Professor Jill E. Fisch



	Jill E. Fisch	Visiting Fall 2007
	T.J. Maloney Professor of Business Law	Columbia Law School
	Director, Fordham Corporate Law Center
		Visiting Spring 2008
	Fordham University School of Law	Harvard Law School
	140 West 62nd Street New York, New York 10023
	Telephone: (212) 636-6865 Facsimile: (212) 636-6899
	E-mail: jfisch@law.fordham.edu

Courses Taught:

Corporations
Securities Regulation
Federal Courts
Advanced Business Law Seminar
Advanced Corporate Law
Representing the Corporation: The Role of In-House Counsel on Wall Street

Publications

Federal Courts:

The Obligation of Precedent: The Implications of Transition Theory for Stare Decisis, 13 J. Contemp. Legal Issues 93 (2003)
Retroactivity and Legal Change: An Equilibrium Approach, 110 Harvard Law Review 1059 (1997)
The Vanishing Precedent: Eduardo Meets Vacatur, 70 Notre Dame L. Rev. 325 (1994)
Captive Courts: The Destruction of Judicial Decisions by Agreement of the Parties, 2 N.Y.U. Envtl. L. J. 191 (1993)
Rewriting History: The Eradication of Prior Decisional Law Through Settlement and Vacatur, 76 Cornell L. Rev. 589 (1991)

Corporate Governance and Litigation:

The Transamerica Case in THE ICONIC CASES IN CORPORATE LAW (ed. Jonathan Macey, forthcoming 2008)
On Beyond CalPERS: Survey Evidence on the Developing Role of Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance, __ Vand. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2008) (with Stephen Choi)
Measuring Efficiency in Corporate Law: The Role of Shareholder Primacy, 31 J. Corp. L. 637 (2006)
The “Bad Man” Goes to Washington: The Effect of Political Influence on Corporate Duty, 75 Ford. L. Rev.1593 (2006)
How Do Corporations Play Politics? The FedEx Story, 58 Vand. L. Rev. 1495 (2005)
Institutional Competition to Regulate Corporations: A Comment on Macey, 55 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 617 (2005)
The New Federal Regulation of Corporate Governance, 28 Harv. J. L. & Pub. Pol. 39 (2004)
Vultures or Vanguards?: The Role of Litigation in Sovereign Debt Restructuring, 53 Emory L.J. 1043 (2004) (with Caroline M. Gentile)
The Qualified Legal Compliance Committee: Using the Attorney Conduct Rules to Restructure the Board of Directors, 53 Duke L. J. 517 (2003) (with Caroline M. Gentile)
Lawyers on the Auction Block: Evaluating the Selection of Class Counsel by Auction, 102 Colum. L. Rev. 650 (2002)
Taking Action Against Auctions: The Third Circuit Task Force Report, 74 Temp. L. Rev. 813 (2002)
Aggregation, Auctions and Other Developments in the Selection of Lead Counsel Under the PSLRA, 64 Contemp. Probs. 53 (2001)
The Peculiar Role of the Delaware Courts in the Competition for Corporate Charters, 68 U. Cin. L. Rev. 1061 (2000)
Teaching Corporate Governance Through Shareholder Litigation, 34 Ga.L.Rev. 743 (2000)
Class Action Reform, Qui Tam, and the Role of the Plaintiff, 60 Contemp. Probs. 167 (1997)
Can Internet Offerings Bridge the Small Business Capital Barrier?, 2 J. Sm. & Emerging Bus. L. 57 (1998)
Class Action Reform: Lessons from Securities Litigation, 39 Ariz. L. Rev. 533 (1997)
Taking Boards Seriously, 19 Cardozo L. Rev. 265 (1997)
Questioning Philanthropy from a Corporate Governance Perspective, 41 N.Y.L. Sch. L. Rev. 1091 (1997)
The Buffett Board and Governance Reform, 21 Directors & Bds. 22 (1997)
Review Essay: Picking a Winner, 20 J. Corp. L. 451 (1995) (reviewing Roberta Romano, The Genius of American Corporate Law)
Relationship Investing: Will it Happen? Will it Work?, 55 Ohio St. L. J. 1009 (1994)
Frankenstein's Monster Hits the Campaign Trail: An Approach to Regulation of Corporate Political Expenditures, 32 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 587 (1991)
Turf Wars: Federal/State Cooperation and the Reverse Silver Platter Doctrine, 23 Crim. L. Bull. 509 (1987)

Securities Regulation:

Does Analyst Independence Sell Investors Short?, 55 U.C.L.A.L. Rev. 39 (2007)
Fiduciary Duties and the Analyst Scandals, 58 Ala. L. Rev. 1083 (2007) (The Meador Lecture on Fiduciaries)
Regulatory Reponses to Investor Irrationality: The Case of the Research Analyst, 10 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 57 (2006)
Do Institutions Matter? The Impact of the Lead Plaintiff Provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, 83 Wash. U. L. Q. 869 (2005) (with Stephen Choi & A.C. Pritchard)
How to Fix Wall Street: A Voucher Financing Proposal for Securities Intermediaries, 113 Yale L. J. 269 (2003) (with Stephen Choi)
The Securities Analyst as Agent: Rethinking the Regulation of Analysts, 88 Iowa L. Rev. 1035 (2003) (with Hillary Sale)
Is there a Role for Lawyers in Preventing Future Enrons? 48 Villanova L. Rev. 1097 (2003) (with Kenneth Rosen)
The Scope of Private Securities Litigation: In Search of Liability Standard for Secondary Defendants, 99 Colum. L. Rev. 1293 (1999)
From Legitimacy to Logic: Reconstructing Proxy Regulation, 46 Vand. L. Rev. 1129 (1993)
Imprudent Power: Reconsidering U.S. Regulation of Foreign Tender Offers, 87 Nw. U. L. Rev. 523 (1993)
As Time Goes By: New Questions About Statute of Limitations for Rule 10b-5, 61 Ford. L. Rev. 801 (1993)
Start Making Sense: An Analysis and Proposal For Insider Trading Regulation, 26 Ga. L. Rev. 179 (1991)

Current Working Papers:

Cause for Concern: Causation and Federal Securities Fraud

Attorneys as Arbitrators (with Stephen Choi and Adam Pritchard)

Professional Activities and Associations:

Association of the Bar of the City of New York

Committee on Securities Litigation
Task Force on the Role of Lawyers in Corporate Governance, 2005-2006
Chair, Committee on Corporation Law, 1996-1999

American Law Institute
American Law & Economics Association
Board of Academic Advisors, Institute for Law & Economic Policy
Chair, Association of American Law Schools Section on Securities Regulation
Past Chair, Association of American Law Schools Section on Business Associations

Education:

Yale Law School, J.D. 1985
Cornell University, B.A. 1982

Employment History:

Professor of Law, Fordham, since 1989
Associate, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, 1987-89
Trial Attorney, Department of Justice (Honors Program), Criminal Division, 1985-87

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