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USC Gould is a top-ranked law school with a 115-year history and reputation for academic excellence. We are located on the beautiful 228-acre USC University Park Campus, just south of downtown Los Angeles.
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Dorothy S. Lund
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Assistant Professor of Law
Email: dlund@law.usc.edu699 Exposition Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90089-0074 USA Room: 464
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Last Updated: July 9, 2020
Dorothy Lund’s research focuses on corporate law, corporate governance, securities regulation, contracts, and mergers and acquisitions. Her research has appeared or is forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Journal of Corporation Law, the Delaware Journal of Corporation Law and the Stanford Journal of Law, Business, and Finance. Her op-eds and other writing have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic and The Wall Street Journal. Lund received a JD from Harvard Law School, where she was an Olin Fellow in Law and Economics. She then clerked for Chief Justice Leo E. Strine Jr. of the Delaware Supreme Court and Judge Joel M. Flaum of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Before entering academia, Lund practiced corporate law at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York.
Articles and Book Chapters
- "Toward a Mission Statement for Mutual Funds in Shareholder Litigation," 87 University of Chicago Law Review (forthcoming 2020) (with Sean J. Griffith). - (SSRN)
- "Conflicted Mutual Fund Voting in Corporate Law," 99 Boston University Law Review 1151 (2019) (with Sean J. Griffith). - (SSRN) - (Hein)
- "Nonvoting Shares and Efficient Corporate Governance," 71 Stanford Law Review 687 (2019). - (SSRN) - (Hein)
- "Sexual Harassment and Corporate Law," (with Daniel Jacob Hemel) 118 Columbia Law Review 1583 (2018) - (SSRN) - (www)
- “The Case Against Passive Shareholder Voting,” 43 Journal of Corporation Law 493 (2018) - (SSRN) - (Hein)
- “Lessons from SEC v. Citigroup: The Optimal Scope for Judicial Review of Agency Consent Decrees,” 15 Journal of Business & Securities Law 63 (2014). - (Hein) - (SSRN)
- "Time to Amend the Delaware Takeover Law," 39 Delaware Journal of Corporation Law 77 (2014) (with Stephen M. Shapiro). - (Hein)
- "A Competition Act by India, for India: The First Three Years of Enforcement," 5 Indian Journal of International Economic Law 59 (2012). - (Hein)
- "Federalizing Fiduciary Duty: The Altered Scope of Officer Fiduciary Duty Following Orderly Liquidation Under Dodd-Frank," 17 Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance 223 (2012). - (Hein)
- “Kiobel and Corporate Immunity Under the Alien Tort Statute,” 52 Harvard International Law Journal 209 (2011) (online comment). - (PDF)
FACULTY IN THE NEWS
The New Yorker
September 21, 2020
Re: Franita Tolson
Franita Tolson was quoted in the New Yorker about the legal challenges likely to follow the 2020 presidential election. “You will still see many claims that absentee ballots have been wrongly rejected, and those will lead to court cases," Tolson said. "The fact that we are generating lots of voting by mail will generate a lot of litigation.”
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Jonathan Barnett
July, 2020
"Lessons from Luckin Coffee: The Underappreciated Risks of Variable Interest Entities," Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, July 28, 2020.
Jonathan Barnett
July, 2020
"Big is not necessarily bad," The Hill, July 30, 2020.
Edward McCaffery
July, 2020
“The Death of the Income Tax (or, The Rise of America's Universal Wage Tax),” Indiana Law Journal 95 (2020): 1233.
