Barry Kaye teaches Corporate Governance, as well as Negotiation Theory and Application at the USC Gould School of Law. He has also supervised a course on Directed Research and has lectured at the USC Summer Law and English (SLE) program for LLM students. Prior to teaching at USC, Kaye taught in the business law department at UC Berkeley Law. Kaye’s entrepreneurial character and versatile skill set have allowed him to move between law and business and weave a unique private practice. His professional experience and expertise includes real estate, corporate formation and governance and finance.

After graduating from law school, Kaye clerked for U.S. District Judge A. Andrew Hauk in Los Angeles and then briefly for U.S. District Judge A. Wallace Tashima who was then sitting by designation on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena. He worked behind the scenes on copyright and trademark infringement cases along with securities, criminal, insurance coverage and a host of other federal matters. Kaye completed a BA degree at Yeshiva University in 1990 and his JD at Cardozo School of Law in 1994.