[2] Between undergraduate and law schools, he served nearly 3 years as an officer in the United States Navy,[3] including a year in combat, as an advisor to Vietnamese coastal patrol forces and as a boarding officer along the Vietnamese coast.
[4] Branson co-taught offerings in directors’ and officers’ duties and corporate governance from 1994 to 2009, University of Melbourne (Australia), and he remains a permanent Senior Fellow of its Faculty of Law.
He has taught and consulted in Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand (6 times), Philippines (as a consultant to the Asian Development Bank), Japan, Korea, People's Republic of China and Hong Kong (6 times), where he was the Paul Hastings Distinguished Visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong in 2006.
He has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post,[6] Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Dallas Morning News, Conference Board Magazine, New Republic, Director and Officer, and many other publications.
These cases include WorldCom, Freddie Mac, Adelphia Communications, Berkshire Hathaway and myriad smaller and medium-sized disputes.