The researcher's scholarship is animated by a single underlying question—how law constitutes the relationships among individuals, communities, and the state—pursued across four interconnected domains: property law and theory, the law of takings, the legal construction of space, and the legal frameworks governing pluralistic societies. Across these areas, the work moves fluidly between doctrinal analysis and legal theory, comparative inquiry, and empirical methods drawn from extensive fieldwork and in-depth interviews, treating formal doctrine and informal social structure as inseparable objects of legal study.

At the foundation of this scholarship is a sustained effort to develop a theoretical infrastructure for property as a layered institution—shaped at once by formal doctrine, informal social arrangements, and competing normative commitments. Engaging foundational questions of ownership, possession, and the architecture of property rights, this strand contributes to contemporary debates on property realism and to the broader inquiry into where the boundaries between private and collective ownership should lie.

Building outward from these theoretical foundations, a further line of inquiry turns to the law of takings, where property doctrine collides most sharply with state power. This work examines the triangular relationship that expropriation creates among the state, local government, communities, and individuals, challenging the adequacy of universal compensation standards and developing frameworks attentive to nonmarket values, communal ties, and the demands of restorative justice.

Closely connected is a research program on how legal rules construct, partition, and allocate physical and social space. Through the study of urban renewal, spatial segregation, planning law, and land allocation, this work traces how property and public-law doctrines interact to produce particular spatial orders—and how those orders, in turn, reshape the legal entitlements of those who inhabit them.

These threads converge in a broader normative program concerned with how liberal legal orders should accommodate communities, including illiberal ones. Drawing on sustained fieldwork in Haredi society in Israel and comparative engagement with the United States, the work develops a nuanced theoretical and practical infrastructure for community accommodation, alongside a connected inquiry into the legal origins of social and political polarization in pluralistic societies.