Bert W. Wasserman Workshop in Law and Finance with Columbia Law Prof. Eric Talley

Description

Eric Talley is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. He is an expert on the intersection of corporate law, governance, and finance. He additionally teaches and conducts research in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, quantitative methods, machine learning, contract and commercial law, alternative investments, game theory, and economic analysis of law. 

As a co-director of the Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership, Professor Talley directs research and programs focused on the future of corporate governance and performance. Professor Talley is a frequent commentator in the national media and speaks regularly to corporate boards, judges, and regulators on issues pertaining to fiduciary duties, governance, and finance. He also hosts the Columbia-based podcast, Beyond “Unprecedented”: The Post Pandemic Economy. Professor Talley is a two-time recipient of the Law School’s Willis L.M. Reese Prize for Excellence in Teaching (2017 and 2022).

Before joining Columbia in 2015, Professor Talley held tenured faculty appointments at the University of California, Berkeley (2006-15) and the University of Southern California (1995-2006). He has also held visiting appointments at Caltech, Pardee-RAND Graduate School, University of Chicago, Harvard University, Georgetown University, and Stanford University.

Professor Talley is a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute and serves on the Executive Committee of the Columbia University Data Science Institute. He has served several terms as a director on the boards of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies and the American Law and Economics Association.

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law

Law, Economics & Organization Workshop