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I launched the Empire Review because I yearned to learn as much as I could about New York City, where I live.

I chose to learn about the city through the battles waged in its courtrooms because they involve our most serious disputes. They also highlight actual controversies that the legal system must resolve.

Lawsuits force the involved parties to argue their positions through evidence. Juries and judges must make serious decisions and, therefore, can only rely on such evidence. Vacuous rhetoric doesn’t cut it, unlike its effectiveness on social media.

In our digital age, information is overabundant and often useless. However, information about our surroundings, the laws we’re subject to, and the decisions made in courtrooms has real practical effects on our lives as New Yorkers.

On this platform, I use my experience as a New Yorker to select what cases matter, my training as an attorney to analyze legal issues, and my skills as a professor to explain the law in a way that’s easy to digest.

I love researching and digging into piles of information for the proverbial pin in the haystack. I love organizing messy information. I love making sense of the complicated world around me. And I love making connections among seemingly unrelated ideas.

I hope you’ll enjoy the Empire Review.