The Spring 2025 Friel-Scanlan Lecture Ethical Lives and Business Forms
Presented by Professor Harwell Wells
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Duane Morris LLP Moot Court Room
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Professor Wells will talk about how individual shareholders have made moral demands on corporations, and how corporations and the regulatory state have responded. Along the way, he will suggest that sometimes small historical stories have larger lessons to offer us.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Harwell Wells
Richard H. Walker ’75 Chair in Law
Professor Harwell Wells writes extensively in the areas of corporations and legal history, and regularly teaches classes in business organizations, professional responsibility, and torts. In addition to other work, he is a co-author of the leading treatise on closely held firms, O’Neal and Thompson’s Close Corporations and LLCs: Law and Practice. He is a graduate of the Vanderbilt University School of Law and also holds a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Virginia. Before coming to Temple in 2006 he clerked for Judge Gilbert Merritt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and practiced securities law for four years at Wilmer, Cutler, & Pickering in Washington, D.C.