What I do
This blog serves as a showcase of my multifaceted research capabilities, including:
IP & Business Law: Analyzing copyright and trademark through a technical and historical lens.
AI Ethics: Evaluating the intersection of machine learning and human rights.
Historical Litigation Support: Deep-dives into the history of trauma and the evolution of consent.
I sit at the intersection of the ancient record and the automated future. As a full-stack developer and alumni of Franklin W Olin College of Engineering, a paralegal with a certificate from Boston University, and an avid history enthusiast, I view the law not just as a set of rules, but as an evolving operating system. My work is dedicated to documenting the “bugs” in our social history and the “code” of our future ethics. More formally, this blog is sorted into three pillars.
The Pillars
Code
AI Ethics, Data Sovereignty, LLM Training Sets
Copyright
Trademark, IP Litigation, Business formation
Consent
History of Male SA, Age of Consent, Labor Exploitation
The Technical Foundation
Before transitioning into the legal field, I spent my time in the world of Full-Stack Development and Data Science. My understanding of Cognitive AI, NLPs, and Ethical AI Applications allows me to bridge the gap between complex technical architecture and legal compliance. When I discuss AI ethics, I’m not just speaking philosophically—I’m looking under the hood at the algorithms and the data sets that drive them.
The Historical Lens
My perspective is deeply in the soil of New England and America’s general ignorance of Western history. Having served as a guide through the layered histories of Boston and the Salem Witch Trials, I developed a particular fascination with both Puritans and the profound web of misinformation and political mythology pop culture has spawned about their existence. A separate rabbit hole set me on a path to bootstrap my own Master’s Degree in Narrative Evolution (still in progress), studying not simply history, but how stories people tell of that history change over time, why some stories get told and others do not, what it means to turn real people into folklore in an environment quips that mythology is “public domain fiction” and you can say “whatever you want,” how information and reality becomes either lost or warped in translation, empowerment/fetishizing narratives, and slander.
I carry this “Puritanical” rigor into my legal research. Whether I am investigating the historical nuances of male sexual assault and age of consent laws or the realities and lived experiences of those bound by forced labor systems, I believe that the truth is found in the primary source and the unredacted record, and people have always been people.
On the History of Exploitation
My research into the history of childhood and enslaved labor is an extension of my commitment to Autonomy. I analyze these periods not as “the way things were,” but as a legal history of how power uses documentation to strip individuals of their personhood. This blog stands firmly against the romanticization of history and seeks to highlight the voices silenced by the very records I study.
Moral Framework
Negative Utilitarian
Minimize the bugs.
While standard ethics often focus on maximizing happiness, Negative Utilitarianism prioritizes the reduction of suffering above all else. In the context of law and technology, this means my primary focus isn’t just “innovation,” but identifying and mitigating systemic harms, labor exploitation, and the “bugs” in our social operating system that cause real-world pain.
Stoic
Maintain the core.
Guided by the four cardinal virtues, I approach research with a grounded, analytical rigor:
- Temperance: Maintaining objectivity and discipline amidst the “noise” of modern mythology.
- Wisdom: Navigating technical and legal complexity with logic.
- Justice: A duty to the community and the pursuit of the unredacted truth.
- Courage: The strength to investigate uncomfortable historical realities.