Professor Afsharipour Presents, Moderates at 'Women at Work' Conference
Professor Afra Afsharipour participated in the conference “Women at Work” hosted by Professor Claire Hill and the University of Minnesota Law School Oct. 24-25. The conference sessions were inspired by the new book Fair Shake: Women & The Fight to Build a Just Economy, by Professors Naomi Cahn, June Carbone and Nancy Levit.
Afsharipour spoke on the “Women in Organizations” panel alongside Professors Yaron Nili, Dana Brakman-Reiser and Brian Quinn. Professor Brett McDonnell moderated. Afsharipour discussed some of her work on inequality in corporate law and governance, including:
- "Gender and the Social Structure of Exclusion in U.S. Corporate Law" (co-authored with Matthew Jennejohn), 90 Univ. of Chicago L. Rev. 1819 (2023)
- "Investment Bankers and Inclusive Corporate Leadership," 46 Seattle U. L. Rev. 221 (2023)
- "Women and M&A," 12 UC Irvine L. Rev. 359 (2022).
- "Power & Pay in the C-Suite," Inequality Inquiry (2021) (invited symposium essay) (co-authored with Darren Rosenblum)
- "Bias, Identity and M&A," 2020 Wisconsin L. Rev. 469 (2020) (invited symposium article)
- "The One Woman Director Mandate: History and Trajectory," Corporate Governance in India: Change and Continuity (Oxford University Press 2016)
Afsharipour also moderated the “Work and Gender Dynamics” panel with Professors Jessica Clarke, Charlotte Garden, Nitya Chawla and Jennifer Berdahl.
Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law Afra Afsharipour’s areas of research include corporate law and governance, mergers and acquisitions, transactional law, and the legal profession. From 2018-2024, she served as Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Her scholarship has appeared in the Columbia Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and UC Davis Law Review, among other leading publications.