John R. Brooks

Climenko Fellow

Lecturer on Law

Additional Information

Mr. Brooks will teach a section of First Year Legal Research and Writing in both the Fall Term 2009 and Spring Term 2010.

Biographical Statement

John Brooks's primary areas of scholarly interest are tax law and policy. Jake received his A.B., cum laude, in applied mathematics in 1998 from Harvard College, and his J.D., magna cum laude, in 2006 from Harvard Law School, where he was an Olin Fellow in Law and Economics and was awarded the Sidney I. Roberts prize for the best paper in the field of taxation. After law school, Jake clerked for the Honorable Norman H. Stahl of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. From 2007 to 2009, Jake was an associate at Ropes & Gray LLP in Boston, practicing tax law.