Keith Sharfman
Professor of Law & Associate Director of Bankruptcy
Studies
Keith Sharfman, who together with Professor Warner directs
bankruptcy studies at St. John's, teaches and writes
in the areas of antitrust, bankruptcy, commercial law, corporate
finance, corporate reorganization, law and economics, and legal
valuation. He received a B.A. in economics and international
relations from Johns Hopkins and a J.D. from the University of
Chicago, where he served as a research assistant to Judge
Richard Posner and Professor Cass Sunstein. Following law school,
he clerked for Judge Frank Easterbrook of the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Seventh Circuit and then was an associate at Latham &
Watkins, where he worked on a wide range of antitrust, bankruptcy,
corporate finance, and intellectual property matters. Prior to
joining the St. John's faculty, he was tenured at Rutgers
and Marquette and also taught as a visitor at Cornell
and Florida State.
Professor Sharfman has written extensively. His published
works include “Contractual Valuation Mechanisms and Corporate
Law,” 2 Virginia Law & Business Review 53 (2007);
“Judicial Valuation Behavior: Some Evidence from
Bankruptcy,”32 Florida State University Law Review
387 (2005); “Derivative Suits in Bankruptcy,” 10
Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance 1 (2004);
“Valuation Averaging: A New Procedure for Resolving Valuation
Disputes,” 88 Minnesota Law Review 357 (2003); and
“Is It Ever Too Late for Innocence?,” 64 University of
Pittsburgh Law Review 263 (2003) (with George C. Thomas et
al.).
In recognition of his scholarship, the National Conference of
Bankruptcy Judges selected Professor Sharfman in 2006 as an
American Bankruptcy Law Journal Fellow, and in 2007 he became a
member of that Journal’s editorial advisory board. He also serves
as faculty advisor to the American Bankruptcy Institute Law
Review.