Education
- JD, magna cum laude, University of Michigan Law School, 1980
- BS in Mathematics, cum laude, Ohio State University, 1975
Alan Palmiter has a national and international reputation as a teacher-scholar of corporate law, securities regulation, sustainable corporations, energy law, and legal valuation.
He is interested in "corporate sustainability" and "corporate democracy," including the dynamics of corporate responses to climate change, the evolving role of shareholders in corporate governance, the ascendance of ESG disclosure, and the personal incentives underlying corporate transformation.
He has authored top-selling texts on Corporations/Business Organizations and Securities Regulation (published by Aspen Publishers and West Publishing), as well as the first-ever textbook on … Read more »
Alan Palmiter has a national and international reputation as a teacher-scholar of corporate law, securities regulation, sustainable corporations, energy law, and legal valuation.
He is interested in "corporate sustainability" and "corporate democracy," including the dynamics of corporate responses to climate change, the evolving role of shareholders in corporate governance, the ascendance of ESG disclosure, and the personal incentives underlying corporate transformation.
He has authored top-selling texts on Corporations/Business Organizations and Securities Regulation (published by Aspen Publishers and West Publishing), as well as the first-ever textbook on Sustainable Corporations (Aspen Publishers). His articles have been published both nationally and internationally, and eight of them have been republished as among the best corporate/securities law articles of the year.
He has hosted ground-breaking symposia on Corporate Governance and Climate Change,The Sustainable Corporation, Agency Theory: Still Viable?, Future of Sovereign Wealth Funds, and SMEs & Sustainability. He is on the board of Wake Forest's Sabin Center for Environment and Sustainability.
He graduated from The Ohio State University (BS - math, 1975) and the University of Michigan (JD, 1980). He taught high school math in Medellín, Colombia (1976-77), and practiced law with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in Washington, DC (1980-86). He joined the Wake Forest law faculty in 1986.
He has also been a visiting law professor at Universidad de Los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia), the University of Michigan, the University of Padua (Italy), the University of Bergamo (Italy), Brooklyn Law School, and the University of Bologna (Italy).
He was born in India and grew up in Bolivia and Toledo, Ohio. He and his wife have two children.
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