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

Jill E. Fisch is the Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law and Co-Director, Institute for Law and Economics 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

Robert J. Jackson Jr. is a Professor of Law at New York University where he teaches a course on Investment Banking. Previously, he served on the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) since January 2018. Before that, he taught courses on corporations, investment banking, and leadership for lawyers at Columbia Law School.

(212) 998.6225
robert.j.jackson@nyu.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

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 the immediate past President of the University of Rochester, in Rochester, NY, and is one of the leading authorities on securities law in the United States. He became the 10th president of the University of Rochester in July 2005 where he directed a strategic planning process to chart the University’s future and successfully led the largest comprehensive capital campaign in the University’s history.

Randall S. Thomas is the John S. Beasley II Chair in Law and Business Director, Law & Business Program; and Professor of Management, Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University School of Law in Nashville, TN. He has earned a reputation of being one of the most productive and thoughtful corporate and securities law scholars in the nation.

(615) 343-3814
randall.thomas@vanderbilt.edu