Kenneth B. Davis Jr. was

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from 1997 to 2012. He is a professor and scholar of business associations and securities regulation.

Biography

Appointed as the dean of UW Law in 1997, as the inaugural Fred W. and Vi Miller Dean in 2004- the university's first endowment for deanship. In 2003 he was named the George H. Young Chair. Davis previously lead a full-time faculty of over 60 and a student body of 850. Previous to his appointment as Dean, he served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. He has been a professor at the law school since 1978. He teaches and publishes in

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. He served as chairman of the Federal Nominating Commission assembled by Senators

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. In 2011 he joined Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren legal firm as their primary legal council and as the leader of their newly introduced corporate governance and investor relations service group. Davis was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He is a graduate of the

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. While at Case Western Reserve, he was editor-in-chief of the ''Case Western Reserve Law Review'', and he graduated number one in the class of 1974. After graduation, he clerked for Chief Judge Richard H. Chambers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and then began practicing in the

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. He and his wife Lindy have three children.

Selected publications

''Wisconsin Business Corporation Law''
(with Berry, DeGuire and Williams), State Bar of Wisconsin (1992)
''The Forgotten Derivative Suit''
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387 (2008) *''Structural Bias, Special Litigation Committees, and the Vagaries of Director Independence'', 90 Iowa Law Review 1305 (2005) *''Once More, the Business Judgment Rule'', 2000

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57 *''Approval of Disinterested Directors'', 20 Journal of Corporation Law 215 (1995) *''Judicial Review of Fiduciary Decisionmaking – Some Theoretical Perspectives'', 80 Northwestern University Law Review 1 (1985)

References

External links

UW Law Faculty Profile for Dean DavisMeet the Law School's New DeanA Conversation with Dean Davis
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