Professor Diamond joined the Santa Clara University School of Law faculty in 1999 after completing his Ph.D. in political science at the University of London, his J.D. at Yale and five years as an associate, one year at Latham & Watkins in New York and four years at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto.

Professor Diamond's research centers on the impact of globalization, new technology and financial innovation on social and political institutions. Currently, at the macro level he is interested in the interplay between authoritarianism, democracy and globalization while on the micro level he is interested in the role of institutional design in the development of credible financial markets.

While in private practice, Professor Diamond represented investment banks, private equity firms, start-up companies and public companies, predominantly in the high technology sector. Professor Diamond served on the board of directors of a publicly traded technology company for eight years, and on the boards of two start-up companies. He also advises labor unions, institutional investors, and entrepreneurs on corporate finance, corporate governance and general business law issues.

While a student at Yale Law School Professor Diamond was part of the legal team headed by Professor Harold Koh that represented the so-called Haitian "boat people" who were quarantined by the U.S. government at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay. While an associate at Latham & Watkins in New York he helped the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund and survivors of the Golden Venture, a ship carrying political refugees from mainland China that ran aground in New York, in their three-year legal and political effort to secure the survivors' release from detention in INS jails.

• Assistant Professor, Cornell Law School (one year visit)
• Associate, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Palo Alto, California
• Associate, Latham & Watkins, New York, New York
• MacArthur Fellow in International Peace and Security
• Visiting Scholar, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
• Visiting Scholar, Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University
• Visiting Scholar, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California
• Visiting Scholar, Center for U.S. Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego
• Ethics Scholar, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University
• Guest Lecturer, Executive MBA Program, Santa Clara University School of Business
• Phi Beta Kappa
• Junior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Project on Terrorism, Amb. Donald F. McHenry)
• Member, New York and California Bar

• Corporate Governance
• Corporate Finance
• Business Law
• Securities Law
• International Labor Rights
• International Trade
• International Finance
• Comparative Corporate Law