Jonathan D. Schwartz is a visiting lecturer in law at Yale Law School and general counsel of the Brookings Institution. He is also a fellow at the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University. Schwartz previous managed legal and other corporate functions at several major corporations including as chief legal and corporate affairs officer at Univision Communications, Inc., managing director and general counsel at J.P. Morgan’s Investment Bank, executive vice president and general counsel at Cablevision, and vice president and general counsel at Napster, Inc. Earlier in his career, he was a senior advisor to the attorney general and deputy attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice after serving as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York. During that time, he taught a seminar at Harvard University's Institute of Politics titled "Under the Gun: Justice in a Partisan Era." Schwartz earned a B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania, a J.D. from Stanford Law School, and an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge as a Fulbright Scholar. He clerked for Judge Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court.
