Professor Green joined the faculty in 2006. He practiced law with Phelps Dunbar in Jackson, Mississippi, specializing in appellate litigation, and clerked for Judge Rhesa H. Barksdale of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Professor Green teaches Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Real Estate Transactions, and Commercial Paper.

At Yale Law School Professor Green was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University, receiving the Lyman H. Atwater Prize in Politics for the highest academic standing in the Politics Department and the John G. Buchanan Prize in Politics for the outstanding senior thesis in the Politics Department. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Professor Green has published Originalism and the Sense-Reference Distinction, 50 St. Louis U. L.J. 555 (2006) (downloadable here), and Suing One’s Sense Faculties for Fraud: Justifiable Reliance in the Law as a Clue to Epistemic Justification, 36 Phil. Papers 49 (2007) (abstract here).

His current research projects concern the punishment of corporations, the application of constitutional theory to the Fourteenth Amendment, the epistemology of testimony, memory, and perception, and the law and ethics of self-defense.

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Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2006
J.D., Yale Law School, 1998
B.A., summa cum laude, Princeton University, 1994