Professor of Law, Willamette University College of Law
Jeffrey Standen joined the Willamette University College of Law faculty in 1990 after serving as deputy general counsel to the U.S. Sentencing Commission. He earned tenure at the college in 1996. Professor Standen has been a visiting professor at the University of San Diego and a scholar in residence at the University of Virginia. He serves as international advisor to the Philippines Court of the Sandiganbayan, the tribunal that adjudicates public corruption cases.
Professor Standen was graduated from the University of Virginia Law School in 1986. He was editor of the Virginia Law Review and articles editor of the Virginia Tax Review. After graduation, he served as law clerk to the Honorable Robert Chapman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He entered private practice as an associate with the law firm of Hunton & Williams.
Professor Standen is an active scholar and lecturer and has published articles in prestigious periodicals, such as the California Law Review, the Iowa Law Review and the Washington University Law Quarterly, among others. At Willamette’s College of Law, he teaches Remedies, Evidence, Criminal Law and Procedure, and Sports Law. His Web site, http://thesportslawprofessor.blogspot.com/, is “dedicated to the complete integration of sports and law.”
Professor Standen received the Robert L. Misner Award for Excellence in Scholarship and was WUCL Professor of the Year in 2004. He serves as chair of the 2007 WUCL Self-Study Committee and as faculty advisor to the Willamette Law Review. Professor Standen is a member of the state bars of Virginia and Oregon. He is a cum laude graduate of Georgetown University, where he earned an A.B. in Political Philosophy in 1982; he studied at the London School of Economics in 1981.
Professor of Law, Willamette University College of Law
Jeffrey Standen joined the Willamette University College of Law faculty in 1990 after serving as deputy general counsel to the U.S. Sentencing Commission. He earned tenure at the college in 1996. Professor Standen has been a visiting professor at the University of San Diego and a scholar in residence at the University of Virginia. He serves as international advisor to the Philippines Court of the Sandiganbayan, the tribunal that adjudicates public corruption cases.
Professor Standen was graduated from the University of Virginia Law School in 1986. He was editor of the Virginia Law Review and articles editor of the Virginia Tax Review. After graduation, he served as law clerk to the Honorable Robert Chapman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He entered private practice as an associate with the law firm of Hunton & Williams.
Professor Standen is an active scholar and lecturer and has published articles in prestigious periodicals, such as the California Law Review, the Iowa Law Review and the Washington University Law Quarterly, among others. At Willamette’s College of Law, he teaches Remedies, Evidence, Criminal Law and Procedure, and Sports Law. His Web site, http://thesportslawprofessor.blogspot.com/, is “dedicated to the complete integration of sports and law.”
Professor Standen received the Robert L. Misner Award for Excellence in Scholarship and was WUCL Professor of the Year in 2004. He serves as chair of the 2007 WUCL Self-Study Committee and as faculty advisor to the Willamette Law Review. Professor Standen is a member of the state bars of Virginia and Oregon. He is a cum laude graduate of Georgetown University, where he earned an A.B. in Political Philosophy in 1982; he studied at the London School of Economics in 1981.
Denver Managing Partner, Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP
Raymond L. Gifford counsels communications, electric and gas utilities, and information technology companies on state and federal aspects of regulation, administrative law, and competition policy. He is an expert in public utilities law, and the law and economics of regulation of network industries. Mr. Gifford’s law and policy work focuses on the convergence of broadband communications and energy, as well as environmental policy as it applies to the electric industry. He represents clients in state and federal courts and agencies, and serves as an expert witness on utility regulation and its history. He is also a Senior Adjunct Fellow at the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship, and Co-Directs the Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics at University of Colorado Law School.
Mr. Gifford served as Chairman of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission from 1999-2003. Following that, he served as President of The Progress & Freedom Foundation, a Washington DC-based think-tank that studied the digital revolution as it relates to regulation of network industries. He entered the regulatory law world as First Assistant Attorney General in the Colorado Attorney General’s Office. He clerked for the Honorable Richard P. Matsch of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. Mr. Gifford has authored a number of articles on communications law, public utility regulation and competition policy in network industries. He is a graduate of University of Chicago Law School and St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute
Professor of Law, Sturm College of Law, University of Denver
For nearly two decades, J. Robert Brown has taught corporate and securities law, with a particular emphasis on corporate governance.
He has authored numerous publications in the area and several of his articles have been cited by the US Supreme Court. Brown has also spent considerable time abroad, particularly in the former Soviet Union, advising governments in these areas. From 2000 - 2004, Brown served the University of Denver Sturm College of Law as an associate dean for academic affairs. He is an arbitrator for the NASD and, among other outside activities, serves as the chairman of the board of directors of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless.
Director of Litigation and Senior Attorney, Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute
Theodore H. Frank is director at the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute and the Center for Class Action Fairness. Frank founded and ran CCAF as a non-profit, public interest law firm in 2009.
