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Michael Klausner | |
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| Born | 1954 (age 67–68) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of Pennsylvania (BA) Yale University (MA, JD) |
| Occupation | Law professor |
| Spouse | Barbara Sih Klausner |
Michael Klausner (born 1954) is the Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business and Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. He has been a member of the Stanford Law School faculty since 1997. [1] He works in the areas of corporate law, corporate governance, and financial regulation.
Klausner graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Urban Studies. He went on to study law at Yale Law School, earning a Juris Doctor with a joint Master of Arts in Economics. At Yale, Klausner was the Notes and Topics editor for the Yale Law Journal. [2]
After finishing law school in 1981, Klausner clerked for Justice William J. Brennan Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge David L. Bazelon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He then worked as an associate with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Following his work as a corporate law practitioner, Klausner served as a White House Fellow in the Office of Policy Development under George H. W. Bush. In 1991, he joined the New York University School of Law faculty as a professor until 1997 when he became a professor at Stanford.
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