I am a PhD Candidate at Columbia University where I teach and work on political and legal theory and intellectual history. My work has been supported by Columbia's Center for Political Economy and I have been a visiting fellow at Humboldt University's Law & Society Institute.

My research focuses on legal reform movements operating at - and pushing - the boundary of formal law without, however, fully renouncing it. My key question is why people eager for social transformation cling to law's norms and procedures and how they imagine their power in response to persistent inequalities.

Beyond my interest in the (im-)possibility of legal reform, I study the political strategies of social movements and the contested normative foundations of democratic institutions. 

My work explores the tension at the heart of formal law's promise of equality.