Buffett Book is Business Week Best Seller Third Month Straight
3/15/07 - BC Law Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Lawrence Cunningham's The Essays of Warren Buffet has been a favorite of serious students of investment philosophy and corporate governance since it was published in 1997.
3/15/07 - BC Law Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Lawrence Cunningham's classic collection of Warren Buffett's letters to the shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, The Essays of Warren Buffet, has been a favorite of serious students of investment philosophy and corporate governance since it was published in 1997. The volume, which originally appeared in a law review symposium that Cunningham organized that also featured BC Professor James Repetti, remains the most authoritative modern treatment of value investing.
Interest in the ideas remains strong: Cunningham's book has been listed as a Best Seller in each of the last three months in Business Week magazine's monthly Best Seller list for paperback business books. This month, March 2007, the book logs in at Number 9; in February it was Number 7; and in January it was Number 10.
About.com calls the book "a spectacular collection of essays covering every aspect of corporate and financial philosophy," and says "it should sit in the bookcase of every manager, CEO, entrepreneur, investor, student, banker, and businessman in the world."
Lawrence Cunningham has written more than 30 scholarly articles and published 10 books. His books include the textbook Introductory Accounting, Finance and Auditing for Lawyers, now in its fourth edition and adopted at some 60 law schools across the United States.
Prior to entering teaching, Dean Cunningham practiced corporate law with Cravath, Swaine, & Moore in New York. He has served as a consultant to corporate boards of directors, law and accounting firms, and regulatory and standard-setting bodies and has given expert witness testimony in matters concerning corporate and securities law, as well as ethics and valuation. He was Director of the Independence Standards Board's Task Force on Alternative Practice Structures of Auditors from 1998 to 2001 and a Member of the Securities Regulation Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
Before joining the Boston College Law School faculty full time in 2001, he spent one year at BC as Visiting Professor of Law, and before that served as Professor of Law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, and Director of its Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center on Corporate Governance. Dean Cunningham also has served as Visiting Professor of Law at the Law Schools of George Washington University and Vanderbilt University.
Dean Cunningham has been featured in Forbes and Money and on CNN, CNBC, and 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.
As Academic Dean, Cunningham prepared the book Heights of Justice, an anthology of selected scholarship from the Boston College Law School faculty, and chaired the Law School Task Force to develop a new LL.M. program in General Legal Studies at Boston College Law School.