algorithm: A New Method for Aggregating Preference Rankings” (with Scott C. Ganz, Dorit S. Hochbaum, and James B. Orlin), INFORMS Journal on Optimization, 2025 [INFORMS]
(8) “Norm-Based Enforcement of Promises” (with Rebecca Stone and Alexander Stremitzer), Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2026 [JLEO]
(9) “Mirroring the Market: Passive Voting and Outcome Non-Neutrality” (with Jonathan Macey). Yale Journal on Regulation Bulletin (forthcoming). [Featured on Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance]
(10) “Leverage as Leverage in Corporate Misconduct: Collateral Harms, Underenforcement, and Equity Fines” Journal of Law and Economics (forthcoming).
(11) “Fusion Voting and Its Discontents: History, Incentives, and the Limits of Constitutional Mandates” (with Alexander Tahk). Harvard Law & Policy Review (forthcoming).
Working Papers
(12) “Top-Two Runoff Elections (Uniquely) Dominate Plurality Rule” (with Ezra Friedman) (R&R at Social Choice and Welfare).
(13) “Profitable Misconduct, Corporate Governance, and Law Enforcement” (with Anat Admati and Paul Pfleiderer) [Featured on ProMarket].
(14) “Structured Attention as an Organizational Truce” (with Scott C. Ganz).
(15) “What Corrective-Disclosure Returns Identify in Securities Litigation.”
Works in Progress
(16) “Majority Rule with an Unknown Ideological Dimension: Characterization and Simple Implementation” (with Scott C. Ganz).
(17) “Borda for Boards” (with Alan Miller)
Research Reports
(18) “A Simple Agent-Based Model for Simulating Single Winner Elections” (with Scott Ganz and John Mantus)
Teaching
Business Organizations, Contract Law, Contract Theory and Design, Corporate Finance, Deals.
Coauthors
Anat Admati (Stanford), Ned Foley (Ohio State), Ezra Friedman (Northwestern), Scott Ganz (UC Riverside, AEI), Dorit Hochbaum (UC Berkeley), Jonathan Macey (Yale), John Mantus (Carnegie Mellon), Alan Miller (Western University), Jim Orlin (MIT), Paul Pfleiderer (Stanford), Rebecca Stone (UCLA), Alexander Stremitzer (ETH Zurich), Alexander Tahk (Wisconsin).
