Joined the faculty in 1990. Clerked for Judge Walter R. Mansfield, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Practiced employment law in Raleigh. Served as the Goldberg Distinguished Visiting Professor at Cornell Law School in 2007, and as a visiting professor at the law schools of the University of Iowa, Emory University, University of Auckland and University of Melbourne. Also served as Director of William & Mary’s Institute of Bill of Rights Law, 1997-2004, and as the founding Director of William & Mary's Election Law Program. Is currently the faculty advisor to the William and Mary Law Review.