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David Groshoff is an Assistant Professor of Law and the Director of the Business Law Center at Western State.
He earned a B.A. with honors from Indiana University, graduating in three years with a double major in Spanish and history, a J.D. from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, where he was a member of The Ohio State Law Journal, an M.B.A. in Finance from Northern Kentucky University’s Haile/US Bank College of Business, a Certificate in International Corporate Social Responsibility from IPADE in México City, and an Ed.M. in law and economics teaching and curriculum from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Professor Groshoff has taught law, finance, and economics at the undergraduate, M.B.A., and J.D. levels. Prior to joining Western State’s faculty, Professor Groshoff was a full-time Assistant Professor of Finance at the Providence College School of Business in Rhode Island.
Before entering academia, Professor Groshoff spent over a decade with J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s high yield and distressed debt desk as a discretionary special situations portfolio manager and the Chief Legal/Chief Compliance Officer of various J.P. Morgan-related entities. Professor Groshoff has been a board and audit committee member of three publicly held corporations, multiple privately held corporations and non-profits, and he has advised a number of official creditors’ committees in corporate bankruptcies.
His scholarship, which has been published in law journals at BYU, Maryland, Fordham, and Cardozo, focuses on laws, regulations, instruments, and policy levers that inhibit a market’s ability to recognize an asset’s intrinsic value, whether in terms of financial, social, or human capital.
Professor Groshoff is a regular columnist regarding the law’s impact on sexual minorities at The Huffington Post, and he has also written regarding business, law, economics, and society as an invited guest blogger at TheConglomerate.org.