Declan Tomlinson
dtomlinson@SanDiego.edu
(619) 260-4179
Associate Professor of Law
Director, Center for Corporate and Securities Law
- J.D. 2020, Harvard Law School (cum laude)
- B.A. 2016, Stanford University (with honors and distinction)
Areas of Expertise
Business & Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Governance, Contracts, Negotiation
Professional Experience
Professor Caley Petrucci is a corporate law scholar with a focus on dealmaking.
Prior to joining USD, Professor Petrucci served as a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. She previously practiced as an attorney at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where her work focused on M&A transactions and corporate governance.
Professor Petrucci’s scholarship has been published in the Harvard Law Review, Columbia Law Review, and Yale Journal on Regulation, among others.
Honors and Affiliations
Professor Petrucci holds a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School. Professor Petrucci served as an articles editor on the Harvard Law Review, and an editor on the Harvard Business Law Review, Journal of Legislation, and Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law. She received her B.A. with Honors and Distinction in Psychology from Stanford University, where she was awarded the Robert B. Zajonc Award for her honors thesis on linguistic framing and naïve realism.
Scholarly Work
- Corporate Goodwill, 67 Boston College Law Review 587 (2026)
- The Contractual Limits of Control, 15 Harvard Business Law Review 635 (2025)
- Stakeholder Amnesia in M&A Deals, 50 Journal of Corporation Law 87 (2024) (with Guhan Subramanian)
- Equal Treatment Agreements: Theory, Evidence & Policy, 40 Yale Journal on Regulation 620 (2023)
- Pills in a World of Activism and ESG, 1 University of Chicago Business Law Review 417 (2022) (with Guhan Subramanian)
- Deals in the Time of Pandemic, 121 Columbia Law Review 145 (2021) (with Guhan Subramanian)
- Controller Confusion: Realigning Controlling Stockholders and Controlled Boards (note), 133 Harvard Law Review 1706 (2020)