Corporate and Securities Law

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Where do you draw the line between business innovation and illegal activity? How can companies navigate regulations to compete? Can you fight for economic justice without understanding how corporate activity is regulated?

Corporate law and securities regulation are critically important to a practice career, whether in a big international law firm doing transactional work or litigation, working in-house at a fund or a major company, or fighting for social and economic justice.

A World of Opportunities

Michigan offers one of the strongest corporate and securities law faculties in the United States. With strengths in “traditional” U.S. corporate law and federal securities regulation, we also offer unique perspectives on corporate law beyond the United States.

Our offerings also include global regulation of border-busting capital markets, with an approach that includes comparative studies and specific exploration of individual national systems. These include, but are not limited to, sub-Saharan Africa, Brazil, Canada, China, South Korea, India, the European Union and the United Kingdom.

Faculty

Julian Arato

Julian Arato

Professor of Law
Faculty Director, SJD Program
Faculty Director, Center for International and Comparative Law
Director, Program on Law and the Global Economy

Laura Beny, Earl Warren DeLano Professor of Law

Laura Nyantung Beny

Earl Warren DeLano Professor of Law
Associate Director, University of Michigan African Studies Center

Albert Choi, Professor of Law

Albert H. Choi

Paul G. Kauper Professor of Law

Daniel Crane, Frederick Paul Furth Sr. Professor of Law

Daniel A. Crane

Richard W. Pogue Professor of Law

Professor Alicia J. Davis

Alicia J. Davis

Professor from Practice

Ed Fox, Assistant Professor of Law

Edward G. Fox

Professor of Law

Nico Howson, Pao Li Tsiang Professor of Law

Nicholas Calcina Howson

Pao Li Tsiang Professor of Law

Vikramaditya Khanna, L. Bates Lea Global Professor of Law

Vikramaditya S. Khanna

William W. Cook Professor of Law

Francine Lafontaine

Francine Lafontaine

Professor of Law (courtesy)

A portrait of Mark Paist.

Mark Paist

Adjunct Clinical Professor of Law

A portrait of Albert Pak.

Albert Pak

Clinical Assistant Professor of Law

John Pottow, John Philip Dawson Collegiate Professor of Law

John A.E. Pottow

John Philip Dawson Collegiate Professor of Law

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Featured Scholarship

"Determining the Juridical Status of Companies under International Law"

Foreign Investment Law Journal

International and Comparative Law
Corporate and Securities Law

"Meme Corporate Governance"

Southern California Law Review

MLaw Repository WWW HEIN

Corporate and Securities Law

"The Meme Stock Frenzy: Origins and Implications"

Southern California Law Review

MLaw Repository WWW HEIN

Corporate and Securities Law
Law and Technology

"Bank Runs During Crypto Winter"

Harvard Business Law Journal Review

MLaw Repository SSRN HEIN

Corporate and Securities Law

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News

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February 26, 2025

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January 03, 2025

Professor James Hines Serving as President of International Institute of Public Finance

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December 18, 2024

5Qs: Rauterberg and Zhang Discuss Using Securities Law to Minimize Risk from Shadow Banking

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August 28, 2024

New Faculty Members Join Michigan Law’s 2024-2025 Academic Year

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Michigan Law Hosts Annual Conference of American Law and Economics Association

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