Faculty

Alan Palmiter

Professor of Law

Phone: 336.758.5711
Email: alan.palmiter@wfu.edu

Books 

  • Corporations Law & Policy: Materials and Problems (6th edition 2007), West Group (with Jeffrey D. Bauman, Georgetown University Law Center, and Frank Partnoy, University of San Diego School of Law) (5th edition 2003) (with Jeffrey D. Bauman, Georgetown University Law Center and Elliott J. Weiss, University of Arizona College of Law) (Casebook Supplements - 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)
  • Law & Valuation: Cases and Materials, Wake Forest University Professional Center (JD-MBA web-based course materials) (first published 1999).
  • Corporations: Examples and Explanations (5th ed. 2006) (4th ed. 2003) (3rd ed. 1999) (2nd ed. 1994) (1st ed. 1989), Aspen Law & Business (formerly Little Brown & Co.) (first three editions with Lewis D. Solomon, George Washington University Law School) (re-published in China, 2004)
  • Securities Regulation: Examples and Explanations (3rd ed. 2005) (2nd ed. 2002) (1st ed. 1998), Aspen Law & Business

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  • US Securities Litigation: A Comparative Study (translated by Prof. Carlo Amatucci, University of Naples – Federico II, Italy) (in process) (to be published in TRATTATO DI DIRITTO COMMERCIALE, Direttore del Trattato: Prof. Vincenzo Buonocore, Giappichelli Editore) 
  • Comparative Company Law: Legislation, Cases and Materials (with Prof. James Fanto and Prof. Arthur Pinto, Brooklyn Law School) (in process)
 Monographs
 
