Publications

Published work

Scholarly essays, a law review article, and practitioner commentary developing the constitutional argument and legislative architecture of the Fiduciary Commons Framework.

Scholarly

The architecture the Court cannot build: Chatrie v. United States and the case for fiduciary governance of government data

Law review article · 2026 · Placement pending

Argues that the Supreme Court's 2026 Chatrie decision identifies a constitutional problem the Court's own remedial tools cannot solve, and that the Fiduciary Commons Framework provides the architectural remedy the Court's reasoning demands.

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Digital general warrants: why government databases violate the Fourth Amendment

SSRN

Argues that modern integrated government databases possess the four characteristics of general warrants and are therefore constitutionally prohibited under the Fourth Amendment.

Government as information trustee: a fiduciary framework for surveillance-age privacy

SSRN

Develops the constitutional argument that government's relationship to citizen data is fiduciary in nature, generating enforceable duties of loyalty, care, and confidentiality.

Completing the mosaic: from surveillance theory to architectural mandate

SSRN

Extends the mosaic theory of surveillance to its architectural conclusion: if aggregation is the constitutional violation, the remedy must prevent aggregation, not just regulate access to aggregated data.

Data lakes are a choice, not a necessity

SSRN

Demonstrates that the centralized data architectures government has built are procurement choices, not technological necessities, and that purpose-sequestered alternatives are operationally viable.

Practitioner-facing

The case for constitutionally grounded AI and data architecture

StateTech Magazine · May 2026

Why AI governance and data governance are the same problem, and why both require constitutional grounding rather than administrative policy.

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The ground shifts: Chatrie's impact on data governance beyond the Fourth Amendment

IAPP · July 2026

What the Supreme Court's Chatrie decision means for state-level data governance frameworks and the constitutional status of government surveillance capability.

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