Charles K. Whitehead

Cornell Law School; Director, Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship Program, Cornell Tech
Myron C. Taylor Alumni Professor of Business Law

Contact Information

222 Myron Taylor Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
e: ckw26@cornell.edu
p: (607) 255-9498

Charles K. Whitehead

Cornell Law School; Director, Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship Program, Cornell Tech
Myron C. Taylor Alumni Professor of Business Law

Expertise

Law and finance; corporate and business organizations; corporate governance; financial and securities regulation; transactions and transactional structuring; tech and start-up transactions

Current Research Interest

Intersection between change in the financial markets and regulation; law and risk management; law and markets

Distinction

American Law Institute
Honorary Doctor, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Ukraine

Selected Publications

Whitehead, Charles K. “Debt and Corporate Governance.” In Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance, edited by Jeffrey Gordon and Georg Ringe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Litov, Lubomir P., Simone M. Sepe, and Charles K. Whitehead. “Lawyers and Fools: Lawyer-Directors in Public Corporations.” Georgetown Law Journal 102, no. 2 (2014).

Cornell Research Website Article

The Symbiosis of Law and Financial Markets