STEPHEN CHOI, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law

B.A. Economics, Harvard College, magna cum laude
J.D. Harvard Law School, magna cum laude
Ph.D. Economics, Harvard University


Stephen Choi joined the NYU faculty in 2005. He taught as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School from 1996 to 1998. From 1998 to 2005 Choi taught at the UC Berkeley Law School where he was the Roger J. Traynor Professor of Law. While in law school Choi served as a legal methods instructor and supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review. He graduated first in his class from Harvard Law School in 1994 and received his Ph.D. in economics in 1997. He has been a recipient of the Fay Diploma, Sears Prize and Irving Oberman Memorial Award. He also held John M. Olin, Jacob K. Javits and Fulbright Fellowships.

Following graduation, Choi worked as an associate at McKinsey & Company in New York. Professor Choi’s research interests focus on the theoretical and empirical analysis of corporations and capital markets. He has published in the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Southern California Law Review, Duke Law Journal, University of Pennsylvania Law Review and Virginia Law Review, among others, and has presented papers at numerous conferences and symposia.