James Cooper is a legal educator with a Bachelor of Arts degree and Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Toronto and a Master of Law from Cambridge University (U.K.). A commentator and journalist, he has appeared on ABC News, Fox News, Warner Brothers News, Newsworld, and Univision and his work has been published in Marie Claire, O Globo, the Globe and Mail, the National Law Journal, and Behavioral Sciences and the Law.

He is Assistant Dean, Mission Development at California Western School of Law in San Diego where he has taught International Trade Law, the Law of Armed Conflict and Peacekeeping, Globalization Law and Cross-Cultural Negotiation. He is a Barrister, a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust and a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada and the San Diego County Bar Association.

He is co-founder and director of Proyecto ACCESO.