Andrew A. Schwartz joined the Colorado Law faculty in 2008 and was promoted to full professor in 2017. He teaches and publishes on corporate, securities and contract law, and has become an internationally recognized expert on investment crowdfunding. In 2017, Professor Schwartz served as a Fulbright Research Scholar and visiting professor at the University of Auckland Law School in New Zealand.
Professor Schwartz earned an Sc.B. in Civil Engineering from Brown University and a J.D. from Columbia University, where he served on the Columbia Law Review and was named a James Kent Scholar (top honors) all three years. Before entering academia, he clerked for Judge William A. Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Following his clerkships, Professor Schwartz practiced corporate law in New York at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.
Professor Schwartz is the author of one book, Investment Crowdfunding, forthcoming from the Oxford University Press, as well as more than forty scholarly publications. His major articles have appeared in leading flagship law reviews including the UCLA Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, and Notre Dame Law Review, top specialty journals such as the Yale Journal on Regulation and Harvard Business Law Review, and peer-reviewed journals like the New Zealand Law Review.
Professor Schwartz has won numerous national awards for his scholarship, including the AALS Scholarly Paper Competition and the Federalist Society Young Legal Scholars Paper Competition. At Colorado Law, Professor Schwartz has received the Provost's Award for Faculty Achievement, the Gilbert Goldstein Faculty Fellowship, and the Outstanding New Faculty Award. His research is frequently cited and relied upon by courts and commentators across the country and around the world, including numerous citations by the Delaware Court of Chancery, the nation's leading venue for corporate law.
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Investment Crowdfunding Book Talk
Colorado Lawyers Chapter
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Denver, CO 80265
Corporate Responsibility: Maximizing Shareholder Benefit v. Social Justice
Seventh Annual Executive Branch Review Conference
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
7 Minute Presentations of Works in Progress Panel 1-B
21st Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
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New Orleans, LA 70130
7 Minute Presentations of Works in Progress Panel 1-B
17th Annual Faculty Conference
Omni Shoreham Hotel2500 Calvert Street NW
Washington, DC 20008
Seven-Minute Presentations of Works in Progress - Part II
16th Annual Faculty Conference
Warwick New York Hotel65 W 54th St.
New York, NY 10019
Corporate Responsibility: Maximizing Shareholder Benefit v. Social Justice
Seventh Annual Executive Branch Review Conference
The seventh annual Executive Branch Review Conference took place on May 8, 2019, at the...
Corporate Responsibility: Maximizing Shareholder Benefit v. Social Justice
Seventh Annual Executive Branch Review Conference
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Young Legal Scholars Paper Presentations
14th Annual Faculty Conference
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Young Legal Scholars Paper Presentations
14th Annual Faculty Conference
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Young Legal Scholars Paper Presentations
13th Annual Faculty Conference
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