BACKGROUND

Brian JM Quinn joined Boston College Law School in 2008. He teaches Corporations, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Deals.  Prof. Quinn's research focuses on corporate law, the structuring of transactions, and private ordering.

Prof. Quinn comes to the law school from Stanford Law School where he was the Teaching Fellow for Corporate Governance & Practice.  Prior to his position at Stanford, Prof. Quinn was in private practice with Cooley Godward in Palo Alto, where he represented public and private technology clients in merger and acquisitions transactions. Prof. Quinn also previously served as country coordinator for the Harvard University’s Institute for International Development, managing Harvard’s Vietnam-based teaching and research activities.  Prof. Quinn got his start as a legislative aide to Senator Edward M. Kennedy working on health and education issues.

Prof. Quinn writes on corporate law, transaction structures and private ordering.  In addition, Prof. Quinn has written extensively on issues of legal reform in post-Socialist Asia, particularly Vietnam.   

Prof. Quinn also blogs on legal developments in corporate governance and mergers & acquisitions at the M&A Law Prof Blog.

EDUCATION

BSFS, Georgetown University; MPP, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government; JD, MLS, Stanford Law School

COURSES

Fall '09: Corporations; Acquisitions Workshop
Spring '10: Mergers & Acquisitions; Deals: The Economic Structure of Transactions

WORKS IN PROGRESS

• “Asset Specific Investments and the Case of the @Home Corporation" (forthcoming Harvard Negotiation Law Review vol. 15)
• Go Shop Provisions and the Fiduciary Duties of Corporate Directors.
• SPACs: Canary in the Coal Mine for the Public Corporation. 
• Massachusetts’ Business Courts: State Competition or Illusion?

PUBLICATIONS

• "The Failure of Private Ordering and the Financial Crisis of 2008." New York University Journal of Law and Business 5, no.2 (Summer 2009): 549-615.
  
• With Vu T. Anh. "Credit and Trust: Fruit Markets in the Mekong Delta."   Ha Noi, Viet Nam: United Nations Development Programme, 2008. 
  
• "Bulletproof: Mandatory Rules for Deal Protection." Journal of Corporation Law 32, no.4 (Summer 2007): 865-886.
  
• "Vietnam's Last Call for Bribes." Far Eastern Economic Review (June 1, 2006): 52-54.
  
• "Vietnam’s Continuing Legal Reform: Gaining Control over the Courts." Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal 4, no.2 (Summer 2003): 431-468
  
• Note, “Legal Reform and Its Context in Vietnam.” Columbia Journal of Asian Law 15, no.2 (Spring 2002): 219-291.