Robert Anderson
Associate Professor of Law
B.A., Claremont-McKenna College, 1997
J.D., New York University School of Law, 2000
Ph.D., Stanford University (expected 2008)
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Robert Anderson joins the Pepperdine faculty this fall. After receiving his J.D. from New York University School of Law in 2000, Professor Anderson was associated with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, where his practice focused on mergers and acquisitions and financial institutions regulation. In 2003, he entered the Ph.D. program in Political Science at Stanford University, where his fields included American Politics, Political Organizations, and Political Methodology (Statistics).
Professor Anderson's primary research interests are corporate and securities law, positive political theory of the judiciary, and quantitative and empirical approaches to law. In particular, he has worked extensively on modeling judicial behavior and developing computational and empirical techniques for analyzing corporate transactions and corporate governance.
Professor Anderson has published or forthcoming work in the American Political Science Review, the University of Miami Law Review, and The George Washington Law Review. In addition, he has presented on panels at the Midwest Political Science Association and the American Political Science Association annual meetings, and is a reviewer for the American Political Science Review. He is currently a doctoral candidate in Political Science at Stanford University.
This academic year Professor Anderson will teach Contracts I and II and Mergers & Acquisitions.
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