Stephen M. Bainbridge

Stephen M. Bainbridge is the William D. Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. Bainbridge previously taught at the University of Illinois Law School (1988-1996). He has also taught at Harvard Law School as the Joseph Flom Visiting Professor of Law and Business (2000-2001), and as a visiting professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne (2005 and 2007) and at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo (1999).

In 2008, Bainbridge received the UCLA School of Law’s Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 1990, the graduating class of the University of Illinois College of Law voted him “Professor of the Year.”

He has been a Salvatori Fellow with the Heritage Foundation, a member of the American Bar Association’s Committee on Corporate Laws, a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Markets and Morality, and chair of the Executive Committee of the Federalist Society’s Corporations, Securities & Antitrust Practice Group. He is a regular contributor to the Washington Legal Foundation’s Legal Pulse column.

In May 2014, Bainbridge was the Cameron Fellow at the University of Auckland Faculty of Law. He was the Francis G. Pileggi Distinguished Lecturer in Law at Widener University School of Law in September 2005, and a distinguished visiting scholar at the University of Maryland School of Law in November 2005.