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Fox Professor
of Business Law: Edward Rock
Edward
B. Rock, L'83 has been named the inaugural Saul A. Fox Distinguished
Professor of Business Law at the Law School and professor of business
and public policy at the Wharton School. A professor of law on the
faculty since 1989, Professor Rock also serves as co-director of
the Institute for Law and Economics, a joint research center of
the Law School, the Wharton School, and the Department of Economics
in SAS.
Professor
Rock received his J.D. from Penn in 1983. He joined the Penn faculty
in 1989 from the Philadelphia law firm of Fine, Kaplan and Black,
where he specialized in antitrust, corporate and securities litigation.
In 1994, Professor Rock was a Visiting Professor of International
Banking and Capital Markets at the Institut für Arbeits-, Wirtschafts-und
Zivil Recht at Johann Wolfgang Goethe--Universität in Frankfurt
am Main, Germany. During the 1995-96 academic year, he was a Fulbright
Senior Scholar and Visiting Professor of Law at the Law Faculty
of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, where he taught comparative
antitrust and corporate law. He has also taught at Columbia Law
School.
Professor
Rock has written widely on corporate law, including on the role
of institutional investors in corporate governance; close corporations;
the overlap between corporate law and antitrust; comparative corporate
law; and the regulation of mutual funds. Recently, in a series of
articles with Michael L. Wachter, Professor Rock examined the relationship
between law and nonlegally enforceable norms in the governance of
business enterprises, and the ways in which corporate law and labor
law facilitate the self governance of firms.
The Saul
A. Fox Distinguished Professorship in Business Law, and the associated
Saul A. Fox Research Fund, were established in 2001 with a gift
of $4 million from the Winding Way Foundation of the Jewish Community
Foundation's Endowment Fund in honor of Saul A. Fox, a 1978
graduate of the Law School. The gift is historic because it was
the largest single gift to establish a chaired professorship in
the history of the University.
Almanac, Vol. 48, No. 9, October 23, 2001
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