Lynn A. Stout
Professor of Law
UCLA School of Law
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B.A. Princeton, 1979
M.P.A. Princeton, 1982
J.D. Yale, 1982

Professor Lynn A. Stout is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of corporate governance, securities regulation, law and economics, and the study of moral behavior. Professor Stout has published numerous articles and books on these topics and lectures widely. She is the Principal Investigator for the UCLA-Sloan Foundation Research Program on Business Organizations, and also serves as Independent Trustee and Chair of the Governance Committee for the Eaton Vance family of mutual funds. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Law and Economics Association, past Chair of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Law and Economics, and past Chair of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Business Associations. Professor Stout has also taught at Harvard Law School, NYU Law School, Georgetown University Law School, and the George Washington University National Law Center, and served as a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. She holds a B.A. summa cum laude and a Masters in Public Affairs from Princeton University, and a J.D. from the Yale Law School.

B.A. 1970, Swarthmore College
J.D. 1973, New York University

Professor DeMott spent her early years in DuBois, Pennsylvania. She served as articles editor of the New York University Law Review. She began her professional career with a judicial clerkship in a federal court in New York City, and later practiced with a large law firm in that city, until she joined the Duke law faculty in 1975. In 1989, she received the Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award from Duke University. Since 1995 Professor DeMott has served as the Reporter for the American Law Institute's Restatement (Third) of Agency. From 2000-02, she holds a secondary appointment as Centennial Visiting Professor in the Law Department of the London School of Economics. She has also taught at the Universities of Melbourne, Texas, Colorado, San Diego, the Hastings College of Law of the University of California, and at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto. In 1986 she was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Sydney and Monash Universities in Australia. In Spring 1996 Professor DeMott held the Hurst C. Huber Visiting Chair at the University of Florida College of Law. In Spring 1998 she was the Scholar in Residence at the Frances Lewis Law Center, Washington and Lee University School of Law. In Spring 1999 she was in residence at the University of Auckland as the New Zealand Legal Research Foundation Visiting Fellow. She is the author of a treatise, Shareholder Derivative Actions, published in 1987 and a casebook, Fiduciary Obligation, Agency and Partnership, published in 1991. Her other writing concerns corporate law, takeovers and acquisitions, and fiduciary obligation.