Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield grew up in a small farm town in western Kentucky, where his mother was a school teacher and his father was a Baptist preacher. For college, he went off to Brown University, the first kid in his town to do so. He lived in California for a few years before spending a year traveling around South America and finally returning to the United States to go to law school. After law school at The University of Chicago, he practiced at a law firm only long enough to realize he didn't like it.

Greenfield later clerked for Justice David Souter of the United States Supreme Court, and then joined the faculty at Boston College Law School. There, he teaches corporate and constitutional law, economic analysis of law, and legal theory. In corporate law, he is known for advocating that corporations owe obligations to all stakeholders of the company, including employees and local communities. His 2011 book THE MYTH OF CHOICE argues that most of us, most of the time, are much more constrained in our decisions than we realize.

Greenfield lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife, children, and rescue dog.