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Dorothy S. Lund is the co-director of Columbia Law School's Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership, and teaches and writes extensively on corporate law, corporate governance, securities regulation, contracts, and mergers and acquisitions.
Several of her articles have been voted among the top 10 corporate and securities law articles of the year. Her work has been published in the Columbia Law Review, Journal of Corporation Law, Stanford Law Review, Texas Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and Yale Law Journal Forum, among other journals. She has also written for popular publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Wall Street Journal. She is the co-author of Corporations and Other Business Associations (with Charles R.T. O’Kelley and Robert B. Thompson, Aspen Publishing).
Before entering academia, Lund clerked for Chief Justice Leo E. Strine Jr. of the Delaware Supreme Court and Judge Joel M. Flaum of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit. She also practiced corporate law at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York. Lund joined Columbia Law School as professor of law on July 1, 2023. Prior to coming to the Law School, she was associate professor of law at University of Southern California Gould School of Law. Lund has also held visiting professorships at the University of Chicago Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.
Elizabeth Emens is the Thomas M. Macioce Professor of Law and the Director of the Mindfulness Program at Columbia Law School. She writes and teaches on disability law, family law, anti-discrimination law, contracts law, and law and sexuality, as well as teaching in the Law School’s Davis Polk Leadership Initiative. She clerked for Judge Robert D. Sack of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and she earned her JD and BA from Yale and her PhD from King's College, Cambridge. Her teacher training in mindfulness has been through the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness, the Mindful Schools program, and the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program.
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