WILLIAM MOON

University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

William Moon is the Edward M. Robertson Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, where his research focuses on corporate charter competition, corporate governance, offshore finance and private international law. His scholarship has appeared in the Duke Law Journal, the Iowa Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the Northwestern University Law Review and the Vanderbilt Law Review. In 2021, the Black Law Students Association voted him Professor of the Year.

Moon joined Maryland Carey Law in 2018 after serving as an acting assistant professor in the Lawyering Program at New York University School of Law from 2016 to 2018. Prior to entering academia, he worked as a litigation associate at Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP in New York City, where he specialized in cross-border commercial disputes. From 2013 to 2014, he served as a law clerk to Judge Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Moon holds a juris doctor from Yale Law School, where he served as a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal and a Coker Fellow, and a bachelor of business administration from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, where he was the founding editor-in-chief of the Michigan Journal of Business.

“I wanted to become an academic, and law seemed like the perfect field where I can blend rigorous theoretical work that has practical consequences,” Moon said.

That philosophy shapes his approach in the classroom, where he blends experiential learning with the Socratic method.

Moon regularly incorporates simulation exercises into his courses, in which students take on roles such as in-house counsel, transactional lawyers, litigators and judges, to sharpen their analytical skills and expose them to how the law operates in practice. He is also mindful that the seemingly race-neutral and gender-neutral method of teaching doctrinal classes can have a negative effect on women and students of color, and works to present the law using relatable, inclusive and fun facts.

Beyond the classroom, Moon participates in public speaking engagements to demonstrate how and why business law matters for ordinary people and serves on the admissions committee at Maryland Carey Law. He has also advised students at the University of Maryland, College Park in relaunching the Maryland Undergraduate Law Review, a student-run organization that gives undergraduates the opportunity to publish original legal research. Moon actively supervises student research papers, participates in affinity group activities and guides students through career opportunities.

Outside of work, Moon enjoys cooking — including making homemade kimchi — and bowling.