<< english   << japanese   << back to main page  
Prof. Cox

 
Professor James D. Cox
Professor Cox is the Brainerd Currie Professor of Law at Duke. He joined the faculty of the School of Law at Duke in 1979 where he specializes in the areas of corporate and securities law. Prior to moving to Durham, Jim taught at the law schools of Boston University, the University of San Francisco, the University of California, Hastings College of Law and Stanford. During the 1988-89 academic year, Jim was a Senior Research Fulbright Fellow at the University of Sydney. Professor Cox earned his B.S. from Arizona State University and law degrees at University of California, Hastings College of the Law (J.D.) and Harvard Law School (LL.M.).

In addition to his texts Financial Information, Accounting and the Law, Corporations (2d ed 2003) (with Hazen & O’neal) and Securities Regulations Cases and Materials (3d ed 2002) (with Hillman & Langevoort), Professor Cox has published extensively in the areas of market regulation and corporate governance as well as having testified before the U.S. House and Senate on insider trading and market reform issues. The Corporation treatise won the Association of American Publishers National Book Award for Best New Professional/Scholarly Legal Book for 1995. He served as a member of the corporate law drafting committees in California (1977-80) and North Carolina (1984-1993). He serves as a consultant to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Recently Professor Cox has conducted training programs for securities regulators in Bosnia, China and Thailand and has lectured in Argentina, Australia, Chile, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom.

Professor Cox’s memberships include the American Law Institute, the NYSE Legal Advisory Committee, the NASD Legal Advisory Board, and Fulbright Law Discipline Review Committee.