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Ahmed Taha

Professor of Law
Caruso School of Law
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Curriculum Vitae

Biography

Professor Taha's research focuses primarily on consumer and investor protection law. He also writes on subjects ranging from religious taxes to baseball rules. Much of his research reflects both his training in law and in economics in which he holds a PhD. His research has been discussed in national media outlets, including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

Prior to joining the Pepperdine faculty, Professor Taha was a professor at Wake Forest Law School, an attorney in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., a litigation associate with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, California, and a corporate finance analyst at McKinsey and Company in New York. Professor Taha teaches Civil Procedure, Corporations, Federal Income Taxation, and Accounting and Finance for Lawyers. 

Education

  • J.D., Stanford Law School, 1996
  • Ph.D., Stanford University, 1996
  • B.S., University of Pennsylvania, 1988
  • B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1988

 

Forthcoming Articles

  • Ahmed E. Taha, George Clooney is Paid That Much? Regulating Celebrity Advertisements, U.M.K.C. L. REV. (forthcoming 2024) SSRN

Articles

  • Ahmed E. Taha, The Jurisprudence of Baseball: Rules Versus Standards, 59 GONZ. L. REV. 257 (2024)
  • Ahmed E. Taha, Michael J. Saks, Mark A. Hall & Ira M. Ellman, Improving Consumer Understanding of Short-Term Health Insurance: An Experiment, 80 MED. CARE RESEARCH & REV. 496 (2023) doi:10.1177/10775587231172064
  • Ahmed E. Taha, Reducing the Costs of Zakāt, 41 VA. TAX REV. 289 (2022) SSRN HeinOnline
  • Ahmed E. Taha & John V. Petrocelli, Advertising Opinions, 56 TULSA L. REV. 77 (2020) SSRN HeinOnline
  • Ahmed E. Taha, Exploiting Pre-Existing Beliefs, 97 WASH. U. L. REV. 607 (2019) SSRN HeinOnline
  • Ahmed E. Taha & Breagan Riley, Protecting Consumers Through Mandatory Disclosures: An Experimental Investigation of Extended Warranties, 64 VILLANOVA L. REV. 285 (2019) HeinOnline
  • Ahmed E. Taha & Sohaib Khan, Charity Disparity: The Challenge of Applying Religious Law on Zakat in the United States, 14 NW J.L. & SOC. POL'Y 1 (2018) SSRN HeinOnline
  • Ahmed E. Taha, Selling the Outlier, 41 J. CORP. L. 459 (2015) SSRN HeinOnline
  • Ahmed E. Taha & Molly Mercer, Unintended Consequences: An Experimental Investigation of the (In)effectiveness of Mandatory Disclosures, 55 SANTA CLARA L. REV. 405 (2015) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Ahmed E. Taha & John Petrocelli, Disclosures about Disclosures: Can Conflict of Interest Warnings Be Made More Effective?, 12 J. EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES 236 (2015) SSRN  HeinOnline
  • Ahmed E. Taha & John Petrocelli, Sending Mixed Messages: Investor Interpretations of Disclosures of Analyst Stock Ownership, 20 PSYCHOL. PUB. POL. & L. 26 (2014) SSRN
  • Ahmed E. Taha & Alan Palmiter, Mutual Fund Performance Advertising: Inherently and Materially Misleading?, 46 GEORGIA L. REV. 289 (2012) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Ahmed E. Taha, Are College Athletes Economically Exploited?, 2 WAKE FOREST J. LAW & POL'Y 69 (2012) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Ahmed E. Taha, Molly Mercer & Alan R. Palmiter, Worthless Warnings? Testing the Effectiveness of Disclaimers in Mutual Fund Advertisements, 7 J. EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES 429 (2010) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Ahmed E. Taha, Judge Shopping: Testing Whether Judges' Political Orientations Affect Case Filings, 78 U. CIN. L. REV. 1007 (2010) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Ahmed E. Taha & Alan R. Palmiter, Star Creation: The Incubation of Mutual Funds, 62 VAND. L. REV. 1485 (2009) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Ahmed E. Taha & Alan R. Palmiter, Mutual Fund Investors: Divergent Profiles, 2008 COLUM. BUS. L. REV. 934 (2008) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Ahmed E. Taha & Alan Palmiter, Mutual Fund Investors: Sharp Enough?, 24 J. FIN. TRANSFORMATION 113 (2008) HeinOnline
  • Ahmed E. Taha, Controlling Conflicts of Interest: A Tale of Two Industries, 37 LOY. U. CHI. L. J. 753 (2006) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Ahmed E. Taha, Data and Selection Bias - A Case Study, 75 UMKC L. REV. 171 (2006) HeinOnline
  • Ahmed E. Taha, How Panels Affect Judges: Empirical Evidence from U.S. District Courts, 39 U. RICH. L. REV. 1235 (2005) HeinOnline
  • Ahmed E. Taha, Information and the Selection of Judges: A Comment on "A Tournament of Judges", 32 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. 1401 (2005) HeinOnline
  • Ahmed E. Taha, Information and the Selection of Judges, Jurist online symposium on "The Judicial Confirmation Process" (2004)
  • Ahmed E. Taha, Publish or Paris? Evidence of How Judges Allocate Their Time, 6 AM. L & ECON. REV. 1 (2004) SSRN
  • Ahmed E. Taha, The Equilibrium Effect of Legal Rule Changes: Are the Federal Sentencing Guidelines Being Circumvented?, 21 INT'L REV. LAW. & ECON. 251 (2001)

Forthcoming Book Chapters

  • Ahmed E. Taha, Ethics of Almsgiving (Zakāt) in Islam, in THE BLOOMSBURY HANDBOOK OF ISLAMIC ETHICS (ed. Jafar Mahallati) (forthcoming 2024)

Media

Topics

  • Consumer and Investor Protection
  • Accounting and Finance for Lawyers