Robert C. Hockett

Robert C. Hockett is the Edward Cornell Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, Regular Visiting Professor of Finance at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business, and Senior Counsel at Westwood Capital LLC in Manhattan. He was previously Counsel at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the International Monetary Fund, and clerked for the US Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. He holds degrees from Yale, Oxford (where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar), and the University of Kansas.

Hockett’s academic and pro bono practical work lie in the fields of enterprise-organizational, financial, and monetary law and economics in both their positive and normative, as well as their local, national, and transnational dimensions. His guiding concern in all is with the institutional prerequisites to a just, sustainable, and productive economic order.

Hockett does regular consulting and legislative drafting work for many state, local, national and international legislators and regulators. In recent years these have included US Senators Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Sheldon Whitehouse, Chuck Schumer, and Marco Rubio; US Representatives Alexandria Occasio-Cortez and Ro Khanna; NY Assemblyman Ron Kim; and the US Financial Stability Oversight Counsel, the Federal Reserve System, the US Department of Treasury, and the Berkshares Community Currency project.