Chris Thoms-Bauer is a graduate student at the University of British Columbia researching social control and social power through ancient Roman law. Though currently living in Canada, he plans to return to the U.S. to begin the process of practicing law to help those who most need it. He defended his undergraduate thesis at Rutgers University concerning the Roman law of slavery, receiving a high honors distinction. Before Rutgers, he earned his first bachelor’s degree in History from Kean University while training to become a secondary school teacher. Chris used his experience and contacts in the field of education to create Officina, a cost-free summer program for secondary school students that strove to develop practical and academic skills through educational opportunities in the humanities not offered in secondary schools. In his spare time, he laments over the New Jersey Devils.