Mark Jarrett studied at Columbia University, the London School of Economics, and Stanford University, where he received a Ph.D. in European history. He received a law degree with honors (Order of the Coif) from the Law School of the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall), where he was an editor of the school’s law review. He has taught at the Mander, Portman and Woodward School in London and at Hofstra University, and has practiced law in the San Francisco office of Baker & McKenzie, the world’s largest law firm. He is the author of The Congress of Vienna and its Legacy (London: I.B. Tauris, 2013), and is currently at work on a study of Lord Castlereagh and counter-revolution in Ireland and France.