Professor Michael Klausner

Michael Klausner is the Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business and Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and Visiting Professor of Law at NYU. Professor Klausner recently published a book entitled Deals: The Economic Foundations of Business Transactions. He teaches a course with the same title and courses on corporate law and corporate governance. In recent years, in addition to his book, he has written articles exposing the dysfunction of special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs). Before beginning his academic career, Professor Klausner practiced law in Washington, D.C. and Hong Kong. He was a White House Fellow from 1989 to 1990, a law clerk for Judge David Bazelon on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1981-82 and a law clerk for Justice William Brennan on the United States Supreme Court. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (B.A) and Yale University (J.D. and M.A. in Economics).