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Faculty ProfileElliott J. WeissCharles E. Ares Professor Emeritus of LawE-mail: Elliott J. Weiss Office Number: 244 Office Phone: (520) 621-3578 Office Fax: (520) 621-9140 Courses Taught: Corporations I & II 
Securities Regulation
Health Care Law
Accounting for Lawyers
Investment Institutions
Torts
Various Corporate and Securities Law Seminars
SSRN Published Papers |
Education |
Yale Law School, LL.B (1964) Order of the Coif, Note and Comment Editor of the Yale Law Journal | Dartmouth College, B.A. (1961) cum laude |
Admitted to Practice |
California (inactive) | New York |
Professional Work Experience |
Charles E. Ares Professor of Law, University of Arizona College of Law, Tucson, AZ, 1992 - Present | Professor of Law, University of Arizona College of Law, 1991 - 1992 | Professor, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New York, NY, 1979-1992 | Associate Professor, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New York, NY, 1977 - 1979 | Visiting Professor, U.C.L.A. School of Law, Los Angeles, CA, 1987 | Visiting Professor, Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NY, 1983 - 1984 | Visiting Professor, New York University School of Law, New York, NY, 1980 - 1981 | Writer-In-Residence, The Conservation Foundation, Washington, DC (research supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation), 1976 - 1977 | Executive Director, Investor Responsibility Research Center, Washington, D.C., 1972 - 1976 | Acting Director, Policy Planning Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., 1972 | Assistant Director, Regional Legal Advisor, and Attorney-Advisor, U.S. Agency for International Development, Islamabad, Pakistan and Washington, D.C., 1967 - 1972 | Associate, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York, NY, 1965 - 1967 | Law Clerk, Judge Walter Pope, U.S. Court of Appeals (9th Circuit), 1964 - 1965 |
Representative Publications |
| File Early, Then Free Ride: How Delaware Law (Mis)Shapes Shareholder Class Actions, 57 Vand. L. Rev. 1797 (2004) (with Lawrence J. White). |
| CORPORATIONS, LAW AND POLICY: MATERIALS AND PROBLEMS (5th ed. 2003) (co-author, with Jeffrey D. Bauman & Alan R. Palmiter). [Law Reserve KF 1413 .B38 2003]. |
| Pleading Securities Fraud, 64 Law & Contemp. Probs. 5 (Spring/Summer 2001); also available at: http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/64LCPWeiss. |
| Complete List of Publications |
Presentations |
| Speaker, Recent Developments in Class Action Fee Awards (ABA Section of Business Law Spring Meeting, Boston, Mass., Apr. 6, 2002). |
| Conference Speaker, Selection and Compensation of Class Counsel in Securities Class Actions: Trends and Implications (The Future Structure and Regulation of Law Practice, Tucson, Ariz., Feb. 23, 2002). |
| Speaker, Enter Yossarian: How to Resolve the Procedural Catch-22 that the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act Creates (F. Hodge O'Neal Corporate and Securities Law Symposium, Washington University Law School, 1998). |
Organizations |
American Bar Association, Committee on Securities Regulation, Sub-Committee on Proxy Solicitations and Tender Offers 1977 - Present |
| American Law Institute 1983 - Present |
| New York State Bar Association, Corporation Law Committee 1978 - 1992 |
| Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Corporation Law Committee 1978 - 1981 |
Public Service |
National Adjudicatory Council, NASD-Regulation, Review Subcommittee 1998 - 2002 (Also Member, Review Subcommittee, 1998 - 2004) | Of counsel to Objector, pro se, to award of fees to plaintiffs’ attorneys in connection with settlement of In re Banctec, Inc. Shareholders Litigation, C.A. 17092, Delaware Court of Chancery 2000 | Objector, pro se, to award of fees to plaintiffs’ attorneys in connection with settlement of Steiner v. CalMat Co., C.A. 16783, and related cases, Delaware Court of Chancery 1999 | Consultant, Office of the General Counsel, Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, DC. 1997 - 1998 | Board of Advisors, Columbia University Center for Law and Economic Studies 1975 - 1987 | Consultant, The Ford Foundation 1978 | Rapporteur, ALI-ABA Regional Symposium on the Structure and Governance of Corporations 1978 | Member, Advisory Committee on Corporate Disclosure, Securities and Exchange Commssion 1976 - 1977 | Rapporteur, Corporation and Society Seminar, Aspen Institute 1976 |
Updated: 04/23/2013