Robert C. Hockett is the Edward Cornell Professor of Law at Cornell Law School and an annual visiting professor of law at the Sorbonne Faculty of Law in Paris. His principal teaching, research, and writing interests lie in the fields of organizational, financial, and monetary law and economics in both their positive and normative, as well as their national and transnational, dimensions. Hockett’s guiding concern in these fields is with the legal and institutional prerequisites to a just, prosperous, and sustainable economic order. He is a fellow of the Century Foundation and regularly commissioned author for the New America Foundation, and also does regular consulting work for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, International Monetary Fund, Americans for Financial Reform, Occupy Money Cooperative, and a number of federal and state legislators and local governments. Prior to doing his doctoral work and entering academe, he worked for the IMF and clerked for the Honorable Deanell Reece Tacha, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Hockett holds an LLM and JSD from Yale Law School and an MA in philosophy and economics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
