Evidence reviews
Structured assessment of claims, source quality, competing accounts, evidentiary gaps, and material uncertainty.
Independent research
What I Do
I conduct independent, source-driven research on public policy, law, government institutions, and administrative reform. I am available for selected paid research engagements.
Open to selected engagements
Research I can provide
Legislative and regulatory research
Research into statutes, regulations, proposed rules, legislative history, institutional authority, and existing-law fit.
Public-record and public-source research
Focused collection and analysis of governmental, legal, institutional, and other publicly available records.
Issue mapping and policy comparison
Clear organization of complex questions, stakeholder positions, comparable approaches, tradeoffs, and implementation choices.
Source verification
Checking citations, tracing claims to authoritative materials, reconciling conflicts, and identifying unsupported conclusions.
Research briefs
Concise, source-transparent written products designed around a defined question, audience, and decision need.
Research and general legal analysis are provided for informational and policy purposes, not as legal advice or legal representation.
How I work
Following the evidence.
Every project begins with a question and a willingness to follow the evidence wherever it leads. The work is shaped as it unfolds—bringing order to complexity, testing ideas against competing views, and revising both the argument and its form when the record demands it. The aim is not merely to arrive at an answer, but to make difficult subjects clearer and create work worthy of the public’s trust.
Research Method in Practice
ARRP
My principal independent project is the American Restoration and Resilience Project (ARRP), a sustained examination of structural problems in American government and potential institutional remedies.
Its published work demonstrates my approach to primary-source research, legal and policy analysis, methodological transparency, auditing, and revision.
Explore ARRPDOJ-001
Recent Presidential Personal Counsel in Senior DOJ Leadership
A primary-source and existing-law analysis of institutional conflicts, eligibility rules, and a proposed statutory cooling-off period.
Read the example ↗DOJ-003Politically Selective Enforcement, Charging, and Favoritism
An issue map connecting public records, charging comparators, statutory reporting structures, oversight design, and stated uncertainty.
Read the example ↗ELEC-011Algorithmic Redistricting Baseline and Representation Safeguards
A comparative policy and legal analysis developed into a model-state approach with auditable safeguards and explicit implementation limits.
Read the example ↗Research dashboard
Current and planned work.
A deliberately concise view of the research program: what is public now, what is planned, and what is still being developed privately.
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Research principles
Research designed to remain inspectable.
- Independence
- Engagements are accepted subject to research independence, transparent methods, and the protection of audience trust.
- Source transparency
- Material claims are connected to sources, with priority given to primary legal, governmental, and authoritative records.
- Uncertainty
- Gaps, conflicting evidence, assumptions, and unresolved questions are identified rather than concealed.
- Verification and accountability
- Drafts are checked, challenged, revised, and corrected. I remain responsible for the final research and analysis.
AI-assisted research disclosure
Tools assist the work. They do not become the authority.
ARRP makes extensive use of large language models as research and production tools. They assist with research planning, source discovery and triage, issue analysis, drafting, editing, software development, and quality-control review.
LLM output is not treated as evidence or cited as authority. Published claims are evaluated against cited source materials. Generated material may be revised, rejected, or independently reconstructed when it cannot be adequately supported.
I determine the research questions and methodology, evaluate sources, resolve substantive judgments, approve the final analysis, and accept responsibility for the published work.
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Bring a defined research question.
If you need a source-driven review, issue map, policy comparison, or research brief, use the contact form to describe the question, intended audience, available materials, and timing.
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