<h3>Christian Johnson was the Inaugural Dean for Widener University Commonwealth Law School.&nbsp;Prior to joining Widener, Dean Johnson was the Hugh B. Brown Presidential Endowed Chair of the Law and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Utah College of Law.</h3>
<p>He is a frequent commentator and academic focusing primarily on global capital markets.&nbsp;He has coauthored five books and written over three dozen articles on capital markets and central banks.&nbsp; Before moving to Utah, Dean Johnson was a law professor at Loyola University Chicago for 13 years.&nbsp;Professor Johnson speaks frequently on legal issues involving capital markets and has testified before the U.S. Congress. He has spoken and lectured at central banks, U.S. banking and financial regulators, and academic institutions and financial institutions in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, North and South America and Australia. Professor Johnson received his JD from Columbia Law School (where he was executive editor of the Columbia Law Review and a Stone Scholar) and was an associate for Milbank, Tweed in New York and Mayer, Brown, in Chicago.&nbsp;He was also a CPA for Price Waterhouse.</p>