James R. Kearl

James R. Kearl is the A. O. Smoot Professor of Economics at Brigham Young University and Assistant to the President for BYU’s Jerusalem Center. He has a PhD in economics from MIT and completed a postdoc in law and economics at the Harvard Law School. In 1983, he was appointed a White House Fellow by President Ronald Reagan and worked as a special assistant to the secretary of defense. He has served on the U.S. Census academic advisory board and was a research fellow with the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has been an expert witness in complex antitrust, IP, and commercial litigation and has lectured for the U.S. Department of State on U.S. trade, antitrust, and IP damages policies at various locations around the world. He is a former dean of honors and general education and associate academic vice president at BYU. His teaching interests are introductory economics (BYU’s Econ 110) and law and economics (BYU’s Econ 420 and 421).