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J. Goldschmid is a Commissioner at the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission. He is on leave
from the Columbia University School of Law, where
he serves as Dwight Professor of Law. He has served
as Dwight Professor since 1984, and was an Assistant
Professor (1970-71), an Associate Professor (1971-73),
and a Professor of Law (1973-84) at Columbia. In
1998-99, Commissioner Goldschmid served as General
Counsel (chief legal officer) of the SEC, and from
January 1 to July 15, 2000, he was Special Senior
Advisor to SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt.
Commissioner Goldschmid
is the author of numerous publications on corporate,
securities, and antitrust law. He is a frequent
lecturer at national and international legal programs
and seminars. He received the 1999 Chairman's Award
for Excellence from the SEC, and several teaching
awards, including Columbia Law School's Willis L.M.
Reese Award for Excellence in Teaching in both 1996
and 1997.
From 1980-93, Commissioner
Goldschmid served as a Reporter for the American
Law Institute's Corporate Governance Project. From
2000-01, he served as Chair of the Nominating Committee,
and in 1998, completed a term as Treasurer and a
member of the Executive Committee (i.e., Board of
Directors) of the Association of the Bar of the
City of New York, where Commissioner Goldschmid
previously served as Chair of the Executive Committee,
Chair of the Committee on Securities Regulation,
and Chair of the Committee on Antitrust and Trade
Regulation. He also has served as Chair of the Section
on Antitrust and Economic Regulation of the Association
of American Law Schools and as Founding Director
of Columbia University's Center for Law and Economic
Studies. He served in 1997-98 as a consultant to
both the Federal Trade Commission and the SEC, and
during this period, was a member of the Legal Advisory
Committee (and Chair of its Subcommittee on Corporate
Governance) of the New York Stock Exchange.
Commissioner Goldschmid
received his J.D., magna cum laude, from the Columbia
University School of Law in 1965 and a B.A., also
magna cum laude, from Columbia College in 1962.
He was Articles Editor of the Columbia Law Review
and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. His publications
include Cases and Materials on Trade Regulation
(5th ed. 2003) (with Pitofsky and Wood); The Impact
of the Modern Corporation (1984) (with Bock, Millstein,
and Scherer); Business Disclosure: Government's
Need to Know (1979); and Industrial Concentration:
The New Learning (1974) (with Mann and Weston). |
