Jill Fisch

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Jill E. Fisch
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  • Robert A. Gorman Award for Excellence in Teaching (2010-2011)
  • LLM Prize for Excellence in Teaching (2015-2016)
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Institutions University of Pennsylvania Law School

Jill E. Fisch is the Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Co-Director of the Institute for Law & Economics in the Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Biography

Fisch attended Cornell University (B.A. 1982) and Yale Law School (J.D. 1985). [1] [2]

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Fisch is the Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, [3] and Co-Director, of the Institute for Law & Economics in the Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. [1] Earlier in her career she held the Fordham University School of Law T.J. Maloney Chair in Business Law, [4] and was the Founding Director of the Fordham Corporate Law Center. [1] [2]

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Among the many articles she has written are "Governance by Contract: The Implications for Corporate Bylaws," 106 Cal. L. Rev. 373 (2018), "Constructive Ambiguity and Judicial Development of Insider Trading," 71 SMU L. Rev. 749 (2018), "Leave it to Delaware: Why Congress Should Stay out of Corporate Governance," 2011 Francis G. Pileggi Distinguished Lecture in Law, 37 Del. J. Corp. L. 731 (2013), [1] and "On Beyond CalPERS: Survey Evidence on the Developing Role of Public Pension Funds in Corporate Governance," 61 Vand. L. Rev. 315 (2008) (with Stephen J. Choi). [5]

Fisch received the Robert A. Gorman Award for Excellence in Teaching (2010-2011), and the LLM Prize for Excellence in Teaching (2015-2016). [1] [6]

Robert A. Gorman is the Kenneth W. Gemmill Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

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  3. "Jill E. Fisch". Penn Law. University of Pennsylvania Law School. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  4. Treanor, William Michael; Indek, Ben A.; Fisch, Jill E.; Atkins, Paul S. (2008). "The Eighth Annual A.A. Sommer, Jr. Lecture on Corporate, Securities, and Financial Law" (PDF). Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law. 13 (2): 177. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  5. Webber, David H. (2012). "The Plight of the Individual Investor". Northwestern University Law Review. 106: 167, n. 48. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
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