Over the past few years I have written a number of academic papers. This section contains a sampling of those papers.
Legal Writing Samples & Sites:
During the Spring term of 2003 I built a website for people who felt they had been discriminated against in the workplace as a result of their race, national origin or religion in so-called 'backlask discrimination' as a result of 9/11 - The site, Code Z, can be found here.
During the Fall term of 2002 I embarked on a long paper discussing the Bush Administration's steel tariffs that were imposed in March 2002 and effectively repealed by August 2002. The article is forthcoming in the Berkeley Journal of International Law. For the final copy, please click below:
During the Fall term of 2002 I also wrote a paper that is now a forthcoming artilce in the ULCA Entertainment Law Review about the Simpsons and their depiction of the law and lawyers.
Click here for the draft in Word Format
Also in the Fall of 2002, I built a website called a "Pathfinder" focusing on Hong Kong's 1997 Retrocession from Britain to China for a class in Advanced Legal Research. For that site, click below.
Click here for the Retrocession Pathfinder.
As part of Boalt's First-Year Moot Court program I co-authored an Appellate Brief addressing a hypothetical case addressing school drug-testing and the Fourth Amendment. The case, based on Board of Education of Independent School District No. 92 of Pottawatomie County v. Earls. 122 S.Ct. 2559, ___ U.S. ____, 2002, was decided this past spring.
The research, analysis and writing are substantially my own, including revisions based on comments provided by my instructor. The second half of the brief, which dealt with a First Amendment issue, was written by my partner and has been eliminated for the purposes of brevity.
The China files: Here you'll find papers I've done about Chinese antropology and the growth of science and technology in China
My MA stuff: Here are some of the papers I wrote in London:
Why are heads of state getting involved with trade summits?
Is intellectual property protection a welfare-reducing thing for the world?
Why isn't there an international convention governing international investment protection?
My Hong Kong Stash:This is the longest work I've written, and it's still going! If you're interested about how a community of interests between business and government play with each other read the first Sections. If you interested about China today-and how its a defunct regime holding onto a 'Wild West,' then read Section 2. If want to see how it all works in the end at the expense of Hong Kong's courts and media, then read the last section.
Section 1 Hong Kong Background
The Daily Iowan: For a sample of my News reporting skills, go here to see some of 100-plus articles I wrote. Click to go..
Mostly Music: Do you like classical music? Well, I liked it enough to study it in depth at Oxford, so if the Mahler revival floats your boat or you want to find out about Brahms being a progressive, click below.
Being More Than He Can Be: Brahms