Professor Yockey teaches and writes in the areas of corporate law, artificial intelligence, compliance, social enterprise, and higher education. His teaching has been recognized at the collegiate and university level. He was named the law school’s teacher of the year in 2012 and 2023, and he received the university-wide President and Provost Award for Teaching Excellence in 2022.

Professor Yockey is the co-editor of the Cambridge Handbook of Social Enterprise Law, and his scholarship appears in leading law journals across the country. He served as President of the University of Iowa Faculty Senate in 2020-21. He is also the advisor and co-founder of the law school’s First-Generation Lawyers (FGL) student organization. His work with FGL was recognized through receipt of the University of Iowa Award for Outstanding First-Generation Student Advocacy in 2022.

Before coming to Iowa, Professor Yockey practiced corporate litigation at Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago. He is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law, where he served as articles editor for the University of Illinois Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. After graduating from law school, he clerked for Judge John D. Tinder (retired from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit) in Indianapolis.

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Practice and Teaching:

• Business Associations
• Compliance, Ethics, and Risk Management
• Private Companies
• Securities Regulation
• Securities Litigation
• Higher Education and the Law

Awards and Honors:

• Collegiate Teaching Award (Iowa College of Law teacher of the year, as selected by third-year students), 2012, 2023
• President and Provost Award for Teaching Excellence in 2022
• President and Provost Award for Teaching Excellence nominee, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2018

Affiliations:

• Iowa Bar
• Illinois Bar
• Founder and Faculty Advisor, First Generation Professionals at Iowa Law