Lawrence A. Hamermesh

Lawrence Hammermesh


Education

• Ruby R. Vale Professor of Corporate and Business Law
•  B.A., Haverford College,1973; J.D., Yale Law School, 1976

• Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, Delaware (associate from 1976-84, partner 1985-94)

• Areas of teaching and writing: corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, securities regulation, business organizations, and professional responsibility.

• 1995 - present, member, Council of the Corporation Law Section of the Delaware State Bar Association (responsible for the annual review and modernization of the Delaware General Corporation Law), and Chair of the Council from 2002 to 2004

• January 2010 to June 2011, senior special counsel in the Office of Chief Counsel of the Division of Corporation Finance of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C.  (advising the Staff of the Commission on matters of state corporate law pertinent to the regulatory functions of the Commission)

• Reporter, 2013 - , Corporate Laws Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Business Law (responsible for the drafting and revision of the Model Business Corporation Act); 2001 to 2007, member of the Committee

• 2002 and 2003, Reporter for the American Bar Association's Task Force on Corporate Responsibility 

• 1999 - present, member, American Law Institute

• 1985-2009, and July 2011 - present, member of the Board of Directors of ACLU Delaware, Inc., representing that organization on the National Board of the ACLU from 2004 to 2009