- Comparative corporate governance
- Japanese and other Asian legal systems
- Law and economics
- Law and economic development
B.A., Notre Dame, 1984; J.D., Columbia, 1989. Editor, Columbia Law Review. Mergers and acquisitions and corporate law practice at Shearman & Sterling in New York and Tokyo, 1989-94. Japan Foundation fellow, University of Tokyo Faculty of Law, 1992-93. Associate professor of law, Washington University School of Law, 1994-98. Professor of law, Washington University School of Law, 1998-99. Visiting professor of law, UCLA, 1997. Visiting scholar, Bank of Japan Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, 1998. Visiting fellow, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, 2002. Visiting professor of law, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 2006. Visiting professor of law, Tsinghua University, 2006. Joined Columbia faculty in 1999. Member of international project on Korean unification, with responsibility for advising on privatization and corporate governance issues, 1997-2000. Project director, the Center for International Political Economy's "Global Markets, Domestic Institutions" project, 2001-02. Principal areas of research interest include comparative corporate governance, Japanese and other Asian legal systems, law and economics, and the relationship between legal institutions and economic development. Prof. Milhaupt has published on a wide range of topics, including corporate governance, organized crime, and the market for legal talent, and is the co-author or editor of seven books, including U.S. Corporate Law (Yuhikaku, forthcoming 2009) (book-length analytical overview written in Japanese, with the assistance of former students, published by Japan's premier legal publisher); Law & Capitalism: What Corporate Crises Reveal about Legal Systems and Economic Development around the World (The University of Chicago Press, 2008); Transforming Corporate Governmance in East Asia (Routledge Press, 2008); The Japanese Legal System: Cases, Codes and Commentary (Foundation Press, 2006); Economic Organizations and Corporate Governance in Japan: The Impact of Formal and Informal Rules (Oxford University Press, 2004); Global Markets, Domestic Institutions: Corporate Law and Governance in a New Era of Cross-Border Deals (Columbia University Press, 2003); and Japanese Law in Context: Readings in Society, the Economy and Politics (Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University Press, 2001) (Edited with J. Mark Ramseyer and Michael K. Young).
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