Robert C. Hockett is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, and is the Edward Cornell Endowed Professor of Law at Cornell University. 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. His guiding concern in these fields is with the legal and institutional prerequisites to a just, prosperous, and sustainable economic order. A Senior Consultant with Westwood Capital Holdings, Fellow of the Century Foundation, and regular commissioned author for the New America Foundation, Hockett also does regular consulting work gratis for the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the International Monetary Fund, Americans for Financial Reform, the ‘Occupy Money’ Cooperative, and multiple federal and state legislators, regulators, and local governments. Prior to doing his doctoral work and entering academe, he worked for the International Monetary Fund and clerked for the Honorable Deanell Reece Tacha, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
