Professor Afsharipour's Research Selected as Top 10 Corporate and Securities Article

Business law scholars have selected a publication by Professor Afra Afsharipour as a Top 10 Corporate and Securities Article of 2024. 

In its 31st annual poll to choose the 10 best corporate and securities articles, the Corporate Practice Commentator asked scholars in corporate and securities law to vote for outstanding work published in legal journals during 2024. Afsharipour's article, Gender and the Social Structure of Exclusion in U.S. Corporate Law, published in the University of Chicago Law Review with Matthew Jennejohn, was selected from a list of more than 300 publications. 

Afsharipour's article has been featured in many forums including: 

This is the second time Corporate Practice Commentator has featured Afsharipour's work. In 2011, corporate law professors selected her article Transforming the Allocation of Deal Risk Through Reverse Termination Fees, published in the Vanderbilt Law Review, for the top 10 list. 

Corporate Practice Commentator is a set of journals featuring articles written on all aspects of corporate law. The articles poll began in 1994. 

Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law Afra Afsharipour’s areas of research include corporate law and governance, mergers and acquisitions, transactional law, and the legal profession. From 2018-2024, she served as Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Her scholarship has appeared in the Columbia Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and UC Davis Law Review, among other leading publications.