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	Barry Adler Bernard Petrie Professor of Law and Business Barry Adler has written extensively on the application of corporate finance theory to issues of corporate insolvency. He is at work on a book about bankruptcy, The Law of Last Resort, to be completed in Fall 2008, and has published Foundations of Bankruptcy Law and the third edition of the casebook Bankruptcy: Cases, Problems and Materials, with Douglas Baird and Thomas Jackson.
	William Allen Nusbaum Professor of Law and Business Director, NYU Pollack Center for Law & Business William Allen is a former chancellor of the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware. He is also a clinical professor of business in the finance department of the Stern School of Business. Allen teaches the Colloquium on Law and Business; Corporate Law: Policy Analysis; Corporations; Law and Business of Investment Banking, and Mergers and Acquisitions. He also serves as counsel to the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.
	Jennifer Arlen Norma Z. Paige Professor of Law Jennifer Arlen '86 (Ph.D. '92) focuses on corporate liability, including securities fraud and medical malpractice. She is a member of the board of the American Law and Economics Association and the editorial board of the International Review of Law and Economics, and cofounder of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies.
	Oren Bar-Gill Professor of Law Oren Bar-Gill’s scholarship focuses on the law and economics of contracts. He is working on a book about the interplay between consumer psychology and market forces in consumer markets.
	Ryan Bubb Assistant Professor of Law Ryan Bubb, a scholar in the fields of property rights and organizational design, was a senior researcher for the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, created by Congress as part of the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act to examine the causes of the current economic crisis.
	Stephen Choi Murray and Kathleen Bring Professor of Law Stephen Choi’s research interests focus on the theoretical and empirical analysis of corporations and capital markets. He has written papers examining security regulations, securities class action empirical studies and the judiciary.
	Kevin Davis Beller Family Professor of Business Law Kevin Davis’s scholarly work centers on commercial law, economic crime and law and development. He has written on topics as varied as the rights of creditors of nonprofits, fraud in contractual settings and transnational bribery.

	Richard Epstein Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law Considered one of the most influential thinkers in legal academia, Richard Epstein is known for his research and writings on a broad range of constitutional, economic, historical, and philosophical subjects. He has taught courses spanning the legal landscape, including on antitrust, administrative law, communications, constitutional law, contracts, criminal law, environmental law, health law, labor, jurisprudence, patents, property, Roman law, and torts.
	Cynthia Estlund Catherine A. Rein Professor of Law Cynthia Estlund joined the Law School in the fall of 2006. She teaches Advanced Topics in the Law of the Workplace, Employment Law and Property. Her research centers on employment law, labor law, labor standards and the regulation of work.
	Samuel Estreicher Dwight D. Opperman Professor of Law Director, Center for Labor and Employment Law Codirector, Dwight D. Opperman Institute of Judicial Administration Samuel Estreicher is one of the nation’s top scholars of the law of the employment relationship. He has published several books and more than 75 articles in professional and academic journals. He is a former secretary of the labor and employment law section of the American Bar Association, and counsel to Jones Day in its issues and appeals, and labor and employment practice groups.
	Franco Ferrari Professor of Law Director, Center for Transnational Litigation and Commercial Law After serving as a member of the Italian delegation to various sessions of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) from 1995 to 2000, Franco Ferrari was legal officer at the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, International Trade Law Branch, from 2000 to 2002, where he was responsible for numerous projects, including the preparation of the UNCITRAL digest on applications of the U.N. Sales Convention. He is a member of the editorial boards of numerous peer-reviewed European law journals and also acts as an international arbitrator.
	Mark Geistfeld Sheila Lubetsky Birnbaum Professor of Civil Litigation Mark Geistfeld, a codirector of the Center for Law, Economics and Organization, is an economist as well as a lawyer. In his teaching and writing, he focuses on legal rules that govern risks threatening injury and property damage. His recent work shows how economic analysis is central to moral theories of tort law, with a related line of inquiry addressing the implications of the Supreme Court’s foray into constitutional tort reform.
	Clayton Gillette Max E. Greenberg Professor of Contract Law Clayton Gillette’s scholarship is concentrated on commercial law, local government law and international sales contracts. He teaches Commercial Sales, Contracts, Local Government Law and Modern Payment Systems. He is the coauthor of Payment Systems and Credit Instruments, Local Government Law: Cases and Materials, and Sales Law: Domestic and International.
