Judd Sneirson
Professor Judd Sneirson is an expert in corporate governance, sustainable business, and corporate social responsibility. He published the first and only law school coursebook on sustainability as it relates to business law and has been active in an international group of law professors working to make corporate sustainability a reality. His other scholarship has appeared in top law journals and in the Cambridge Handbook of Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, and Sustainability.
Professor Sneirson teaches business entities, common-law contracts, commercial law, a corporate sustainability seminar, and related courses. Prior to beginning his teaching career, Professor Sneirson was a law clerk in federal district court in New Jersey and a litigation associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher in New York. He graduated from Williams College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Books and Book Chapters:
- Sustainability & Business Law (Carolina Academic Press 2017) (with Nancy Shurtz)
- The History of Shareholder Primacy from Adam Smith Through the Rise of Financialism, in Cambridge Handbook of Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, and Sustainability 73 (Cambridge University Press 2020)
Law Review Articles:
- Veil Piercing in Georgia, 74 Mercer Law Review (forthcoming 2022)
- Shareholder Primacy and Corporate Compliance, 26 Fordham Environmental Law Review 450 (2015)
- Chevron, Greenwashing, and the Myth of “Green Oil Companies,” 2 Washington & Lee Journal of Energy, Climate, and the Environment 133 (2012) (with Miriam Cherry)
- The Sustainable Corporation and Shareholder Profits, 46 Wake Forest Law Review 541 (2011)
- Beyond Profit: Rethinking Corporate Social Responsibility After the BP Oil Disaster, 85 Tulane Law Review 983 (2011) (with Miriam Cherry)
- Race to the Left: A Legislator’s Guide to Greening a Corporate Code, 88 Oregon Law Review 491 (2009)
- Green Is Good: Sustainability, Profitability, and a New Paradigm for Corporate Governance, 94 Iowa Law Review 987 (2009)
- Soft Paternalism for Close Corporations: Helping Shareholders Help Themselves, 2008 Wisconsin Law Review 899, reprinted in 51 Corporate Practice Commentator 393 (2009) (peer reviewed)
- Doing Well by Doing Good: Leveraging Due Care for Better, More Socially Responsible Corporate Decisionmaking, 3 Corporate Governance Law Review 438 (2007) (peer reviewed)
- Merger Agreements, Termination Fees, and the Contract-Corporate Tension, 2002 Columbia Business Law Review 574