- jfcoyle@email.unc.edu
- Assistant: Jyren Dillard
John F. Coyle is visiting from the University of North Carolina School of Law. He joined the UNC faculty after serving as a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School. Prior to his fellowship, Professor Coyle clerked for Judge Reena Raggi on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and practiced corporate law at Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, D.C. His research interests include corporate law (with an emphasis on venture capital), conflict of laws, and private international law.
His scholarship has appeared in the Boston College Law Review, the Duke Law Journal, the Georgia Law Review, the Hastings Law Journal, the North Carolina Law Review, and the William and Mary Law Review. In 2015, he received the Frederick B. McCall Award for Teaching Excellence from the graduating class at Carolina Law.
Professor Coyle received his B.A. in History and Literature, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Harvard College. He received his M.Phil in European Studies from Cambridge University where he wrote his dissertation about economic and cultural globalization. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was a symposium editor for the Yale Law Journal, an articles editor for the Yale Journal of International Law, and a recipient of the William K.S. Wang Prize and the Jewell Prize.
