I am an Associate Professor of Law at Brigham Young University. My research centers on contracts and includes empirical studies on preference updating and diffusion of legal innovations in the context of contracts and international treaties, a theory paper that explores the longstanding sequencing puzzle in corporate contracting, and an empirical study of the perverse effects of truce negotiations on gang violence in El Salvador. Prior to joining the law faculty at BYU, I was a Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School from 2018 to 2020. I completed a PhD in economics at the University of Chicago in 2018 and a Juris Doctorate Degree from the University of Michigan in 2013. At BYU Law I teach Contracts, Property, International Business Transactions, a two semester course on Empirical Legal Studies, and a seminar course on the Law and Economics of U.S. Trade Policy.