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Phillip I. Blumberg

Phillip I. Blumberg, Dean and Professor of Law and Business, Emeritus. Professor Blumberg teaches Multinational Corporations. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, 1939 and of Harvard Law School (1942) and has an LL.D. degree (hon.) from The University of Connecticut. Before turning to legal education, he practiced law on Wall Street for 20 years and was the Chief Executive Officer of a NYSE listed financial corporation. He has since served as Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law (1968 to 1974) and has been at Connecticut since 1974, serving as Dean (1974-84) and as Professor since. For decades, he has conducted research and published on the legal problems of large corporations. His seven volumes in the series on The Law of Corporate Groups (1983-98) (three with Strasser) have attracted world-wide attention. It has been replaced by Blumberg on Corporate Groups, 2nd Edition (5 vols. with Strasser, Georgakopoulos and Gouvin). He has written other books, including The Multinational Challenge to Corporate Law (1993) and The Megacorporation in American Society (1975). He has published several dozen articles in legal periodicals and has presented papers at international conferences on multinational corporations in England, Italy, and Australia. He has been a visiting lecturer at universities in The Netherlands, Poland, and Australia. He is a member of the American Law Institute and has served as an Advisor in three A.L.I. Restatements (Corporate Governance, Suretyship, and Agency). He has also served on the Legal Advisory Committee of the New York Stock Exchange.

Recent Courses

• Multinational Corporations (Fall 2007)
• Multinational Corporations (Fall 2006)
• Multinational Corporations (Fall 2005)
• Multinational Corporations (Fall 2004)