Professor Yosifon teaches courses in the areas of business law, legal ethics, and legal theory. His scholarship is focused on the application of social psychology, and allied social sciences, to law and legal theory. His recent work advances this approach to legal theory through a critique of the role that conventional conceptions of human agency play in contemporary corporate governance law.

Professor Yosifon was born and raised in New Jersey. He received his undergraduate degree in history and philosophy from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in 1995 (Summa Cum Laude). After Rutgers he attended graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where in 1997 he received a Masters Degree in American Social History. He received his J.D. from Harvard University in 2002 (Magna Cum Laude). Before joining the faculty at Santa Clara University, Yosifon served as a visiting assistant professor at Rutgers Law School-Camden, and as a visiting associate professor at New York Law School. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Patti B. Saris of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and as a litigation associate at the Boston firm of Ropes & Gray, LLP.

When not teaching and writing, Yosifon enjoys practicing yoga and watching baseball.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Rutgers Law School - Camden