Melvin A. Eisenberg | |
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Born | December 3, 1934 |
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Discipline | Corporate Law |
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Melvin A. Eisenberg (born 3 December 1934) is the Jesse H. Choper Professor of law at the University of California,Berkeley. After studying at Columbia University (1956) and Harvard University (1959), [1] he worked in the firm Kaye Scholer Fierman Hays &Handler,as assistant counsel in the Warren Commission,and joined Berkeley in 1966. He is recognised as a leading scholar in US corporate law,and contract law,in both of which he has authored leading textbooks. [2]
He has advised the American Law Institute on both the Restatement (Third) of Agency and Restatement (Third) of Restitution. [2] From 1991 to 1993,he held the Justice R. Ammi Cutter Chair at the institute. [2] He was also Justin W. D'Atri Professor of Law,Business,and Society at Columbia University. [2]
Eisenbeg received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981. [3] He is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,elected in 1984. [4]
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