Professional Affiliations

• Reviewer, Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship Program (2011-12)
• Co-Chair, Program Committee of the American Society for Legal History (2011)
• Invited Member, Hurst Prize Committee, Law and Society Association (2011)
• Chair, American Association of Law Schools Section on Comparative Law (2010)
• Elected Member, Executive Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law (2009-10; 2010-11)
• Elected Member, Nominating Committee of the American Society for Legal History (2008-2010)
• Co-Director, Law and History Workshop, Stanford Humanities Center (2008-09)
• Local Organizer, Annual Meeting of Mouvement Jeune Notariat (organization of French notaries/transactional lawyers), San Francisco, CA (Nov. 18-24, 2007)
• Associate Editor (Book Reviews, Non-Americas), Law and History Review (starting in May 2007)
• Invited Member, Program Committee of the American Society for Legal History (2006; 2010)
• Admitted to New York and Massachusetts Bars (2000)
• Elected Member, Executive Committee of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Comparative Law
• Director/Editor (representing Stanford), American Society of Comparative Law
• Member, American Society for Legal History, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Law and Society Association, American Historical Association, & Society for French Historical Studies
• Manuscript Reviewer, Yale University Press; Oxford University Press; Law and History Review; The Journal of Economic History; Law and Social Inquiry; The Journal of Modern History

Honors and Awards

• Winner, Hessel Yntema Prize, awarded by the American Society of Comparative Law for the “most outstanding” article by a scholar under 40 appearing in volume 58 of the American Journal of Comparative Law (2011)
• Winner, J. Russell Major Prize, awarded by the American Historical Association for the best book in English on any aspect of French history (2008)
• Invitee, Workshop on Common Law Legal Transplants, Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University (May-August 2008)
• Recipient, Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies (2007-2008), supporting one year of research
• Recipient, 2005 Surrency Prize for "Enforcing Virtue: Social Norms and Self-Interest in an Eighteenth-Century Merchant Court, 22 Law and History Review 71 (2004)
• Recipient, Special Commendation Award, U.S. Department of Justice (December 2002)
• Recipient, Performance Award, U.S. Department of Justice (December 2002)
• Recipient, Star Award for legal representation, U.S. Department of the Interior (September 2002)
• Recipient, Dean’s Research Funds—research on 18th-century French merchant law and practice (Cambridge, MA, Summer-Fall 1999)
• Recipient, Yale Center for Studies in Law, Economics & Public Policy/Olin Research Grant—research in 18th-century merchant-court archives (Paris, Summer 1997 )
• Recipient, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholarship (Regensburg, Summer 1995)
• Recipient, Carolyn E. Agger Endowment for Women in Law, Postgraduate Grant
• Recipient, Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Summer Research
• Recipient, Lucy Allen Patton Senior Prize
• Recipient, John Harvard and Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Scholarships
• Recipient, Detur Prize
• Recipient, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies Research Grant