Praveen Kosuri is a founding member of the eLaw Editorial Team. He is a Practice Professor of Law and Director of the Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He currently serves on the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) Board of Directors. Prior to joining the Penn Law faculty, Professor Kosuri taught at the University of Chicago Law School where he was the Assistant Director of the Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship and Lecturer in Law and before that was an adjunct professor at Northwestern Law School. In addition to teaching and operating a clinic, he has taught courses in Entrepreneurship and the Law, Negotiation, Legal Ethics for Business Lawyers and Trial Advocacy.
In addition to his experience as a law professor, Professor Kosuri was a lawyer for a Chicago based boutique M&A law firm and an investment banker at Credit Suisse. He began his law career as a trial attorney with the Cook County Public Defender’s Office.
He received his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis and A.B. from Duke University. He is admitted to the bars of Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Missouri.