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John D. Ayer Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Business Law and Society Afra Afsharipour served as Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2018 to 2024. She researches in the areas of comparative corporate law, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and transactional law. She has taught courses in business associations, mergers and acquisitions, startups and venture capital, and antitrust. Her scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in several books and law reviews, including Columbia Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Georgia Law Review, UC Irvine Law Review, National Law School of India Review, and other leading journals. She is co-editor of Comparative Corporate Governance (eds. Afra Afsharipour & Martin Gelter, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2021). She authored the Handbook on Corporate Governance in India: Legal Standards and Board Practices (The Conference Board 2016) and co-authored the 2021 edition of the Handbook on Corporate Governance in India: Legal Standards and Board Practices (The Conference Board 2021).
Professor Afsharipour has delivered numerous talks, nationally and internationally, and has been a visiting scholar in India, China and Taiwan. She is quoted regularly by leading national and international news outlets, and her research has been featured in the New York Times and the American Lawyer, as well as other national news outlets.
Co-sponsored with the Business Law Journal. Lunch provided.