Max is an Assistant Professor at the School of Law and an Honorary Research Fellow at UCL Anthropology. His primary research explores the relationship between tax, Indigenous sovereignty, and settler colonialism in North America. Using contemporary and historical case studies in Alaska, he examines the ways tax has helped colonization unfold and how Native communities have used tax to fight back against settler colonialism. His work has been published in Law & Social Inquiry, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and Society and Space.

Max’s other research endeavors include law and rurality in France, tax treaties and colonialism, and the socio-legal history of the Caribbean (Martinique).

Before joining the University of Warwick, Max was a Lecturer in Law at the University of Sussex, a Research Fellow at UCL Anthropology, a Hauser Global Post-Doctoral Fellow at NYU Law, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, and a Fellow-in-Residence at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.