02/13/09--BC Law Professor Kent Greenfield has been named Chair-Elect of the Section on Business Associations of the Association of American Law Schools.  As Chair of the Section for 2010-11, he will take the leadership role in organizing the Section's scholarly interchange during the AALS annual meeting in San Francisco in January, 2011.  The Section on Business Associations includes law professors who teach corporate law and related subjects in the nation's more than 180 law schools. 

"I'm delighted that Kent Greenfield has agreed to be chair-elect," said Frank Partnoy, George E. Barrett Professor of Law and Finance at the University of San Diego School of Law and former Chair of the section.  "Greenfield is a leading public intellectual and has been a forceful spokesperson for the progressive corporate law movement for more than a decade.  Kent's wide-ranging work in corporate law is tightly reasoned and compassionate, analytical and provocative.  He is setting a compelling example for a new generation of scholarship in the business area."

Greenfield joined the faculty of Boston College in 1995, after serving as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter.  He is the author of the book The Failure of Corporate Law (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and more than 25 scholarly articles on corporate law and constitutional law. 

The AALS is a non-profit association of 171 law schools, which seeks to improve the legal profession through legal education. It serves as legal education's principal representative to the federal government and is a learned society for law teachers. The AALS is composed of 85 sections that provide reports, policy advice, and a variety of programs at the Annual Meeting.