Talley
Eric L. Talley
Corporate-law, governance, and empirical law-and-economics scholar
Official Source Note
Columbia Law School lists Talley as Marc and Eva Stern Professor of Law and Business. The official profile describes him as an expert on the intersection of corporate law, governance, and finance, with research and teaching in M&A, quantitative methods, machine learning, contract and commercial law, alternative investments, game theory, and economic analysis of law.
Columbia's profile states that Talley co-directs the Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership and directs research and programming on the future of corporate governance and performance. The same page records prior tenured faculty appointments at UC Berkeley and the University of Southern California.
Talley is included because his work links contemporary corporate governance, M&A contracting, fiduciary-duty design, valuation, legal-data construction, and empirical legal studies.
Source: Columbia Law School
Relevance to the Archive
Talley adds a contemporary Columbia corporate-law perspective that connects fiduciary duties, M&A contracting, corporate-governance datasets, valuation disputes, machine-learning methods, and empirical legal studies.
Representative Contributions
- The Measure of a MAC: A Machine-Learning Protocol for Analyzing Force Majeure Clauses in M&A Agreements (with D. O'Kane, 2012)
- Law and Corporate Governance (with Robert Bartlett, 2017)
- Contracting Out of the Fiduciary Duty of Loyalty: An Empirical Analysis of Corporate Opportunity Waivers (with Gabriel V. Rauterberg, 2017)
- Cleaning Corporate Governance (with Jens Frankenreiter, Cathy Hwang, and Yaron Nili, 2021)
- Introducing a New Corpus of Definitive M&A Agreements, 2000-2020 (with Peter Adelson, Matthew Jennejohn, and Julian Nyarko, 2024)