Understanding Corporate Law

Professor Branson is the W. Edward Sell Chair in Law at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also a permanent fellow of the law faculty at the University of Melbourne (Australia), where he teaches comparative corporate governance each year. From 1973 to 1996, he taught at Seattle University School of Law. In addition, he has been a visiting professor at Cornell University, Washington University (St. Louis), and the University of Oregon. In 1993, he was the Charles Tweedy Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Alabama. He has also taught corporate law at the University of Cape Town, University of Paris, University of Barcelona, University of New South Wales, Victoria University and Canterbury University (New Zealand), University of East Anglia, King's College, and University of London. He is the author of more than fifty articles in the corporate and securities law fields. His treatise, Corporate Governance (Lexis Law Publishing, 1993), is the leading work in the field. He is also the author of Corporate Governance Problems (Cathedral Press, 1997). He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a consultant to U.S.A.I.D., where he served as an adviser to the Republic of Indonesia on reform of their corporate and capital markets laws.

Arthur R. Pinto is professor of law and co-director of Brooklyn Law School Center for the Study of International Business Law. He is the co-director of Brooklyn Law Summer Abroad Programs. Professor Pinto teaches Contracts, Corporations, Corporate Finance, Securities Regulation, and a seminar on Comparative Corporate Governance. He has served numerous times as a National Reporter for the Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law specializing in corporate law. He serves on the editorial board of the International and Comparative Law Journal. In addition to co-authoring Understanding Corporate Law with Douglas Branson, Professor Pinto is the co-editor of The Legal Basis of Comparative Corporate Governance in Publicly-Held Corporations, with Professor Visentini (1998). He has also written several articles on corporate and federal securities laws. He has taught at New York University, George Washington, Seton Hall and Rutgers law schools. Prior to teaching, he was an associate with the firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York. He is a graduate of New York University law school and Colgate University.