Faculty Profile: Jonathan Rohr

Jonathan Rohr is on the faculty of the University of Tennessee College of Law, where he teaches courses on business law, securities regulation, contracts, and insurance.   His research focuses on the role of private ordering in business associations, exotic and hybrid organizational structures, and the intersection of blockchain technology and the law. His publications have appeared in the Cardozo Law Review, the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, and the New York University Journal of Law and Business.  His article entitled Blockchain-Based Token Sales, Initial Coin Offerings, and the Democratization of Public Capital Markets (co-authored with Professor Aaron Wright of the Cardozo School of Law) will be published in the Hastings Law Journal later this year. Rohr has also contributed guest columns to Columbia Law School’s Blue Sky Blog and Law360.  He is a frequent speaker on legal issues related to blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies and was recently an invited panelist at the Cleveland State Law Review’s Blockchain and the Law symposium.  Prior to entering academia, Rohr practiced law for several years, primarily in the New York office of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP.