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Keith SharfmanKeith Sharfman - Professor of Law
E-mail: keith.sharfman@marquette.edu
Phone: (414) 288-3250



Biography:
Keith Sharfman teaches and writes in the areas of antitrust, bankruptcy, commercial law, corporate finance, corporate reorganization, law and economics, and legal valuation. He has taught previously at Cornell Law School and Florida State University as a visiting professor and at Rutgers School of Law as a tenured professor.

Professor Sharfman received a B.A. in economics and international relations from Johns Hopkins and a J.D. from the University of Chicago. Following law school, he clerked for Judge Frank Easterbrook of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and then was an associate at Latham & Watkins, where he worked on a wide range of antitrust, bankruptcy, corporate finance, and intellectual property matters.

For more than a decade, Professor Sharfman has published extensively in a variety of scholarly journals. Recent articles include Contractual Valuation Mechanisms and Corporate Law, 2 VIRGINIA LAW & BUSINESS REVIEW 53 (2007); Judicial Valuation Behavior: Some Evidence from Bankruptcy, 32 FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 387 (2005); Derivative Suits in Bankruptcy, 10 STANFORD JOURNAL OF LAW, BUSINESS & FINANCE 1 (2004); Valuation Averaging: A New Procedure for Resolving Valuation Disputes, 88 MINNESOTA LAW REVIEW 357 (2003); and Is It Ever Too Late for Innocence?, 64 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH LAW REVIEW 263 (2003) (with George C. Thomas et al.).

In recognition of his scholarship, the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges selected Professor Sharfman in 2006 as an American Bankruptcy Law Journal Fellow, and in 2007 he became a member of the Journal’s editorial advisory board.


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