To: The Northwestern Law Community
From: David Van Zandt
Re: Bernard Black and Katherine Litvak to Join Northwestern Law
I
am pleased to announce that Bernard Black and Katherine Litvak have accepted
offers to join our research faculty.
Bernie
will officially join the Law School in September 2010 with a joint appointment
in the Finance Department at Kellogg. He will be installed as the first
holder of a new professorship in formation between the Law School and
Kellogg. A nationally-recognized expert in corporate law and finance as
well as health care regulation, Bernie currently serves as the Hayden W. Head
Regents Chair for Faculty Excellence at the University of Texas School of Law,
a professor of finance at the McCombs School of Business, and co-director of
the Center for Law, Business, and Economics at the University of Texas.
Prior to these appointments, he was the George E. Osborne Professor of Law
at Stanford, and prior to that, a Professor of Law at Columbia Law School,
counsel to a commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission, an
attorney at Skadden Arps in New York, and a clerk for the Hon. Patricia Wald of
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Bernie has also
served as a policy advisor to the U.S. government as well as several countries
throughout the world, including Russia, Ukraine, Indonesia, South Korea,
Mongolia, and Vietnam. He has authored or co-authored numerous books and
scholarly articles. Bernie received a BA from Princeton, an MA in physics
from Berkeley, and a JD from Stanford Law School.
Kate
joins the Law School this September. Her areas of expertise include venture
capital, private equity, corporate and securities law, and corporate finance.
Currently an assistant professor at the University of Texas School of
Law, Kate previously served as a clerk for both the Hon. Ralph K. Winter of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Hon. Frank H.
Easterbrook of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, as well as a
John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics at Columbia Law School. She has
presented at more than 50 national and international conferences, workshops,
and seminars. Kate received her BA from the University of California-Los
Angeles, an MA in international relations from Harvard, her JD from Stanford
Law School, and also is commencing studies in Kellogg’s PhD program in finance.
I
am delighted to welcome both Bernie and Kate to the Law School and thankful to
the many members of our community who helped with the hiring and recruitment
process. The addition of these two scholars will further enhance our
already strong reputation in the areas of corporate governance and finance.
David
E. Van Zandt
Dean
Northwestern University School of Law
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