Frank Partnoy, center director
George E. Barrett Professor of Law and Finance
Professor Partnoy teaches and writes in the areas of corporate law, corporate finance and financial market regulation. His publications include Infectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets (Henry Holt), F.I.A.S.C.O.: Blood in the Water on Wall Street (W.W. Norton) and more than 20 articles on various topics related to financial market regulation. Before joining the USD faculty in 1997, Partnoy worked as an investment banker at CS First Boston and Morgan Stanley in New York, and as an attorney at Covington and Burling in Washington, D.C. He was co-recipient of the 1999 Thorsnes Prize for Excellence in Teaching and is the 2004 Herzog Endowed Scholar.
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Mary Jo Wiggins
Associate Dean and Professor of Law
Professor Wiggins was notes editor of the Michigan Law Review and practiced law in Indianapolis before joining the faculty in 1990. She writes and teaches in the areas of property, bankruptcy, debtor-creditor law and legal theory. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on these topics and she is an elected member of the American Law Institute.
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Jordan M. Barry
Assistant Professor of Law
Jordan Barry is a graduate of Stanford Law School, where he served as Managing Editor of the Stanford Law Review. Before joining the USD Law faculty in 2009, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Jay S. Bybee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and practiced law in the New York office of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. READ MORE |
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Lynne Dallas
Professor of Law
Professor Dallas practiced with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City and taught law at the University of Miami and American University before joining the faculty in 1987. She teaches and writes in the areas of corporations, comparative corporation law, law and socioeconomics and securities regulation. READ MORE |
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Hugh Friedman
Professor of Law Professor Friedman served as notes editor of the Stanford Law Review and began his legal career as a California Deputy Attorney General. In 1958, he moved to San Diego to become in-house corporate counsel for a fast-growing corporate conglomerate and joined the fledgling USD School of Law. He later practiced business law with Friedman, Kahan, Dysart & Frasier, where he was senior partner, before joining the full-time faculty in 1977. He teaches and writes in the areas of corporations, business planning and securities law.
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Thomas A. Smith
USD Professor of Law
Professor Smith was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, where he studied philosophy and economics, and was notes and topics editor of the Yale Law Journal. He clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and taught law at the University of Colorado and the University of California, Davis, before accepting a position as senior counsel and economist on President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors. READ MORE |
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James Krause
Adjunct Professor of Law
James Krause was admitted to the California Bar in 1975. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Haverford College in 1972 and his Juris Doctor degree, magna cum laude, from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1975. Krause clerked for the Hon. James M. Carter (deceased) of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1975 to 1976. In 1976, Krause joined the law firm of Sullivan, Jones & Archer, becoming a partner in 1980. In 1981 Krause became a founding member of Reniche & Krause, and in 1991, he founded the Law Office of James C. Krause. Throughout his career Krause has specialized in complex commercial litigation. In May 2000, he was awarded Honorary Membership in The San Diego Chapter of Order of the Coif.
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