I create practical tools for scholars who want to do ambitious work without making academic life harder than it needs to be.
These resources are built from my own experience as a law professor, writer, and researcher. They focus on two problems that come up again and again in academic life: how to develop stronger scholarship and how to build a system that allows you to sustain that work over time.
1. Law Review Launchpad
Transform Your Legal Scholarship from Idea to Detailed Outline in 6 Steps
Are you stuck in draft after draft, only to realize months later your article structure doesn’t hold up? You’re not alone.
Get Law Review Launchpad.
A 100-page workbook that walks you step by step from a rough research idea to a clear, detailed article outline.
Most scholars don’t struggle because they lack ideas. They struggle because they begin writing before they have figured out what the article is actually trying to do. Law Review Launchpad gives you a structured process for developing the idea, sharpening the thesis, identifying the problem, building the argument, and creating a coherent structure before you spend months drafting.
What’s Inside
Topic Ideation & Research – Find your scholarly voice and develop compelling questions
Developing a Thesis – Turn insights into arguments that matter
Framing the Problem – Situate your work within existing scholarship
Building Robust Arguments – Construct persuasive, evidence-based reasoning
Crafting Practical Solutions – Translate theory into actionable recommendations
Thematic Integration – Bring the pieces together into a coherent narrative
Why I Created It
I’ve used this basic approach throughout my own scholarly career, publishing more than 20 articles and essays in journals including Columbia Law Review, California Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, UCLA Law Review, and Virginia Law Review.
For the first time, Law Review Launchpad pulls back the curtain on that process, including a real case study showing how I work through an article from idea to outline.
Best for: Law students, VAPs and fellows, junior faculty, practitioners writing for publication, and any scholar who has an idea but isn’t sure how to turn it into an article.
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2. The Sustainable Scholar System
Build the Pipeline. Manage Your Projects. Do Meaningful Work.
At some point, the challenge of academic life stops being about whether you can write.
It’s about whether you can manage everything else while continuing to write.
The Sustainable Scholar System is a practical system for managing your writing pipeline, balancing multiple projects, evaluating new opportunities, and protecting the time and energy you need to do meaningful work over the course of an academic career.
I created it after realizing that I was managing my own career as a series of emergencies: unfinished drafts, competing deadlines, teaching obligations, new opportunities, and too many projects demanding attention at once.
The answer wasn’t another productivity app or a more elaborate morning routine. I needed a system.
This is that system.
What’s Included
The Sustainable Scholar System Guide — 50+ page PDF
Four interconnected frameworks designed to help you:
Build Your Writing Pipeline – See where every idea and project stands and what needs to happen next
Manage Your Academic Portfolio – Balance multiple projects and commitments without letting everything become urgent
Connect Your Work to Deeper Purpose – Make decisions that keep your daily work connected to why you became a scholar
Build Habits That Last – Protect your energy, attention, and capacity for deep work over the long term
The Sustainable Scholar Toolkit — 5-Sheet Excel Workbook
The guide comes with practical tools you can actually use:
Writing Pipeline Tracker – Track every scholarly project by stage, status, and next action
Project Portfolio Dashboard – See your commitments and identify overcommitment before it becomes a problem
Energy & Focus Log – Identify your best working hours and protect them
Opportunity Decision Matrix – Evaluate new opportunities based on alignment, impact, and energy cost
Purpose Alignment Tracker – Regularly assess whether your work still reflects what matters to you
You also get a Toolkit Instruction Guide explaining how to use the spreadsheets and their features.
Why I Created It
I’ve used these frameworks while publishing more than 20 articles and essays, teaching a full course load, raising three young children, and trying to maintain a life outside of work.
In 2026, I received the USC Educational Foundation Research Award for Professional Schools, part of the University of South Carolina’s Russell Research Awards. My work has also been recognized by the National Bar Association, American Bar Foundation, and Society of American Law Teachers, and selected for presentation at the Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum.
The point isn’t that I have academic life figured out.
It’s that I’ve learned that ambitious scholarship requires more than good ideas. It requires a system that can support those ideas.
What Changes
✓ You stop feeling guilty about unfinished work because unfinished work has a place in your system.
✓ You finish more because fewer projects compete for your attention at the same time.
✓ You get better at saying no and protecting the opportunities that actually matter.
✓ You protect your best hours instead of giving them away to email and meetings.
✓ You build a scholarly career designed to last, rather than one organized around constant urgency.
Who It’s For
Junior faculty who want to build sustainable habits early
Mid-career faculty with more ideas and opportunities than bandwidth
Graduate students preparing for academic life
Any scholar who has opened a laptop on Sunday night and thought, I should be much further along than this.
Get The Sustainable Scholar System →
Name your own fair price — $67+ suggested.
Two Tools for Two Different Problems
Need help developing your next article?
→ Law Review Launchpad helps you move from idea to detailed outline.
Need help managing your scholarly career as a whole?
→ The Sustainable Scholar System helps you build a pipeline, manage your projects, and sustain your capacity to do meaningful work.
You can use them independently, or use Launchpad to develop individual projects and Sustainable Scholar to manage those projects alongside everything else on your academic plate.