Allen, William T. Nusbaum Professor of Business; Professor of Law Joined Stern 1997 Phone: (212) 998-0322 Fax : (212) 995-4233 Email:  wallen@stern.nyu.edu Office: KMEC 9-53 44 West Fourth Street Suite 9-190 New York, NY 10012-1126

Education

• Honorary LLD Dickinson Law School 1972
• JD University of Texas 1972
• BS New York University 1969

Teaches:

• Corporations
• Colloquium on Law and Business
• Legal Foundations of Finance
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Law and Business of Investment Banking

Research Interests:

• Corporate Governance

Business Experience:

• former Chancellor of The Delaware Court of Chancery
• of Counsel, Wachtel, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
• founding Chair, Independence Standards Board, a self-regulatory body established through agreement between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

Publications:

• COMMENTARY AND CASES ON LAW OF BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS (with Reinier Kraakman), forthcoming from Aspen Publishers (2003)
• "Threats and Safeguards in the Determination of Auditor Independence," 80 Washington University Law Quarterly (2002)
• "Realigning the Standard of Review of Director Duty Care with Delaware Public Policy: A Critique of Van Gorkom and Its Progeny as a Standard Review Problem" (with Jack B. Jacobs, Leo E. Strine, Jr.), 96 Northwestern University Law Review 449 (Winter 2002).
• "The Great Takeover Debate: A Meditation on Bridging the Conceptual Divide" (with Jack B. Jacobs, Leon E. Strine, Jr.), 69 University of Chicago Law Review 1067 (Summer 2002).