I was born in New Jersey, and grew up in the wooded hills of Vernon Township, in the northwest corner of the Garden State. I grew up running around in the woods, playing baseball, doing theater, and reading books. Studied Philosophy and History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Earned a Masters Degree in American Social and Cultural History at Carnegie Mellon University. Worked as a reporter in Boston. Then attended Harvard Law School. I moved to California in 2005, to become a Professor at Santa Clara University School of Law, and I have been teaching and writing at Santa Clara ever since. The Golden State is now home, I live in the East Bay with my wife Janice, and our two soccer-loving children. My scholarship is broadly in the areas of corporate governance law, corporate social responsibility, legal theory, legal ethics, and personal ethics. Earlier in my career, my work was focused on critiquing and offering alternatives to the shareholder primacy norm in corporate governance law. My current writing is focused on excavating insights of fiduciary discourses for use in personal ethics and individual transformation.
You can find my faculty page at Santa Clara University School of Law here.