Research Interests

For nearly twenty years, I studied the extraterritorial application of the United States Constitution, that is the ways in which the Constitution does (or does not) apply to individuals located outside the United States. More recently, I have turned my attention to the application of the Constitution to noncitizens within the United States. My SJD dissertation focuses on who constitute “the people” mentioned in the Constitution of the United States.

Publications

Books

• Medellin v. Texas: International Justice, Federalism, and the Execution of Jose Medellin, University Press of Kansas, 2022
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Law Review Articles

• The Second Amendment Rights of Undocumented Immigrants, 104 Neb. L. Rev. 729 (2026). Download
• How I Write, 22 Scribes J. of L. Writing 8 (2025). Download
• Our Extraterritorial Constitution: A Theory Proposed, 55 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 512 (2024). Download
• Determining Constitutional Extraterritoriality, 84 La. L. Rev. 531 (2024). Download
• Overturning the Insular Cases on Their Own Terms, 33 Geo. Mason U. Civ. Rts. L.J. 201 (2022). Download
• Rethinking the Reasoning of Verdugo-Urquidez, 8 Ind. J. of L. & Soc. Equality 240 (2020). Download
• The Constitution Abroad: A Structural Analysis, 1 Cts. & Just. L.J. 127 (2019). Download
• The Empire Forgotten: The Application of the Bill of Rights to U.S. Territories, 57 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 147 (2006) (as Alan Tauber). Download
• Ninety Miles From Freedom?: The Rights of the Guantanamo Bay Detainees, 18 St. Thomas L. Rev. 77 (2005) (as Alan Tauber). Download

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Teaching Interests

• Torts I
• Torts II
• Constitutional Law