A struggling Spanish guitar and didgeridoo playing former naval officer, Tim Lynch joined the faculty as an associate professor in summer 2011. In fall 2023, he began serving as Interim Chair for the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Professor Lynch's scholarship focuses on the international movement of people and immigrant rights, and he has also written extensively on international capital markets, financial derivatives, and credit rating agencies. He teaches Contracts, Immigration Law, International Law, International Trade, International Business Transactions, Conflict of Laws, and International Environmental Law.
Tim received his JD from Harvard Law School, his MBA from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and his BA from the University of Chicago, where he majored in Arabic and Islamic studies and spent much of his time training and captaining the university’s rowing team.
Prior to entering academia, Professor Lynch was an officer in the U.S. Navy and an associate attorney at Coudert Brothers in New York largely representing institutions in international investment transactions and development projects. After living in Japan for several years, and then living out of a pickup truck while traveling around North America for a year, he became the executive manager for the Public Works Department of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, where he managed the construction of several grand-scale public works projects.
When he is not struggling with the guitar or the didge, Professor Lynch devotes far too much time and money learning how to turn wood and attempting to guide his three teenage children.
