Our Academic Advisory Board
James D. Cox, is the Brainerd Currie Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law in Durham, NC. He specializes in the areas of corporate and securities law. In addition to his texts, he has published extensively in the areas of market regulation and corporate governance, and has testified before the U.S. House and Senate on insider trading, class actions, and market reform issues.
(919) 613-7056
Cox@law.duke.edu
Lisa M. Fairfax joins the University of Pennsylvania as a Presidential Professor and Co-Director of the Institute for Law & Economics (ILE). Before joining the Law School, Fairfax was the Alexander Hamilton Professor of Business Law at the George Washington University Law School and the Director of the GW Corporate Law and Governance Initiative. Fairfax teaches courses in the business area including Corporations, Contracts and seminars in securities law and corporate governance. Fairfax’s research and scholarly interests include matters related to corporate and board governance, board fiduciary duties, board-shareholder engagement, board composition and diversity, shareholder activism, affinity fraud, and securities fraud.
(215) 746-2243
fairfaxl@law.upenn.edu
Jill E. Fisch is the Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law in Philadelphia, PA. She is an internationally-known scholar whose work focuses on the intersection of business and law, including the role of regulation and litigation in addressing limitations in the disciplinary power of the capital markets.
(215) 746-3454
jfisch@law.upenn.edu
Brian T. Fitzpatrick is the Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School. His research focuses on class action litigation, including both leading empirical studies and normative works, such as his award-winning book The Conservative Case for Class Actions (University of Chicago Press). Prior to joining Vanderbilt’s faculty, he was a law clerk to the U.S. Supreme Court and a counsel to the U.S. Senate. He graduated first in his class from Harvard Law School.
(615) 322-4032
brian.fitzpatrick@vanderbilt.edu
Renee Jones is a professor and Dr. Thomas F. Carney Distinguished Scholar at Boston College Law School. Her courses include Corporations, Securities Regulation, Startup Company Governance, and Financial Regulation. Her research focuses on startup financing, corporate governance and the federal-state relationship in corporate regulation. From 2021 to 2023, Professor Jones served as the Director of the Division of Corporation Finance at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
(617) 552-6374
renee.jones.2@bc.edu
Donald Langevoort is the Thomas Aquinas Reynolds Professor of Law at Georgetown Law School in Washington, DC. Prior to joining the Law Center faculty in 1999, Professor Langevoort was the Lee S. and Charles A. Speir Professor at Vanderbilt University School of Law, where he joined the faculty in 1981.
(202) 662-9451
langevdc@law.georgetown.edu
Ann M. Lipton is the Michael M. Fleishman Professor in Business Law and Entrepreneurship at Tulane Law School. Her scholarship explores corporate governance, the relationships between corporations and investors, and the role of corporations in society.
(504) 862-3526
alipton@tulane.edu
Joshua Mitts is the David J. Greenwald Professor of Law and on the full-time faculty at Columbia Law School. He uses advanced data science for his research on corporate and securities law. His primary focus is on informed trading in capital markets and related topics in law and finance.
(212) 854-7797
jmitts@law.columbia.edu
Frank Partnoy is the Adrian A. Kragen Professor of Law at UC Berkeley, where he also has appointments at Berkeley Haas and the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. He is a member of the Financial Economists Roundtable.
(510) 664-7160 fpartnoy@berkeley.edu
Usha R. Rodrigues is Associate Dean for Faculty Development, University Professor & M.E. Kilpatrick Chair of Corporate Finance and Securities Law at the University of Georgia School of Law. She leads courses in contracts, business ethics, business associations and securities regulation.
(706) 542-5562 rodrig@uga.edu
Professor Hillary A. Sale is an award-winning teacher, a Professor of Law at Georgetown Law in Washington DC, and an Affiliated Faculty Member at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. She teaches courses on Leadership, Women and Leadership, and Corporate Law and Governance. In the spring of 2017, she was the Sullivan & Cromwell Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she taught Women’s Leadership and Corporate Boards and Governance.
(202) 662-4222
has75@georgetown.edu
Joel Seligman is a Professor and Dean Emeritus at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis and President Emeritus of the University of Rochester. He is author of 21 books including the 11-volume treatise, Securities Regulation cowritten by the late Harvard Law School Professor Louis Loss and former SEC Commissioner Troy Paredes. He also is the coauthor of the two-volume treatise Fundamentals of Securities Regulation and sole author of two histories of securities and financial regulation, The Transformation of Wall Street: A History of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Modern Corporate Finance (3d ed. 2003) and Misalignment: The New Financial Order and the Failure of Financial Regulation (2020). From 2004-2007, he served as a Governor of the National Association of Securities Dealers and from 2007-2015 as Governor of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. He was the Reporter of the National Conference of Uniform State Laws Revision of the Uniform Securities Act (2002) and as Chair of the SEC’s Advisory Committee on Market Information (2001). He has written approximately 50 law review articles, most on securities regulation topics.
(585) 301-8410 joelseligman@wustl.edu