5/08/02—Boston College is pleased to announce three new additions to its full-time faculty; Lawrence Cunningham, Renee Jones, and Paul McDaniel.

Lawrence A. Cunningham joins the faculty from the Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School of Yeshiva University, where he served as professor of law and as director of The Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center on Corporate Governance. He has held past teaching appointments at Columbia University, George Washington University, Fordham University, St. John’s University and abroad.

Prior to entering teaching in 1992, Professor Cunningham worked as an associate with Cravath, Swaine & Moore where he practiced corporate and securities law. He has written numerous books and dozens of articles, including the internationally acclaimed Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America; the best-selling How To Think Like Benjamin Graham and Invest Like Warren Buffett; and the widely-used textbook Introductory Accounting and Finance for Lawyers. He is a regular contributor to Aspen Law & Business and from 1994-2001 served as Editor of the renowned treatise Corbin on Contracts.

Professor Cunningham has served as a consultant to numerous corporate boards and law and accounting firms, and given expert witness testimony in matters of corporate and securities law. He has been featured in Forbes and Money magazines and on CNN and CNBC, as well as The Motley Fool Radio Show. He has been a guest on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and has appeared on or been quoted in scores of other broadcast and print media.

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Renee M. Jones most recently has been an associate in the law firm Hill & Barlow, where her practice concentrated on corporate and securities law, including venture capital financing, mergers and acquisitions and securities regulation. Previously, she was a summer associate at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C., and at Sidley & Austin in Chicago. Professor Jones has also worked for United Asset Management Corporation, WGBH television, Lirhembe Girl’s Secondary School in Khayega, Kenya, and J.P. Morgan Securities.

Professor Jones has published "Developments in the Law: Nonprofit Corporations-Tax Exemption" and "The Supreme Court: 1991 Term Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc" in the Harvard Law Review. She has served as a Member of the House of Delegates for the American Bar Association, and as a member of the editorial board of Human Rights Magazine, a publication of the ABA Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities.

Professor Jones has also been an active member of the New England Committee of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. She is a member of the Board of Overseers for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Historical Society.

Professor Jones will teach Corporations and Securities Regulation. Her research interests include securities law issues as they relate to corporate governance and shareholder activism.

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Paul R. McDaniel is an internationally-recognized expert in tax law. Most recently he has served as a professor of law, director of the graduate tax program and director of the international tax program at NYU School of Law. He is the co-author of 8 books and the author or co-author of over 50 articles. Among his many contributions to tax, Professor McDaniel helped pioneer the concept of tax expenditures with the late Stanley Surrey of Harvard, exploring these issues in the groundbreaking book Tax Expenditures.

Professor McDaniel has co-authored a leading treatise on international tax law with BC Law Professor Hugh Ault, Introduction to United State International Taxation, and a leading casebook with BC Law Professor James R. Repetti, Federal Wealth Transfer Taxation. He has also compared different national systems of taxation in International Aspects of Tax Expenditures: A Comparative Study. He is the co-author of two other leading casebooks in U.S. taxation: Federal Income Taxation, and Federal Income Taxation of Business Organizations.

Professor McDaniel practiced in Oklahoma before joining the staff of Surrey, then Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy at the U.S. Treasure Department, and remained in government until the fall of 1970, when he joined the BC Law Faculty. Following a previous visit to NYU in 1986, Professor McDaniel joined the firm Hill and Barlow where he was a partner prior to joining the NYU faculty in 1993.

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