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Janet E. Kerr, L.L.M.
Executive Director, The Palmer Center for Entrepreneurship and the Law and Professor of Law

Office: School of Law (SOL)
E-mail: janet.kerr@pepperdine.edu

• L.L.M., New York University Law School, 1979
• J.D., Pepperdine University, 1978
• B.A., Pepperdine University, 1975, summa cum laude

A member of the state bar in both California and New York, Professor Kerr is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. She has been a staff attorney for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission at both the Los Angeles and New York regional offices, and served a stint in the private sector as an associate at the Los Angeles firm Hahn & Cazier.

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Selected Works:

• Climate Change Implications on Corporate Governance and Enterprise Risk Management, WAKE FOREST L. REV. (forthcoming 2009).
• The Integrative Market Hypothesis for Stock Market Fluctuations, 1 J. Bus. Entrepreneurship & L. (forthcoming).
• The Creative Capitalism Spectrum: Evaluating Corporate Social Responsibility Through a Legal Lens, 81 TEMPLE L. REV. (forthcoming 2009).
• Sustainability Meets Profitability: The Convenient Truth of How the Business Judgment Rule Protects a Board's Decision to Engage in Social Entrepreneurship, 29 CARDOZO L. REV. 623 (2007).
• Developments in Corporate Governance: The Duty of Good Faith and its Impact on Director Conduct, 13 GEO. MASON L. REV. 1037 (2006).
• DEVELOPMENTS IN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: THE DUTY OF GOOD FAITH AND ITS IMPACT ON DIRECTOR CONDUCT (Peking Univ. Press 2008-- reprint).
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