Adam Badawi

Adam Badawi is a Professor of Law at UC Berkeley. His primary research examines the role that lawyers, law firms, and other legal institutions play in corporate finance and in shareholder litigation.

His recent work includes “Debt Contract Terms and Creditor Control” (under review); “The Shareholder Wealth Effects of Delaware Litigation” (with Daniel Chen), American Law and Economics Review (forthcoming, 2017); “Does the Quality of the Plaintiffs’ Law Firm Matter in Deal Litigation?” (with David Webber), The Journal of Corporation Law (2015) (selected for presentation at the Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum); “Appellate Lawmaking in a Judicial Hierarchy” (with Scott Baker), The Journal of Law and Economics (2015); and “Influence Costs and the Scope of Board Authority,” The Journal of Corporation Law (2014).

At Berkeley Law, Badawi teaches Contracts, Corporations, and seminars related to these topics.

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 not teaching any Law courses in Fall 2021.

Courses During Other Semesters

Semester	Course Num	Course Title	Teaching Evaluations
Spring 2022	217 sec. 001	Law, Economics, and Accounting Workshop
	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
Fall 2020	202F sec. 004	Contracts	View Teaching Evaluation
	248.5 sec. 001	Mergers & Acquisitions	View Teaching Evaluation
Spring 2020	248.5 sec. 001	Mergers & Acquisitions	View Teaching Evaluation