I study the role of law and regulation in the financial sector. My work spans three complementary modes of research.

First, I conduct doctrinal analysis, reconstructing how legal concepts operate within, across, and beyond jurisdictions. The concepts I am interested in derive from a variety of doctrinal sources, including contract, property, corporate, insolvency, competition, and administrative law as well as various branches of financial regulation.  I often approach doctrinal analysis from comparative and transnational perspectives. 

Second, I pursue institutional research, examining organizations, rulebooks, standards, contracts, and how these mechanisms of private ordering interact with public regulation. In this mode of research, I rely on qualitative methods. 

Third, I engage in law-and-social-science–informed analysis, drawing on institutional economics and political economy to explain why particular legal and institutional forms emerge, how they coordinate behavior, and how they perform under the conditions of stress, technological change, and geopolitical uncertainty. In  this mode, my research tends to be theoretical and conceptual.