• Professor, School of Law
• Professor, Economics
• Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
• Fellow, Center in Political Economy

Drobak

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• B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Management Science at MIT
• J.D. at Stanford University

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The "New" Corporate Governance Media, SEC members, attorneys, business leaders and academics to examine impact of corporate governance reforms Sept. 29-Oct. 1 Sept. 15, 2005 -- Over the past five years, corporate governance has undergone historic changes. In addition to new policies enacted by state judiciaries and attorneys general, Congress adopted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enacted important securities law reforms, and the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ reformed listing standards. The world's leading experts on corporate governance will come together to discuss the impact of these changes during a conference at Washington University in St. Louis Sept. 29 - Oct. 1.

"Globalization, the State, and Society" Conference to be held at School of Law Nov. 13-14 Nov. 4, 2003 -- The Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, the Whitney R. Harris Institute for Global Legal Studies and the Department of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis will present the conference, "Globalization, the State, and Society," Nov. 13-14 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser Busch Hall. This event, which is free and open to the public, is planned as part of the University's Sesquicentennial celebration.

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A native of upstate New York Drobak earned Bachelor of Science degrees in electrical engineering and management science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970. He entered law school at Stanford University, where his studies included courses that applied economic analysis to legal problems. After earning his law degree from Stanford University in 1973, he clerked for the California Court of Appeal and them practiced law for five years with the firm Tyler, Cooper in New Haven, Connecticut. He joined the law faculty as Washington University in 1979 and now holds appointments in both the school of Law and the Department of Economics in Arts & Sciences. Additionally, since 1991 Drobak has taught in an M.B.A. program for Eastern Europeans At the United States Business School in Prague, Czech Republic.

Recent Publications

Books

• Frontiers of the New Institutional Economics (eds. Drobak & Nye, Academic Press 1997)

Articles

• "Law Matters,"76 Washington University Law Quarterly 97 (1998)

Chapters in Books

• "Credible Commitment in the United States: Substantive and Structural Limits on the Avoidance of Public Debt" in Frontiers of the New Institutional Economics (above)

• "Legal Change in Economic Analysis" in Elgar Companion to Law and Economics (Edward Elgar, London 1998)

• "Cognitive Science" in Elgar Companion to Law and Economics (Edward Elgar, London1998)

• "Cognition, Institutional Economics, and Technological Innovation" in Proceedings of the 1998 NSF Design and Manufacturing Grantees Conference