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Stephen Bainbridge is a professor of law at UCLA, where he currently teaches Business Associations, Unincorporated Business Associations, and Advanced Corporation Law. In past years, he has also taught Corporate Finance, Securities Regulation, Mergers and Acquisitions, and a seminar on corporate governance. Professor Bainbridge previously taught at the University of Illinois Law School (1988-1996), where the Class of 1990 gave him the "Best Instructor Award." He has also taught at Harvard Law School as the Joseph Flom Visiting Professor of Law and Business (2000-2001), and at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo (1999). Professor Bainbridge is a prolific scholar, whose work covers a variety of subjects, but with a strong emphasis on the law and economics of public corporations. He has written over 40 law review articles, which have appeared in such leading journals as the Virginia Law Review, the Northwestern University Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, the Stanford Law Review and the Vanderbilt Law Review. Bainbridge's most recent books include: Business Associations: Cases and Materials on Agency, Partnerships, and Corporations, (5th ed. 2003) (with Klein and Ramseyer); Corporation Law and Economics (2002); Agency, Partnerships, and Limited Liability Entities: Cases and Materials on Unincorporated Business Associations (2001) (with Klein and Ramseyer); Securities Law-Insider Trading (1999). From 1994 to 1996, Bainbridge was a Salvatori Fellow with the Heritage Foundation. Bainbridge currently serves as a Vice Chair of the Publications Committee of the Corporations, Securities & Antitrust practice group of the Federalist Society and as a member of the practice group's executive committee. Professor Bainbridge regularly serves as a consultant and expert witness on a variety of corporate law issues, and gives frequent lectures on corporate and securities laws. Professor Bainbridge's home page may be viewed here: http://www.professorbainbridge.com/
Stephen Bainbridge is a professor of law at UCLA, where he currently teaches Business Associations, Unincorporated Business Associations, and Advanced Corporation Law. In past years, he has also taught Corporate Finance, Securities Regulation, Mergers and Acquisitions, and a seminar on corporate governance. Professor Bainbridge previously taught at the University of Illinois Law School (1988-1996), where the Class of 1990 gave him the "Best Instructor Award." He has also taught at Harvard Law School as the Joseph Flom Visiting Professor of Law and Business (2000-2001), and at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo (1999).
Professor Bainbridge is a prolific scholar, whose work covers a variety of subjects, but with a strong emphasis on the law and economics of public corporations. He has written over 40 law review articles, which have appeared in such leading journals as the Virginia Law Review, the Northwestern University Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, the Stanford Law Review and the Vanderbilt Law Review. Bainbridge's most recent books include: Business Associations: Cases and Materials on Agency, Partnerships, and Corporations, (5th ed. 2003) (with Klein and Ramseyer); Corporation Law and Economics (2002); Agency, Partnerships, and Limited Liability Entities: Cases and Materials on Unincorporated Business Associations (2001) (with Klein and Ramseyer); Securities Law-Insider Trading (1999).
From 1994 to 1996, Bainbridge was a Salvatori Fellow with the Heritage Foundation. Bainbridge currently serves as a Vice Chair of the Publications Committee of the Corporations, Securities & Antitrust practice group of the Federalist Society and as a member of the practice group's executive committee. Professor Bainbridge regularly serves as a consultant and expert witness on a variety of corporate law issues, and gives frequent lectures on corporate and securities laws.
Professor Bainbridge's home page may be viewed here: http://www.professorbainbridge.com/
The parties with an interest in priest sex abuse litigation are not just the victims and their abusers. All American Catholics are stakeholders in this litigation. The risk that abuse litigation poses to the financial viability of the Church and, as such, the implications of such litigation for the values that inform the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of religion must be taken into account when secular courts assess the claims of the competing interests.
Transactional lawyers play a critical role in virtually all business transactions. But why is this so? Much of the work of transactional lawyers entails giving advice that could be given by other professionals. Accordingly, it seems fair to ask: why does anybody hire transactional lawyers?
After a hiatus that lasted much longer than I expected, I recently returned to blogging with a new website design and, more importantly, a new philosophy about blogging.
