ProfessorBainbridge.com

Corporate law and governance with occasional digressions into legal education

Finding a new home for ProfessorBainbridge.com

In 2003, I started a blog ProfessorBainbridge.com at TypePad. For many years, the blog was a multi-topic platform that ranged from my vocational work in corporate law to my faith (Catholicism) to legal education and to wine and food.

Over the years, most of the digressions moved into Twitter (now X), with the blog increasingly focusing on core corporate law and governance issues.

As the blog’s focus became more professional and scholarly, and less personal, and as TypePad’s platform failed to evolve, I began considering relaunching the blog at a new site and with a sharper focus. Eventually I decided Substack was the right place for a relaunch.

I hope that this site can be a place where lawyers, law students, law professors, businesspeople, and maybe even judges can come together to discuss corporate law and governance. It would have been a great platform to have last year when we were all talking about Delaware SB 313 or for this year’s kerfuffles over SB 21.

Initially, I expect to post at least twice a week. Maybe more.

A bit about me.

I am the William D. Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. This is not an official UCLA website and UCLA should not be held responsible for anything said on it.

I currently teach Business Associations, Advanced Corporation Law, and Mergers and Acquisitions. In past years, I’ve also taught Corporate Finance, Securities Regulation, Unincorporated Business Associations and Catholic Social Thought and the Law. I started my teaching career at the University of Illinois Law School (1988-1996), before joing UCLA in 1997. I’ve also taught at Harvard Law School as the Joseph Flom Visiting Professor of Law and Business (2000-2001), and as a visiting professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne (2005 and 2007) and at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo (1999).

No brag. Just fact.

I’ve written over 100 law review articles, which have appeared in such journals as the Harvard Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Stanford Law Review, and Vanderbilt Law Review. I’ve also written 20 books, including seven in multiple editions. You can find my bibliography here.

In 2008, 2011, and 2012, I was named by the National Association of Corporate Directors' Directorship magazine to its list of the 100 most influential people in the field of corporate governance. According to Gregory Sisk and Brian Leiter’s rankings of law professors by scholarly impact, I was the third most-frequently cited scholar in corporate and securities law for the periods 2013-2017 and 2016-2020. Sadly, I fell to fourth in their most recent ranking. In SSRN.com’s ranking of the top 3000 legal authors by all-time downloads, I’m ranked 13th. By that metric, I’m the highest ranked member of the UCLA law school faculty. In SSRN.com’s ranking of the top 3000 legal authors by all-time citations to their work, ranked 78th. By that metric, I’m the second highest ranked member of the UCLA law school faculty.

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