I have open office hours each week, which can be found on the relvant course syllabus.  I also have individual office hours, which current students can sign up for by clicking here.

If you are not a current student and you wish to meet please email me with an explanation of what you would like to discuss and three days and times when you are available. 

I check email at least twice each day and am attempting to not check it more frequently than that.  I try to check it in the morning, around 9 am, and then again sometime in the late afternoon or evening (which may be after 5 pm). 

I aim to respond to all student emails within 24 hours.  If you do not hear from me in that time please feel free to send a follow up email.  

I do not check emails on Sundays and try generally to avoid email on the weekend.

I am happy to write letters of recommendation and to serve as a reference.  However, it is worth emphasizing that the value of any recommendation I write will depend in significant in part on how well I have come to know you.  If you have just taken a large lecture class with me, but did not frequently speak in class and did not attend office hours, I will have far less to write about.  I am also better able to write letters for students who have taken smaller classes with me, or multiple classes, or have worked on significant writing projects with me.

With that being said, please do not hesitate to reach out about a letter or if I can be helpful in any other way.  

If you ask me write a letter of recommendation, please send me a copy of your current resume and a brief statement of why you are interested in whatever opportunity you are applying for (you can also simply send whatever cover letter you are submitting for the position).  

Ok, no one has actually ever asked me this question.  But here are some books I recommend:

For starting law school or for work of any kind that demands sustained focus:

• Cal Newport, Deep Work

Books that have deeply influenced me:

• Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

• Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

• Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness

• Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

• Sophocles, Antigone

• Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons

• Saint Augustine, Confessions

• Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

• Alasdair McIntyre, After Virtue

A few other favorite works:

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

• Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

• F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

• Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

• Herman Melville, Moby Dick

• Charles Dickens, David Copperfield 

There are others to add and I welcome recommendations.