Research
The Instrumental Case for AI Rights
AI Rights for Economic Flourishing
With Simon Goldstein · (work in progress)
Liberalism Forever
With Simon Goldstein · (work in progress)
Book
AI Rights
With Simon Goldstein · Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2027)
AI Rights for Human Safety
With Simon Goldstein · Virginia Law Review (forthcoming 2026)
AI Suffrage for Human Flourishing
With Simon Goldstein and Guha Krishnamurthi · Fordham Law Review (forthcoming 2026)
Invited symposium contribution
Governing Frontier AI
AI Nationalization
With Yonathan Arbel and Simon Goldstein · (work in progress)
How to Stop an AI Arms Race
With Simon Goldstein · (work in progress)
How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents
With Yonathan Arbel and Simon Goldstein · Boston College Law Review (forthcoming 2026)
AI Is Not a Natural Monopoly
With Simon Goldstein · Minnesota Law Review Online (forthcoming 2026)
AI Outputs Are Not Protected Speech
Washington University Law Review 102:83 (2024)
Finalist for Carnegie Endowment AI Liability Scholarship Prize (2024)
Selected for Yale Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference (2024)
How AI Systems Behave
A Thousand AI Constitutions
With Simon Goldstein · (work in progress)
AI Revealed Preferences
With Sam Wang, Sofiia Lobanova, Yonathan Arbel and Simon Goldstein · AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES) (accepted, 2026) · peer reviewed
AI Will Not Want to Self-Improve
Lawfare Digital Social Contract Whitepapers (2024)
Limited whitepaper series; $7,000 prize for selected works
Algorithms in the Legal System
Abolition by Algorithm
Michigan Law Review 123:800 (2025)
Selected for Michigan Junior Scholars Conference (2023)
Selected for University of Chicago International Junior Scholars Forum (2023)
Net Versus Relative Impacts in Public Policy Automation: A Conjoint Analysis of Attitudes of Black Americans
With Ryan Kennedy, Amanda Austin, Michael Adams and Carroll Robinson · AI & Society (2024) · peer reviewed
Algorithmic Discrimination and Health Equity
With Jessica L. Roberts · Research Handbook in Health, AI, and the Law (I. Glenn Cohen & Barry Solaiman, eds.) (2024)
Big Data Affirmative Action
Northwestern University Law Review 117:821 (2022)
Selected for Harvard/Yale/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum (2022)
Selected for Midwest Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting (2022)
Artificially Intelligent Class Actions
Texas Law Review 100:101 (2022)
Complex Algorithmic Law
University of Chicago Law Review Online (2022)
Symposium on Personalized Law
Constitutional Law
Justices on Yachts: A Value Over Replacement Theory
With Guha Krishnamurthi · Southern California Law Review Online 97:26 (2024)
Will Bruen Kill Cops?
With Guha Krishnamurthi · Fordham Law Review Online 93:11 (2024)
Qualified Immunity as Gun Control
With Guha Krishnamurthi · Notre Dame Law Review Online 99:93 (2024)
The Goose and the Gander: How Conservative Precedents Will Save Campus Affirmative Action
With Guha Krishnamurthi · Texas Law Review 102:124 (2023)
Nullification in Abortion Prosecutions: An Equilibrium Theory
With Guha Krishnamurthi · Duke Law Journal Online 72:41 (2022)
Small Arms Races
With Guha Krishnamurthi · University of Chicago Law Review Online (2022)
The Pigouvian Constitution
University of Chicago Law Review 88:1081 (2021)
Ban Them All; Let the Courts Sort Them Out: Saving Clauses, the Texas Abortion Ban, and the Structure of Constitutional Rights
Texas Law Review Online 100:13 (2021)
Post-Election Litigation and the Paradox of Voting
With Guha Krishnamurthi · University of Chicago Law Review Online (2021)
Principal Officers and the Function of Section 4 of the 25th Amendment
With Guha Krishnamurthi · UC Davis Law Review Online 54:89 (2021)
Reparations, Constitutionality, and the Model of Civil Damages
With Guha Krishnamurthi · Tulsa Law Review 57:303 (2021)
Invited symposium piece
Bostock and Conceptual Causation
With Guha Krishnamurthi · Yale Journal on Regulation: Notice & Comment (2020)
The Federal–State Standing Gap: How to Enforce Federal Law in Federal Court Without Article III Standing
With David K. Suska · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 26:1155 (2018)
Why Prison?: An Economic Critique
Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 22:111 (2017)
The Law of Banksy: Who Owns Street Art?
University of Chicago Law Review 83:2293 (2016)
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