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
• Commercial Law
  
  

other affiliations:

• Co-Founder and Contributor, Open Air Market Network http://www.openair.org
• Visiting Professor, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles (2008-2009 AY)
  
  

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:

• Localizing Food Production and Distribution (in progress)
• Day Labor Markets and Public Space, honored at the Call for Papers Luncheon at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools, 2009
• 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:

• Zoning for Public Markets and Street Merchants, ZONING PRACTICE (American Planning Ass’n), February, 2009 (with Alfonso Morales)
• Sitting Down on the Job, LOS ANGELES DAILY JOURNAL, September 2, 2008, Forum, at 4 (op ed on day labor markets)
• 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:

• Featured Speaker at the Southeast Association of Law Schools, annual Call for Papers Luncheon, in Palm Beach, Florida, Aug. 7, 2009 (presenting my paper “Day Labor Markets and Public Space”)
• Panel Speaker at the American Planning Association, 2009 National Planning Conference, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Apr. 28, 2009 (presenting on “Localizing Food Production and Distribution: Legal Issues for Planners,” on panel entitled, “Public Markets and Street Vendors”)
  
• Featured Speaker, Urban and Regional Planning Lecture, University of Wisconsin, Apr. 1, 2009 (presenting on “Localizing Food Production and Distribution: Legal Issues for Planners”)
  
• Featured Speaker at the Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin, Mar. 31, 2009 (presenting on “Day Labor Markets and Public Space”)
• Day Labor Markets and Public Space. Presenter at a faculty workshop at Loyola Law School Los Angeles, in Los Angeles, California (10/23/08)
• Mobile Vending Ordinances. Presenter on a webinar panel discussion entitled, Creating Healthy Mobile Vending Policies," a webinar produced by Planning for Healthy Places, a project of Public Health Law and Policy, for an audience of public health practitioners (10/14/08)
• Day Labor and Public Space. Presenter on panel discussion entitled, Legal Geography--Marginalized People, Contested Use, and the Regulation of Space, at 2008 Joint Annual Meetings of the United States Law and Society Association and Canadian Law and Society Association, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (5/30/08)
• Status, Anxiety, and Conflict: How Property Law Shapes Relationships between People and Places. Session Organizer and Session Chair, at 2008 Joint Annual Meetings of the United States Law and Society Association and Canadian Law and Society Association, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (5/29/08)
• Vending Rules in U.S. Cities: Eight Issues for Planners. Presenter on panel discussion entitled, "Planning for Street Markets and Street Merchants," at the American Planning Association, 2008 National Planning Conference, in Las Vegas, Nevada (4/29/08)
  
• 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)

• Panel Speaker at Mississippi College School of Law, Sept. 22, 2005 (presenting on “Landlord-Tenant Issues in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina”)
  
• Panel Speaker at the Mississippi State Bar, Sept. 12, 2005 (presenting on “Landlord-Tenant Issues in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina”)
  
• Featured Speaker, Murrah High School, in Jackson, Mississippi, May 2004 (presenting on “What Attorneys Do and How to Become One”)
  
  

media:

• Foro Comunitario con La Asociación de Loncheros L.A. Familia Unida de CA, Noticias Univisión 34, 10 KMEX (Los Angeles, California affiliate), Nov. 13, 2008 (Spanish language news broadcast of interview about taco trucks in Los Angeles, California)
• So Cal Connected, KCET (Los Angeles, California), Nov. 13, 2008 (interviewed for public television news program about swap meets and the informal economy)
• As Yard Sales Boom in Hard Times, Sentiment Is First Thing to Go, New York Times, by Patricia Leigh Brown, Oct. 25, 2008, at A1 (quoted)

bar admissions:

• District of Colunbia
• 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), 2001-2008
  

Law School Committees:

• Faculty Appointments, 2001-2008, chair 2006-2008
• Curriculum, 2000-2006
• Facilities, 2006-2008

University Committees:

• Faculty Council, 2003-2004, 2007-2008
  
  

community service :

Los Angeles, California, 2008-present:

• Expert witness (subsidized rate) in People v. Garcia. My work was on behalf of the taco truck operators, who were represented by attorney Philip C. Greenwald. The Los Angeles County Superior Court invalidated a county ordinance that restricted the operation of taco trucks. (demurrer sustained, motion for reconsideration denied 9/19/08)

Jackson, Mississippi, 2000-2008:

• 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
• Carpentry 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.