Professor Robert B. Thompson
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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

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)

Education

University of Virginia, J.D., 1974 (Order of the Coif)
 (Member, Virginia Law Review)
Vanderbilt University, B.A., 1971 (Phi Beta Kappa)

Testimony

U. 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 Activities

Editor, 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
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