Frank Partnoy, center co-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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Cynthia L. Richson, center co-director
Cynthia Richson previously served as the head of corporate governance for two of the top ten U.S. public pension funds; the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System and the State of Wisconsin Investment Board. In 2002, she created the Directors’ Summit® for the State of Wisconsin Investment Board, a shareholder perspective corporate governance education program for corporate directors held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Mary Jo Wiggins
Vice 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.
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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.
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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.
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Christopher T. Wonnell
USD Professor of Law
Professor Wonnell teaches and writes in the areas of contracts, jurisprudence, commercial law as well as law and economics. He served as an associate editor of the Michigan Law Review and practiced law in Chicago before joining the USD School of Law faculty in 1984.
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