	Robert Howse Lloyd C. Nelson Professor of International Law Robert Howse will join us as a permanent member of our faculty in Fall 2008. Howse is widely regarded as one of the best scholars in the area of international economic law. The coauthor of a major treatise on international trade law (with Michael Trebilcock), Howse has made major contributions to trade doctrine and WTO jurisprudence. He has also written extensively on political philosophy, and has a sophisticated understanding of the economic issues underlying the field of international trade law.
	Marcel Kahan George T. Lowy Professor of Law Marcel Kahan’s main areas of interest are corporate governance, securities fraud and bondholder rights. He has written more than 30 articles for law reviews, finance journals and professional publications. Kahan is also a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York’s Special Committee on Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Control Contests.
	Andreas Lowenfeld Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law Emeritus Andreas Lowenfeld’s recent writings include international litigation and arbitration, and the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. His books cover aviation law, public international law, international economic law, conflict of laws and civil procedure. Lowenfeld is an arbitrator in international disputes, both public and private, and has argued Supreme Court cases concerning international law, arbitration, jurisdiction and conflict of laws.
	Florencia Marotta-Wurgler Professor of Law Florencia Marotta-Wurgler '01 teaches Contracts and Topics in E-Commerce. Her research is centered on commercial law, contracts, e-commerce and economics.
	Geoffrey Miller Stuyvesant P. Comfort Professor of Law Director, Center for Financial Institutions Geoffrey Miller has written or edited five books and more than 100 articles in such fields as ancient law, civil procedure, constitutional law, corporate and securities law, financial institutions, jurisprudence and legal history. He has taught a wide range of subjects including federal regulation of banking, financial institutions, land development, the legal profession, legal theory, property and securities. Miller is director of the Law School’s Center for the Study of Financial Institutions (formerly the Center for the Study of Central Banks); codirector of the Center for Law, Economics and Organization, and cofounder of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies.
	Gerald Rosenfeld Distinguished Scholar In Residence and Senior Lecturer Co-Director, Jacobson Leadership Program in Law and Business Advisor to the CEO and Vice Chairman Investment Banking, Lazard Ltd Gerald Rosenfeld is Advisor to the CEO and Vice Chairman Investment Banking at Lazard Ltd. He has been an investment banker for over 30 years, working primarily in the area of Mergers & Acquisitions, including representing General Motors, Chrysler, ITT Corporation, Tenneco, Lotus, TRW, Thermo-Electron, United Airlines, TWA, and U.S. Airways, among many others. He holds a Ph.D. from New York University in Applied Mathematics and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Rosenfeld is a Clinical Professor of Business at NYU Stern and serves on its Board of Overseers.
	Helen Scott Professor of Law Co-irector, Jacobsen Leadership Program in Law and Business Helen Scott joined NYU from corporate practice at Shearman & Sterling. She teaches Business Transactions Planning, Corporate Governance, Corporations, Contracts and Entrepreneurial Finance and codirects the Leadership Program in Law and Business. Scott is currently working in the areas of social entrepreneurship and corporate governance.
	Catherine Sharkey Crystal Eastman Professor of Law Catherine Sharkey joined the Law School faculty in 2007. Her scholarship and teaching, which focus on torts and products liability, examine the relationship between private law and public law.
	Stanley Siegel Professor of Law Emeritus Stanley Siegel has written on the effects of contemporary financial theory and computer applications on financial reporting, and on comparative company law and accounting standards-setting in the U.S. and the European Union. He is a faculty member of the International and Comparative Law Center of the Southwestern Legal Foundation.
	John J. Slain Professor of Law Emeritus John “Jack” Slain '55 is entering his 33rd year of teaching. He began at Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis, moved to Ohio State University, and came to NYU more than two decades ago. Since then, he has been one of the mainstays of the corporate law faculty.
	George Sorter Professor of Law Emeritus University Professor Emeritus Vincent C. Ross Professor of Accounting Emeritus Cited by Fortune magazine as one of the eight most favored business school professors, George Sorter has built a career as an acclaimed theorist and innovator in the world of accounting. Sorter proposed the idea of “events theory,” which describes accounting as a form of history chronicling the important events of a unit. This theory has formed the basis of Sorter’s research and teaching for the past 40 years.

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