Education:

• B.A., Washington and Lee University (1988)
  
• J.D., Yale Law School (1991)
  
  

Judicial Clerkships:

• Chief Judge J. Clifford Wallace of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1991-1992)
  
• Judge Irma E. Gonzalez of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California (1992-1993)
  

Areas of Legal expertise:

• Street Commerce
• Property
• Land Use
• Environmental Law
• Local Government
  
  

other affiliations:

• Co-Founder and Contributor, Open Air Market Network http://openair.jeo.net/
  
  

Professional Experience:

• Professor at Mississippi College School of Law since 2000.
• Associate, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, California (1994-2000)
  
  

Publications:

Book Chapters and Law Review Articles:

• Legal Responses To Sidewalk Vending: The Case Of Los Angeles, California, in Street Entrepreneurs: People, Place, & Politics in Local and Global Perspective (John Cross and Alfonso Morales, eds.)  (UK Routledge Press 2007).

• Formal Versus Informal Allocation Of Land In A Commons: The Case Of The MacArthur Park Sidewalk Vendors, 16 S. Cal. Interdis. L. J. (2006) 
  
  
• Regulating Vending in the Sidewalk Commons, 77 Temple L. Rev. 1 (2004), reprinted in 2005 Zoning and Planning Law Handbook (Patricia A. Salkin, ed. 2005).
  
  
• Bad Policy: CERCLA’s Amended Liability for New Purchasers, 21 UCLA J. Envtl. L. & Pol’y 1 (2002)
  
  
• Ancient Documents and the Rule Against Multiple Hearsay, 39 Santa Clara L. Rev. 719 (1999)
  
  

Other selected shorter works:

• Innovation, Management Systems and Trading, in ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY, AND RESOURCES LAW: THE YEAR IN REVIEW 2003 364 (Marla E. Mansfield et al. eds., 2004) (contributor)
  
  
• Second Generation Issues, in ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY, AND RESOURCES LAW: THE YEAR IN REVIEW 2002 288 (Marla E. Mansfield et al. eds., 2003) (co-author)
  
  
  

lectures, Panels, and presentations:

• Legal Vending is Dead; Illegal Vending Thrives. Presenter on panel of street commerce experts at a conference sponsored by the Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architecture de Paris Val de Seine, France, entitled "The Dimensions of Street Commerce: From Peddler to Automatic Distributor" (4/27/07).
• Rebuilding in the Wake of Disaster - Smart Growth? Moderator on panel discussion at Hurricane Katrina: A Legal Symposium, at Mississippi College School of Law (8/29.06)
• Formal Versus Informal Allocation of Land in a Commons: The Case of the MacArthur Park Sidewalk Vendors, at:
  

  	First Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies at the University of Texas School of Law (poster board) (10/27/06)
  	Annual Conference of the Society for Latin American Studies at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom (3/31/06)

• Landlord-Tenant Issues in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina. Presented to legal aid volunteers, at Mississippi College School of Law and the Mississippi State Bar (9/12/05 and 9/22/05).
• What Attourneys Do and How to Become One. Presented to students at Murrah High School, Jackson, Mississippi (5/04)
  
  

Bar admissions:

• California
• United States District Court, Central District of California
• United States District Court, Southern District of California

professional memberships :

• American Bar Association (including various sections)
• Association of American Law Schools (including various sections)
  

  Committee to Submit Proposal for Quadrennial Property Conference, 2003

• Charles E. Clark Inn, American Inns of Court, 2001-2003 (rotating membership)

service at mississippi college school of law :

Law School Addresses:

• An Overview of the First Year Curriculum (to new students during orientation), 2001-present
  

Law School Committees:

• Faculty Appointments, 2001-present, chair 2006-present
• Curriculum, 2000-2006
• Facilities, 2006-present

University Committees:

• Faculty Council, 2003-2004, 2007-present
  

community service :

Jackson, Mississippi, 2000-present:

• Canvasser and Poll Watcher, Campaign to Elect David Blount (D) to the Mississippi State Senate, 2007
• Member, Mississippi State Hospital Discharge Advisory Committee, 2003-2006
• Carpenty Volunteer, Habitat for Humanity (various projects), 2001-present
• LeFleur's Bluff State Park
  

  Volunteer, playground equipment installation, 2001

• Laurel Park
  

  Team Leader, playground equipment installation, 2001

  Volunteer, maintenance, 2001

• Screening Committee Member, Crossroads Film Festival, 2001
• Member, Tenth Reunion Gift Committee, Yale Law School, 2000-2001
• Member, Yale Alumni Schools Committee, 2007 - present

Los Angeles, California, 1994-2000:

• Volunteer Supervisor, Legal Aid (advocacy for poor seeking county-provided benefits), 1999
• Teacher, Street Law Program, Roosevelt High School (East Los Angeles), 1998
• Participant, AIDS Walk Los Angeles (raised money for AIDS research), 1997

miscellaneous:

I enjoy spending time with my wife, Lorena, and my daughters, Virginia (b. 1997) and Carolina (b.1999). My interests include Hispanic culture, film, opera, classical music, history (especially WWII and the U.S. Civil War), and the art of Egon Schiele. I also enjoy reading fiction, hiking, and bicycling. I am functional in the Spanish language.