Eric Talley
Eric Talley is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. An expert on the intersection of corporate law, governance, and finance, he also co-directs the Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership and is a two-time recipient of the Law School’s Willis L.M. Reese Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
Before joining Columbia in 2015, Talley held tenured faculty appointments at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Southern California. He has also held visiting appointments at Caltech, Pardee-RAND Graduate School, University of Chicago, Harvard University, Georgetown University, and Stanford University.
He received his bachelor's in economics and political science from the University of California at San Diego and his JD and PhD in economics from Stanford University.
Eric Talley
Sep 19, 2011
I have spent the last few days reading the recent study by Clifford Winston, Robert W. Crandall, and Vikram Maheshri, entitled “First Thing We Do: Let’s Deregulate All the Lawyers” (Brookings Institution, 2011, $19.95). In it, the authors marshal a variety of empirical methods to argue that the current practice of state bar admission and ... Eric Talley on Deregulating Lawyers: Comments From a Knee-jerk Skeptic
