Rate My Professor Alan Kluegel

Alan Kluegel is the H. Wendell Cherry Associate Professor of Law in the J. David Rosenberg College of Law at the University of Kentucky, a position he has held since 2025, following his tenure as Assistant Professor from 2020. Prior to joining the University of Kentucky, he served as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois College of Law from 2018 to 2020. Kluegel brings extensive practical experience from his time as an associate attorney at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New York (2006-2007), where he worked on private fund formation, mergers and acquisitions, and campaign finance regulation, and at Gilbert LLP in Washington, DC (2009-2012), litigating corporate successor liability, shareholder claims, and directors' and officers' liability insurance. He also clerked for the Honorable Marianne O. Battani of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (2007-2008). His academic credentials include a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California, Berkeley (2020), with a dissertation on law firm internal structures and dissolution dynamics; a J.D. from Georgetown University (2006); and a B.A. in Sociology and English from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2001).

Kluegel's scholarship focuses on corporate law, the legal profession, and empirical analysis of legal institutions, utilizing network analysis, hierarchical models, and formal modeling. Notable publications include “Networking Among The Human Capitalists: The Organizational Dynamics of Change and Power in the Large Corporate Law Firm” in the University of Richmond Law Review (2025), the open-access A Practical Casebook for Business Associations (2024), “The Ties That Bind: The Relationship Between Law Firm Growth and Law Firm Survival” in the Seton Hall Law Review (2022), “The Firm as a Nexus of Organizational Theories: Sociological Perspectives on the Modern Law Firm” in the Annual Review of Law and Social Science (2016), and “The Link Between Carolene Products and Griswold: How the Right to Privacy Protects Popular Practices from Democratic Failures” in the University of San Francisco Law Review (2008). At Kentucky Law, he teaches Business Associations, Securities Regulation, Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Finance, Professional Responsibility, and a seminar on The Business of Law. His honors include the Berkeley Empirical Legal Studies Graduate Fellowship (2016-2017), the Daniel E. Koshland, Jr. Art of Teaching Writing Fellowship (2017), UC Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor award (2016), and twice being ranked as an Excellent Teacher by students at Illinois (2019, 2020).