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Michael DonnellaPractice Professor of Law; Director, Center for Compliance & EthicsMichael Donnella is Practice Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Compliance and Ethics. He teaches Compliance and Ethics. Professor Donnella has global expertise derived from disparate business sectors.
- Elements of an Effective Compliance Program, in PHARMACEUTICAL AND MEDICAL DEVDEVICE COMPLIANCE MANUAL (2012).
Law Journal Articles
- Corporate Social Activism and the New Business of Change, 68 PRAC. LAW. 7 (2022).
- Business Warfare, 63 B.C. L. REV. 1 (2022).
- Executive Private Misconduct, 88 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 327 (2020).
- Artificial Intelligence, Finance, and the Law, 88 FORDHAM L. REV. 531 (2019).
- Americans, Almost and Forgotten, 107 CAL. L. REV. 1249 (2019).
- Incorporating Social Activism, 98 B.U. L. REV. 1535 (2018).
- The New Market Manipulation, 66 EMORY L.J. 1253 (2017).
- Compliance, Technology, and Modern Finance, 11 BROOK. J. CORP. FIN. & COM. L. 159 (2016).
- Financial Weapons of War, 100 MINN. L. REV. 1377 (2016).
- Infinite Financial Intermediation, 50 WAKE FOREST L. REV. 643 (2015).
- Reasonable Investor(s), 95 B.U. L. REV. 461 (2015).
- National Pastime(s), 55 B.C. L. REV. 1197 (2014) (book review).
- CEOs and Presidents, 47 U.C. DAVIS L. REV. 1351 (2014).
- The New Financial Industry, 65 ALA. L. REV. 567 (2014).
- Vistas of Finance, 61 UCLA L. REV. DISC. 78 (2013).
- The New Investor, 60 UCLA L. REV. 678 (2013).
- Executive Trade Secrets, 87 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 911 (2012).
- The Corporate Governance of Iconic Executives, 87 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 351 (2011).
- A Behavioral Framework for Securities Risk, 34 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 325 (2011).
- Too Big to Fail, Too Blind to See, 80 MISS. L.J. 355 (2010) (book review).
- Undressing the CEO: Disclosing Private, Material Matters of Public Company Executives, 11 U. PA. J. BUS. L. 383 (2009).
Articles in Other Periodicals
- Corporate Social Measures, JOTWELL, July 23, 2021.
- Politicians Empowered the Very Corporate Activism They Now Face in Georgia, FORTUNE, Apr. 10, 2021.
- A New Payday(s), JOTWELL, July 23, 2020.
- COVID-19, Compliance and Information Technology, CORP. COMPLIANCE INSIGHTS, May 20, 2020.
- Financial Artificial Intelligence: Risks and Implications, 39 BANKING & FIN. SERVICES POL’Y REPORT 9 (2020).
- Environmentalism Inc., JOTWELL, Aug. 1, 2019.
- The Human Side of Markets, JOTWELL, Aug. 13, 2018.
Blog Posts
- The Capitalist and the Activist, HARV. L. SCH. F. CORP. GOVERNANCE, Apr. 12, 2022.
- Reimagining Capitalism and Activism, CHANGE THIS, Jan. 26, 2022.
- Executive Private Misconduct, CLS BLUE SKY BLOG, Aug. 4, 2020
- Artificial Intelligence, Finance, and the Law, CLS BLUE SKY BLOG, Jan. 8, 2020.
- Implications of Financial Artificial Intelligence, OXFORD BUS. L. BLOG, Dec. 3, 2019.
- Improving Economic Policies for the American Territories, CLS BLUE SKY BLOG, Nov. 8, 2019.
- The New Corporate Social Activism, OXFORD BUS. L. BLOG, Mar. 28, 2019.
Books
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Jonathan LipsonHarold E. Kohn Chair Professor of Law; Faculty Advisor, Center for Compliance & EthicsJonathan Lipson holds the Harold E. Kohn Chair and is a Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law. He teaches Contracts, Bankruptcy, Corporations, Commercial Law, Lawyering for Entrepreneurship, International Business Transactions, and a variety of other business law courses.
