Admitted
1986, Connecticut; 1988, New York; 1990, New Jersey, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second, Fifth, Eighth and Tenth Circuits and U.S. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
Law School
University of Connecticut School of Law, J.D., with honors, 1986; Columbia University School of Law, LL.M., 2003
Law School Graduation Year
2003
College
Trinity College, B.A., Philosophy, 1983; California Institute of Arts; Graduate Center, City Univers
Memberships
Philosophy of Science Association; The Poetry Project; The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Tort Litigation Committee; Chairperson, Subcommittee on Toxic Torts).
Biographical
Phi Beta Kappa. James Kent Scholar, Columbia University School of Law, 2002-2003. Editor, Articles and Book Reviews, Connecticut Law Review, 1985-1986. Author: Bank Merging and the Implicate Order: Northeast Bancorp. v. Board of Governors, 17 Conn. L. Rev. 861, 1985; Impossibility and the Student First in Albert v. Yale University, 31 St. Louis University L.J. 875, 1987; Judicial Scrutiny of Expert Testimony in Environmental Tort Litigation, 9 Pace Environmental L. Rev. Vol. 399 (1992); The Potential Products Liability of Indian Corporations Doing Business in the United States, 1995 Madras L.J.I.; Book Review: Philosophy in the Flesh, The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought, N.Y.L.J. (Feb. 26, 1999); Book Review: The Cultural Study of Law, Reconstructing Legal Scholarship, N.Y.L.J. (June 26, 1999); Book Review: From Expectation to Experience: Essays on Law & Legal Education, N.Y.L.J. (Feb. 22, 2000); Book Review: Facing the Wind: A True Story of Tragedy and Reconciliation, N.Y.L. (June 5, 2001); Nascent Modernity in Sherwood v. Walker-An Intertextual Proposition, 35 Willamette L. Rev. 315 (1999); Kahn's Reign: and Its Metaphors for Law: A Critique in the Philosophy of Legal Culture, 27 Southern U. L. Rev. 89 (2000); Why Legal Scholars Get Daubert Wrong: A Contextualist Explanation of Law's Epistemology, 22 Whittier L. Rev. 653 (2001); A Time-Slice Approach to Tort Law's Component Parts Problem, 51 DePaul L. Rev. 401 (2001); Book Review: Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance, N.Y.L.J. (July 26, 2002); Linguistics in Law, 66 Albany L. Rev. 61 (2002) Book Review; Justice at Dachau: The Trials of an American Prosecutor, N.Y.L.J. (July 25, 2003); Book Review: The Cloaking of Power: Monstesquieu, Blackstone, and the Rise of Judicial Activism, N.Y.L.J. (August 26, 2003); General Causation at a Crossroads in Toxic Tort Cases, 108 Penn State (Dickinson) L.Rev. (Fall 2003). Law Clerk, Justice David M. Shea, Connecticut Supreme Court, 1986-1987. Associat