Prior to law school, Max worked as a journalist for newspapers in Kansas City and Cincinnati. Inspired by Professor Sandra Sperino's employment law class, he wrote for this journal about how federal courts inappropriately grant summary judgment to Title VII defendants despite evidence of race- and gender-based bias influencing hiring processes. In the classroom and as an Ohio Innocence Project fellow, he has focused on civil rights and post-conviction relief laws. He also researches the relationship between property and paramilitarism for Professor Meghan Morris' book project: This Land is My Land: Property, Paramilitarism, and the American Dream.
