University of Utah : S.J. Quinney College of Law

Christian Johnson

Professor of Law

Professor Johnson is in his second year at Utah after spending 13 years at Loyola University Chicago Law School. He has also been a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne.  He publishes extensively on corporate finance and derivatives, including four books and more than 36 articles. He has also been a frequent speaker on the financial crisis and corporate finance at such institutions as the IMF, the American Bar Association, the Futures Industry Association, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and a variety of academic institutions abroad such as the University of Hong Kong, the National University of Singapore, Osgoode Law School and the University of Johannesburg.  Professor Johnson also testified in front of Congress this summer on the regulation of derivatives.  Prior to joining the Loyola faculty, Professor Johnson was an associate for Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in New York and Mayer, Brown in Chicago. As a student at Columbia Law School, he was the executive editor of the Columbia Law Review and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Prior to law school, he was a C.P.A. with Price Waterhouse.  He has also been an academic consultant for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.