J. Haskell Murray
Assistant Professor
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Business Associations and Mergers & Acquisitions
J.D. 2006, Georgia State University College of Law; Editorial Board, Georgia State University Law Review.
B.A. 2003, Rhodes College.
Biography
Professor Murray teaches various corporate law courses in the law school, including Business Associations and Mergers & Acquisitions. Professor Murray’s research focuses on corporate governance, mergers & acquisitions and social enterprise related issues. Immediately prior to joining Regent's faculty, Professor Murray served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Georgia State University College of Law. He also taught multiple sections of The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business at Georgia State University's J. Mack Robinson College of Business.
Before entering academia, Professor Murray practiced law as a member of King & Spalding's mergers and acquisitions team in Atlanta, GA, where he worked on domestic and international transactions totaling over five billion dollars in value. Professor Murray left King & Spalding to clerk for former Vice Chancellor Stephen P. Lamb on the Delaware Court of Chancery. Following his clerkship, Professor Murray was recruited to Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York City, NY where he practiced as part of the firm's corporate governance and securities litigation group. In law school, Professor Murray received the Attorney’s Title Guaranty Scholarship, was elected to the editorial board of the Georgia State University Law Review, graduated second in his class and received “high distinction” for his pro bono work.
Publications
- Purpose with Profit: Governance, Enforcement, Capital-Raising and Capital-Locking in Low-Profit Limited Liability Companies, (co-author) 66 U. Miami L. Rev. 1 (2011).
- “Latchkey Corporations”: Fiduciary Duties in Wholly Owned, Financially Troubled Subsidiaries, 36 Del. J. Corp. L. 577 (2011).
- An Analysis of Actions Brought Pursuant to DGCL 220 When Discovery is Stayed Pursuant to the PSLRA, 1740 Practicing Law Institute/Corporate 55 (2009).
- Annual Survey of Georgia Business Associations, (co-author) 59 Mercer L. Rev. 35 (2007).
- Note on the Georgia Residential Mortgage Fraud Act, 22 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 49 (2005).
