working toward a democracy of the common good @ Shaharit

playing with Jewish ideology and visual design @ ZVDL

thinking about Jewishness, Zionism, antisemitism, art & design, political-legal theory, sovereignty, citizenship, armed conflict, agriculture

tweeting exasperatedly as @acandidworld

previously worked for IDRA/ASIF, Freie Universität Berlin, Maryland Office of the Attorney General, Tel Aviv University, Center for Health and Homeland Security, Enterprise Homes, Montgomery County (MD) Department of Housing & Community Affairs

COMMENTARY

The Heroes in Halle, Tablet Magazine (Oct 17, 2019)

For a Century, White Supremacists Have Smeared the ADL. Now the Left Has Picked Up the Habit., The Forward (Jul. 2, 2018)

When Israel Shoots Unarmed Protestors, The Terrorists Win, The Forward (Apr. 5, 2018)

What Americans – And Israelis – Don’t Understand About the IDF, The Forward (Mar. 23, 2018)

JVP’s Anti-Semitic Obsession With Jewish Power, The Forward (Jan. 9, 2018)

On The Anniversary Of Kristallnacht, Jewish Life In Berlin Is Flourishing, The Forward (Nov. 9, 2017)

Why Stripping Non-Jews Of Their Israeli Citizenship Threatens Zionism, The Forward (Sept. 14, 2017)

Fourth Circuit Rules Sex Trafficking Is Not a Crime of Violence, The Daily Beast (Sept. 1, 2015)

SCHOLARSHIP

On Wearing the Kippa in Public – and in Public Service

questioning Germany’s paper-thin solidarity with Jews

Verfassungsblog (May 28, 2019)

These and Those – But Definitely not Those!

on demarcating the boundary of the nomos

The Lehrhaus (June 19, 2017)

Trump v. National Security Facts

on the potentially debilitating judicial consequences of Trump’s bullshit

Lawfare (Jan. 19, 2017)

Unpaid Internships & the Department of Labor: The Impact of Underenforcement of the Fair Labor Standards Act on Equal Opportunity

on enforcing minimum wage laws against employers of interns
11 Univ. of Md. Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender & Class 293 (2011)

EDUCATION

JD, University of Maryland School of Law
AB (Economics), Vassar College

BAR MEMBERSHIP

Maryland
District of Columbia