Jasper Kim

Jasper Kim joined the Eller College of Management in 2025. He has taught at UC Berkeley and the University of Melbourne. Prior to entering academia, he was an investment banker and lawyer with global investment firms based in New York (Lehman Brothers), London (Barclays Capital), and Switzerland (Credit Suisse). He is an advisor to a financial/legal tech advisory firm, and has been featured in the BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal. Jasper earned his Doctorate in Business from IPE Management School Paris (grandes ecoles), JD law degree from Rutgers Law School, MBA from the University of London, MSc in Economic History from the London School of Economics (LSE), and MSc in Taxation from the University of Oxford (Said Business School and Faculty of Law). He is the author of five books, and has published in academic journals affiliated with Harvard, Columbia, UC Davis, University of Washington, and the London School of Economics. He teaches in the areas of strategy, negotiations, and business law.

Publications

• Persuasion: The Hidden Forces That Influence Negotiations (Routledge Press)
• American Law 101: An Easy Primer on the U.S. Legal System (ABA Publishing)
• ABA Fundamentals: International Economic Systems (ABA Publishing)
• 24 Hours with 24 Lawyers: Profiles of Traditional and Non-Traditional Careers (Thomson Reuters / West Publishing)
• Korean Business Law: The Legal Landscape and Beyond (Carolina Academic Press)