Adam Badawi is a Professor of Law at UC Berkeley. He writes widely on issues of law and finance with an emphasis on corporate governance, corporate transactions, and shareholder litigation. Much of his recent work uses text analysis and machine learning to analyze debt agreements, merger documents, and shareholder class action complaints. At Berkeley Law, he teaches Contracts, Corporations, Mergers and Acquisitions, and seminars related to these topics.
His research includes “How Informative is the Text of Securities Complaints?” (under review), “Contractual Complexity in Debt Agreements: The Case of EBITDA” (in progress) (with Elisabeth de Fontenay, Scott Dyreng, and Robert Hills), “Social Good and Litigation Risk” (forthcoming, Harvard Business Law Review) (with Frank Partnoy); and “Is There a First-Drafter Advantage in M&A?”, California Law Review (2019) (with Elisabeth de Fontenay) (selected as one of the top 10 corporate and securities articles of 2019 by Corporate Practice Commentator).
Prior to joining the faculty of Berkeley Law in 2017, Badawi was a Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis. He has been a Visiting Professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and he served as a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. Before joining the academy he was a litigator in the San Francisco office of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP and was a law clerk to the Hon. Michael McConnell of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals..
Education
B.A., University of California, Berkeley
J.D., University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Adam B. Badawi is teaching the following courses in Spring 2022:
217 sec. 001 - Law, Economics, and Accounting Workshop
248.5 sec. 001 - Mergers & Acquisitions
Courses During Other Semesters
Semester | Course Num | Course Title | ![]() | Fall 2022 | 248.5 sec. 001 | Mergers & Acquisitions | Summer 2021 | 250S sec. 001 | Business Associations | Spring 2021 | 250 sec. 002 | Business Associations | View Teaching Evaluation | 250 sec. 003 | Business Associations | View Teaching Evaluation |
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Berkeley Law Launches New Era under Dean Erwin Chemerinsky
Highlights include new faculty, flourishing programs, high-impact research, and expanding student opportunities.
Incoming Faculty Cite New Berkeley Law Colleagues as Powerful Draw
Abbye Atkinson, Adam Badawi ’03, and Joy Milligan begin their new positions this week, with Frank Partnoy to join the school in 2018.
Magnet School
FACULTY PROWESS HELPS ATTRACT THREE NEW PROFESSORS TO BERKELEY For Abbye Atkinson, Adam Badawi ’03, and Joy Milligan, joining Berkeley Law’s faculty is as humbling as it is thrilling. Atkinson calls her new cohort “unmatched in its intellectual depth and range.” Badawi notes that “the faculty was a huge part of what drew me back