Elizabeth Pollman

Professor Pollman teaches business law courses and her research focuses on corporate governance, purpose, and personhood as well as on startups, entrepreneurship, and law and technology.

She was the 2014 recipient of the ESBA Excellence in Teaching Award at Loyola Law School and has taught as a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Sydney Law School, and UC Berkeley School of Law. She has served on the ABA Corporate Laws Committee, the Executive Committee of the AALS section on Business Associations, and the Organizing Committee for the National Business Law Scholars Conference. Her media appearances include NPR Morning Edition, Bloomberg, The Atlantic, and the Los Angeles Times.

Before joining the Loyola faculty, Pollman was a fellow at the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University, and a lecturer and Thomas C. Grey fellow at Stanford Law School. She previously practiced as a transactional lawyer and business litigator at Latham & Watkins in Silicon Valley and Los Angeles. She clerked for the Honorable Raymond C. Fisher of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She earned both her B.A. and J.D., with distinction, from Stanford University. Before law school, she managed a business development team at a publishing startup that was acquired by one of the country’s largest newspaper publishers.