Admitted
1971, New York; 1981, Tennessee
Law School
Harvard University, J.D., 1969
Law School Graduation Year
1969
College
Eastern Michigan University, B.S., 1966
Memberships
Nashville, Tennessee (Business Corporation Act Revision Committee and Chair, Subcommittee on Officers and Directors, 1993-1994; Corporate Law Revision Committee and Chair, Sub-committee on Shares and Shareholders, 1985) and American (Federal Regulation of Securities Committee and Subcommittee on Registration Statements, 1933 Act, 1977—) Bar Associations; American Law Institute.
Biographical
Author or Co-Author: (selected works) Securities Regulation, 5th ed. Foundation Press, 2003 (Update annually); and Corporations and Other Business Organizations, 5th ed. Lexis 2001; Understanding the Securities Laws, 4th ed. Practising Law Institute, 2003; Corporate Law and Practice, 2nd ed., Practicing Law Institute, 1999; A Paradigm from Securities Law of Uniformed Supreme Court Decisionmaking, 57 Wash. & Lee Rev. 497 (2000) (2000); The Role of the SEC in a Changing Market, (2000) I Colum. Bus. L. Rev. 45 (2000); Private Companies in the Soviet Union: Cooperation in the Era of Perestroika, 32 Harvard International Law Journal 201, 1991; The Proper Standard for Directors' Negligence Liability, 66 Notre Dame Law Review 37, 1990; Toward a More Effective Corporate Board: Reexamining of the Role of Outside Directors, 52 New York University Law Review 134. Professor of Law, 1981— and Director, 1993—, Corporate and Securities Law Institute, Vanderbilt University. Associate Professor and Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame, 1976-1981. Special Master, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Ohio, 1977. (Resident, Nashville Office)
Military
Capt. U.S. Army, 1969-1971