Law Journal Articles
- Introduction: Covid, Contract, and Crises, 85 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS i (2022) (with Rachel Rebouche).
- The Truth Wherever It May Be Found: The Wisconsin School of Contracts (An Introduction), 2021 WISC. L. REV. 337 (2021).
- Contracting COVID: Private Order and Public Good, 76 BUS. L. 437 (2021).
- The Business Lawyer at 75 and Secured Transactions Under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, 75 BUS. L. 1575 (2019-2020) (with S. Weise).
- Reforming Institutions: The Judicial Function in Bankruptcy and Public Law Litigation, 94 IND. L.J. 545 (2019).
- Something Else: Specific Relief for Breach of Human Rights Terms in Supply Chain Agreements, 68 AM. U. L. REV. 1751 (2019).
- Promising Justice: Contract (as) Social Responsibility, 2019 WIS. L. REV. 1109.
- Controlling Creditor Control: Jevic and the end (?) of LifeCare, NORTON J. BANKR. L. & PRAC. 571 (2018).
- Securitization and Social Distance, 37 REV. BANK. & FIN. L. 827 (2017-2018).
- The Secret Life of Priority: Corporate Reorganization After Jevic, 93 WA. L. REV. 631 (2018).
- Bargaining Bankrupt: A Relational Theory of Contract Bankruptcy, 6 HARV. BUS. L. REV. 239 (2016).
- Examining Success, 90 AM. BANKR. L.J. 1 (2016) (with C.F. Marotta) (solicited manuscript; peer reviewed).
- Braucher’s Business: Foreseeing Relational Contract Bankruptcy, 58 ARIZ. L. REV. 173 (2016).
- The Pattern in Securitization and Executive Compensation: Evidence and Regulatory Implications, 20 STAN. J.L. BUS. & FIN. 323 (2015) (with R. Martin, E.M. Matsumura & E. Unlu).
- Foreword; Forward!, 87 TEMPLE L. REV. 693 (2015).
- Against Regulatory Displacement: An Institutional Analysis of Financial Crises, 17 U. PA. J. BUS. L. 673 (2015), excerpted in, 34 BANKING & FIN. SERVICES POL’Y REP. 1 (Jan. 2015).
- From a Scream to a Whisper: The Supreme Court Does Little to Fix its Bankruptcy Court Mess (Executive Benefits Insurance Agency v. Arkison (In re Bellingham)), 2014 WIS. L. REV. ONLINE 9.
- Stern, Seriously: The Article I Judicial Power, Fraudulent Transfers, and Leveraged Buyouts, 2013 WIS. L. REV. 1161 (with J. Vandermeuse).
- Why (and How to) Define Securitization? A Sur-Reply to Professor Schwarcz, 85 S. CAL. L. REV. 1301 (2012).
- Re: Defining Securitization, 85 S. CAL. L. REV 1229 (2012), reprinted in, 55 CORP. PRAC. COMMENTATOR 449 (2013).
- What’s Amiss? The Lawyering Interest in “Miscellaneous” Contract Provisions, 65 CONSUMER FIN. L.Q. REP. 151 (2011) (solicited manuscript).
- Foreword, Who’s in the House: The Changing Role and Nature of In-house and General Counsel, 2012 WIS. L. REV. 237 (with B. Engel & J. Crespo).
- Controlling the Market for Information in Reorganization, 18 AM. BANKR. INST. L. REV. 647 (2010) (with C. DiVirgilio) (solicited manuscript).
- Governance in the Breach: Controlling Creditor Opportunism, 84 S. CAL. L. REV. 1035 (2011).
- Understanding Failure: Examiners and the Bankruptcy Reorganization of Large Public Companies, 84 AM. BANKR. L.J. 1 (2010) (peer reviewed).
- The Shadow Bankruptcy System, 89 B.U. L. REV. 1609 (2009), excerpted in, LESSONS FROM THE FINANCIAL CRISIS 609 (R. Kolb, ed., Wiley 2010).
