University of Michigan Law School

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
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 of Law

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)

Geeyoung Min

Geeyoung Min

Visiting Professor, Fall 2022 & Winter 2023

John Pottow, John Philip Dawson Collegiate Professor of Law

John A.E. Pottow

John Philip Dawson Collegiate Professor of Law

Adam Pritchard, Frances and George Skestos Professor of Law

Adam C. Pritchard

Frances and George Skestos Professor of Law

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Featured Scholarship

"Just Say No? Shareholder Voting on Securities Class Actions"

University of Chicago Business Law Review

MLaw Repository SSRN WWW

Corporate and Securities Law

"The Elastic Corporate Form in International Law"

Virginia Journal of International Law

MLaw Repository SSRN HEIN

International and Comparative Law
Corporate and Securities Law

"The Costs of Banks Engaging in Non-Banking Activities: A Case Study"

Yale Journal of Regulation

Corporate and Securities Law

"Compliance as Costs and Benefits"

Cambridge Handbook of Compliance

Corporate and Securities Law
Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility

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News

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Michigan Law Hires New Faculty Members

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Julian Arato, a Preeminent Emerging Voice on International Law and the Global Economy, Joins the Michigan Law Faculty

Professor Kristin Wolff standing in the Michigan Law Reading Room

Patent Attorney and Zell Entrepreneurship Clinic Adviser Kristen Wolff Joins Michigan Law Faculty Full Time

Professor Jeffery Zhang standing in front of the Federal Reserve building

Washington Economist and Lawyer Jeffery Zhang Joins Michigan Law Faculty

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Khanna Leads U-M Partnership with Coinbase Institute

2022 Pogue Panel

2022 Pogue Panel: Will Zoom Practice Become the Norm?

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