I am currently the Robert E. and Elizabeth S. Scott Research Professor at William and Mary School of Law.

Most of my research falls into four main areas:

1) civil procedure and the conflict of laws, specially the Erie doctrine(s) and their intersection with horizontal choice of law,

2) philosophy of law,

3) the examination of constitutional law in the light of Lockean social contract theory, and

4) Nietzsche.

But I have written in other areas, including copyright.