Hi, I’m a second-year law student at William & Mary Law School. I’m the Managing Editor of Volume 54 of the William & Mary Law Review and a graduate fellow at the Center for Legal and Court Technology. I’m interested in Internet law.
In summer 2012, I’ll be a summer associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto. In summer 2011, I was a legal intern with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Before law school, I was the legal assistant for Google‘s Product Counsel team. Before that, I was a paralegal at Williams & Connolly LLP in Washington, D.C.
I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. I graduated from Davidson College, where I majored in Political Science and French. I studied in Tours, France for a year, played drums for the basketball pep band, and worked for WALT student radio as a DJ and on the executive board. During my college summers, I worked as a research assistant for Dr. Patrick Sellers, as a Europe Program intern at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and as an assistant paralegal at Lightfoot Franklin & White LLC.
From 2005 to 2007, I kept a different personal blog (now retired). In 2008, I took up blogging again by starting Tropophilia with my good friend Taylor Ansley . This website is a mix of my thoughts about the Internet, legal issues, and occasional personal updates.
Things I’ve Worked On
Electronic Frontier Foundation
- EFF to Obama Administration: Syrians Deserve Access to Communications and Information Tools, July 2011 – performed majority of research and drafted blog post
- Google Transparency Report, July-December 2009 dataset – collection and analysis of government-requested content removals data
- Google Search Stories, winter 2009/2010 – led legal review of videos
- “Parisian Love” Google Super Bowl Commercial, January 2010 – led legal review of video, received Operating Committee award (second-highest company honor) for assistance in project
Undergraduate
- Une VIe République?: Les Projects pour une Nouvelle Régime Politique (“A Sixth Republic?: Proposals for a New Political Structure”) – Senior thesis for French major, spring 2007
- The French Rejection of the European Constitutional Treaty: Exploring the “No” Vote Through Public Opinion - Senior thesis for Political Science major, fall 2006
- La Réforme de la Présidence de la République (“Reforming the French Presidency”) – Research paper, spring 2006
- Searching for a More Perfect Union: Executive War Authority and the Reagan Administration - Research paper, spring 2005
- Turkey and the Democratization: The Influence of the European Union - Research paper, spring 2005
- The 1995 Resumption of French Nuclear Testing in the South Pacific: International Impact and Significance - Major paper, spring 2004
