Biography
Professor Thompson teaches courses in the corporate and securities area, including mergers and limited liability. He joined the Georgetown faculty in 2010 after visiting in 2009-10. Previous positions include service as the New York Alumni Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Professor of Management at Vanderbilt University and the George Alexander Madill Professor of Law at Washington University. He has visited at New York University and Northwestern University and has taught intensive courses at the University of Sydney. He has authored or co-authored casebooks on corporations and on mergers, treatises on Close Corporations and Oppression of Minority Shareholders and LLC Members, and more than 50 articles. Professor Thompson has testified before committees of Congress, a state legislature, and the New York Stock Exchange. He has served since 1991 as editor of the Corporate Practice Commentator, served as an adviser for the American Law Institute's Restatement (Third) of Agency and chaired two sections of the Association of American Law Schools.
Employment
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2010-Present Peter P. Weidenbruch Jr. Professor of Business Law, Georgetown University Law Center
2009-2010 Ralph V. Whitworth Distinguished Visiting Professor in Business Law, Georgetown University Law Center 2000-2010 Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 2000-2010 New York Alumni Chancellor’s Chair in Law 2005-2010 Professor of Management, Owen Graduate School of Management 2003-2004 FedEx Research Professor Spring, 2008 Visiting Professor of Law, New York University School of Law 1979-2000 Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, MO |
1993 - 2000 George Alexander Madill Professor of Law
1999 - 2000 Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies 1993 - 1994 Interim Co-Director, Business Law & Economics Center,John M. Olin School of Business 1984 - 1993 Professor of Law 1990 - 1991 Israel Treiman Faculty Fellow 1979 - 1984 Associate Professor of Law 2000, 2002, 2004 & 2010 University of Sydney Law School (short course on International Merges and Acquisitions) Fall, 1992 Visiting Professor of Law, Northwestern University 1974-1979 Associate, Jones, Bird & Howell (summer 1973) Atlanta, Georgia (Now Alston & Bird) |
EducationUniversity of Virginia, J.D., 1974 (Order of the Coif)
(Member, Virginia Law Review) Vanderbilt University, B.A., 1971 (Phi Beta Kappa) TestimonyU. S. House of Representatives, Joint Hearing of the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises of the Committee on Financial Services and the Subcommittee on TARP, Financial Services and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, “The JOBS Act: Importance of Prompt Implementation for Entrepreneurs, Capital Formation, and Job Creation” September 13, 2012
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Finance and Hazardous Materials, Hearings on H.R. 887, Increasing Disclosure to Benefit Investors, October 29, 1999 North Carolina House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on Proposed Revision to the North Carolina Corporations Code, April 1989 Special Committee on Governance of the New York Stock Exchange, August 5, 2003 |
Professional ActivitiesEditor, Corporate Practice Commentator - 1991-present
Member, The American Law Institute (from 1986) Adviser, Restatement of the Law (Third), Agency, American Law Institute Member, American Law & Economics Association. Chair, Section on Business Associations, Association of American Law Schools 1985-86 Chair, Section on Securities Regulation. Association of American Law Schools 2003-2004; member of Executive Committee of the Section 2003-2005 Member, Committee on Corporate Laws, American Bar Association Section on Business Law, 2011-present Member, Executive Committee, Order of the Coif (2007-2012) Teacher of the Year, 1994 and 1983 - selected by the Devil’s Advocate and the Student Bar Association |
Conference Organizer
Vanderbilt Directors College, June 9-10, 2003, September 23-24, 2004 and October 6-7, 2005
Vanderbilt Law and Business Conference
Sloan Conference on Corporate Separateness (November 2009)
Corporate Separateness (March 2006)
Who Makes Corporate Law (October 2003)
Markets and Information Gathering: Securities Regulation in an Electronic Age, March 1997
The F. Hodge O’Neal Conference on Corporate Law & Finance, November 1991
Vanderbilt Law and Business Conference
Sloan Conference on Corporate Separateness (November 2009)
Corporate Separateness (March 2006)
Who Makes Corporate Law (October 2003)
Markets and Information Gathering: Securities Regulation in an Electronic Age, March 1997
The F. Hodge O’Neal Conference on Corporate Law & Finance, November 1991
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