Professor of Political Science and Political Economy
Director, Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
Immediate Past President, Public Choice Society
2022 UK Ministry of Justice, September 22
2022 Bard Prison Initiative, September 13
2022 Ostrom Workshop, University of Indiana, Bloomington, February 23
2021 Ronald Coase Institute, September 23 (link)
2021 Notre Dame, Kroc-Kellogg Peace, Conflict, Crime and Violence Workshop, April 28
2021 Loyola University, New Orleans, April 20
2021 Hong Kong University, Department of Sociology, March 2
2021 Kennesaw State University, February 9
2021 Harvard University, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, February 2
2021 University of Oxford, ExLegi Seminar Series, February 2
2021 University of Washington, Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics, January 15
2020 Opening Conference for the Centre for Criminological Research, 17-19 November
2020 Duke University, August 27
2020 Syracuse University, seminar on Sovereignty, Order, and Conflict, February 24
2020 Duke University, Department of Political Science, February 12
2019 UC Berkeley, Department of Political Science, November 7
2019 Stanford University, Law School, November 5
2019 Stanford University, JSD Research Colloquium, October 17
2019 Cal State University, Sacramento, September 24
2019 San Jose State University, Department of Economics, September 18
2019 Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, May 16-17
2019 Texas A&M University, Department of Political Science, April 29
2019 Radford University, April 15
2019 MIT, Comparative Politics Speaker Series, March 8
2019 Endicott College, February 25
2019 UCLA-Michigan Prison Law & Policy Roundtable, February 15-16
2018 Workshop on Institutional Analysis, Ronald Coase Institute, Bratislava, December 9-15
2018 Harvard University, Political Violence Workshop, December 4
2018 University of Chicago, Criminal Governance in the Americas, October 26
2018 Indiana University Bloomington, Ostrom Workshop, September 24
2018 University of Connecticut, Department of Economics, March 27
2018 Annotation for Transparent Inquiry workshop, New York City, February 22-23
2018 Mercer University, February 15
2018 Keynote address at conference on "Criminal (In)Justice and Self-Governance,” Texas Tech University, February 9-10
2018 Florida Southern University, February 6
2017 Book Panel on Stateless Commerce, December 7
2017 Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics, New York, 23-25 June
2017 Institutional and Organizational Economics Academy, Corsica, 22-27 May
2017 Kenyon College, 27 April
2017 Ball State University, 26 April
2017 Wabash College, 25 April
2017 Plenary Lecture at the Public Choice Society Conference, 2-4 March
2017 New York University, Colloquium on Market Institutions & Economic Processes, February 27
2017 Troy University, February 21
2017 Prison Reform Working Group, Montgomery Alabama, February 20
2017 University College London, prison reform event, February 16
2017 Oxford University, Seminar for the Study of Violence, February 13
2017 The Home Office, January 19
2016 Keynote Lecture at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation Seminar, 26 November
2016 Bristol Festival of Economics, 17-19 November
2016 University College London, "Governance of the Global Cocaine Supply Chain" 4 July
2016 Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics, 15-17 June
2016 Volte Face, "Betwixt and Between: Prison and Drug Reform", 14 June
2016 University College London, 1st Mexico Summit, 13 June
2016 University of Glasgow, "Inequality, Conflict, & Violence" conference, 9-10 June
2016 King's College London, War Studies, 13 May (link)
2016 Howard League for Penal Reform, 3 May
2016 Anglia Ruskin University, 18 April
2016 Ministry of Justice, UK, 17 March
2016 SOAS, 22 February
2015 Judicial Symposium on Using the Law & Economics to Reform the System of Criminal Justice, 9-10 December
2015 London School of Economics, 16 November (link)
2015 Trinity College, CT, 29 October
2015 University of Reading, 27 October
2015 Birkbeck, University of London, 15 October
2015 THINK, 11 July (link)
2015 CEVRO Institute, 2 July
2015 Oxford University, 11 May
2015 TEDxWarwick, 28 February (link)
2015 Mercatus Center-GMU Book Panel, with Peter Reuter and Bert Useem, 19 February
2014 University of Bergen, 18 December 2014
2014 University of Strathclyde, 10 December
2014 Institute of Economic Affairs, 8 December
2014 Oxford Book Launch, with Sir Paul Collier and Heather Hamill, 27 November
2014 Research Institute of Industrial Economics, 5 November
2014 University of Middlesex, School of Law, 29 October
2014 University of Warwick, 27 October
2014 University of Manchester, 20 October
2014 King's Book Launch, with Professors David Soskice and Tim Newburn, 6 October
2014 Loyola, New Orleans, 18 September
2014 Metropolitan State, Denver, 15 September
2014 Chapman University, 12 September
2014 UC Berkeley, Public Policy, 11 September
2014 Santa Clara Law, 10 September
2014 San Jose State University, 8 September
2014 Cardiff University, 5 March
2014 Adam Smith Institute panel with Nick Herbert MP, 3 March
2014 George Mason University, 23 January
2014 University of Buckingham, 22 January
2013 Texas Tech University, 7 November
2013 Stanford University, 19 April (link)
2013 University of Leuven, March
2012 National Bureau of Economic Research, Summer Institute, July
2012 Bryn Mawr College, March
2012 Fayetteville State University, March
2011 Beloit College, December
2011 James Madison University, September
2011 Western Carolina University, September
2010 Western Carolina University, September