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Lynn A. Stout
Paul Hastings Professor of Corporate and Securities Law
B.A. Princeton, 1979
M.P.A. Princeton, 1982
J.D. Yale, 1982
UCLA Law faculty since 2001
stout@law.ucla.edu |
Lynn A. Stout is the Paul Hastings Professor of Corporate and Securities Law at UCLA, where she specializes in corporate governance, securities regulation, law and economics and moral behavior. Professor Stout is an internationally recognized expert in these fields who publishes extensively and lectures widely. She serves on the Board of Trustees for the Eaton Vance family of mutual funds, as an Adjunct Researcher at the Rand Corporation, and on the Aspen Institute's Coporate Value Strategy Group. She is past Chair of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Section on Law and Economics, past Chair of the AALS Section on Business Associations, and has served on the Board of Directors of the American Law and Economics Association.
Professor Stout has authored a casebook series on law and economics as well as numerous articles on corporate governance, the theory of the corporation, stock markets, finance theory, financial derivatives, moral behavior and economic and behavioral analysis of law. Before joining UCLA, Professor Stout was Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center and Director of the Georgetown-Sloan Project on Business Institutions. She also has taught at Harvard Law School, NYU Law School and the George Washington University National Law Center, and served as a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.
