Professor Afsharipour Presents at UCLA

Professor Afra Afsharipour presented the paper “Cheap Talk and Persistent Diversity Gaps in Corporate Litigation” on Sept. 20 at UCLA School of Law.

The paper, coauthored by BYU Law Research Fellow Kristina Bishop and Professor Matthew Jennejohn, was selected for presentation at UCLA Law’s Corporate and Securities Workshop.

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.