Senior regulatory and policy expert and advisor in nuclear energy and international trade regulation and related strategy, with over twenty years of experience. Deep subject matter expertise in nuclear energy regulation, and legal/regulatory development, including safeguards, export controls, financial sanctions, facility security, materials safety, incident liability including Price-Anderson Act issues, investment, and financing on nuclear projects. Providing strategic advice on legal and regulatory trends in the nuclear industry and achievement of client goals.
Womble Bond Dickinson LLP, Senior Division Counsel (2023-Present). Practice focused on international trade and nuclear energy.
U.S. Department of State Bureau of Export Controls and Related Border Security (EXBS), and U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), Subject Matter Expert (2002-Present). Frequent implementer of contracts. Experience implementing EXBS regulatory development projects in Uzbekistan, Albania, Oman, Jordan.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP (2011-2012). Practice with the nuclear energy team.
Alston & Bird LLP, Associate (2001-2002). Practice with the international business transactions team.
University of Alabama School of Law
Elton B. Stephens Professor of Law August 2017 - Present
Associate Professor/Professor of Law August 2011 – August 2017
Classes taught: International Trade & Investment Law, Nuclear Energy Law, Public International Law, The Law of Armed Conflict, WMD Law & Policy, Contracts
Selected Courses Taught at Other Institutions
Australian Attorney-General’s Department – “Nuclear Nonproliferation Law” July, 2025
Australian National University – “International Nuclear Energy Law” 2023-2024
Australian National University – “Nuclear Security Law” 2016, 2020, 2022
University of Manchester – “International Nuclear Energy Law” 2018-2020
University of Warwick School of Law
Associate Professor September 2006 – November 2007
Lecturer September 2003 - August 2006
University of Georgia Center for International Trade and Security (CITS)
Dean Rusk Fellow June 2002-August 2003
University of Warwick School of Law
Ph.D. in Law, June 2009
University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs
M.A. in Political Science, August 2003
Duke University School of Law
J.D., May 2001
Brigham Young University
B.A. in Japanese, April 1998
Books (Monographs)
IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM AND INTERNATIONAL LAW: FROM CONFRONTATION TO ACCORD (Oxford University Press, 2016)
INTERPRETING THE NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY (Oxford University Press, 2011)
INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE PROLIFERATION OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION (Oxford University Press, 2009)
Journal Articles
Nuclear Reactor Financing in the Second Nuclear Renaissance (Work in Progress, Summer 2025) (Co-author with David Beckstead)
Economic Nationalism as the Fourth Era of International Trade Law, MANCHESTER JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW, Volume 22, Issue 1 (2025) (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Disarmament is Good, but What We Need Now is Arms Control, INDONESIAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW, Volume 10, Issue 1 (2023) (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Fundamental Rights of States in International Law, and the Right to Peaceful Nuclear Energy, CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE LAW, Volume 4(3) (2016) (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Nuclear Power Plant Financing Post-Fukushima, and International Investment Law, JOURNAL OF WORLD ENERGY LAW & BUSINESS, Volume 7, Issue 2 (Oxford University Press, 2013) (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Recent Developments in International Law Regarding Nuclear Weapons, 60 INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE LAW QUARTERLY, Issue 1 (Cambridge University Press, 2011)(Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Why Less is More: Law and Policy Considerations on the Iranian Nuclear Issue, HARVARD LAW AND POLICY REVIEW (ONLINE), Volume 4 (March 24, 2010)
The Nuclear Suppliers Group: Present Challenges and Future Prospects, INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW & REGULATION 11(3), 84-96 (Sweet & Maxwell 2005) (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
The Nuclear Suppliers Group: History and Functioning, INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW & REGULATION 11(2), 33-42 (Sweet & Maxwell 2005)(Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Restructuring the Multilateral Export Control Regime System, 9 JOURNAL OF CONFLICT & SECURITY LAW 181 (Oxford University Press, 2004)(Peer-Reviewed Journal)
The Enhanced Proliferation Control Initiative: National Security Necessity or Unconstitutionally Vague?, 32 GEORGIA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE LAW 107 (2004)
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