Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law

Professor Macey is the author of several books including the two volume treatise, Macey on Corporation Laws, published in 1998 (Aspen Law & Business), and co-author of two leading casebooks, Corporations: Including Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies (2003 Thompsen/West), which is in its eighth edition, and Banking Law and Regulation, (2002 Aspen Law & Business), which is now in its third edition. He also is the author of over 100 scholarly articles. His recent articles have appeared in the Banking Law Journal, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Stanford Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Cornell Law Review, the Journal of Law and Economics, and the Brookings Wharton Papers on Financial Institutions. He has published numerous editorials in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, the Los Angeles Times and the National Law Journal.  Professor Macey is a member of the National Adjudicatory Council and the National Association of Securities Dealers.

Selected Books
Corporations, Including Limited Liability Companies and Partnerships (with R. Hamilton), 10th ed., 2007

Banking Law & Regulation (with G. Miller and R. Carnell), 3rd ed., 2002

Selected Publications
"Getting the Word out About Fraud," Michigan Law Review, Vol. 105, 1899, 2007

"Too Many Notes and Not Enough Votes: Lucian Bebchuk and Emperor Joseph II Kvetch about Contested Director Elections and Mozart’s Seraglio," Virginia Law Review, Vol. 93, No. 759, 2007

"Executive Branch Usurpation of Power: Corporations and Capital Markets," Yale Law Journal, Vol. 9, No. 115, 2416, 2006

"The Nature of Conflicts of Interest Within the Firm," The Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 31, No. 613, 2006

"Government as Investor: Tax Policy and the State," Social Philosophy & Policy, Vol. 23, 2006

"Was Arthur Andersen Different? An Empirical Examination of Major Accounting Firm Audits of Large Clients" (with T. Eisenberg), Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 1, No. 38, 263-300, July, 2004

"Monitoring, Corporate Performance: The Role of Objectivity, Proximity and Adaptability in Corporate Governance" (with A. Boot), Cornell Law Review, Vol. 89, No.2, 356-393, 2004

"Efficient Capital Markets, Corporate Disclosure and Enron," Cornell Law Review, Vol. 89, No. 2, 394-422, 2004

"A Pox on Both Your Houses: Enron, Sarbanes-Oxley and the Debate Concerning the Relative Efficiency of Mandatory Versus Enabling Rules, 81," Washington University Law Quarterly, Vol. 329, 2003

"Commodification, Independence, Governance, and the Demise of the Accounting Profession" (with H. Sale), 48 Villanova Law Review, Vol. 1167, 2003

Education
JD Yale Law School, 1982
PhD honoris causa Stockholm School of Economics, 1996