Stefan Padfield

Stefan Padfield is a Principal for the Free Enterprise Initiative and Senior Legal Fellow at The Heritage Foundation.

Prior to joining Heritage, Padfield was the Executive Director of the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP), filing shareholder resolutions, engaging corporate managers, supervising lawsuits and directing media campaigns to push corporations back to neutral.

Before joining FEP, Padfield was a tenured full professor of law, spending over 15 years teaching law at the University of Akron School of Law, publishing over 15 law review articles and a book chapter. He also co-authored a two-volume mini-treatise on the history of economic thought and contributed to the Business Law Prof Blog.

Padfield previously worked in private practice at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP, and clerked for two federal court judges. Stefan originally emigrated to the U.S. as a child, later becoming a U.S. citizen and serving 6 years in the U.S. Army. Padfield earned his Juris Doctorate from the University of Kansas and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University.