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USD Law Professor Frank Partnoy Interviewed on 60 Minutes

SAN DIEGO (May 17, 2009) — Today University of San Diego School of Law Professor Frank Partnoy was interviewed by Steve Kroft on CBSs 60 Minutes. Professor and financial expert Frank Partnoy says top executives and traders at AIG were earning salaries comparable to superstar athletes.

Watch the 60 Minutes interview in its entirety.

Professor Partnoy is the director of USD School of Law's new Center for Corporate and Securities Law. He teaches and writes in the areas of corporate law, corporate finance and financial market regulation. His other publications include his book on Enron, Infectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets (Henry Holt), and FIASCO: Blood In The Water On Wall Street (W.W. Norton) as well as 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 was the 2004 Herzog Endowed Scholar. 


Frank Partnoy
Securities Expert and USD Law Professor Frank Partnoy