James Spindler

Professor James Spindler holds the Mark L. Hart, Jr. Endowed Chair in Corporate and Securities Law and is a Professor at the McCombs School of Business. He teaches in the areas of securities regulation, capital markets, corporate law, tax, and corporate finance. His research focuses on securities disclosure and trading, corporate fraud, corporate governance, and executive compensation, and has appeared in journals including the Journal of Legal Studies, the American Law & Economics Review, and the law reviews of Chicago, Pennsylvania, and Georgetown. Professor Spindler has served as a consultant and expert witness on subjects including securities fraud, banking, corporate governance and fiduciary duties, and commercial contracts.

Prior to joining the University of Texas School of Law, Professor Spindler taught at the University of Southern California. Before entering academia, he practiced in the New York and Hong Kong offices of Cravath, Swaine & Moore in its securities and banking groups. Professor Spindler holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an A.B. in Political Economy from Princeton University.

Specialties

• Business Associations
• Corporate Law, Finance, Securities and Reorganization
• Economics and the Law

EDUCATION

• U.C.L.A. DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS, Ph.D. 2010, C.Phil. 2008, M.A. 2007
  National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship

• HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, J.D. 2000
  Magna cum laude
  John M. Olin Prize in Law and Economics

• PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, A.B. 1997
  Magna cum laude in Politics, certificate in Political Economy