Christopher M. Bruner, Professor of Law, Dean Rusk International Law Center, University of Georgia School of Law

Christopher M. Bruner is Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law. His teaching and scholarship focus on a range of corporate and transactional subjects, including Corporations, Corporate Finance, Deals and Comparative Corporate Law. He conducted comparative research as a visitor to the law faculties of the University of Cambridge, the University of Hong Kong, the University of Leeds, the University of Sydney, the University of Toronto, and the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Corporate Governance in the Common-Law World: The Political Foundations of Shareholder Power (2013), and his articles have appeared in a variety of law and policy journals. He received his A.B., M.Phil., and J.D. from the University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, and Harvard Law School, respectively.

"Christopher Bruner's Re-Imagining Offshore Finance: Market-Dominant Small Jurisdictions in a Globalizing Financial World is a significant contribution to the literature that should become required reading for both consumers and producers of knowledge concerning the regulation of global financial transactions.... Bruner's work provides a compelling account challenging the all-too-popular scholarly view that conceptualizes small offshore jurisdictions as parasitic entities that subsist largely at the expense of eroding the tax base of developed nations." - William J. Moon, Michigan Law Review

"Christopher Bruner's important and timely book convincingly argues that we need to take seriously a handful of small jurisdictions that, for better and worse, have managed to compete for ever-increasing shares of the market for cross-border finance." - Erin O'Hara O'Connor, Dean and McKenzie Professor of Law, Florida State University College of Law

"Are tax havens good or bad? Professor Bruner brings a fresh new perspective to this tantalizingly simple question in [this book]. By engaging an impressively broad scope of literatures and breaking through old, unhelpful labels, Bruner is able to identify fascinating new themes in offshore tax and financial competition. In bringing to light the concept of 'market-dominant small jurisdictions,' Bruner helps move the intellectual debate forward in a truly novel and important way." - Adam Rosenzweig, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law

"Re-Imagining Offshore Finance is an excellent read for anyone with an interest in international finance. It provides a thorough conceptual framework for the rise of MDSJs. Bruner's clear language and thorough analyses make a complicated theoretical analysis easy to understand ...." - Zachary S. Freeman, NYU Journal of International Law and Politics