Research interests
The law of nations, the intellectual history of international law, territory and land in political thought, early modern political thought, natural law, the state, the intellectual roots of state formation, the Holy Roman Empire

Projects
I am finishing a book project for Oxford University Press on theories of territory and the territorial state in early modern ius gentium texts within the Holy Roman Empire. The Territorial Revolution in Political Thought
 

Selected bibliography concerning Natural law

'The law of nations in international political thought’ in History of European Ideas (2025), p. 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2025.2459493 

‘The Privilege of Territory: Christian Wolff at the Origins of Statist International Thought’ in Political Theory, no. 52.6 (2024), p. 897-930. 

‘Why Westphalia Still Matters: Territorial Rights under Empire’ in International Studies Review, no. 26.2 (2024), p. 1-26. 

‘The Possession of Their Ancestors’: Locke and Levellers on Conquest and Native Rights’ in History of Political Thought, no. 44.2 (2023), p. 285-317. 

‘The Nation and Property in Vattel’s Theory of Territory’ in Global Intellectual History no. 3.2 (2018), p. 137-155