My research interests include:
  • the history of international law and relations and how they interact with the nature of the state, and
  • the history of knowledge, information, epistemology, and mentalities.
My most recent project is:

"Manufacturing International Law: Pre-printed Treaties in the 'Scramble for Africa' ," Journal of the History of International Law, 23 (2021) 429-465.


My 2015 Dissertation "Between Law and Diplomacy: International Dispute Resolution in the Long 19th Century" addresses the development and implications of public international arbitration as a tool of the states' system from the end of the 18th century to World War I.
Portions of the dissertation have been revised and published as:

"The Global Construction of International Law in the Nineteenth Century: The Case of Arbitration,"  Journal of World History, 27: 2 (2016) 303-325.

"Taming Arbitration: States' Men, Lawyers, and Peace Advocates from the Hague to the War,"  Journal of the History of International Law, 19 (2017) 362-396. 

"Arbitration at Vienna: Recasting the History of International Dispute Resolution," Jus Gentium, 3:2 (2018).
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"International Arbitration," in Gordon Martel, ed., Encyclopedia of Diplomacy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018).