James Tierney is an assistant professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. His research focuses on the administrative law of capitalism, including the regulation of capital markets, financial intermediaries, and investment. He has also taught at University of Nebraska and Rutgers, and prior to teaching was senior counsel at the SEC's Office of the General Counsel. His recent scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in Duke Law Journal (twice); Journal of Legal Education; Michigan State Law Journal; Stanford Journal of Law, Business, and Finance; University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law (twice); and Yale Law Journal Forum. He received his JD and MA from the University of Chicago and his AB from Brown University.