James Kwak

James Kwak joined the faculty in 2011 as an Associate Professor of Law. He has a wide range of interests including business organizations, corporate governance, financial markets and regulation, and fiscal policy. He is an online columnist for The Atlantic and co-author of The Baseline Scenario, a leading blog covering economics and public policy. His articles have appeared in many publications, including Democracy, The American Prospect, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times, and on the web sites of The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, NPR, Foreign Policy, and The Financial Times. He co-authored 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown, a 2010 New York Times bestseller chronicling the rise of the financial sector over the past three decades.

Before going to law school, he worked as a management consultant at McKinsey and Company and co-founded a successful software company. 

He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with his wife and daughter. For more information, please visit James's personal website.

James is on leave during the 2011–2012 school year. He is a fellow at the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance and is also writing a book about government deficits and the national debt.