Frank has won several landmark appeals and tens of millions of dollars for consumers and other plaintiffs through his class action work. Adam Liptak of The New York Times calls Frank “the leading critic of abusive class action settlements” and the American Lawyer Litigation Daily referred to him as “the indefatigable scourge of underwhelming class action settlements.”
Previously, Frank clerked for the Honorable Frank H. Easterbrook on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and was a litigator at firms in Washington and Los Angeles and a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Frank is a frequent public speaker and has testified before Congress multiple times on legal issues. He has been profiled by The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, GQ, and the ABA Journal, among other publications.
In 2008, Frank was elected to membership in the American Law Institute. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Federalist Society Litigation Practice Group. Frank graduated from The University of Chicago Law School in 1994 with high honors and as a member of the Order of the Coif and the Law Review. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the state bars of California and Illinois.
William D. Warren Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Stephen Bainbridge is the William D. Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law, where he currently teaches Business Associations, Advanced Corporation Law, and Mergers and Acquisitions. In past years, he has also taught Corporate Finance, Securities Regulation, Unincorporated Business Associations and Catholic Social Thought and the Law. Professor Bainbridge previously taught at the University of Illinois Law School (1988-1996). He has also taught at Harvard Law School as the Joseph Flom Visiting Professor of Law and Business (2000-2001), and as a visiting professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne (2005 and 2007) and at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo (1999).
In 2008, Bainbridge received the UCLA School of Law's Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 1990, the graduating class of the University of Illinois College of Law voted him "Professor of the Year."
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 100 law review articles which have appeared in such leading journals as the Harvard Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Stanford Law Review, and Vanderbilt Law Review. Bainbridge has also written 19 books, including seven in multiple editions. His most recent books include: Outsourcing the Board: How Board Service Providers Can Improve Corporate Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2018) (with M. Todd Henderson); Business Associations: Cases and Materials on Agency, Partnerships, and Corporations (Foundation Press, 10th ed., 2018) (with Klein and Ramseyer); Mergers and Acquisitions: A Transactional Perspective (Foundation Press, 2017) (with Iman Anabtawi).
According to Gregory Sisk and Brian Leiter’s rankings of law professors by scholarly impact, Professor Bainbridge was the third most-frequently cited scholar in corporate and securities law for the period 2013-2017. According to Hein Online, Bainbridge is the 29th most frequently cited scholar in their database of legal publications over the last 10 years and the 23rd most cited for the period January 2018 through August 2019. In SSRN.com’s ranking of the top 3000 legal authors by all-time downloads, Bainbridge is ranked 10th. By that metric, he is the highest ranked member of the UCLA law school faculty. In SSRN.com’s ranking of the top 3000 legal authors by all-time citations to their work, Bainbridge is ranked 55th. By that metric, he is the second highest ranked member of the UCLA law school faculty.
Professor Bainbridge has been a Salvatori Fellow with the Heritage Foundation, a member of the American Bar Association’s Committee on Corporate Laws, a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Markets and Morality, and Chair of the Executive Committee of the Federalist Society’s Corporations, Securities & Antitrust Practice Group.
In May 2014, Professor Bainbridge was the Cameron Fellow at the University of Auckland Faculty of Law. He was the Francis G. Pileggi Distinguished Lecturer in Law at Widener University School of Law in September 2005, and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Maryland School of Law in November 2005.
In 2008, 2011, and 2012, Professor Bainbridge was named by the National Association of Corporate Directors' Directorship magazine to its list of the 100 most influential people in the field of corporate governance.
His blog, ProfessorBainbridge.com, was named by the ABA Journal as one of the Top 100 Law Blogs of 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, and 2012.
Partner, Mayer Brown LLP
Andrew Pincus is a partner in Mayer Brown LLP resident in Washington, D.C. His practice focuses on Supreme Court and appellate litigation.
Andy has argued 29 cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, including Lamps Plus, Inc. v. Varela and Frank v. Gaos in the October 2018 Term; as well as his recent victories in Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc. (2017); Kindred Nursing Home Centers Limited Partnership v. Clark (2017); and Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins (2016). Law360 ranked Andy’s victory in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion (2011), as the most important Supreme Court class action decision of the last 15 years.
Andy appears regularly before federal and state appellate courts and federal district courts. His practice also includes written and oral advocacy before Congress, other legislative bodies, and regulatory agencies regarding a variety of policy and legal issues.
A former Assistant to the Solicitor General in the United States Department of Justice (1984-1988), Andy co-founded and serves as co-director of the Yale Law School's Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic (2006-present), which provides pro bono representation in 10-15 Supreme Court cases each year.
While serving as General Counsel of the United States Department of Commerce (1997-2000), Andy had principal responsibility for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act. He also participated in formulation of policy concerning privacy, domain name management, taxation of electronic commerce, export controls, international trade, and consumer protection.
Andy is a graduate of Yale College and Columbia Law School, where he was a Notes & Comments Editor of the Columbia Law Review. He served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Harold H. Greene, United States District Court for the District of Columbia (1981-1982).
Professor, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin
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