rory s fitzpatrick, phd

MS Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law '22.

PhD Physics, University of Michigan '21.

AB Physics, Princeton University '16.


find my full CV here.

a complete list of publications can be found on INSPIRE.



other writing and recorded talks


MSL Convocation Address, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, 2022.

Toward Ethical AI: The Role of Soft Law, Northwestern MSL Symposium, 2022.

[Omnibuster]: a Platform for Digesting Omnibus Legislation, with Vivien Lai, Northwestern MSL Symposium, 2022.

ArgoNeuT Sheds Light on Electron Neutrino Interactions, Fermilab News, 2020.

First Measurement of Electron Neutrino Cross Section on Argon, ICHEP, 2020.

The Elusive Neutrino, UM Saturday Morning Physics, 2019.

A Search for the Shape of the Universe, One Book at a Time, Princeton University Library Chronicle, winner of the 2014 Adler Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize.



what i'm reading


Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurty



some favorites


Giovanni's Room, Baldwin. My Sister, the Serial Killer, Braithwaite. Assembly, Brown. Earthseed series, Butler. If on a winter's night a traveler, Calvino. Exhalation, Chiang. Stories of Your Life and Others, Chiang. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Clarke. Evicted, Desmond. Trust, Diaz. From the Corner of the Oval, Dorey-Stein. Washington Black, Edugyan. The Office of Historical Corrections, Evans. Girl, Woman, Other, Evaristo. Erasure, Everett. Viper Wine, Eyre. The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald. The Ibis trilogy, Ghosh. Less, Greer. Trinity, Hall. Asymmetry, Halliday. Exit West, Hamid. Midnight in Chernobyl, Higginbotham. The Nix, Hill. The Book of Mother, Huisman. The Remains of the Day, Ishiguro. Black Leopard, Red Wolf, James. The Broken Earth trilogy, Jemisin. Little Gods, Jin. Stamped from the Beginning, Kendi. Euphoria, King. Intamacies, Kitamura. When We Cease to Understand the World, Labatut. Passing, Larsen. Luster, Leilani. Underland, Macfarlane. In the Dream House, Machado. Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, Madden. Metamorphica, Mason. Asterios Polyp, Mazzucchelli. Know My Name, Miller. On Trails, Moor. The Dragons, the Giant, the Women, Moore. Watchmen, Moore. Earthlings, Murata. The Weil Conjectures, Olsson. There There, Orange. Gingerbread, Oyeyemi. Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, Padua. The Dead Are Arising, Payne. Elena Knows, Pineiro. The Tangled Tree, Quammen. Citizen, Rankine. Normal People, Rooney. Gaudy Night, Sayers. The Old Drift, Serpell. Ordinary Light, Smith. Maus, Spiegelman. The Secret History, Tartt. Real Life, Taylor. Heads of the Colored People, Thompson-Spires. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Tokarczuk. Flights, Tokarczuk. Trick Mirror, Tolentino. Rules of Civility, Towles. The Hearbeat of Wounded Knee, Treuer. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Ware. Lot, Washington. The Custom of the Country, Wharton. The Intuitionist, Whitehead. The Nickel Boys, Whitehead. The Noble Hustle, Whitehead. Frankissstein, Winterson. Weight, Winterson. Interior Chinatown, Yu.



updated 10 July 2023