I am an American law scholar and Professor of Law at University of Kentucky’s J. David Rosenberg College of Law who recognizes that my country is currently committing a genocide of Palestinians through the colony that we maintain in Palestine called the “State of Israel”. I oppose the genocide and the existence of that colony. I believe that the international community has a moral and legal duty to go to war to liberate Palestine and end Israel.
My current research focus is on generating lessons from the destruction of more than eighty Western colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East over the course of the 20th century—from French Algeria to the Dutch East Indies—to determine how best to bring the last Western colony in the Middle East to an end in a way that does justice to the victims of colonization. I am particularly interested in how the decolonization of Palestine and destruction of Israel might serve as a vehicle for strengthening the international legal rule against Western colonization and creating a regime of global collective security capable of enforcing that rule against future Western colonization projects.
This work is part of the Antizionist Legal Studies Movement. Scholars interested in contributing to this research agenda may wish to submit to the call for papers for the inaugural Ending Israel conference, which will be held online in 2026, or in submitting a blog post to Trespass, Theft & Repossession, which I edit.
The University of Kentucky recently banned me from campus because I have discussed my opposition to the existence of Israel at conferences, on the Antizionist Legal Studies Movement website, and in online discussions hosted by the Association of American Law Schools. Members of the University of Kentucky community are encouraged to respond to the Wildcat Call to Action. Law scholars are encouraged to respond to the Legal Academy Call to Action. Members of the University of Kentucky community and scholars everywhere are encouraged to sign the Petition in opposition to the university’s attempt to punish my speech. (Note that you can embargo publication of your signature until a critical mass of folks like you have signed.) Members of the public are encouraged to sign and circulate this other version of the petition.
I have also written extensively on the law and economics of wealth redistribution, particularly in the context of antitrust law and personalized pricing. As part of this work, I use principles from “Econ 101” to identify changes in the law that would lead to a more just distribution of wealth between buyers and sellers without necessarily reducing efficiency. I see technology as changing the rules of the game in the conflict between distribution and efficiency, creating ways in which markets can be made both fair and efficient. A summary of my published work and research agenda can be found here.