Research & Writing
Current Projects
Extraterritorial Jurisdiction, Explanatory Justification - A critique of- and a search for - philosophically and ethically adequate explanations for extraterritorial regulation of citizens’ (and non-citizens’) business transactions, focusing on security offering regulation, dollar-denominated transactions, and antibribery laws.
[Philosophy of Law]
“Private Neurolaw?” - a project examining the extent to which neuroscience and neurotechnologies could assist/improve/guide transactional law, using private capital transactions and investment management practices as case studies.
[Neurolaw]
The Italian Third Way - Article - How the 16th century historiographical and antiquarian work of Azariah de Rossi offers a philosophical and practical rebuttal of Talmud-Torah as the central source of Jewish education while still operating within a normative rabbinic framework, and why this should resonate more with contemporary - and American - Judaism. With digressions on the conflicts with the Maharal of Prague and the decline of the Italian Maimonideans.
[Jewish Philosophy; Italian Intellectual History; Jewish History]