Robert J. Jackson, Jr. is Associate Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where his research projects focus on the empirical study of corporate governance. Professor Jackson previously served as an advisor on executive compensation and corporate governance to senior officials at the Department of the Treasury and as Deputy Special Master for TARP Executive Compensation. As he says, “The notion that we’d have a government official charged with setting compensation at some of the largest public companies was something we’d never done before.”