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The body of work spans corporate governance, digital assets, university governance, the gig economy, and trade secret law. The full scholarship index has everything. This page is the shortcut.

If you have ten minutes

Read one of these. Each carries the thesis of a larger project in a single op-ed.

End the Crypto Culture Wars with CLARITY (Washington Reporter, May 2026). The policy case for replacing the 1946 Howey test with a lifecycle-phase framework for digital assets.
Delaware's Corporate Law Reform Would Fortify Stable Governance (Bloomberg Law, 2025). Why bright-line corporate rules beat case-by-case shareholder activism.
Judgment Proof: When Compliance Replaces Wisdom. The 274-billion-dollar problem of risk management that screens the grandmother and waves through the shell company.

If you have an hour

Pick one cluster. Each is a coherent research line.

Digital assets and securities regulation

Crosstagion: The GENIUS Act, CLARITY, and the OCC-CFTC-SEC Gap in Bidirectional Stablecoin Contagion. The empirical case that stablecoin risk runs both ways between traditional finance and crypto, and that no statute allocates jurisdictional authority when it does.
Replacing Howey with CLARITY: Resolving Securities Regulation's Temporal Paradox (forthcoming, Review of Banking & Financial Law, Boston University). The doctrinal companion to the CLARITY op-ed.
Function Over Form: Toward a Safe Harbor Framework for DeFi Regulation of Utility Tokens, Louisiana Law Review. The case for a function-based safe harbor for utility tokens that are bought to be used.

Corporate and university governance

Legitimate University Governance (forthcoming, Dartmouth Law Review). The sovereign-charities framework: institutions with the influence of public bodies and the autonomy of private ones, answerable to neither.
Exclusive Inclusion (forthcoming, 2026). How institutions publicly committed to inclusion produce systematic identity-based exclusion as a structural output. Reform proposals adapted from corporate derivative-suit doctrine.
University Disentanglement (2024). The agency-costs theory of university governance that supplies the framework for Exclusive Inclusion.

Trade secrets and IP remedies

Valuing Uncertain Trade Secrets: Epistemic Boundaries of the Reasonable Royalties Remedy. The epistemic case against applying market-anchored valuation to genuinely uncertain trade secrets, and a remedy framework that handles the difference.
Protecting Trade Secrets (book). The practitioner-facing treatment of the same problem.

Startup finance and crowdfunding

Bridgefunding: Crowdfunding and the Market for Entrepreneurial Finance. The structural account of how equity crowdfunding fits into the Series A gap.
Female Entrepreneurs and Equity Crowdfunding in the US: Receiving Less When Asking for More. Empirical work on gender disparities in crowdfunding outcomes.

If you have a weekend

Three book-length manuscripts trace a single unified theory of how law creates and destroys governance.

Law and Governance: How Law Makes, Supports, and Weakens Governance. The theoretical framework. Defines governance as a club good, shows why legal rules systematically undersupply it, and develops the framework for the other two books.
Open Secrets. The application to digital systems. How DAO governance reconfigures value capture in open innovation ecosystems, bridging trade secret law and blockchain governance.
Judgment Proof: The Reign of the Safety Machine versus the Recovery of Human Wisdom. The trade-press companion. Argues that modern institutions have engineered out the faculty of judgment, and that law has two purposes (foundation and scaffolding) but has forgotten the second.

If you teach business associations

The forthcoming Aspen treatise, Business Associations: Law in Theory and Practice, is structured to be the only book the course needs. It bundles statutory excerpts, deal documents, a running hypothetical, and Why-boxes (the economic logic, marked clearly so students can skip them without losing the doctrine).

The companion site also hosts the Knight RUP restoration: a crowdsourced cleanup of Frank Knight's Risk, Uncertainty and Profit (1921), the source of the risk-versus-uncertainty distinction.