  • "Regulation of US Legal Profession: A Story of Market Protection," Conference of EU Notariats (CNUE) (Oct. 2005) (also translated into French), available at www.cnue-nouvelles.be/fr/congres-2005-en/001.html  
  • "Arbitraje Comercial y Otros Métodos de Resolución de Conflictos en Sociedades Comerciales en Los Estados Unidos [Non-Judicial Dispute Resolution in the United States]" (2001, published by Chamber of Commerce, Bogotá, Colombia ) (with Prof. Francisco Reyes, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia) 
Articles  
  • Mutual Fund Investors: Profiles in Cognitive Bias, (with Prof. Ahmed Taha, in process)
  • U.S. Securities Fraud Class Actions: An Overview (to be published in European Law Review, an English-language collaboration of various European faculty-edited law reviews) (in process)
  • US Mutual Funds: The Awakening Behemoth?, presented at Anton Philips Fund Conference on Large Shareholder Participation in Corporate Governance, Tilburg University, Groenendael Philips Training Centre, Hilvarenbeek,The Netherlands (June 2006)
  • The Mutual Fund Board: A Failed Experiment in Regulatory Outsourcing, 1 Brooklyn J. Corp. Fin. & Comm. Law 165-208 (2006) (excerpted in 16 Fund Directions Mar. 2007), available at http://www.brooklaw.edu/students/journals/bjcfcl/(165-208)PALMITERv2.pdf
  • Mutual Fund Voting of Portfolio Shares: Why Not Disclose? 23 Cardozo Law Review 1419-1491 (2002) (excerpted in 22 THE CORPORATE BOARD 15, Nov/Dec 2001) (reprinted in Corporate Practice Commentator, selected by corporate/securities law professors as one of ten best corporate law articles of year) http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=269337
  • Arbitration Federalism: A State Role in Commercial Arbitration (with Dr. Stephen A. Hayford, Graduate School of Business, University of Indiana - Bloomington) 54 Fla. L. Rev. 175-227 (2002) http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=298720
  • Toward Disclosure Choice in Securities Offerings, 1999 Col. Bus. L. Rev. 1-135 (reprinted in Securities Law Review (selected by corporate/securities law professors as one of ten best securities law articles of year) http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=163648
  • Deberes Fiduciarios de Administradores de Empresas en los Estados Unidos [U.S. Corporate Fiduciary Duties], published in EL DERECHO SOCIETARIO CONTEMPORÁNEO, Primer Congreso Iberoamericano de Derecho Empresarial, Bogotá, Colombia (1996)
  • Judicial Schizophrenia in Shareholder Voting Cases, 79 Iowa L. Rev. 485-583 (1994) (with Dale A. Oesterle) (reprinted in Corporate Practice Commentator, selected by corporate/securities law professors as one of ten best corporate law articles of year)
  • The Shareholder Proposal Rule: A Failed Experiment in Merit Regulation, 19 Ala. L. Rev. 879-926 (Symposium Issue) (1994) (reprinted in Securities Law Review and Corporate Law Anthology, selected by corporate/securities law professors as one of ten best securities law and corporate law articles)
  • The CTS Gambit: Stanching the Federalization of Corporate Law, 69 Wash. U. L. Q. 445-564 (Symposium Issue) (1991)
  • Rethinking the Corporate Fiduciary Model: A Director's Duty of Independence, 67 Tex. L. Rev. 1345-1464 (1989) (reviewed in D. Sciulli, CORPORATE POWER IN CIVIL SOCIETY : AN APPLICATION OF SOCIETAL CONSTITUTIONALISM, 2001, NYU Press) 
Essays/Professional Publications/Papers Presented  
  • “N.C. Business Law Update,” prepared for N.C. Bar Ass’n Business Law Section Annual Meeting (Feb. 2007)
  •  “US Mutual Funds: The Awakening Behemoth?”, prepared for Anton Philips Fund Conference on Large Shareholder Participation in Corporate Governance, Tilburg University, Groenendael Philips Training Centre, Hilvarenbeek,The Netherlands (June 2006)
  •  “The Mutual Fund Board: A Failed Experiment in Regulatory Outsourcing,” presented at Brooklyn Law School Securities Enforcement Symposium (Mar. 2006)
  •  “N.C. Business Law Update,” prepared for N.C. Bar Ass’n Business Law Section Annual Meeting (Feb. 2006)
  •  “Corporate Criminality: Reflections on Political Economy,” comments at conference on Criminalization of Corporate Law: The Impact of Criminal Sanctions on Corporate Misconduct, University of Maryland School of Law (Apr. 2006), to be published in Maryland Journal of Business & Technology (2007)
  •  “Regulation of US Legal Profession: A Story of Market Protection,” prepared for First Congress of Conference of EU Notariats (CNUE), Rome, Italy (Oct. 2005) (also translated into French) www.cnue-nouvelles.be/fr/congres-2005-en/001.html
  •  “NC Business Law Update,” prepared for N.C. Bar Ass’n Business Law Section Annual Meeting (Feb. 2005)
  •  “The Talking Dog: US Securities Fraud Class Actions,” prepared for conference on Class Actions e Mercati Finanziari, University of Naples – Federico II, Naples Italy (Dec. 2004)
  •  “Mutual Fund Directors: Roles Beyond Supervision,” presented at ABA/Maryland conference on mutual funds (Nov. 2004), published in inaugural issue of Maryland Journal of Business & Technology (2006) (collection of essays on mutual fund regulation)
  •  “N.C. Business Law Update,” prepared for N.C. Bar Ass’n Business Law Section Annual Meeting (Feb. 2004)
  •  “The US Corporate Elephant,” Opening Convocations, Notarial Schools, Bologna and Milan, Italy (Oct. 2003) http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=658522
  •  “Structure of US Corporate Law” (Le Caratteristiche Fondamentali dell’Ordinamento Statunitense delle Societa Commerciali, 10 Notariato Quaderni 7 (2003)
  •  “N.C. Business Law Update,” prepared for N.C. Bar Ass’n Business Law Section Annual Meeting (Feb. 2002)
  •  Guidebook for Board Members of N.C. Nonprofits, N.C. Center for Nonprofits and Business Law Section of N.C. Bar Association (2002), available at http://business.ncbar.org/Legal+Resources/Publications/Downloads_GetFile.aspx?id=3571
  •  Latin Notaries in America (A proposito di una visita di un gruppo di notai italiaini in una ‘la school’ americana), XII-3 Attivita 90 (September 2001)
  •  “N.C. Business Law Update,” prepared for N.C. Bar Ass’n Business Law Section Annual Meeting (Feb. 2001)
  •  “What Every Criminal Defense Attorney Should Know About the New Immigration Laws” True Bill (NC Bar Ass’n Criminal Justice Section) (Nov. 2000)
  •  “The Challenge of Financial Transparency in the United States,” U.S. Embassy - American Chamber of Commerce, La Paz, Bolivia (in Spanish) (June 2000)
  •  “Corporate Governance in the United States - A Recent History,” presented at Instituto Desarrollo de Empresarios y Administradores, La Paz, Bolivia (in Spanish) (June 2000)
  •  “SEC Proposes To Reform the Regulation of Securities Offerings: Will the ‘Aircraft Carrier’ Survive?,” Notes Bearing Interest (N.C. Bar Ass’n) (June 1999)
  •  “N.C. Business Law Update,” prepared for N.C. Bar Ass’n Business Law Section Annual Meeting (Feb. 1999)
  •  “Limited Engagements,” Wake Forest Jurist (June 1997)
  •  “Securities Law Developments,” N.C. Bar Ass’n Continuing Legal Education (Feb. 1997)
  •  “Takeovers and Acquisitions,” N.C. Bar Ass’n Continuing Legal Education (Mar. 1992)