Scott Hirst Joins BU Law Faculty as Associate Professor
Previously the research director of the Harvard Law School Program on Institutional Investors, Hirst will teach Corporations and Corporate Governance.
Scott Hirst has joined Boston University School of law as an associate professor teaching Corporations in the fall and Corporate Governance in the spring. Hirst’s research seeks to explain phenomena in corporate law, securities regulation, and related areas, and to inform policy making on these subjects. His work combines empirical methods and conceptual analyses from finance, accounting, and economics, with close attention to the institutional environment within which corporations and investors make decisions.
Hirst’s recent scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Yale Journal on Regulation, the Harvard Business Law Review, the Journal of Corporation Law and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. It has been referred to by the Securities and Exchange Commission in its rule making and discussed in the Wall Street Journal, among other places.
Before joining BU Law, Hirst served as research director of the Program on Institutional Investors at Harvard Law School and practiced for seven years in the mergers and acquisitions group of Shearman & Sterling LLP in New York. Hirst received Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) and Master of Laws (LLM) degrees from Harvard Law School, and Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce degrees from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.
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