- Cost-Benefit Analysis and Third-Party Opinion Practice, 63 BUS. LAW. 1187 (2008) (peer reviewed).
- Courting the Suicide King: Closing Opinions and Lawyer Liability, 17 BUS. L. TODAY 59 (Mar./Apr. 2008) (with D. Glazer).
- Debt and Democracy: Towards a Constitutional Theory of Bankruptcy, 83 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 605 (2008).
- Where’s the Beef? A Few Words About Paying for Performance in Bankruptcy, 156 U. PA. L. REV. PENNUMBRA 64 (2007) (invited contribution).
- The Expressive Function of Directors’ Duties to Creditors, 12 STAN. J.L. BUS. & FIN. 224 (2007).
- Twilight in the Zone of Insolvency, 1 J. BUS. & TECH. L. 229 (2007) (invited panel remarks).
- When Churches Fail: The Diocesan Debtor Dilemmas, 79 S. CAL. L. REV. 363 (2006).
- Religious Organizations Filing for Bankruptcy, 13 AM. BANKR. INST. L. REV. 25 (2005) (invited panel remarks).
- Doing Deals in School: A prof talks about teaching transactional law, 15-OCT. BUS. L. TODAY 51 (Sep./Oct. 2005).
- Price, Path & Pride: Third-Party Closing Opinion Practice among U.S. Lawyers (A Preliminary Investigation), 3.1 BERKELEY BUS. L.J. 59 (2005) (selected for presentation at 2005 Yale/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum & 2005 Harvard/Texas Commercial Realities Workshop).
- Secrets and Liens: The End of Notice in Commercial Finance Law, 21 EMORY BANKR. DEV. J. 421 (2005).
- Directors’ Duties to Creditors: Power Imbalance and the Financially Distressed Corporation, 50 UCLA L. REV. 1189 (2003).
- Remote Control: Revised Article 9 and the Negotiability of Information, 63 OHIO ST. L.J. 1327 (2002).
- Enron, Securitization and Bankruptcy Reform: Dead or Dormant?, 11 WEST J. BANKR. L. & PRAC. 1 (2002).
- Financing Information Technologies: Function and Fairness, 2001 WIS. L. REV. 1067.
- Fighting Fiction with Fiction: The New Federalism in (a Tobacco Company) Bankruptcy, 78 WASH. U. L.Q. 1271 (2000).
- On Balance: Religious Liberty and Third-Party Harms, 84 MINN. L. REV. 589 (2000).
- First Principles and Fair Consideration: The Developing Clash Between the First Amendment and the Constructive Fraudulent Conveyance Laws, 52 U. MIAMI L. REV. 247 (1997).
Articles in Other Periodicals
- Don’t Just Do Something—Stand There! A Modest Proposal for a Model Standstill/Tolling Agreement, BUS. L. TODAY, Apr. 13, 2020 (with N.M. Powell).
- Jonathan Lipson & Andrea Monroe, Trump’s Pathetic Bankruptcy Past Shows Through in GOP’s Fantasyland Tax Bill, USA Today, Dec. 21, 2017.
Blog Posts
- Contracting Covid: Private Order and Public Good, CONTRACTS PROF BLOG, Sep. 21, 2020.
- Contract (as) Social Responsibility, CONCURRING OPINIONS (May 2, 2018).
- The Secret Life of Priority, OXFORD BUS. L. BLOG (Jan. 4, 2018).
- Regulatory Implications of Bank Securitization and Executive Compensation, REG BLOG, May 27, 2014 (with E. Unlu, E.M. Matsumura & R. Martin).
Books
- Landmark Judgment in MasterCard Class Action Marks Beginning of UK’s Collective Proceeding Standards / Co-Author / INSIDECOUNSEL / September 5, 2017
- How Does it Actually Affect Criminal Antitrust Enforcement? / Co-Author / INSIDECOUNSEL / June 28, 2017
- UK Court Renders First Decision Under New Class Certification Procedures / Co-Author / INSIDECOUNSEL / June 14, 2017