Faith Stevelman

Professor of Law (on leave)

Contact Information
T 212.431.2114
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Faculty Assistant
Rosamond White
T 212.431.2127
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Education
New York University, J.D. 1989; Yale, M.Phil. 1985, B.A. 1982

Profile

Faith Stevelman is a national authority on corporate governance, securities law, and financial regulation. Her expertise spans the nuts and bolts of mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance to the conceptual underpinnings of board leadership and corporate disclosure.

A member of the New York Law School faculty since 1993, Professor Stevelman has also taught at Cornell, Georgetown, Seattle University, and University of Washington School of Law. At Seattle University, she was the Associate Director of the Berle Center on Corporations and Society and, at the University of Washington School of Law, she was the legal head of the J.D./M.B.A. program. At Georgetown, she held the Alfred P. Sloan Research Professorship for 2003-04.

In 2006, Professor Stevelman established the foundations for the NYLS Center on Business and Financial Law, which supports students’ development in business law careers. In 2008, she testified before the House Committee on Financial Services in favor of enhanced public company disclosure under the Extractive Industries Transparency and Disclosure Act, which was enacted into law.

Always attuned to corporate law’s responsibility to support economic justice and transparency, Professor Stevelman’s recent scholarship, “Boards in Information Governance,” presents a new paradigm for corporate law. Having been a Ph.D. candidate in early modern history at Yale, she remains committed to fostering greater interdisciplinary depth in corporate legal scholarship.

Publications

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Articles

“Boards in Information Governance,” co-authored with S.C. Haan, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law (forthcoming 2021)

“Board Governance for the Twenty-First Century,” co-authored with Sarah C. Haan, 74 The Business Lawyer 329 (2019)

“Globalization, Business, and Human Rights,” Santa Clara Law Review (2011)

“Introduction: The Market Meltdown of 2008 and the Future of Financial Reregulation,” 54 New York Law School Law Review 635 (2010)

“Regulatory Competition, Choice of Forum and Delaware’s Stake in Corporate Law,” 34 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law 57 (2009)

“Globalization and Corporate Social Responsibility: Challenges for the Academy, Future Lawyers and Corporate Law,” 51 New York Law School Law Review 817 (2009)

“Foreword, Corporate Governance Five Years After Sarbanes-Oxley: Is There Real Change?” 52 New York Law School Law Review 475 (2008)

“Going Private at the Intersection of the Market and the Law, “62 The Business Lawyer 775 (2007)

“Judgment Call: Conflict Irresolution,” Co-Author, The Deal (2005)

“Bombing Markets, Subverting the Rule of Law: Enron, Financial Fraud, and September 11, 2001,” 76 Tulane Law Review 1579–1643 (2002)

“Transparency and Accountability: Rethinking Corporate Fiduciary Law’s Relevance to Corporate Disclosure,” 34 Georgia Law Review 505–528 (2000)

“Foreword: Law, Culture, Education, and Politics,” 41 New York Law School Law Review 753–755 (1997)

“Legislatures, Courts and the SEC: Reflections on Silence and Power in Corporate and Securities Law,” 41 New York Law School Law Review 1107–1146 (1997)

“Pandora’s Box: Managerial Discretion and the Problem of Corporate Philanthropy,” 44 UCLA Law Review 579–676 (1997)

Other Writing

“The Academic, Legal and Policy Evolution of CSR,” Newsletter of the American Bar Association Section on International Law (2010)

“Duties to Bondholders in Recapitalizations and Restructurings,” in 23rd Annual Institute on Securities Regulation, pgs. 277–318 (Practising Law Institute, 1991)

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