Michael Klausner (born 1954) is the Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business and Professor of Law at
Stanford Law School. He has been a member of the Stanford Law School faculty since 1997. He works in the areas of
corporate law,
corporate governance
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, and
financial regulation
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.
Education
Klausner graduated
summa cum laude
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from the
University of Pennsylvania
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with a
Bachelor of Arts
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in Political Science and Urban Studies. He went on to study law at
Yale Law School
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, earning a
Juris Doctor
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and one of several Doctor of Law degrees. The J.D. is the standard degree obtained to practice l ...
with a joint
Master of Arts
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in Economics. At Yale, Klausner was the Notes and Topics editor for the
Yale Law Journal.
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Academic and professional career
After finishing law school in 1981, Klausner clerked for Justice
William J. Brennan Jr. of the
U.S. Supreme Court and Judge
David L. Bazelon
David Lionel Bazelon (September 3, 1909 – February 19, 1993) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Education and career
Bazelon was born in Superior, Wisconsin, the son o ...
of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
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. He then worked as an associate with
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Following his work as a corporate law practitioner, Klausner served as a
White House Fellow in the Office of Policy Development under
George H. W. Bush. In 1991, he joined the
New York University School of Law
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faculty as a professor until 1997 when he became a professor at Stanford.
Key works
*Michael Klausner, Outside Director Liability, 58 Stanford Law Review 1055 (2006). (with Bernard Black and Brian Cheffins)
*Michael Klausner, Outside Director Liability: A Policy Analysis, 162 Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 5 (2006). (with Bernard S. Black and Brian R. Cheffins)
*Michael Klausner, When Time Isn't Money: Foundation Payouts and the Time Value of Money, 41 Exempt Organization Tax Review 421-428 (September 2003).
*Robert M. Daines and Michael Klausner, Do IPO Charters Maximize Firm Value? Antitakeover Protection in IPOs, 17 Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization 83-120 (April 2001).
*Michael Klausner, Corporations, Corporate Law, and Networks of Contracts, 81 Virginia Law Review 757-852 (1995).
See also
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References
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1954 births
Living people
Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison people
People associated with Gibson Dunn
People from Stanford, California
Stanford Law School faculty
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Yale University alumni