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professors tamara C. BeLiNfaNti and hOumaN B. shadaB became full professors of Law with tenure in april 2014. Both are co-Directors of the center for Business and Financial Law.
Jacob Sherkow and ari ezra waLdMaN were appointed associate professors of Law in July 2014. professor Waldman is the new Director of the Institute for Information Law and policy (IILp), and professor Sherkow will play a vital role in its continued growth.
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professor Belinfanti’s scholarly interests include general corporate governance matters, executive compensation, the proxy advisory industry, shareholder activism, and law, culture and identity. She teaches corporations, contracts, and a corporate transactional Skills Seminar. prior to joining academia, professor Belinfanti was a corporate attorney at cleary gottlieb Steen & hamilton LLp, where she counseled domestic and international clients on general corporate and U.S. securities regulation matters, and was co-editor of the securities law treatise U.S. Regulation of the International Securities and Derivatives Market (aspen, 2003).
professor Shadab is an internationally recognized expert in financial law and regulation whose research focuses on hedge funds, derivatives, bitcoins, and securitization. he teaches contracts, corporations, Startups and Venture capital, commercial Law, and Financial regulation. he also serves as the editor- in-chief of the Journal of Taxation and Regulation of Financial Institutions and blogs at Lawbitrage. professor Shadab has testified before congress on the compensation of public company executives, reverse mortgage securitization, and on the role of hedge funds in the financial crisis at a hearing that included george Soros, John paulson, and other leading figures from the hedge fund industry.
professor Sherkow was a Fellow in the center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford Law School. In 2010, he served as a law clerk to Judge Nicholas g. garaufis of the U.S. District court for the eastern District of New York. prior to entering academia, he was a patent litigator at gibson, Dunn & crutcher in New York, where he litigated both pharmaceutical and high-tech patents. In 2011, professor Sherkow, along with a team of attorneys, won the Frank Wheat award for pro bono service. In addition to his legal training, he has several years of experience as a research scientist in molecular biology. he recently published “preliminary Injunctions post-Mayo and Myriad,” in the Stanford Law Review. He teaches Intellectual property, patent Law, patent Litigation and property.
as an adjunct professor, professor Waldman served as the IILp associate Director. Before entering academia, he was an associate at Fried, Frank, harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLp and Winston & Strawn LLp in New York, focusing his practice on copyright, trademark, and appellate litigation. he teaches Intellectual property, privacy, Internet Law, and torts. his research and writing focuses on privacy, hate, and harassment on the Internet, online social networks, and the LgBt community. he is a frequent speaker on issues facing the LgBt community and often appears as an analyst on radio, television, and in print-based media. his articles have been published in several leading law reviews, including the Hastings Law Journal, the University of Maryland Law Review, and the Temple Law Review.