Teaching

I served as the Graduate Student Instructor for the following Legal Studies courses at the University of California, Berkeley:

  • Foundations of Legal Studies (Prof. Christoper Kutz, Summer 2016)

  • American Constitutional and Legal History (Prof. Charles McClain, Fall 2013)

  • Comparative Perspectives on Norms and Legal Traditions (Prof. Laurent Mayali, Spring 2012 and 2013)

  • European Legal History (Prof. Charles McClain, Fall 2011)

Teaching Interests (Sample)

  • Religion and Law

  • Legal History Methods

  • European Legal History

  • Global Legal Histories of the Early Modern

  • Histories of Tolerance and Religious Freedom

  • American Legal and Constitutional History

  • The First Amendment

  • Constitutionalism

  • Reformation History

  • Early Modern European History

  • Introduction to Legal Studies / Foundations of Law and Society

  • Secularism, Secular Law, Secularization Theory

  • Human Rights, Sovereignty, and Postcoloniality

  • Democracy and Bureaucracy

  • Courts, Litigation, and Theories of the Trial

  • Histories of Jurisdiction

  • War and Religion

  • Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and Difference in Early Modern Europe