Articles and essays
Published scholarship, working papers, archived preprints, and essays on philosophy, constitutional power, and institutional life.
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- Dietary supplements, Congress, and the FTC — manuscript under law-review consideration
- Capitalism, class, and the moral language of calling — completed book manuscript
- Modernity, capitalism, and the commons — published scholarship
- Aristotle, matter, and form — working paper
- Judicial review and popular sovereignty — book and chapter guide
- Property and regulatory takings — book overview
- Gated communities and private government — archived preprint
- Antitrust and digital bottlenecks — article and PDF
- Mathematics and reflexivity in social science — manuscript overview
Manuscripts under consideration
On the Failure of Congress and the Federal Trade Commission: The Case of the Vitamins and Supplements Industry
Manuscript (October 2026). Examines the statutory design of dietary-supplement regulation under DSHEA, the limits of post-market FTC enforcement, and a tiered reform agenda for product registration, substantiation, advertising, and agency authority. Read the abstract →
Book projects
Calling, Capitalism, and Class in the United States: From Reconstruction and the Gilded Age to the Present
A completed book manuscript tracing how American capitalism transformed the moral language of calling and how institutions convert unequal resources and opportunities into judgments of merit, responsibility, and failure. Explore the book project →
Organization Without Formal Priority? Mechanistic Materialism in Aristotle’s Metaphysics Z–H
Working paper (September 2026). Examines whether Aristotle’s account of substantial unity establishes the explanatory priority of form over organized material constituents, and tests that claim against mechanistic materialism. Read the abstract and download the article →
Archived preprints
From Telephone Unbundling to Digital Bottlenecks: The Telecommunications Act of 1996, Antitrust Enforcement, and a Function-Specific Access Regime
Preprint (2026). Examines the access duties created by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the limits of antitrust remedies for digital bottlenecks, and a proposed function-specific access regime. Read the abstract and download the PDF →
Private Government Behind the Gates: Homeowners’ Associations, Institutional Lock-In, and the Democratic Commons
Archived in the Digital Library of the Commons (2026). An analysis of homeowners’ associations as private governments, the institutional lock-in created by amendment and participation rules, and reforms grounded in democratic-commons principles. View the permanent repository record →
Published scholarship
Modernity, the Commons, and Capitalism
British Journal of American Legal Studies 9(2), 367–386 (2020). An examination of capitalist modernity, common resources, and the institutions that shape their use. View the cover and publication details →
On the Formation of the American Corporate State: The Fuller Supreme Court, 1888–1910
The Journal Jurisprudence, Vol. 9, p. 37 (2011). A study of the Court’s role in the institutional development of the corporate state.
Topics under development
- Judicial review and popular sovereignty
- The Takings Clause and regulatory property
- Gated communities as private government
- Constitutional amendment and institutional rigidity
- Biology, philosophy, and institutional architecture
- Mathematical models, measurement, and reflexivity in the social sciences
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